Abstract: There is provided a connector that allows easy engagement even when visual judgment is not possible and that has superior durability as well. In a connector for connecting a first connecting cable connected to one end of a socket and a second connecting cable connected to one end of a plug, through engagement between the socket and the plug, the socket includes a cutout portion formed by cutting away at least one portion from one opening of a cylinder along the peripheral direction thereof, the cutout portion having a V-shape at its deepest portion, a first guiding portion projecting from at least one portion of the opening along the peripheral direction, the first guiding portion having a substantial V-shape at its leading end, and a retaining portion to be retained to a lateral face of the cylinder at the time of engagement with the plug, thus retaining this engagement.

Abstract: An apparatus for detachably-attaching a first half of an electrical connector to a second half includes an exterior first half housing as part of the first half that rotates about a split ring with respect to a remaining interior portion of the first half. The interior portion does not rotate. The first half housing rotates during connection as the interior portion is urged longitudinally. Electrical sockets and electrical contact pins are provided in the first half and the second half. The first half housing includes inward-protruding pins that engage with outward facing slots of the second half and follow the contour of the slots as the first half housing is rotated causing a longitudinal displacement of the first half with respect to the second half. The slots and housing structure prevent flame propagation by providing complete electrical disconnection before a final mechanical release of the bayonet connection occurs.

Abstract: An actuator system comprising a housing (2, 19) having at least one socket (6) for the insertion of an electrical plug (7). The housing (2, 19) is provided with an arrangement which is capable of retaining an electrical plug, preferably of the Jack, DIN or Minifit type, inserted into said socket, said arrangement comprising a union nut (8) which may be retained in a position above the opening of the socket (6), and which at the same time surrounds the plug (7), said union nut (8) being rotatable between an inoperative position in which the plug (7) may freely be inserted and removed, and another position which is a locked position, in which the plug (7) cannot be inserted and, if it is already inserted, cannot be removed.

Abstract: A two-part inductive connector comprises a primary part having a primary half core and a secondary part having a secondary half core, the primary part including first locking means which are engageable with second locking means on the secondary part, one of the primary or secondary parts further comprising a pin which is receivable in a recess formed in the other of the primary or secondary parts, the connector having an unlocked position in which the primary and secondary half cores are not aligned and in which the first and second locking means are not engaged, and a locked position in which the primary and secondary half cores are aligned and the first and second locking means engaged, the connector moving between the unlocked and locked positions by relative rotation of the primary and secondary parts about the pin.

Abstract: An electrical connector is provided for mating with a mating connector. The electrical connector includes a housing and an electrical contact held by the housing. The housing has a mating end that faces the mating connector when the electrical connector is mated with the mating connector. The housing includes a body having a retaining flange. A locking collar is movably mounted on the body of the housing. The locking collar includes a locking element and an inwardly directed shoulder having an opening extending therethrough. The locking element is configured to engage the mating connector to lock the electrical connector to the mating connector. The shoulder engages the retaining flange of the body when the locking collar is fully engaged with the mating connector. The retaining flange of the body is configured to engage the locking element of the locking collar to retain the locking collar on the body of the housing.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly that includes an adjustment collar and a body having an interior volume. The collar defines a passage that is in communication with the interior volume of the body when the collar is engaged with the body. The collar can be rotated relative to the body and can also be fixed to the body with a locking member. The adjustment collar has a helical thread that engages an electrical connector. Wiring extending through the body can be conductively engaged with the electrical connector. The engagement between the collar and the body allows the rotational position of the electrical connector relative to the body to be easily adjusted and then fixed in place by rotation and the subsequent fixation of the adjustment collar. A cooperating electrical connector can be detachably engaged with the electrical connector. A coupling member can be used to secure the cooperating electrical connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector includes a terminal body defining at least two openings therein. Electrical terminals positioned in each of the at least two openings defined by the terminal body include respective crimp sections that extend beyond an end of the terminal body. A separator fin attached to the end of the terminal body extends beyond the crimp sections of the electrical terminals and is located between the at least two openings in the terminal body so that the separator fin defines a structure that is closed on an inner side to physically separate the crimp sections of the electrical terminals and open on an outer side so that the crimp sections of the electrical terminals are exposed.

