Abstract: A connector mounting assembly for receiving and holding a connector at an end of a conducting cable. The connector assembly includes a support member and a spring-biased device, wherein the spring-biased device is spaced opposite from the support member a sufficient distance to receive the connector therebetween. Advantageously, the spring-biased device urges the connector against the support member so as to retain the connector without the use of separate fasteners or screws. In another aspect, the connector assembly may include a retaining member that is also spaced opposite the spring-biased device and includes a retaining edge that extends between a pair of shoulders of the connector so as to restrain axial motion of the connector. The connector mounting assembly is particularly suited to securing bulky and heavy connectors at the end of triaxial telecommunications cables.

Abstract: A cable connector is disclosed for hybrid cables having optical fibers, power lines, and audio lines. In one embodiment, the cable connector includes male and female portions having corresponding male and female contact pins for the power and audio lines, and forwardly-biased ferrules housing the optical fibers. All the lines and optical fibers are secured in an insulator device by an insulator lock that lockably engages a receptacle of the insulator device. Each hybrid cable is further secured and sealed with a grip member and a crimp ring. The cable connector of the present invention allows for field serviceability without the use of potting compounds.

Abstract: A cable connector is disclosed for hybrid cables having optical fibers, power lines, and audio lines. In one embodiment, the cable connector includes male and female portions having corresponding male and female contact pins for the power and audio lines, and forwardly-biased ferrules housing the optical fibers. All the lines and optical fibers are secured in an insulator device by an insulator lock that lockably engages a receptacle of the insulator device. Each hybrid cable is further secured and sealed with a grip member and a crimp ring. The cable connector of the present invention allows for field serviceability without the use of potting compounds.

Abstract: An electrical coupling and switching device and associated method advantageous for use with signal bandwidths of 1.5 GHz or more is provided having a housing defining first and second equipment ports for use with coaxial plugs. The housing also defines first and second patch ports for receiving patch plugs, such as video-style plugs. A pair of actuators are positioned within the housing for establishing electrical communication between the equipment ports and a corresponding patch plugs. A flexible microstrip is also provided that, in a normal mode, provides a low return loss, low discontinuity flowpath between the equipment ports, while in a patched mode is flexibly urged away from an equipment port that is patched to the corresponding patch plug via the actuator such that the unpatched equipment port is terminated in its characteristic impedance.

Abstract: The microwave frequency chip resistor assembly is used as a terminating device for a video jack. Such an assembly minimizes inductance variation and eliminate soldering associated with conventional metal film resistors.

Abstract: A printed circuit board receptacle connector that terminates itself in its characteristic impedance when a mating plug is disengaged therefrom.

Abstract: A connector assembly containing a V-shaped spring continuity bridge, which moves between a first position, in which continuity is maintained between two contacts, and a second position in which continuity between the two contacts is broken, upon insertion of a mating plug, the V-spring continuity bridge being mounted to the connector body via a mounting block. The V-shaped spring is formed so that a center portion thereof is radiused, and no sharp angles are present. This center portion loosely fits into a corresponding groove formed in the mounting block allowing for movement of the entire V-spring continuity bridge upon deflection caused by contact with the mating plug.

Abstract: An angled rotatable cable connector is described. The cable connector has a first end for attaching to a termination point of a cable, and a second end adapted to attach to a fixed panel-mounted mating connector. The first end and second end of the cable connector are supplied as sub-assemblies, mounted within a common outer body, so that, after connection, both the cable attached to the first end, and the connector, attached to the mating connector, remain free to rotate around their respective axes.

Abstract: An adapter including a front and rear conductive portion separated by a filter device and a non-conductive support, through which an RF-type cable connector can be inserted and mounted on a receiving connector on an external device. Because the conductive portions of the adapter are isolated from the panel by means of the disc capacitor, all DC ground currents are prevented from passing through the filtering device, effectively isolating the shell of the panel on which it is mounted, while all AC currents are passed through the filtering device to the panel on which it is mounted, effectively grounding any undesired radiating signals and preventing interference. The adapter can be supplied as a single unit which is simply inserted over the connector body before panel mounting.

Abstract: A surface mounted connector adapted to attach a cable to a printed circuit board wherein all contacts necessary to establish electrical continuity between the circuit board and connector are made on a single surface of the circuit board.

Abstract: A bayonet nut coupler plug formed with a connector body and bayonet coupler, the connector body being provided with an undercut in which a spring or ring is retained. The bayonet coupling, which is provided with a recessed groove formed behind a lead chamfer, can be pushed over the assembly, thereby compressing the ring and snapping it onto the coupling undercut. By so forming the connector, the connector body can be attached to the bayonet coupling without requiring a forming overstep.

