Coaxial connector with three-point contact type terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022285894-A1
Application number	US-202217686233-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 3, 2022
Priority date	Mar 5, 2021
Publication date	Sep 8, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention provides a further miniaturized coaxial connector. A coaxial connector includes a contact by three-point contact, a housing including a first and a second connection base, and a shell including a cylindrical portion accommodating the first connection base and an extension portion accommodating the second connection base. The contact disposed inside an accommodation space on the first connection base, includes three terminals including a pair of fixed terminals and a movable terminal that are erected from a tip end side of a metal plate. The pair of fixed terminals are located at a set of vertices among vertices of a virtual equilateral triangle inscribed in a mating contact, the movable terminal is located at the other vertex of the virtual equilateral triangle, and a contact surface of the movable terminal is disposed in a state of facing an intermediate portion of the pair of fixed terminals.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A coaxial connector configured on an end of a coaxial cable including a central conductor, a dielectric surrounding the central conductor, an external conductor that covers the dielectric, and an insulating sheath that clads the external conductor, the coaxial connector comprising:
a contact capable of being connected to a cylindrical mating contact, the contact including a pair of fixed terminals and a movable terminal, the terminals being erected from a tip end side of a strip-shaped metal plate and being capable of externally contacting the mating contact by three-point contact; a housing including a first connection base and a second connection base, the first connection base including an accommodation space in which one surface side is open such that the mating contact is insertable and the pair of fixed terminals and the movable terminal are disposed inside, the second connection base partially protruding from the first connection base; and a conductive shell including a cylindrical portion that is open to the one surface side and is provided to surround the first connection base, and an extension portion at least including a gutter-shaped that is coupled to the cylindrical portion and is capable of accommodating the second connection base therein.

2 . The coaxial connector according to claim 1 , wherein
the pair of fixed terminals are located at a set of vertices among vertices of a virtual equilateral triangle inscribed in the mating contact, and the movable terminal is located at the other vertex of the virtual equilateral triangle, and is disposed in a state of being elastically deformed in a direction along a straight line passing through the vertex of the virtual equilateral triangle and an intermediate portion of the pair of fixed terminals.

3 . The coaxial connector according to claim 1 , wherein
the contact is molded integrally with the housing, and the contact includes at least: an installation surface in which a base end of the metal plate is exposed on a predetermined surface of the second connection base, the installation surface being capable of coming into contact with the central conductor; and contact edges of the pair of fixed terminals, the contact edges being exposed to the accommodation space and capable of coming into contact with the mating contact.

4 . The coaxial connector according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a crimp housing including a slot that is notched so as to be capable of pressing an outer periphery of the central conductor and capable of being inserted from an opening side of the accommodation space toward a predetermined portion of the second connection base, wherein the extension portion of the shell includes
a pair of first barrels capable of pressing the crimp housing against the second connection base, and
a pair of second barrels capable of crimping the external conductor.

Assignees

• Jst Mfg Co Ltd

Inventors

• Koga Shinichi
• Otsu Akihiko

Classifications

• H01R24/50 Primary

  mounted on a PCB [Printed Circuit Board] · CPC title

• H01R13/46

  Bases; Cases · CPC title

• H01R13/02

  Contact members · CPC title

• H01R24/40 Primary

  specially adapted for high frequency · CPC title

• H01R9/0518

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