Abstract: A hybrid connector for directly connecting with a female BNC connector and a female TNC connector is provided. The hybrid connector includes a pin, a body, and an outer shell. A distal end of the pin is housed in a dielectric, the dielectric is housed in the body, and a proximate end of the body is housed in the outer shell. The outer shell includes a screw thread that advances axially from a proximate end thereof along an interior surface of the outer shell, and first and second bayonet locking mechanisms disposed therein.

Abstract: The invention relates to a coaxial plug for connecting to a high-frequency transmission line. The housing of the coaxial plug has two slits arranged opposite each other, extending from the plug-side end in the axial direction, and both arranged and designed to form an axial abutment for receiving a BNC pin. A latching fork is arranged on the housing with two latching prongs tangentially overlapping an axial slit of the housing. between the abutment and the plug-side end Each BNC pin is held between a latching prong and an abutment of the axial slit, creating a locked connection between the coaxial plug and the BNC coaxial socket. The latching fork is pivotably arranged between a locking position in which the latching prongs tangentially overlap the axial slits, and a clearing position in which the latching prongs clear the axial slits over the entire length thereof.

Abstract: A male terminal cap and a female terminal cap are mounted on the two ends of a strip light shade to form an extensible strip light shade. Electrical contacts are formed in the terminal caps for electrical coupling when two light shades are connected through mechanical coupling of the terminal caps.

Abstract: A high density electrical interconnect is disclosed that uses a bayonet action to mate a plug having a plurality of contacts to receptacle having a plurality of spring contacts. The plurality of contacts may be a plurality of pin contacts, printed circuit board traces, or flexible film contacts. The spring contacts are preloaded to reduce the insertion force required to mate the plug and receptacle.

Abstract: An electrical connector according to one embodiment of the invention may include a terminal body that defines an opening therein that includes a plurality of alignment ribs. An electrical terminal is positioned within the opening so that the plurality of alignment ribs align the electrical terminal within the opening in the terminal body.

Abstract: A plug and socket connector arrangement for electrical or fiber optic cables includes a pair of tubular locking sleeves mounted for axial and rotational displacement on the plug and connector bodies, which locking sleeves have adjacent ends provided with internal and external screw threads, respectively. The adjacent sleeve ends each contain a plurality of circumferentially spaced longitudinal slits that define a plurality of resilient threaded sectors. After the plug and socket connectors are brought into connected engagement, the locking sleeves are successively displaced from retracted separated positions axially together toward an adjacent locked position, whereby the resilient inner sleeve sectors are initially radially expanded, and the resilient outer sleeve sectors are subsequently radially contracted. The inner and outer screw threads are thus brought into threaded engagement, whereupon the locking sleeves are slightly relatively rotated to lock the sleeves together.

Abstract: An electrical connector may include a body and a sleeve rotatably attached to body. The sleeve may include at least one slot adapted to engage at least one other connector, and at least one indicator groove adapted to align with the at least one other connector.

Abstract: An electrical connector set having mating male and female connectors is provided with a first lock preventing separation, the first lock consisting of standard bayonet slot on one member and a mating key on the other member and a secondary locking mechanism consisting of a rotatable spring lock ring affixedly carried by one of the members and is positioned interior a rotatable and axially movable collar carried by the associated member. The spring ring has at least one radially urged spring finger and the collar has at least one opening dimensioned to receive the spring finger. The spring ring includes an increased thickness area in an axial dimension which is engaged against an undersurface configuration of the collar so that as the collar is rotated with respect to the spring ring it will undergo axial movement.

Abstract: A conversion adapter ring for a connector has a female screw, on the inner periphery of a cylindrical main body thereof for screwing and mounting onto a male screw of a screw coupling type connector. A bayonet groove is also provided on the outer periphery of the main body for engaging a bayonet coupling type connector. An alternate connector is a connector capable of being inserted into and extracted from a mating connector in the axial direction. The connector has, in the outer periphery of a cylindrical shell that mates with the mating connector, a male screw for engaging the mating connector, and a bayonet groove formed with a notch in the male screw.

