Abstract: A F-type coaxial cable connector includes an outer tubular sleeve which receives an inner tubular post. The inner post includes a projecting barrel portion sized to receive the center conductor and the dielectric layer of a prepared coaxial cable end. The barrel portion includes a raised barb which separates the outer jacket and conductive braid or foil of the coaxial cable, the post further including an annular flange having a circumferential cavity which receives the end of the separated cable jacket and braid, providing a 360° seal. The post and rotating nut are driven longitudinally into the stationary outer sleeve to crimp the connector and to complete the cable termination.

Abstract: Two-piece and three-piece coaxial cable connectors having common components. Both structures include a connector assembly having first and second sets of circumferential threads, a contact, supported inside the connector assembly via an insulator, having a receiving element and extending from a front end of the assembly, and a collet, retained in a rear end of the assembly, having a ramp surface corresponding to a chamfer of the receiving element. Both structures also include a rear nut assembly that includes a pair of grips that are radially outwardly biased toward an inside surface of the rear nut assembly, which grips cooperate with a sleeve to grip an outer sheath of a coaxial cable and permit unfettered insertion and removal of a coaxial cable end. In the two-piece structure the sleeve is retained inside the rear nut assembly. In the three-piece structure, the sleeve is part of a center nut assembly.

Abstract: A crimp connector for attachment to a coaxial cable by use of a conventional crimping tool includes a plurality of annular ridges to be crimped, which ridges define a modified hexagonal perimeter having three pairs of opposed planar surfaces and curved surfaces interconnecting adjacent ones of the planar surfaces. A method for crimping resulting in migration of the material of the ridges to maintain a rounded surface about the coaxial cable is disclosed.

Abstract: A crimp connector for attachment to a coaxial cable by use of a conventional crimping tool includes a plurality of annular ridges to be crimped, which ridges define a modified hexagonal perimeter having three pairs of opposed planar surfaces and curved surfaces interconnecting adjacent ones of the planar surfaces. A method for crimping resulting in migration of the material of the ridges to maintain a rounded surface about the coaxial cable is disclosed.

Abstract: An edge connector for a circuit board includes a plurality of contact terminals each having a contact head, each contact head having a loop portion. The contact terminals are supported in a cavity in an insulative housing in such relation that the loop portion of the contact head bears against a shoulder portion of the housing. In one form of the connector, the contact terminals are fixedly mounted in a mounting substrate in such an arrangement that the loop portion of the contact heads bias the insulative housing against the substrate to hold the assemblage. In another form of the connector, the substrate may be eliminated, and the contacts include a lower flange portion adapted to bear against lower surface of the housing and an upper tongue portion adapted to bear against an upper shoulder surface of the housing between the tongue portion and the flange portion.

Abstract: An edge connector for a circuit board includes a plurality of contact terminals each having a contact head, each contact head having a loop portion. The contact terminals are supported in a cavity in an insulative housing in such relation that the loop portion of the contact head bears against a shoulder portion of the housing. In one form of the connector, the contact terminals are fixedly mounted in a mounting substrate in such an arrangement that the loop portion of the contact heads bias the insulative housing against the substrate to hold the assemblage. In another form of the connector, the substrate may be eliminated, and the contacts include a lower flange portion adapted to bear against lower surface of the housing and an upper tongue portion adapted to bear against an upper shoulder surface of the housing between the tongue portion and the flange portion.