Crimped center conductor
AssigneeADC Telecommunications, Inc.
InventorsRandall Wendland, Jeffrey Kes
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Abstract
A center conductor for use in a coax jack module assembly, for example. The center conductor including a conductive body having a crimped region and an uninterrupted region. The crimped region being located only within one of a first half and a second half of the conductive body. The first half and the second half of the conductive body being defined by a plane, which is defined by a central axis of the conductive body. The crimped region is defined by slots, such as saw cuts, made at an angle parallel to the plane.
Claims32
A center conductor, comprising:
- a) a conductive body defining an inner diameter and having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis defining a plane that bisects the conductive body, the plane defining a first body half and a second body half;
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- b) a crimped region located in only one of the first body half and the second body half, the crimped region including a contact member defined by elongated slots formed in the conductive body, the contact member having a portion that projects into the inner diameter toward the longitudinal axis of the conductive body;
- c) wherein the elongated slots are formed in the conductive body by cuts made at an angle parallel to the plane that bisects the conductive body.
A module component for use in a coax jack module assembly, the module component including:
- a) a housing defining a port, the port being sized for receipt of a jack plug;
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- b) a center conductor located within the housing adjacent to the port, the center conductor including;
- i) a conductive body having a central axis, the central axis defining a plane that bisects the conductive body into a first body half and a second body half;
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- ii) a crimped contact member formed in only one of the first body half and the second body half of the conductive body, the crimped contact member being defined by elongated slots, the elongated slots being formed in the conductive body by cuts made at an angle parallel to the plane that bisects the conductive body, the crimped contact member projecting toward the central axis of the center conductor.
A method of manufacturing a center conductor, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) providing a conductive body having a tubular construction, the conductive body defining a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis defining a plane that bisects the body into a first half and a second half;
- b) angling a saw blade parallel to the plane and cutting first and second slots within the tubular construction of the first half of the conductive body with the angled saw blade;
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- c) crimping a contact portion of the conductive body, the contact portion being located between the first and second slots of the first half of the conductive body.
A center conductor, comprising:
- a) a conductive body defined by a tubular construction having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axis of the tubular construction defining a plane that bisects the conductive body, the plane defining a first body half and a second body half;
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- b) a crimped region located in only one of the first body half and the second body half, the crimped region including a contact member defined by elongated slots extending parallel with the longitudinal axis of the tubular construction, each of the elongated slots defining slot surfaces that extend through the tubular construction of the conductive body, one of the slot surfaces being parallel to the plane that bisect the body, the contact member having a portion that projects into the tubular construction toward the longitudinal axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.