Plug assembly and clamping part of a plug assembly

A plug assembly for use with a cable with a cable plug, the plug assembly comprising:

• a clamping part configured to receive and position the cable plug in a predetermined position at a front portion of the clamping part, a rear portion of the clamping part, which is opposite the front portion of the clamping part, configured to engage around the cable when the cable plug is received and positioned by the clamping part in the predetermined position, the rear portion having a radially compressible tapered section having an outer shape that tapers towards a rear distal end of the clamping part,
• a clamping sleeve configured to approach the clamping part with a front end of the clamping sleeve and to be connected to the rear portion of the clamping part by a threaded connection, such that tightening of the threaded connection results in an inner contacting section of the clamping sleeve being advanced over the tapered section of the clamping part towards the front portion of the clamping part while being in contact with the tapered section, resulting in increasing radial compression of the rear portion of the clamping part;
• a housing for being plugged into a socket of a complementary plug assembly by approaching the socket with a front end of the housing, the housing being configured to receive and position the clamping part in a front portion of the housing such that, when the cable plug is received and positioned in the clamping part and the clamping part is received and positioned in the housing, at least a front portion of the cable plug extending in a direction of the front end of the housing is surrounded by the front portion of the housing at a distance;
• the tapered section of the clamping part comprises a tapered external thread area with an external thread that extends over the tapered external thread area;
• and
• the inner contacting section of the clamping sleeve comprises a tapered internal thread area with an internal thread that extends over the tapered internal thread area;
• wherein the internal thread area has a tapered shape that matches a tapered shape of the external thread area and the external thread and the internal thread are configured to engage with each other to provide the threaded connection;
• and
• wherein the clamping part is divided in a longitudinal direction into two half shells which are linked pivotably at the front end and at the rear end have the external thread for engaging with the internal thread of the clamping sleeve.

A clamping part for a plug assembly, the clamping part comprising:

• two half-shells that are divided from one another in a longitudinal direction, the two half-shells are configured to clamp a RJ45 cable plug between them and thereby position the RJ45 cable plug in a predetermined position at a front portion of the clamping part;
• a radially compressible rear portion, which is opposite the front portion, is configured to engage around a cable connected to the RJ45 cable plug when the RJ45 cable plug is positioned by the two half shells in the predetermined position;
• one of the two half-shells is configured for nesting against a top side, a backside, and two lateral sides of the RJ45 cable plug, and the other of the two half-shells is configured for nesting against a bottom side, the backside, and the two lateral sites of the RJ45 cable plug, the top side comprises a latch element configured to latch the RJ45 cable plug to a conventional RJ45 socket, the bottom side is opposite the top side, the backside connects the top side with the bottom site on the cable side, and each of the lateral sides is adjacent the backside and connects the top side with the bottom side, such that the clamping part is configured to individually clamp and position either one of a) a RJ45 cable plug of a stepped type, which comprises a housing with a stepped surface on the bottom side, so that a rear part of the housing adjacent to the cable has a larger diameter in a direction perpendicular to the bottom side than a front part of the housing, which has contacts for providing signal transmission to the complementary plug assembly, or b) a RJ45 cable plug of a stepless type, which comprises a housing that is stepless on the bottom side, wherein the housing has at each of the lateral sides an extension, which continues a respective side surface of the housing and extends beyond a housing surface on the backside;
• the two half-shells each comprise an alignment structure to position the RJ45 cable plug in the predetermined position, wherein each said alignment structure comprises
• two pockets arranged in a rear area of the respective alignment structure, wherein each of the two pockets is configured to receive one extension of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepless type such that each of the two pockets of one of the two half-shells provides a boundary for the top side and the two lateral sides of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepless type and each of the two pockets of the other of the two half-shells provides a boundary for the bottom side and the two lateral sides of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepless type, and
• a boundary structure arranged in an area in front of the two pockets, wherein one of the boundary structures provides a boundary for the two lateral sides and the top side of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepped type and the other of the boundary structures provides a boundary for the two lateral sides and the bottom side of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepped type, respectively, and the boundary for the bottom side of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepped type is arranged offset from the boundaries for the bottom side of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepless type provided by the two pockets in a direction perpendicular to the bottom side;
• wherein the alignment structures to position the RJ45 cable plug in the predetermined position are configured such that each of the two half-shells front ends of each of the two pockets provide a boundary for the backside of the RJ45 cable plug of the stepped type.