Contactless high power rf connector
AssigneeSpinner GmbH
InventorsChristoph Neumaier, Herbert Hammerschmidt, Josef Landinger
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Abstract
A RF connector includes a first conductor and a symmetrical second conductor. Each conductor has an elongated structure of a flat conductive material with a length corresponding to ¼ of a nominal frequency of a signal to be coupled and is connected at a first end to a coaxial connector and at a second end to the housing. The RF connector can be switched between an ON state and an OFF state. In the OFF state, the first conductor is distant from the second conductor and in the ON state the first conductor is in close contact with the second conductor such that open sides of their respective housings are oriented against each other, and the conductors are facing each other.
Claims18
-15. (canceled)
An RF connector comprising a first coupler section, a second coupler section symmetrical to the first coupler section, and at least one housing, wherein the first coupler section comprises a first conductor, and the second coupler section comprises a second conductor,
- wherein each of the first conductor and the second conductor:
- comprises an elongated structure of a flat conductive material,
- is recessed against an outer surface of the at least one housing,
- has a length corresponding to ¼ or a multiple of ¼ of a nominal wavelength of a signal to be coupled,
- is connected at a first end thereof to a coaxial connector, and
- is connected at a second end thereof to the at least one housing,
- wherein the RF connector is configured to be switched between an ON state and an OFF state by moving one of the first conductor and the second conductor against the other of the first conductor and the second conductor,
- wherein in the OFF state, the first conductor is distant from the second conductor and
- in the ON state the first conductor is in close proximity to the second conductor such that the first and second conductors are facing each other, and
- wherein the RF connector comprises a mechanical support structure to guide a relative movement of the first and second conductors between respective on-positions corresponding to the ON state and respective off-positions corresponding to the OFF state and to hold the first and second conductors in said positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.