Capacitively coupled connector junctions having parallel signal paths and related connectors and methods
AssigneeCommScope Technologies LLC
InventorFrank A. Harwath
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Abstract
Coaxial connector junctions include a first coaxial connector that has a first center conductor extension and a first outer conductor extension and a second coaxial connector that is mated with the first coaxial connector, the second coaxial connector including a second center conductor extension and a second outer conductor extension. A communications path between the first outer conductor extension and the second outer conductor extension includes a first capacitively coupled outer conductor communications path and a second galvanically coupled outer conductor communications path.
Claims12
A method of reducing corrosion in a connector junction between a first electrical connector and a second electrical connector, the method comprising:
- providing a first capacitively coupled communications path between a first conductor of the first connector and a first conductor of the second connector;
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- providing a second galvanically coupled communications path between the first conductor of the first connector and the first conductor of the second connector,
- wherein the second galvanically coupled communications path is electrically parallel to the first capacitively coupled communications path and is configured to maintain the first conductor of the first connector and the first conductor of the second connector at the same electrical potential.
A method of transmitting multiple signals through a coaxial connector junction formed between a first coaxial connector and a second coaxial connector, the method comprising:
- capacitively coupling a first radio frequency signal from the first coaxial connector to the second coaxial connector;
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- galvanically coupling a second low frequency signal from the first coaxial connector to the second coaxial connector.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.