Audio eccentric connector plug

• US 4,110,696 A
• Filed: 01/10/1977
• Issued: 08/29/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Emett O. Meeks
• Original Assignee: Emett O. Meeks
• Inventors: Meeks, Emett O.
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin, Robert L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bookbinder, Marc E.
• Application Number:
  US05/758,362
• Time in Patent Office: 596 Days
• Field of Search: 179/1 PC, 339/88 R, 339/91 R, 339/91 P, 339/176 S, 339/183, 339/88 C, 325/480, 325/488
• US Class Current: 455/307
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/213 by bayonet connection
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/66 Structural association with built-in electrical component coupling devices having concentrically or coaxially-arranged contacts H01R24/38
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2103/00 Two poles
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 24/58 Contacts spaced along longitudinal axis of engagement
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 3/04 for correcting frequency response

Abstract

An audio connector plug, insertable into an external speaker jack, is provided with an eccentric terminal tip for making contact with the spring terminal of the jack without interrupting audio signals to the internal speaker of an audio receiver. The other end of the connector plug is connected with a filter for reducing high frequency noise.

Claims

1. An audio signal connector plug for use with a mating jack having separable contacts, comprising:

a plug body;

a cylindrical contact connected at one end with said body;

a tip end contact coaxially connected longitudinally with the other end of said cylindrical contact,

said tip end contact having a circumferential surface converging toward the longitudinal axis of said cylindrical contact,

said tip end contact having a longitudinal and transverse recess formed in its converging surface, the depth of the recess being no greater than the radius of the tip end contact whereby when said plug is inserted into said mating jack, said cylindrical contact and said tip end contact engage said jack contacts without separating the latter by the recess nesting one of said jack contacts when said plug body is in one angular position and separates said separable jack contacts when rotated to another angular position;

electrical insulating means separating said contacts;

a pair of conductors extending through said body and connected with the contacts and,

an audio signal filter connected with said conductors opposite said contacts.

2. In a radio receiver having an audio amplifier including an internal speaker and having an external speaker jack, said jack having a pair of normally closed audio signal conducting contacts, at least one of said normally closed contacts being a spring-type contact capable of being biased out of contact with respect to the other said contact, the improvement comprising:

an elongated electrical conductor having a longitudinal axis forming a plug contact capable of entering said jack and making electrical contact therewith;

a plug body member connected with one end of said elongated conductor for limiting movement of said elongated conductor into said jack; and

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a tip end conductor coaxially connected in electrically insulated relation with the other end of said elongated conductor,

said tip end conductor having a surface tapered toward said longitudinal axis and normally biasing said normally closed contacts apart when in one angular position and engaged therewith,

said tip end conductor having a recess formed in its tapered surface capable of contactably nesting a portion of said spring-type normally closed contacts without separating the normally closed contacts when said tip end conductor is rotated to another angular position for connecting an extension speaker to the jack without disabling said internal speaker.

3. The combination according to claim 2 and further including:

a filter; and

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wiring connecting said filter with said plug conductors.

4. The combination according to claim 3 and further including:

audio reflector means adapted to be connected with said receiver around the position of the internal speaker therein for supporting said filter and directing audio signals away from said receiver.

5. The combination according to claim 4 in which said reflector comprises:

opposing side walls joined to a back wall and an inclined bottom wall for forming an open front;

a flange secured to the edge of each wall opposite said bottom wall in a plane normal to the plane of the respective wall; and

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magnetic material secured to each said flange.