Abstract: A pulse generator has a sealing device, wherein the cylindrically shaped pulse generator has at one end a thread for screwing it in a threaded bore of a wall element until contact is made with a flange region on the wall element. At the other end, the pulse generator has a plug connector for electrically contacting a sensor element arranged with the pulse generator. The pulse generator further has first spanner surfaces in the center region. The pulse generator is surrounded in the region of the first spanner surfaces by a sleeve-like sealing cap, which is secured in the position thereof surrounding the region of the first spanner surfaces when the threaded bore of the wall element is screwed into the pulse generator. The sealing cap has second spanner surfaces at the outside thereof and is connected to the pulse generator via a target breaking point.

Abstract: There is provided a BNC plug connector and associated method for engaging a BNC jack member and indicating a rotational position of the plug connector. The plug connector generally includes a sleeve that defines a first aperture at a first end for receiving a jack member and a second aperture at the second end. A plug member is disposed in the sleeve and configured to engage the jack member, which can be inserted through the aperture at the first end of the sleeve. A contrast surface at the second end of the sleeve defines a contrast surface such as a surface of a washer that is visible through a second aperture at the second end of the sleeve. One or more features, such as tabs, defined at the second end of the sleeve extend radially inward at the second end to a radial position that is coincident with the contrast member.

Abstract: Arrangements and methods are provided for electrically and mechanically coupling a lighting arm to a wiring body. An exemplary arrangement includes a fixture arm, a wiring body, a socket, and a plug. The exemplary socket is affixed to one of the fixture arm and the wiring body, and includes a socket opening and at least one socket electrical contact. The exemplary socket opening includes an outer end, an inner end, and a first mating portion on an internal surface of the socket opening. The exemplary plug is affixed to the other of the fixture arm and the wiring body, and includes a plug body and at least one plug electrical contact. The exemplary plug body includes an end portion, a side portion, and a second mating portion disposed on the side portion. The second mating portion is configured to engage the first mating portion when the plug is coupled with the socket.

Abstract: A self-guiding cover assembly for a vacuum electron device (VED) enclosure has a breach lock mechanism for seating the VED into the VED enclosure having a base. The breach lock mechanism has a plurality of guide elements mounted on the VED, a first sleeve mounted on the base and configured to removably receive the VED, and a second sleeve mounted on the base and configured to removably receive the first sleeve and rotate around the first sleeve. The first sleeve has a plurality of vertical slots configured to mate with the plurality of guide elements. The second sleeve has tracks configured to mate with the guide elements. A rotation of the second sleeve pulls the VED into the base for seating the VED.

Abstract: A positive locking push-on 3.5 mm (or other diameter, such as 2.4 mm) connector is provided by retaining an existing bayonet lug and latch style push-on latch mechanism and associated male and female outer conductor shells, but which is sized for 3.5 mm use, while providing SMA/APC-3.5 style male and female center conductor pins that are held in place within their respective outer conductor shells by RF beads that are part of a unitized transmission line subassembly. Alteration of certain axial dimensions of the outer conductor shells prevents the accidental mating of the 3.5 mm bayonet connector with a BNC connector of the opposite gender, and does so in a way that prevents damage to any of the center pins.

Abstract: To provide a connector in which a plug and a receptacle can be connected easily and the plug and the receptacle are separated from each other by rotating a coupling ring. A plug (1) is structured so that an inner circumference of an external cylinder (11) includes a pair of the projections (11a) and (11b). A receptacle (2) is structured so that the projections (11a) and (11b) are inserted in the axial direction to a pair of first elastic pieces (2a) to provide an engagement therebetween. The engagement between the projection (11a) and the first elastic pieces (2a) provides a connection between the plug (1) and the receptacle (2). The receptacle (2) includes a rail groove (2a) in which, when the external cylinder (11) is rotated, the projection (11a) moves the plug 1 in a direction along which the plug (1) is away from the receptacle (2).

