Claims
- 1. A connector for connection to an end of a coaxial cable having an outer conductor having a corrugated profile and an outer insulative layer, and the end prepared to expose a length of the outer conductor to a leading edge and further expose a portion of an inner conductor forwardly of the leading outer conductor edge and the insulative layer, the connector comprising:a forward connector portion including an inner contact extending from a first contact section exposed at a mating interface to a second contact section exposed at a cable face adapted to be electrically engaged to an end of the inner conductor of the coaxial cable, a dielectric insert surrounding the inner contact, and an outer conductive housing extending from the mating interface; and a rearward connector portion including a sleeve portion extending to a rearward end thereof from a body portion including an annular interior flange forwardly of which is disposed said second contact section, and a bushing disposed in said sleeve portion and being cylindrical with an outer surface and an inner surface defining a cable-receiving region thereinto from a rearward end thereof, said inner surface initially having an inner diameter just large enough to receive thereinto a prepared end of the coaxial cable until a leading edge of said corrugated outer conductor abuts said annular flange and said end of said inner conductor electrically engages said second contact section; said bushing inner surface being profiled with alternating ridges and grooves to define a corrugated shape complementary to the corrugated shape of the cable outer conductor, with the ridges having a height less than the the depth of the grooves of the corrugated cable outer conductor, and the bushing grooves being dimensioned incrementally narrower than ridges of said corrugated outer conductor, wherein said rearward connector portion is adapted to receive thereinto the prepared end with said bushing having dimensions and shape selected to at least closely complement on outer surface of the cable outer conductor to facilitate establishment of an electrical connection of the rearward connector portion thereto to establish an assured mechanical connection between said cable and said connector.
- 2. A connector as set forth in claim 1 wherein said sleeve portion is deformable and said bushing includes an axial slot therealong communicating from the outer surface thereof to said inner surface thereof of selected width permitting said bushing to be reduced in diameter a controlled amount upon being crimped around said outer conductor of said cable inserted thereinto for said bushing ridges to enter said grooves of said corrugated outer conductor and said ridges of said corrugated outer conductor to enter and abut bottom surfaces of said incrementally narrower bushing grooves and be clinched thereby, all enabling crimping of said rearward connector portion against said outer surface of said cable outer conductor, for establishing a crimped connection between said rearward connector portion and said cable outer conductor.
- 3. A connector as set forth in claim 1 wherein said rearward connector portion includes at least one hole extending radially thereinto through said sleeve portion and said bushing to said cable-receiving region enabling hardenable fluid conductive material to be introduced into said cable-receiving region of said rearward connector portion subsequently to receipt thereinto of said prepared cable end, for establishing a mechanical and electrical connection between said rearward connector portion and said cable outer conductor.
- 4. A connector as set forth in claim 3 wherein said rearward connector portion includes a plurality of holes extending radially thereinto through said sleeve portion and said bushing to said cable-receiving region.
- 5. A connector as set forth in claim 3 wherein said at least one hole intersects said bushing inner surface at one of said ridges thereof, permitting said hardenable fluid conductive material to be flowed into one of groves said of said cable outer conductor and subsequently hardened.
- 6. A connector as set forth in claim 5 wherein said outer conductor is helically corrugated wherein said bushing inner surface is profiled to contain thereon a helical ridge and associated helical groove complementary to said helically corrugated outer conductor, and said bushing inner diameter defined by crests of said helical ridge initially is incrementally less than an outer diameter of said corrugated outer conductor defined by the crest of the ridge of said helically corrugated outer conductor, whereby said cable outer conductor is threadable into said bushing during insertion of said prepared cable end into said rearward connector portion.
- 7. A connector as set forth in claim 6 wherein said bushing includes chamfered edges at opposed ends thereof adjacent said inner surface facilitating insertion of said cable end thereinto.
