Patent ID: 6450836
Filing Date: 2002-09-17
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A female connector for a coaxial cable including in combination:a main housing member made of electrically insulating material having a top with a centrally located hole in the top forming an input port, and the main housing member having an open bottom; a cap made of electrically insulating material having an open end and a closed end, with a centrally located slot in the closed end, with means for securing the open end of the cap to the open end of the main housing member and to align the slot in the cap with the hole in the housing member on a longitudinal axis that extends through the housing member and the cap; an electrically conductive spring clip pin having first and second opposing contact fingers that are spring-biased into contact with one another and located adjacent the hole in the main housing member for receiving the end of a center conductor of a coaxial cable that is passed through the hole in the top of the main housing member, the spring clip pin having a contact extension electrically coupled with at least one of the first and second opposing contact fingers, the contact extension passing through the slot in the cap, the spring clip pin further having an electrically conductive projection electrically coupled with the contact fingers and the contact extension and with the electrically conductive projection being oriented at substantially 90Â° to the longitudinal axis that extends through the housing member and the cap, and the electrically conductive portion extending through an aperture in one of either the main housing member or the cap to terminate at substantially the external surface thereof.