Abstract: A unipolar safety electric connector includes a male connector, shell, and a female connector shell, corresponding male and female inner electric contacts being provided within the male and female connectors, the female connector shell providing on its outer portion a “L” shaped guide groove, having one arm along the longitudinal coupling direction of the shells and the other arm along the transverse direction, a key being insertable within the “L” shaped groove, the key being provided on the edge of the male connector shell, the key, once introduced longitudinally at the bottom of the “L” shaped guide groove, engaging, by rotation of one shell with respect to the other one, with the transverse arm of the “L” shaped guide groove.

Abstract: An electrical device has a base assembly including first contacts and a mounting mechanism for electrically leading to a power source, a latch assembly adapted to receive at least one additional electrical device that is to be mounted to the latch assembly, push and twist mechanism for engaging the latch assembly to the base assembly and a plurality of second contacts in the latch assembly adapted to be electrically connected to the first contacts of the base assembly, the second contacts being adapted to be connected to the additional electrical device.

Abstract: The electrical connector has a main housing and a turnable member turnably supported on the main housing. The turnable member is turned to move a second connector toward the main housing from an initial mating state of the main housing with the second connector so as to completely couple the main housing with the second connector. The connector has a resilient engagement arm extended from the turnable member, a stopper projection formed in the resilient engagement arm, a guide portion formed in the main housing, and an engagement recess formed in the main housing. The stopper projection abuts against the guide portion so that the resilient engagement arm is in a yielded condition at a half-way mating state of the main housing with the second connector, while the stopper projection locks with the engagement recess by resiliency of the engagement arm when the main housing has completely coupled with the second connector.

Abstract: A miniature BNC connector assembly having reduced dimensions includes a plug-side connector configured for engagement with a jack-side connector to form an electrical connection. The plug-side connector includes a plug-side connector body and a bayonet sleeve rotatably connected to the connector body. The bayonet sleeve has an outer diameter not greater than approximately half an inch.

Abstract: A locking connector system includes a first body having a rotatable collar mounted thereon and a second body configured to mate with the first body, including one or more components configured to control the breakaway force of the first and second bodies. The first and second bodies include telescopingly engaged body portions and axially mating contacts. The connector system further includes an annular collar encircling the telescoping body portions and rotatively held on the first body and a spring inside the collar. The ends of the spring are confined between the first body and the collar so as yieldingly to resist rotation of the collar relative to the first body. Axially aligned tabs are provided on the collar and the second body for latching the first body and the second body together through a predetermined range of forces.

Abstract: An electrical connector assembly is provided for a light fixture. The assembly includes a base assembly which includes a female pin contact holder, a base housing adjacent the female pin contact holder, and having at least one guide post, and a stem. The assembly also includes a male pin contact holder having at least one tab, a hole at one end, a flange surrounding the hole, and an electrical male pin connector inside the male pin contact holder for connection with the female pin contact holder through the hole. A latch assembly includes a spring, a washer, and a latch housing. The latch housing has at least one bayonet slot at an open end for mating connection with the at least one guide post, at least one set of installation slots and resting seats on the inside surface of the housing, and a wall between the installation slots and resting seats having a peak and a ramp.

Abstract: An electrical connection for communicating between electrical terminals is provided, as is a collar for retaining the cable of such a connection and associated methods. The connection can include a first modular connector engaged to a first electrical terminal of a printer, a second connector engaged to a second terminal, and a cable extending between the first and second connectors. The first terminal of the printer can be configured to communicate via a first plurality of electrical contacts using a USB protocol and via a second plurality of electrical contacts using another protocol. In some cases, a third connector can be provided on the cable such that the first terminal can communicate to the second connector using the first protocol or to the third connector using the second protocol. The collar can be slidably disposed on cables of various configurations and engaged to a terminal to secure one of the connectors on the cable to the terminal.