Abstract: An improved electrical connector for receiving a semirigid coaxial cable includes, at the proximal end of the connector body, an annular sleeve inwardly tapered to a diameter smaller than the minimum manufactured diameter of the cable, and a plurality of relatively narrow slots axially defined in the sleeve so that, as the cable is inserted into the connector body toward its proximal end, it enters and contacts the sleeve which diametrically expands at the slots to accommodate and firmly grasp the cable at the mating interface end of the connector.

Abstract: An adapter including an insulating, three shouldered adapter having a filter device disposed in a channel formed therein. When inserted between a RF-type cable connector and a panel mounted receiving connector, the adapter effectively isolates the shell of the connector from the panel and insures that all ground currents must pass through the filtering device. The configuration of the shoulders allows the adapter to be used with all standard cable connectors designed for panel mounting.

Abstract: A locking electrical connector having male and female connector bodies forming a plug-in type assembly wherein the female connector body has at least one electrical terminal and the male connector body has at least one terminal-receiving socket in axial alignment therewith to form an electrical connection. The locking electrical connector has at least one pin and socket assembly for maintaining the connector bodies in locking connection with each other wherein a socket is on the female connector body. The male connector body has first and second chambers which exit into a recessed mating area and a plunger assembly capable of being displaced within the second chamber for movement therethrough. The pin is at the front end of the plunger assembly and capable of being positioned within the recessed mating area, and the socket is adapted to pass through the first chamber and contact the pin in positive locking engagement when the male and female connector bodies are engaged.

Abstract: A cable connector having an outer body, a center contact, and an insulator between the contact and the body wherein the contact is adapted to receive a center wire. The connector has at least one off-center hole in the outer body extending substantially parallel to the center contact and located adjacent an external surface of the outer body. The off-center hole is adapted to receive an outer wire. The center contact and the off-center hole are adapted to be crimped by a center crimp pin and an outer crimp pin, respectively, both carried by a crimping tool.

Abstract: A cutting tool for preparing an end of semi-rigid coaxial cable for connector attachment includes interengageable piloting clamp and cutter head assemblies. The piloting clamp is provided with a bore for receiving the cable end, a coaxial shank portion from which the cable end is located to project a selected distance and a securement member for retaining the cable end in the piloting clamp. The cutter head includes a bore for receiving the piloting clamp shank portion and projecting cable end slidably and coaxially advanced therein, a cutter blade for cutting the insulating material and outer conductor of the cable away from its center conductor, and a stop for stopping advance of the shank portion in the cutter head so as to leave a predetermined length of the center conductor exposed.

Abstract: A co-axial, isolated ground bulkhead receptacle has a metal connector body, a threaded metal mounting body, and an insulator body having a connector end and a mounting end, a central recess for holding a center electrical contact, and a radially located slot for holding an isolated ground contact. In a preferred embodiment, the insulator body has three annular rings at its midsection for securing the respective annular flange ends of the connector body and the mounting body and for maintaining them in electrical isolation from each other. The slot in the insulator body and the ground contact have a curvilinear cross-sectional shape so that the ground contact can be mounted with a constant spacing apart from the metal mounting body.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an arrangement for simply and inexpensively attaching semirigid coaxial cable to suitable connectors in which the connector is provided with a sleeve having either internal fluting or cross threads. The effective internal diameter of the sleeve is only slightly greater than the external diameter of the outer conductor of the semirigid cable so that when the sleeve is crimped the flutes and/or threads bite into the outer conductor to form a connector-cable bond sufficiently resistant to pull-off, twisting and slipping, while at the same time forming a joint having an acceptably low radio signal power leakage through the crimped interface and so little dimensioning effect on the cable that transmission losses due to internal reflections are maintained acceptably low.

Abstract: A pi pad attenuator for microwave systems is formed on an insulating substrate in the form of a small card or chip. Resist material covers the substrate, and input and output conductors are plated over the resist in the desired configuration. Resist material is removed to leave conductors interconnected in a predetermined pattern by individual sections of resist to form the pi pad. Characteristics of the attenuator are determined by the area of the remaining resist sections and/or the thickness of the applied resist.

Abstract: A connector is provided to align two optical fiber cables with one another so that a light signal may be transmitted from one to the other with minimum loss. One section of the connector has a tapered elastic member in the form of a compressible cone in which the opposed ends of the two optical fiber cables are positioned. After the two sections of the connector are physically united, a cone lock supported from the other section of the connector is moved over the compressible cone, collapsing the latter about the adjacent optical fiber ends and sealing the resultant aligned connection from external influences.