- 8. A connector for connection to an end of a coaxial cable having an outer conductor having a corrugated profile and an outer insulative layer and the end prepared to expose a length of the outer conductor to a leading edge and further expose a portion of the an inner conductor forwardly of the leading outer conductor edge and the insulative layer, the connector comprising:a forward connector portion including an inner contact extending from a first contact section exposed at a mating interface to a second contact section exposed at a cable face adapted to be electrically engaged to an end of the inner conductor of the coaxial cable, a dielectric insert surrounding the inner contact, and an outer conductive housing extending from the mating interface; and a rearward connector portion including a deformable sleeve portion extending to a rearward end thereof from a body portion including an annular interior flange forwardly of which is disposed said second contact section, and a bushing disposed in said sleeve portion and being cylindrical with an outer surface and an inner surface defining a cable-receiving region thereinto from a rearward end thereof, said inner surface initially having an inner diameter just large enough to receive thereinto a prepared end of the coaxial cable until a leading edge of said corrugated outer conductor abuts said annular, flange and said end of said inner conductor electrically engages said second contact section; said bushing inner surface being profiled with alternating ridges and grooves to define a corrugated shape complementary to the corrugated profile of the cable outer conductor, with the ridges having a height less than a depth of the grooves of the corrugated cable outer conductor, and the bushing grooves being dimensioned incrementally narrower than said ridges of said corrugated outer conductor; and said bushing including an axial slot therealong communicating from the outer surface thereof to said inner surface thereof of selected width permitting said bushing to be reduced in diameter a controlled amount upon being crimped around said outer conductor of said cable inserted thereinto for said bushing ridges to enter said grooves of said corrugated outer conductor and said ridges of said corrugated outer conductor to enter and abut bottom surfaces of said incrementally narrower bushing grooves and be clinched thereby, wherein said rearward connector portion is adapted to receive thereinto the prepared end and to be controllably crimped thereonto to establish an assured mechanical connection between said cable and said connector with said bushing having dimensions and shape selected to clinch to ridges of said corrugated outer conductor with only slight deformation of said outer conductor radially inwardly.
- 9. A connector as set forth in claim 8 wherein said forward connector portion is a discrete assembly having a threaded flange extending from a rearward face, and said rearward connector portion including a complementarily threaded flange extending forwardly from said body section to be threaded onto said threaded flange of said forward connector portion, whereby said rearward connector portion defines an adapter modular in nature to be affixed to a selected forward connector assembly.
- 10. A connector as set forth in claim 8 wherein said sleeve portion has an axial length slightly greater than an axial length of said bushing and upon insertion of said bushing thereinto until abutted against said annular interior flange an end portion of said sleeve portion is inturned against a rearward end of said bushing for bushing retention in said sleeve portion.
- 11. A connector as set forth in claim 8 wherein said sleeve portion includes a visible indicia along the outer surface thereof overlying said axial slot of said bushing therewithin.
- 12. A connector as set forth in claim 8 wherein said bushing includes chamfers at edges of opposed ends thereof adjacent said outer surface thereof facilitating insertion of said bushing into said sleeve portion.
- 13. A connector as set forth in claim 8 wherein said outer conductor is helically corrugated wherein said bushing inner surface is profiled to contain thereon a helical ridge and an associated helical groove complementary to said helically corrugated outer conductor, and said bushing inner diameter defined by crests of said helical ridge initially is incrementally less than an outer diameter of said corrugated outer conductor defined by the crest of the ridge of said helically corrugated outer conductor, whereby said cable outer conductor is threadable into said bushing during insertion of said prepared cable end into said rearward connector portion.
- 14. A connector as set forth in claim 13 wherein said bushing includes chamfered edges at opposed ends thereof adjacent said inner surface facilitating insertion of said cable end thereinto.
RELATED APPLICATION INFORMATION
This is a Continuation-in-Part application of Ser. No. 08/062,100 filed May 14, 1993, now abandoned.
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Non-Patent Literature Citations (1)
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MIL-C 28830/CC Draft Military Specification Sheet dated Apr. 17, 1992, pp. 1 to 3; Defense Electronics Supply Center, Dayton, Ohio. |
Continuation in Parts (1)
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