Patent ID: 6848939
Filing Date: 2005-02-01
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A connector for coaxial cables having a foil covered dielectric insulator encasing a central conductor, and either one or two layers of braided shield around the dielectric insulator beneath an outer jacket, said connector comprising: a mandril with a bore of a diameter to closely receive the dielectric insulator of such coaxial cable, having at a first end thereof a sleeve adapted to engage the cable beneath the braided shield and the jacket; threaded nut means rotatably and sealingly engaged to said mandril at the second end thereof, for interconnecting said connector to a mating connector or port; a retainer fixed to said mandril, having a generally cylindrical wall concentric to said sleeve of said mandril defining an annular channel therebetween, said channel being dimensioned to receive the braided shield and the jacket of the cable, with an annular gap between the jacket and the retainer wall; a bushing disposed around a portion of said retainer and concentric thereto, having at its free end a mouth of a diameter to closely receive the cable, said bushing having a deformable collar therein, and said bushing being moveable from a first position in which said collar of said bushing is remote from said annular gap, to a second position in which said collar is wedged into said annular gap, deforming therein so as to squeeze the braided shield and the jacket of the cable and thereby tightly hold the cable and seal it to said connector.