Connector arrangement
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorPeter Jordan
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Abstract
A connector arrangement comprises a rigid inner conductor (107), a dielectric sleeve (111) arranged around the inner conductor and a rigid outer conductor (109) arranged around the sleeve. A surface of at least one of the inner conductor, the sleeve and the outer conductor is provided with a taper, such that the sleeve fixes the relative transverse positions of the inner and outer conductors at a first end of the arrangement and not at a second end of the arrangement. The inner conductor is longitudinally slidable relative to the outer conductor. Such an arrangement is suitable for use in hostile environments, such as in high temperature pipelines, in which there are large temperature variations and in which the positional variation of mating connectors is high.
Claims14
A connector arrangement comprising a rigid inner conductor that has an axis extending in a longitudinal direction, a dielectric sleeve arranged around the inner conductor and a rigid outer conductor arranged around the sleeve, wherein:
- a surface of at least one of the inner conductor and the sleeve has a taper, such that the sleeve fixes the relative transverse positions of the inner conductor and sleeve at a first end of the arrangement and not at a second end of the arrangement.
A method of coupling a connector arrangement that has first and second opposite ends connector, the method comprising:
- assembling an elongated dielectric sleeve (111) and an elongated rigid outer conductor (109) around an elongated inner conductor (107) that has an axis (14) with the sleeve interposed between the inner and outer conductors;
- wherein of an outer surface of the inner conductor and an inner surface of the sleeve, one of them has a taper means that fixes the relative transverse position of the sleeve relative to the inner conductor at a first end of the arrangement but not at a second end of the arrangement.
A connector arrangement which includes a conductor (107) and a mating connector (13) that has a bore (112) that receives a front end of said conductor, and wherein:
- said conductor front end is in the form of a split pin that forms a plurality of axially-elongated connector parts (105, 106) with rear ends (114R) that are separated and front ends (114F) that are initially separated, said connector parts lying in said mating connector bore, said connector parts forming an outer surface of barrel shape with a greatest diameter location (110) that engages walls of said bore and with connector part locations lying forward and rearward of said greatest diameter location which are of smaller diameters than said greatest diameter location, said connector element front ends (114F) being compressed into engagement with each other by the compression, by said bore walls, of said greatest diameter location of said inner connector front ends.
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