Abstract: A high frequency coaxial cable having a foil (7a) between the cable insulator (5) and cable braid (7b), is terminated to a coaxial connector (40) in a manner that allows fast and easy cable preparation and results in a termination with minimal axial electric field lines that cause a high insertion loss and a high VSWR (voltage standing wave ratio). A bore (46) at the rear portion of the connector outer conductor, receives the cable insulator with foil around the cable insulator. The bore has a front part (54) that forms an interference fit around the foil, to avoid an axially-extending gap which might contain axially-extending field lines. The front of cable insulator and foil are flush and both abut the insulation (25) of the connector.

Abstract: A coaxial connector (10) for a coaxial cable (100) having a corrugated outer conductor (108), including one which is helically corrugated. An adapter (40) of the connector can include a crimpable sleeve (44) within which is a bushing (70) initially having an axial slot (72) of selected dimension. The inner surface (74) of the bushing is fluted defining ridges and grooves (for cable of annular corrugation), or a continuous helical ridge (76) and associated groove (78) defining a thread of corresponding pitch, and general inner diameter permitting cable insertion. Upon full threading of the cable end into adapter (40), crimp sleeve (44) is crimped thus closing axial slot (72) and stopping the crimp process to achieve a minimum desired inner diameter. The adapter may be a discrete subassembly and securable to a forward connector portion in modular fashion by complementary threaded flanges (32,46).

Abstract: Coaxial connector (10) for mounting to a circuit board (12) at an edge (14) thereof and having an outer conductor housing block (20) with an enlarged rearward housing section (22) and an elongate threaded cylindrical forward housing section (30). A bottom housing section (70) is provided that depends beneath downwardly facing housing surfaces (60) of wings (24) that are coplanar with inner conductor (40), extending through a board recess (16), with the bottom housing section (70) being provided rearwardly of forwardmost ends (62) of the downwardly facing housing surfaces (60). The bottom housing section (70) is sufficiently massive to move the center of mass of the connector rearwardly of the forwardmost ends of the downwardly facing surfaces (60) so that the connector (10) remains stablely positioned without tooling on the top of the circuit board during assembly prior to soldering thereto.

Abstract: A right-angle coaxial electrical connector (22) mountable to a circuit board includes a housing (24) having a plurality of contact-receiving passageways (32) and at least two coaxial contacts (36, 38) disposed in the same column defining a stacked configuration. Each coaxial contact (36, 38) includes an inner terminal and an outer conductor, the inner terminal including a right angle body portion (46) extending outwardly of the housing (24) and concluding in a first connecting portion (44) adapted for mounting to the circuit board. A metal shell (64) having two interlocking halves joinable at opposed assembly faces is disposed over the outwardly extending body portion (46) of the inner terminal thereof and engageable with the outer conductor for connection to ground. In one embodiment, the inner terminal is comprised of two terminal subassemblies (40, 52). As an alternative, the connector housing (222) could be used with an intermixture of board mountable contacts (36, 38) and cable terminated contacts (235).

Abstract: A surface mountable electrical connector (20) includes an insulating housing (22) having a coaxial subassembly receiving cavity (54) extending thereinto to a cavity bottom (56) proximate the mounting face (28); a coaxial subassembly 60) having center and outer conductors (66, 76); and first and second contacts (82, 92) along the mounting face and extending into the housing to resilient inner ends (84, 94) exposed proximate the cavity bottom. The resilient inner ends are engaged by portions of the center and outer conductors (66, 76) at the insertion end of the coaxial subassembly (60) upon full insertion into the cavity. The first and second contacts (82, 92) include outer contact sections (88, 98) adapted to be surface mounted to a circuit board. The arrangement incorporates a coaxial contact into a multiple contact hybrid connector (20) fully surface mountable to a circuit board.