Unitary RF connector with ground contact tabs arranged in crown, for a board-to-board connection and a ganged connector including a plurality of such unitary connector, for a multiple board-to-board connection
AssigneeRadiall
InventorsGong Chen, Shan Qin, Laurent Petit
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Abstract
The present application relates to a unitary RF connector (1), intended for example to link two printed circuit boards (PCB1, PCB2), the unitary RF connector extending along a longitudinal axis (X), the connector being a unique piece with an electrically insulating block which serves as a rigid support for both flexible conductive elements whose central portions are rigidly respectively held therein for the central contact and on the outer wall of the block for the ground contact, and with an arrangement as crown for the plurality of free ends of the ground contact.
Claims19
A unitary RF connector extending along a longitudinal axis (X) and comprising:
- a first electrical insulating body which is rigid;
- a conductive strip forming a central contact retained within the first insulating body;
- which comprises at, at least one of its free ends, a first tab being configured as a spring able to flex toward one of the end face of the insulating body taking any closer position when acted upon by a pressure force of a complementary connection element;
- a ground contact comprising a conductive body which is closed on itself and retained around the insulating body and, at, at least one of the free end of said conductive body, at least three second conductive tabs, each second conductive tab comprising a single unfolded segment, extending oblique relative to and towards the outside of the conductive body, each second conductive tab being configured as a spring able to flex toward the conductive body taking any closer position when acted upon by the pressure force of the complementary connection element, the at least three second conductive tabs being arranged in a crown shape, around the conductive body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.