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US 5,509,821 AGranted
D-sub connector
AssigneeITT Corporation
InventorsRobert W. Small, John P. van den Enden
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AssigneeITT Corporation
InventorsRobert W. Small, John P. van den Enden
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A connector is described which provides moisture proof sealing and electrical grounding of selected contacts, especially for coaxial contact devices. The connector includes a conductive shell assembly (20, FIG. 4 ) with a rear wall (40) that has a large opening (42) therein. An insulator device (50) lies in the shell assembly and at least one coaxial contact device (52) lies in the insulator device. A ground plane (60) formed by a sheet of electrically conductive material has an outer portion (62) trapped between the insulator device and the rear wall of the shell assembly, and has an inner portion (63) that directly engages the outer contact of the coaxial contact device to ground it. The shell assembly includes front and rear tubular shell parts (32, 34), with the tubular rear shell part having a greater inside width and length than that of the front tubular shell part. The insulator device includes a front insulator (80) of elastomeric material having a peripheral portion (84) that is deformed rearwardly and radially inwardly by the rear end (86) of the front tubular shell part.
A connector which has an axis extending in forward and rearward directions and which has an electrically conductive shell assembly with a rear tubular part having a rear end that forms a rear wall having an opening, said connector including an insulator device lying in said shell assembly and at least one coaxial contact device lying in said insulator device, said coaxial contact device including coaxial inner and outer contacts and a dielectric separator between them, wherein said coaxial outer contact is electrically connected to said shell assembly, characterized by:
A method for assembling a connector which includes an electrically conductive shell assembly that includes a shell rear wall with an opening therein, an insulator for lying in said shell, at least one contact device lying in said insulator and having a contact outer surface region that is to be electrically connected to said shell assembly, and a sheet like ground plane with a hole for connecting said contact outer surface region to said shell, comprising:
A connector which has an axis extending in forward and rearward directions and which has width and length dimensions that are perpendicular to each other and to said axis, said connector including a shell assembly having front and rear shells with facewise adjacent plate parts, said front and rear shells having front and rear tubular shell parts with said rear tubular part having a front end of greater inside width and length than that of said rear end of said front tubular part, and said connector including an insulator device lying in said shell assembly and at least one contact device lying in said insulator device, characterized by:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.