US 10,122,079 B2Granted

Thermally stable sealed blind mate connector mounting

AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC

InventorsJohn W. Orem, Eddie R. Bradley, Khanh Duy Tran

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Abstract

A connector assembly for an antenna which includes an antenna cover. The connector assembly includes a connector mount with one or more connectors and a connector housing enclosing the connectors. The connector mount extends through an opening in the antenna cover with sufficient clearance to allow movement due to difference in thermal expansion between the antenna cover and the antenna structure. The assembly also includes a flexible seal structure attached to the connector mount and attachable to the antenna cover and dimensioned to enclose a portion of the connector mount extending outside the antenna cover to form a flexible weather resistant seal between the antenna cover and the connector mount while allowing movement of the connector mount relative to the antenna cover.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A connector assembly, for an antenna including an antenna cover, comprising:

a connector block attachable to an inner structure of the antenna, the connector block including a connector mount, having at least one connector and configured to extend through an opening in the antenna cover and having a connector housing attached to the connector mount to enclose the at least one connector, the opening providing clearance sufficient to allow for movement of the antenna cover relative to the connector mount due to a difference in coefficient of thermal expansion of the antenna cover and the inner antenna structure;
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a flexible sealing structure attached to the connector mount and attachable to the antenna cover and dimensioned to enclose at least a portion of the connector mount that extends outside of the antenna cover so as to form a flexible weather resistant seal between the antenna cover and the connector mount while allowing movement of the antenna cover relative to the connector mount.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/515,471Filed 28 Oct 2015 · us provisional application
Priority: 29 Oct 2014
Published: US 2017/0214133 A127 Jul 2017
Granted: 6 Nov 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H01Q 1/427
Housings not intimately mechanically associated with radiating elements, e.g. radome: flexible radomes
H01Q 1/1207
Supports; Mounting means: for fastening a rigid aerial element
H01Q 1/246
Used in mobile communications, e.g. GSM: specially adapted for base stations
H01Q 1/42
Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas: housings not intimately mechanically associated with radiating elements, e.g. radome

Family

Application62/072,078Us provisional application · filed 29 Oct 2014
US 2017/0214133 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Jul 2017
US 10,122,079 B2This patent

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