IP Library Granted Patent US 7,607,944
Granted Patent B2
US 7,607,944 · App. 12/046,609 · Granted Oct 27, 2009

Multi-pole coaxial connector

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Patent No.
US 7,607,944
App. No.
12/046,609
Granted
Oct 27, 2009
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a multi-pole coaxial connector that can be made more compact. More specifically, to provide a multi-pole coaxial connector in which a pitch between members is reduced to reduce a connecting body in size. In a multi-pole coaxial connector in which when a housing block and a receptacle are coupled to each other, a signal post and a signal contact are brought into conduction, a ground contact and a ground case are brought into conduction, an internal conductor and a signal SMD terminal are brought into conduction, and an external conductor and a ground SMD terminal are brought into conduction, and a cross section of the ground contact is formed into substantially U-shape in which adjacent ground contact side is opened.

Claims (13)

1. A multi-pole coaxial connector comprising:

a coaxial cable connecting body in which a plurality of combinations of a signal post connected to an internal conductor of a coaxial cable, and a ground contact which is fitted over the signal post through an insulator and which is further connected to an external conductor, are disposed in parallel to each other, and

a stationary side connecting body in which a plurality of combinations of a signal contact having a signal terminal and a ground case having a ground terminal are disposed in parallel to each other, in which the coaxial cable connecting body and the stationary side connecting body are coupled to each other so as to bring the signal post and the signal contact into conduction, the ground contact and the ground case into conduction, the internal conductor and the signal terminal into conduction and the external conductor and the ground terminal into conduction,

wherein a cross section of the ground contact is substantially a U-shape in which adjacent ground contact side is opened,

wherein the signal contact includes a pair of contact pieces which sandwich the signal post from both sides with a compression force,

wherein the ground case is fitted over the signal contact through an insulator and is sandwiched between a pair of contact pieces of the ground contact with a compression force, and

wherein opening and closing directions of the pair of contact pieces of the ground contact and opening and closing directions of the pair of contact pieces of the signal contact are different from each other.

2. The multi-pole coaxial connector according to claim 1 , wherein the ground contact includes a swaging unit which presses and fixes from outside of the external conductor, and a cross section of the swaging unit is substantially a U-shape surrounding outside of the external conductor except the adjacent ground contact side.

3. The multi-pole coaxial connector according to claim 1 , wherein a cross section of the ground case is substantially a U-shape in which adjacent ground case side is opened.

4. The multi-pole coaxial connector according to claim 1 , wherein a contact portion of the ground case sandwiched between the pair of contact pieces of the ground contact is configured as a flat-plate like shape.

5. The multi-pole coaxial connector according to claim 1 , wherein the opening and closing directions of the pair of contact pieces of the ground contact are front and back directions of the stationary side connecting body, and a clearance hole to evade interference with the contact piece is provided in at least one of a front surface and a back surface of the stationary side connecting body.

6. The multi-pole coaxial connector according to claim 1 , wherein the signal terminal and the ground terminal project from the stationary side connecting body in a state where their surface are opposed to each other at a predetermined distance.

7. The multi-pole coaxial connector according to claim 6 , wherein a tip end of the ground terminal opposed to the signal terminal is bifurcated, and tip ends of the bifurcated portions are disposed astride the signal terminal.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jan 28, 2009
From: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
To: PANASONIC ELECTRIC WORKS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 022206/0574 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 12, 2008
From: YOSHIOKA, KOSUKE; HOSHINO, NARUTOSHI; KATO, SHUJI; TANAKA, HIROHISA
To: MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 020639/0947 →