Patent ID: 6368134
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
An electrical connector comprising:an insulating body centered on an axis, carrying at least one conductor, and having a radially outwardly directed tooth having a radially outwardly directed outer surface with an apex spaced at a predetermined radial distance from the axis; a nut rotatable about the axis on the body, bearing axially forward on the body, and having a radially directed tooth axially level with the body tooth and having a radially inwardly directed inner surface with an apex &paced from the axis by a radius greater by a predetermined spacing than the predetermined radial distance of the body-tooth outer-surface apex; and a radially compressible ring surrounding the body and overlying the body-tooth outer surface, the ring having a cross-sectional diameter greater than the predetermined spacing, whereby for the nut tooth to angularly pass the body tooth it must compress the ring to the predetermined spacing, the nut having angularly offset from the nut-tooth outer-surface apex a radius generally equal to the radial distance of the body-tooth outer-surface apex from the axis plus the cross-sectional diameter of the ring.