Patent ID: 6699054
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A coaxial connector assembly for connection between first and second substantially parallel circuit boards, said first circuit board having a first signal carrying circuit element disposed thereon and a first ground, said second circuit board having a second signal carrying circuit element thereon and a second ground, said assembly comprising:a guide sleeve connected to said first ground and projecting from said first circuit board, said guide sleeve defining a selected inside diameter; an outer contact assembly having a generally tubular base connected to said second ground circuit element and projecting from said second circuit board, a generally tubular floating outer contact movable axially and radially relative to said base, portions of said floating outer contact spaced outwardly from said base defining an outside diameter less than said inside diameter of said guide sleeve; an inner contact assembly disposed within said outer contact assembly and including a receptacle and a plunger movably axially relative to one another, at least one of the plunger and the receptacle being movable radially with the floating outer contact, the inner contact assembly having opposed first and second axial ends; annular insulators disposed between the inner and outer contact assemblies for maintaining a spaced relationship therebetween; and at least one resilient O-ring between the inner and outer contact assemblies for permitting axial float of the receptacle relative to the plunger of the inner contact assembly while biasing the first and second axial ends of the inner contact assembly against the first and second signal carrying circuit elements.