Connector assembly for mounting a coaxial plug to a coaxial cable
AssigneeRosenberger Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Co. KG
InventorMathias Tettinger
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Abstract
A connector assembly for mounting a coaxial plug to a coaxial cable includes a contacting ferrule which on one hand engages a cable conductor corrugated tube by means of threads, and on the other hand is connected to the housing of the coaxial plug. The connector is configured in such a manner that at its plug-side end the contacting ferrule constitutes a collet having resilient segments and evincing a conical compression surface which is subject to radial compression against the cable conductor corrugated tube by a plug-side, cooperating compression cone.
Claims15
A connecting device for electrically and mechanically coupling a coaxial plug having a plughead with a coaxial cable having a longitudinally extending conducting corrugated tube having first corrugations extending beyond an end face of a casing of the cable, the connecting device comprising a contact bush including a first end adapted to be connected to the corrugated tube of the cable and a second end adapted to be connected to the plughead, a stop adjacent the first end for receiving the end face, the second end including clamping tongs having resilient clamping segments for engaging the plughead, the clamping segments including a compressive cone having a compressive frusto-conical surface responsive to a force applied by the plug, the bush including second corrugations extending longitudinally from the second end substantially to the stop, the second corrugations mating with the first corrugations of the corrugated tube from the second end substantially to the stop, the compressive frusto-conical surface responding to the force applied by the plug for applying a radial force through the second corrugations against the first corrugations of the coaxial cable, the bush including a circular groove intersecting one of the corrugations, the groove being positioned, arranged and having a geometry to provide resilient, spring and clamping characteristics for the clamping tongs.
A connector for connecting a coaxial plug having interior and exterior longitudinally extending coaxial conductors to a coaxial cable having interior and exterior coaxial conductors, the plug including at least one camming surface, at least one of the coaxial cable conductors being a cable having a first coaxial corrugated cylindrical surface extending beyond a tubular end face of the cable, the connector comprising:
- a metal bush having spaced mutually insulated coaxial interior and exterior cylindrical segments, the interior and exterior segments being arranged to be electrically and mechanically connected to the interior and exterior conductors of the plug and cable so that (a) the plug fits into a second end of the segments, (b) the plug interior conductor is adapted to engage the bush interior segment, (c) the plug exterior conductor is adapted to engage the bush exterior segment, (d) the cable fits into a first end of the segments, (e) the cable interior conductor is adapted to engage the bush interior segment, and (f) the cable exterior conductor is adapted to engage the bush exterior segment;
- at least one of the segments including a second coaxial corrugated cylindrical surface adapted to mate with the first corrugated surface of the at least one conductor of the coaxial cable, the second corrugated surface extending longitudinally from the second end substantially to the stop, said at least one segment having a surface adapted to be engaged by the at least one camming surface and responding to a force applied by the camming surface for radially urging the second corrugated coaxial segment of the at least one surface into contact with the first corrugated surface of the at least one conductor, said at least one second corrugated coaxial cylindrical surface including a circumferential groove intercepting corrugations on the second corrugated surface, the groove being positioned, arranged and having a geometry to provide spring, resilient and clamping characteristics of the surface for radially urging the second corrugated coaxial surface of the at least one surface into contact with the first corrugated surface of the at least one conductor.
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