Patent ID: 7201608
Filing Date: 2007-04-10
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A co-axial plug adapted to fit a socket connector, comprising a cylindrical outer-conductor part including a shell which forms an outer conductor having a mating end and a co-axial cable end, a latching sleeve fitting around the outer-conductor part of the shell, the latching sleeve being axially displaceable relative to the outer-conductor part of the shell, a spring supported at (a) a first of its ends against the outer-conductor part of the shell and (b) at a second of its ends against the latching sleeve, in such a way that the latching sleeve is pre-loaded in the direction of the co-axial cable end of the outer-conductor part of the shell, the latching sleeve having axial slots at its mating end to form elastically resilient latching tongues, each of said latching tongues having, at mating ends thereof a latching edge which extends upwards in a radially outward direction, surrounding the latching sleeve, the unlocking sleeve being axially displaceable relative to the latching sleeve, the latching sleeve having a ramp which extends upwards in a radially outward direction and which slopes up in the direction of the co-axial cable end, the ramp being arranged to co-operate with a correspondingly bevelled groove in an inside face of the unlocking sleeve in such a way that displacement of the unlocking sleeve relative to the latching sleeve in the direction of the co-axial cable end causes the latching tongues of the latching sleeve to bend inwards radially.