US 2024/0186754 A1Published application

Hardline splitter with anti-rotation configured to enhance connection of an input cable

AssigneePpc Broadband, Inc.

InventorsJimmy Ciesla Henningsen, Michael Ole Matzen

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Abstract

A splitter for allowing a hardline cable to be connected to the splitter as an input and a connector to be connected to the splitter as an output includes a housing portion. The housing portion includes an input portion; the input portion is configured to receive a hardline input cable; the housing portion includes an output portion; the input portion includes an engagement portion configured to engage a hardline back nut; the splitter is configured to connect to the hardline input cable; and the connection of the splitter to the hardline input cable is configured to allow the splitter to be installed on the hardline input cable without additional hardware to connect the splitter to the hardline input cable.

Claims26

Dependent claims

A splitter configured to provide enhanced connection of a hardline cable to the splitter as an input comprising:

a housing portion;
a back nut portion configured to be rotatingly coupled with the housing portion;
an inner body portion configured to receive an input cable;
wherein at least a portion of the inner body portion is configured to be disposed in at least a portion of the back nut portion;
wherein the housing portion comprises an input portion and an output portion;
wherein the input portion comprises an engagement portion structurally configured to engage the back nut portion;
wherein the housing portion comprises an anti-rotation portion;
wherein the splitter is configured to receive a center conductor of an input cable;
wherein the splitter is configured to be connected to the input cable without requiring additional hardware to connect the splitter to the input cable;
and
wherein the inner body portion comprises an anti-rotation portion engaging portion structurally configured to engage the anti-rotation portion such that rotation of the inner body portion relative to the housing portion is prevented while rotation of the back nut portion relative to the housing portion is permitted so as to prevent rotation of the input cable relative to the housing portion, thereby enhancing connection of the input cable to the splitter.

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Facts

Application: 18/439,473Filed 12 Feb 2024
Priority: 31 Jul 2017
Published: 6 Jun 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H01R 24/547
Intermediate parts, e.g. adapters, splitters or elbows: splitters
H01R 31/005
Coupling parts supported only by co-operation with counterpart: intermediate parts for distributing signals
H01R 31/02
Coupling parts supported only by co-operation with counterpart: intermediate parts for distributing energy to two or more circuits in parallel,…
H05K 1/147
Structural association of two or more printed circuits: at least one of the printed circuits being bent or folded, e.g. by using a flexible…

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Application62/539,070Us provisional application · filed 31 Jul 2017
Application16/635,890Continuation · filed 31 Jan 2020
Application18/073,784Continuation · filed 2 Dec 2022
Application18/439,473Continuation
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