Abstract: A seismic cable coupling comprising connector body, a coupling ring is rotatably mounted on the connector body. The coupling ring includes a ring body having a first longitudinal projection and a second longitudinal projection, the first longitudinal projection having an interior surface including a first angled groove, the second longitudinal projection having an exterior surface including a first raised stud. The coupling ring is a hermaphrodite coupling ring that mates with a coupling ring having a substantially identical ring body.

Abstract: A plug includes a plug main body, a connection sleeve, and a connection ring. A socket includes a socket main body and a socket holder. An insertion member of the socket main body is fitted to an engagement concave of the plug main body. An engaging projection of the socket holder is fitted to one end of a circular-arc slit of the connection ring. The connection ring is rotated to relatively shift the engaging projection along the circular-arc slit, and the engaging projection is positioned and locked at the other end of the circular-arc slit.

Abstract: The push-on latching function of a male BNC latch carried in a housing, and the positive locking of fully mated male and female connectors, are performed by three parts: The first is a male double shell assembly having two male sleeves that receive an intervening BNC female shell. An outer portion near the middle of the male double shell carries several turns of an exterior left-hand thread. The second is a spring biased self-latching BNC latch having an interior bore by which it snugly engages, and then rotates upon, the exterior of the male double shell. One end of the BNC latch has ramps and detents for engaging the bayonet pins of a female BNC connector, and the other end has a section of exterior right-hand threads proximate the exterior left-hand threads of the male double shell. The third is a barrel that has a bore therethrough with both left and right hand internal threads that engage the exterior threads of the BNC latch and the male double shell.

Abstract: Described is an electrical plug connector with a cylindrical plug (20), a counterplug (1) which is complementary to plug (20), a bayonet ring (23) which is rotatable about the housing (3) of the counterplug (1) for locking the plug connector (20) into the counterplug, where the bayonet ring (2) can be pushed in the direction of plug insertion for the locking of the plug (20) on the housing (23) of the plug, until at least one locking device of the bayonet ring (2) has interlocked with the plug housing (23) and the bayonet ring (2) can be rotated about the counterplug housing (3) for the purpose of unlocking the plug connector.

Abstract: A precision locking BNC male connector mates without requiring twisting of the cable or multiple bends to accommodate the rotation of the BNC latch. The shell portion of the male connector that carries the adapter connector or cable clamp on one end and that is the male cylindrical shield at the other end, is free to rotate whenever the precision locking BNC male connector is not locked, whether or not it is mated with a female connector. A knurled sleeve is captive at a location along the male shell, but is free to rotate. The knurled sleeve has internal threads that engage external threads on a portion of the BNC latch. A radial friction device is in contact with both an-external surface of the BNC latch and the internal surface of the knurled sleeve. When not engaged with the bayonet pins of a female connector, rotating the knurled sleeve will rotate the BNC latch also, by virtue of the friction device, but both will, as a unit, rotate freely relative to the shell.

Abstract: A housing carries a male push-lock precision BNC connector. The function of the BNC latch of the male connector carried therein is performed by a spring-biased lock ring captive in a housing and that fits snugly and concentrically over a male sleeve, resulting in a double shell of two rigidly attached cylindrical portions that are coaxial, coextensive, yet separated to accept a BNC female shell. The double shell is held captive by anchoring it to the inside of the housing. The male sleeve has a slot and/or cut-away portion to accept the forward travel of the bayonet pins, which, when the connector halves are engaging, extend beyond the thickness of the sleeve and into the region occupied by the lock ring. The lock ring has grooves having various portions that engage the bayonet pins. As the housing containing these male parts is without rotation moved toward the female connector, the lock ring rotates as the grooves contact the bayonet pins.

Abstract: A ceiling fan or light fixture hanging system that comprises a male and female electrical connector and ramp lock quick connection for installation of a ceiling fan or light fixture to an electric outlet box located on a ceiling.

