Method of manufacturing a curved transition surface of an inner contact
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorsRonald Alan Vaccaro, John Palac
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Abstract
An inner contact of a coaxial connector has a body with a plurality of spring fingers, the spring fingers each provided with a contact surface. A plurality of transitions from the contact surfaces are provided as curved surfaces. The curved surfaces may be formed, for example, by chamfer, electrical discharge machining or the like, such that an edge to a slot between the spring fingers does not contact the contact surface.
Claims13
A method for manufacturing an inner contact of a coaxial connector, comprising the steps of:
- providing a body with an inner conductor bore at a cable end;
- machining a portion of the body surrounding the inner conductor bore to form a plurality of spring fingers;
- each of the spring fingers provided with a contact surface;
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- a plurality of transitions between a periphery of each of the contact surfaces and their respective spring fingers, including transitions proximate adjacent spring fingers, provided as curved surfaces.
A method for manufacturing an inner contact of a coaxial connector, comprising the steps of:
- providing a body with an inner conductor bore at a cable end;
- machining the body proximate the cable end to form a plurality of transitions which surround a periphery of a plurality of contact surfaces;
- machining a portion of the body between the transitions to form spring fingers, each of the spring fingers with one of the contact surfaces;
- the transitions provided as curved surfaces, including transitions proximate adjacent spring fingers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.