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US 12,184,024 B2Granted
Coaxial electrical connector adapter and electrical connector test system
AssigneeTyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
InventorsLiyun Zhu, Zhigang Song, Peng Zhai, Yunhe Wang
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Abstract
A connector adapter includes a first sub-adapter directly and electrically connected with a first end of a connector and a second sub-adapter directly and electrically connected with a second end of the connector. The first end of the connector is electrically connected to a first cable through the first sub-adapter and to a test equipment through the first cable. The second end of the connector is electrically connected to a second cable through the second sub-adapter and to the test equipment through the second cable.
Claims20
A connector adapter, comprising:
- a first sub-adapter directly and electrically connected with a first end of a connector, the first end of the connector is electrically connected to a first cable through the first sub-adapter and to a test equipment through the first cable, the first sub-adapter including:
- a first external adapter conductor having a first end electrically connected with and threaded to a first end of an external conductor of the connector, a second end of the first external adapter conductor is formed integrally with, and fixed relative to, the first end of the first external adapter and adapted to be detachably electrically connected to an external conductor of the first cable;
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- a first center adapter conductor fixedly arranged in the first external adapter conductor, the first center adapter conductor has a first end directly electrically connected with a first end of a center conductor of the connector and a second end fixedly connected to the first end and adapted to be detachably electrically connected to an inner conductor of the first cable;
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- a second sub-adapter directly and electrically connected with a second end of the connector in an abutting manner without the use of threading, the second end of the connector is electrically connected to a second cable through the second sub-adapter and to the test equipment through the second cable, a plurality of electrical contacts are formed on a second end of the external conductor of the connector, a first end of a second external adapter conductor of the second sub-adapter has a planar end face abuttingly electrically contacting and positioned adjacent all of the plurality of electrical contacts on the second end of the external conductor of the connector, at least a portion of the plurality of electrical contacts of the connector protruding from the second end of the external conductor in a direction toward the first end of the second sub-adapter, the second external adapter conductor defines a radially-outward facing exterior surface of the second sub-adapter, the radially-outward facing exterior surface defining the outermost surface of the second sub-adapter in a radially-outward direction of the second sub-adapter, the external conductor of the connector includes:
- a first external conductor defining the first end and threadably connected to the first external adapter conductor;
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- a second external conductor defining the plurality of electrical contacts, at least a portion of the second external conductor protruding from the second end of the second external conductor, the second external adapter conductor having:
- a first portion slidably received within the first external conductor of the external conductor of the connector and defining an exterior surface making sliding electrical contact with an interior surface of the first external conductor of the external conductor of the connector;
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- a second portion extending radially outward from the first portion and defining the plurality of electrical contacts.
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A connector test system, comprising:
- a test equipment;
- a connector having a first end and a second end;
- a first sub-adapter having a first end directly and electrically connected with the first end of the connector via complementary threading, and a second end formed integrally with, and fixed relative to, the first end and electrically connected to a first cable, the first end of the connector is electrically connected to the first cable through the first sub-adapter and to the test equipment through the first cable;
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- a second sub-adapter having a first end directly and electrically connected with the second end of the connector and a second end electrically connected to a second cable, the second end of the connector is electrically connected to the second cable through the second sub-adapter and to the test equipment through the second cable, the second sub-adapter including:
- an external adapter conductor having:
- a first end including a planar end face electrically connected with a plurality of electrical contacts formed on a second end of an external conductor of the connector, the second sub-adapter directly and electrically connected with the second end of the connector in an abutting manner without the use of a positively engaging coupling therebetween, at least a portion of the plurality of electrical contacts of the connector protruding from of the second end of the external conductor in a direction toward the first end of the second sub-adapter;
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- a second end detachably electrically connected with an external conductor of the second cable;
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- a center adapter conductor fixedly arranged in the external adapter conductor, the center adapter conductor has a first end directly electrically connected with a second end of a center conductor of the connector and a second end fixed relative to the first end of the center adapter conductor and detachably electrically connected with an inner conductor of the second cable, the first end of the center adapter conductor is discoid, the first end of the center conductor of the connector is columnar, and the first end of the center adapter conductor has a planar end face abuttingly electrically contacting and positioned adjacent the second end of the center conductor of the connector, the external adapter conductor defines a radially-outward facing exterior surface of the second sub-adapter, the radially-outward facing exterior surface defining the outermost surface of the second sub-adapter in a radially-outward direction of the second sub-adapter, the external conductor of the connector includes:
- a first external conductor defining the first end and threadably connected to the first sub-adapter;
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- a second external conductor defining the plurality of electrical contacts, at least a portion of the second external adapter conductor extending at a second end of the connector, the second external conductor of the external conductor of the connector having:
- a first portion slidably received within the first external conductor of the external conductor of the connector and defining an exterior surface making sliding electrical contact with an interior surface of the first external conductor of the external conductor of the connector;
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- a second portion extending radially outward from the first portion and defining the plurality of electrical contacts.
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A connector system, comprising:
- a connector, including:
- an external conductor having a first end and a second end, the first end elastically movable relative to the second end in the axial direction of the connector, the second end defining a plurality of electrical contacts protruding from a second end of the connector;
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- an internal center conductor having a first end and a second end, the first end elastically movable relative to the second end in an axial direction of the connector;
- a first sub-adapter, including:
- a first external adapter conductor threadably connected on a first end thereof to the first end of the external conductor of the connector, the first external adapter conductor having a second end formed integrally with, and fixed relative to, the first end of the first external adapter and adapted to be detachably electrically connected to an external conductor of a cable;
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- a first internal adapter conductor having first and second fixed ends and directly electrically connected to the first end of the internal center conductor of the connector;
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- a second sub-adapter, including:
- a second external adapter conductor abuttingly connected to the second end of the external conductor of the connector;
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- a second internal adapter conductor having first and second fixed ends and abuttingly connected and positioned adjacent to the second end of the internal center conductor of the connector, wherein the external conductor of the connector includes:
- a first external conductor defining the first end and threadably connected to the first external adapter conductor;
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- a second external conductor defining the plurality of electrical contacts, at least a portion of the second external conductor protruding at the second end of the connector, the second external conductor of the external conductor of the connector having:
- a first portion slidably received within the first external conductor of the external conductor of the connector and defining an exterior surface making sliding electrical contact with an interior surface of the first external conductor of the external conductor of the connector;
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- a second portion extending radially outward from the first portion and defining the plurality of electrical contacts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.