Abstract: An electrical coupling comprises a sealing element, a mechanical securing element, and load bearing members on either side of the mechanical securing element. The load bearing members each comprise upper and lower body halves, which mount to an inner member through which an insulated electrical cable runs. Between the upper and lower body halves and the inner member, an open weave fabric is secured, and the fabric extends onto the electrical cable beyond the load bearing member, so that when stress is applied to the cable, the fabric tends to squeeze down onto the cable, thereby bearing the stress on the cable. The mechanical securing element is preferably a bayonet mount, including an O-ring seal providing a water resistant seal when the connection is made up.

Abstract: A connector assembly is provided, including a first connector body, and a rotating coupler rotatably secured to the first connector body having at least two securing members. A second connector body is also included, having at least two partially helical securing grooves formed about circumferential portions of an outer surface of the second connector body. Each of the helical securing grooves has an entry end and a terminal end. Upon assembly, the securing members enter an entry end of a respective securing groove and engage an upper axial surface thereof as the rotating coupler is rotated, and each securing member travels along the upper axial surfaces of the securing grooves toward the terminal ends thereof to securely couple the first and the second connector bodies to one another.

Abstract: Electrical plug-in connector (1) for establishing an electric connection through a housing wall, especially the wall of a motor vehicle gearbox, with a pin housing (2) containing an electric plug contact (4) and a guide sleeve (3) that is detachably connected with it through a bayonet catch (7, 8), wherein the pin housing (2) is basically arranged on the interior, and the guide sleeve (3) basically on the exterior of the housing wall, and the pin housing (2) contains an inner and an outer substantially circular collar (5, 6) on its end facing the guide sleeve (3). A bayonet fitting (8) is arranged on the exterior of the guide sleeve (3), and the locking pins (7) corresponding to the fitting (8) are arranged on the interior of the outer collar (6) of the pin housing (2).

Abstract: An electrical fixture is mounted adjacent a stable surface via a standard J-box using a quick-connect fastener which allows the electrical fixture to be electrically coupled to wires extending through the J-box prior to physically coupling the electrical fixture to the J-box, while also minimizing twisting of the wires in the J-box during attachment of the electrical fixture to the J-box.

Abstract: A bayonet-type connector assembly for releasably securing a first connector half to a second connector half along a connection axis by simple rotation of a bayonet nut. Each connector half includes a plurality of electrical contacts. The bayonet nut encircles the second connector half. Rotation of the nut to a closed position causes a thread segment on the nut to engage corresponding grooved segments formed in the first connector half, to mate the connector halves, enabling electrical contact between the connector halves. Rotation of the bayonet nut also slides a slidable portion, i.e., a nut cam, beneath a cam of the second connector half to prevent axial separation of the two connector halves. The connector assembly further includes a detent positioned to engage a securement on one of the cams to releasably lock the nut in the closed position.

Abstract: An electrical connection system, such as a Bayonet Niel-Concelman (BNC) connection system, includes two connector assemblies and enables electrical connections between the two connector assemblies to be established and maintained. The two connector assemblies respectively include a first connector and a second connector. One of the connector assemblies includes a contact pin, and the other connector assembly includes a mechanical support having a tapered recess. The first connector interlocks with the second connector, and the contact pin is received by the recess and engages the mechanical support, when the first and second connectors are interlocked. Because the recess is tapered, the contact pin is guided toward the center of the recess as the contact pin is pressed against the surface of the mechanical support exposed by the recess, making it easier to establish and maintain an electrical connection with the contact pin.

Abstract: A ceiling fan or light fixture is provided with a sliding support member that slides horizontally into a support channel attached to a ceiling box. An electrical plug and receptacle attached to the two support members automatically mate as the two support members are slid together. A bell is then raised to cover the two support members and prevent them from sliding apart.

Abstract: The invention concerns an electrical connection device in particular for constituting geophysical data acquisition and processing systems, consisting of two identical electrically and mechanically fitting male/female connectors, each connector comprising a body (10) bearing a set of connection pins and a ring (20) enclosing the connector body base and capable of being moved in rotation relatively to said body, the connector ring comprising an raised motif (27) for plugging in the associated connector. The invention is characterized in that the body of each connector comprises two stages of raised motif of which one front raised stage substantially matching the ring motif to co-operate with the associated connector ring motif in a locked position of the device and a rear stage to co-operate with the ring motif of the same connector in a retracted position of said ring.

