Coaxial cable connector, carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector, and method for manufacturing coaxial cable connector

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10367275-B2
Application number	US-201815909870-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2018
Priority date	Oct 29, 2015
Publication date	Jul 30, 2019
Grant date	Jul 30, 2019

Abstract

There is provided a coaxial cable connector, etc., configured such that the outer conductor shell and the connector carrier are linked by a carrier linkage part provided to part of the edge portion between the distal end and the portion of the outer conductor shell of a coaxial cable connector excluding the crimper, and the connector carrier is disposed on the distal end side of the outer conductor shell (the opposite side from the housing carrier), which simplifies the configuration of the apparatus used to manufacture the coaxial cable connector, and allows the coaxial cable connector to be assembled with the fixing position of the outer conductor shell stabilized while still linked to the connector carrier in the manufacturing process.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A coaxial cable connector that comprises:
a housing that supports terminals,
a coaxial cable; and
an outer conductor shell that covers at least part of the housing and at least part of the coaxial cable,
a substantially cylindrical part configured to connect a mating connector to a distal end side of the outer conductor shell,
a crimper configured to fix the coaxial cable, the crimper provided at a rear end portion of the outer conductor shell; and
cut parts provided to the outer conductor shell at edge portions closer to the distal end side of the outer connector shell than the crimper, the cut parts formed from carrier linkage parts that are cut away from a connector carrier.

2. The coaxial cable connector according to claim 1 , wherein wall components are provided to the edge portions of the outer conductor shell, and
the cut parts are formed at the edge portions of the outer conductor shell where the wall components are not located.

3. The coaxial cable connector according to claim 1 , wherein the cut parts are formed in a convex shape from the edge portions of the outer conductor shell.

4. The coaxial cable connector according to claim 1 , further comprising a bending part that constitutes part of the substantially cylindrical part, at the distal end of the outer conductor shell,
wherein the cut parts are formed at the ends of the bending part.

5. The coaxial cable connector according to claim 1 , further comprising other cut parts at the end of the crimper.

6. A connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector, comprising:
at least one coaxial cable connector comprising terminals,
a housing that supports the terminals,
a coaxial cable,
an outer conductor shell that covers at least part of the housing and at least part of the coaxial cable,
a substantially cylindrical part configured to connect a mating connector to a distal end side of the outer conductor shell,
a crimper configured to fix the coaxial cable is provided to the outer conductor shell, and
a carrier linkage part that is linked to a connector carrier, the carrier linkage part provided at edge portions closer to the distal end side of the outer conductor shell than the crimper.

7. The connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 6 , wherein the connector carrier comprises wall components at the edge portions of the outer conductor shell, and
the carrier linkage part is provided to the edge portions of the outer conductor shell where the wall components are not located.

8. The connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 6 , wherein the carrier linkage part is provided to an outside of an outer periphery of the substantially cylindrical part.

9. The connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 6 , wherein the carrier linkage part is formed in a convex shape from the edge portion of the outer conductor shell.

10. The connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 6 , wherein the at least one coaxial cable connector is engaged with the carrier linkage part via a linkage piece extending from the connector carrier.

11. The connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 6 , wherein a notch or a half-cut is formed in the carrier linkage part.

12. The connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 6 , further comprising another carrier linkage part at an end of the crimper, wherein the other carrier linkage part is linked to a sub-connector carrier that supports the crimper of the outer conductor shell, and
the connector carrier is connected to a support component at the distal end of a support piece extending from the sub-connector carrier.

13. A method for manufacturing a coaxial cable connector, including:
cutting away the connector carrier by cutting the carrier linkage part provided closer to the distal end side than the crimper from the connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 6 ,
wherein the crimper comprises a covering crimper and an outer conductor crimper,
the outer conductor shell of the coaxial cable connector further comprises a core wire crimper, and
prior to the cutting away the connector carrier, the following are performed:
fitting the housing that supports the terminals into the outer conductor shell; and
bending the core wire crimper extending from the edge portion of the outer conductor shell so that the core wire of the coaxial cable disposed in a core wire connector of the terminals is compressed and connected to the core wire connector by a core wire fixing component that is insulated and is located on the inside of the core wire crimper, and respectively crimping and fixing the outer conductor and the covering of the coaxial cable with the outer conductor crimper and the covering crimper provided to the rear end portion of the outer conductor shell,
wherein the carrier linkage part linking the outer conductor shell to the connector carrier and another carrier linkage part linking the housing to a housing carrier are disposed at opposite ends of the conductor shell and the housing, respectively,
wherein the housing is assembled to the outer conductor shell while attached to the housing carrier,
wherein the another carrier linkage part linking the housing to the housing carrier is cut before the carrier linkage part linking the outer conductor shell to the connector carrier, and
wherein the housing and the coaxial cable are attached from a same direction with respect to the outer conductor shell.

14. A method for manufacturing a coaxial cable connector, comprising:
cutting the sub-carrier away from the connector carrier by cutting the other carrier linkage part provided to the end of the crimper from the connector carrier-equipped coaxial cable connector according to claim 12 , and cutting between the connector carrier and the support component at a cutting location, and
cutting away the connector carrier by cutting the carrier linkage part provided at a desired location closer to the distal end side than the crimper.

15. The method for manufacturing a coaxial cable connector according to claim 13 , prior to the cutting away the connector carrier, the following are performed:
connecting the core wire of the coaxial cable to the core wire connector of the terminals supported in the housing; and
bending the core wire crimper extending from the edge portion of the outer conductor shell so that the housing that supports the terminals is fixed to the outer conductor shell.

16. The method for manufacturing a coaxial cable connector according to claim 13 , wherein prior to the cutting away the connector carrier, the following are performed:
fitting an insulated housing that does not support any terminals;
fitting the terminals, in which the core wire of the coaxial cable is connected to the core wire connector, to the housing; and
bending the core wire crimper extending from the edge portion of the outer conductor shell so that the housing that supports the terminals is fixed to the outer conductor shell.

17. The method for manufacturing a coaxial cable connector according to claim 13 , wherein the housing is formed with integral support for terminals included in the housing and the housing carrier is linked to the terminals with the housing carrier linking part via linking pieces, and
wherein the housing carrier linking part extends to support the terminals included in the housing.

18. The method for manufacturing a coaxial cable co

Assignees

• Hirose Electric Co Ltd

Inventors

• Miyazaki Atsuhiro
• Denpouya Ikuo
• Hirose Yoshihito
• Kimura Kazuhiko

Classifications

• H01R9/0518 Primary

  Connection to outer conductor by crimping or by crimping ferrule · CPC title

• H01R43/0482

  combined with contact member manufacturing mechanism · CPC title

• H01R43/055

  with contact member feeding mechanism · CPC title