Abstract: A connector for transmission cable has a lower housing and an upper housing securable thereto to be terminated to a prepared end portion of the cable. The conductors are laser welded in slots of the terminals. The contact sections of the terminals reside on respective resilient supports of the lower housing which act in cantilever fashion. A hood section of the upper housing extends over the plurality of contact sections to define a cavity. The connector structure is hermaphroditic in that one connector is matable with another identical connector having a reversed vertical orientation. The respective hoods cooperate to resist the forced cantilever action of the pairs of resilient supports urging each other apart, thus generating contact normal force. The hermaphroditic connectors latch when fully mated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connection unit of universal type. This comprises two complementary connection elements (1,2) with a coaxial structure having at least one peripheral part and a central conductive core. The peripheral part(s) of one of the connection elements (1) are in sleeve form. The sleeves (10) and the contact (11) are mounted movably in translation in the direction of the longitudinal axis .DELTA. of the male element (1). The sleeves (10) and the contact (11) are mechanically independent. The connector of this invention has application to connectors for radio frequency and/or numerical or analog signals.

Abstract: An electrical connector part has its connector end covered by a metal shield or grid plate having openings individually aligned with electrical contacts. The electrical contacts are of the "butt" variety having spring-loaded parts which shieldingly cover the grid plate openings when the connector parts are released.

Abstract: One end of an electrical connector first contact is a metallic cylinder which is hollow to receive a cable wire for soldered or crimping securement. A second contact has a body portion constructed substantially the same as the first contact except that its pin end is faced off to a flat surface. A hollow cylindrical metal shell with one closed end and a flanged open end is slidingy received on the body portion other cylindrical end. Mating engagement of the connector parts brings the radiused pin end of the first contact into pressurizing connection with the second contact metal shell establishing the desired connection. Unmating may be accomplished by either axial or transverse relative movement of the connector parts. In a further embodiment the hollow cylindrical metal shell has one or more inwardly formed spring fingers that slide over the enlarged head during assembly and prevent inadvertent removal of the shell from the rest of the contact.

Abstract: An electrical assembly for mechanically and electrically coupling lengths of cables having stripped ends. The assembly comprises two identically constructed, electrically conductive, eccentric terminals, each for receiving and terminating a stripped cable end to be coupled. A bayonet is formed on the front end of each terminal. Each bayonet includes a male and female attachment member adapted to be latched in contact with another like bayonet to form a rotatably disengagable hermaphroditic coupling which is rotatably disengagable. A leaf spring is attached to each terminal to releasably secure the bayonets together. Two identically constructed, electrically insulating housings and a separable sleeve formed of mating male and female sleeve portions shroud the terminals prior to coupling and attach together to provide a watertight enclosure for sealing the terminals during operation and use.