Abstract: An interlocking plug-in connector put for an electrical plug-in connector includes a housing for receiving electrical contacts and a bayonet ring. The bayonet ring is longitudinally displaceable relative to the housing and is movable from an assembled position in which a mounting end of the bayonet ring is arranged on the plane of a mounting surface of the housing or on a plane which is staggered in the direction of connection in relation to the mounting surface of the housing. The bayonet ring tray be longitudinally displaced from the assembled position to a connecting position such that an insertion end of the bayonet ring is positioned in arranged within a region of the mounting surface of the housing. In the insertion position, the bayonet ring is supported on a stop associated with the housing to push the housing into a guide bushing.

Abstract: An electrical plug connection including a plug housing (2), a contact housing (3) complementary to the plug housing (2) and a bayonet ring (4) for locking the plug housing (2) in the contact housing (3). At least one spring element (16) acts on at least one movable rotary slide (6) and, when the bayonet ring (4) is turned so as to close it, exerts an increasing stress on the bayonet ring (4) and, in the event of the bayonet ring being incompletely turned to close it, unturns the latter into its open position. The bayonet ring (4) is locked in its closed position only when it is completely turned so as to close it.

Abstract: This invention relates to a plug part of a BNC plug-and-socket connection for a coaxial cable, which contains an external and an internal conductor, with plug body (1), comprising an external contact part (5) arranged in the front in relation to the direction of plugging, a connection zone (6) for fixing the external conductor of the coaxial cable, located at the back and connected in an electrically conductive manner with external contact part (5), and an internal insulated part (8) comprising a central aperture (9) for a contact pin (10), to which the internal conductor of a coaxial cable is to be connected, and a bayonet-type bushing (2) arranged on plug body (1) in a twistable manner, and furthermore, a manipulation casing (19) designed as a separate part, which is connected with bayonet-type bushing (2) in a firm, untwistable manner, overlaps connection zone (6) of plug part (1) at its rear side, and is used to open and close the BNC plug-and-socket connection through bayonet-type bushing (2).

Abstract: An electrical power connector is disclosed having a plug and receptacle. The plug includes a coupling ring having a single handle extending radially therefrom. The coupling ring is freely rotatable within limits on the plug when the plug is not coupled to the receptacle. The receptacle includes one or more bayonet ramps to which the coupling ring can be coupled. Advantageously, the plug can be coupled to the receptacle with 120° rotation or less by rotating the coupling ring 120° or less. The plug and receptacle each include a colored locking indicator to indicate to the person coupling the plug to the receptacle that the receptacle and plug are properly aligned to each other when coupled. Also an audible indication of locking is provided when the electrical plug and receptacle are fully coupled.

Abstract: A locking assembly for releasably locking together a mating connector pair comprises a housing having a central aperture therethrough and adapted to be mounted to the first connector portion of the mating connector pair. A locking sleeve also having a central aperture is sized to receive the first connector portion and is also sized to be slidably received by the central aperture of the housing so that the locking sleeve can be rotated within the housing from a locked position to an unlocked position. The locking sleeve also includes a locking pin engaging boss for releasably engaging a locking pin associated with the second connector portion of the mating connector pair. Specifically, the locking pin engaging boss rotates the locking sleeve to the unlocked position as the first connector portion is engaged with the second connector portion. The locking pin engaging boss also allows the locking sleeve to be rotated to the locked position when the first and second connector portions are fully engaged.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a retractable handle which has an extended rotatable position and is movable to a retracted, stowed condition. The handle advantageously can be moved to an extended position in which a detent provides sufficient force so that the handle can be used in operation for coupling or de-coupling the connector from a mating connector. Advantageously, when in the stowed retracted position, the handle is unobtrusive and should not interfere with moving objects that are near by. The handle includes a detent mechanism which provides sufficient force to hold the handle in either the extended rotatable position or the stowed, retracted position.