Wire spacer for different types of cable wires

• US 9,484,689 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2015
• Issued: 11/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wu, Jerry, Chen, Jun, Meng, Fan-Bo
• Primary Examiner(s): Abrams, Neil
• Application Number:
  US14/700,161
• Publication Number:
  US 20150318647A1
• Time in Patent Office: 551 Days
• Field of Search: 439/492, 439/494, 439/497, 439/499, 439/579, 298/57, 298/60
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 12/53 connecting to cables except for flat or ribbon cables
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2107/00 Four or more poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/30 with additional earth or shield contacts
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/60 Contacts spaced along planar side wall transverse to longitudinal axis of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 43/28 for wire processing before connecting to contact members, not provided for in groups H01R43/02 - H01R43/26
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49176 with molding of electrically insulating material

Abstract

A method associated with the related structures to prepare cable wires of a cable connector, comprising the steps of: extending a first type and a second type of cable wires through a wire spacer having a notch; securing the first and second types of wires to the spacer; bending the extended cable wires of the first type in the spacer notch; operating the extended cable wires of the second type; returning the extended cable wires of the first type; and operating the extended cable wires of both the first type and the second type. The second type may be coaxial cables and the operating steps on these coaxial cables may include steps of removing outer jackets and braidings.

Claims

1. A method of preparing cable wires of a cable connector, comprising the steps of:

extending a first type and a second type of cable wires through a wire spacer having a notch;

securing the first and second types of wires to the spacer;

bending the extended cable wires of the first type in the spacer notch;

operating the extended cable wires of the second type;

returning the extended cable wires of the first type; and

operating the extended cable wires of both the first type and the second type.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of operating the extended cable wires of the second type comprises removing an outer jacket and removing a braiding thereof.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of operating the extended cable wires of both the first type and the second type comprises removing a respective dielectric thereof.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of extending comprises arranging the first and second types of cable wires in an upper and a lower rows each including a plurality of first and second types of wires, passing the upper row of wires through an upper spacer half and the lower row of wires through a lower spacer half having a respective notch, and staggering the upper and lower spacer halves.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of soldering the operated wires of the first and second types to an internal printed circuit board.

6. A cable connector assembly comprising:

an insulative housing defining a front mating port forwardly communicating with an exterior along a front-to-back direction;

a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed in the mating port and tail sections exposed around a rear side of the housing;

a cable located behind the housing in said front-to-back direction, and including a plurality of first wires and a plurality of second wires different from each other while being commonly enclosed within an outer jacket of the cable, wherein front sections of said first wires and said second wires are exposed outside of the jacket;

a wire organizer located between the housing and the jacket of the cable in said front-to-back direction and forming a plurality of first through holes and a plurality of second through holes essentially side by side arranged along a transverse direction perpendicular to said front-to-back direction;

wherein

both said first through holes and said second through holes are forwardly exposed to an exterior in the front-to-back direction;

wherein

front ends of the first through holes are located in front of said second through holes in the front-to-back direction;

wherein

said first through holes receive the corresponding first wires, respectively, and said second through holes receive the corresponding second wires, respectively.

7. The cable connector assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first wires are diametrically larger than the second wires so that the first through holes are diametrically larger than the second through holes.

8. The cable connector assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the organizer further forms a plurality of grooves aligned with and in front of the second through holes, respectively, in said front-to-back direction, each of said grooves being exposed to an exterior in a vertical direction perpendicular to both said front-to-back direction and said transverse direction.

9. The cable connector assembly as claimed in claim 6, wherein the organizer includes two parts back to back stacked with each other, and each of said parts forms said first through holes and said second through holes therein to receive the corresponding first wires and said second wires.