Patent ID: 8002579

Claim:
A coaxial connector, comprising: a connector body having a front end and a rear end; an inner contact post that is at least partly within the connector body; an internally-threaded nut that is positioned at the front end of the connector body and that is connected to at least one of the connector body and the inner contact post, the internally threaded nut including a front lip; and a compression element that extends forwardly from the internally-threaded nut along a longitudinal axis of the coaxial connector such that the internally-threaded nut is between the connector body and the compression element, wherein an end of the compression element includes one or more threads, wherein the compression element is attached to the internally-threaded nut by releasably mounting the end of the compression element within an interior of the internally-threaded nut, by releasably mounting the end of the compression element onto an outside diameter of the front lip of the internally-threaded nut via a snap-engagement mechanism on the compression element and the front lip of the internally-threaded nut, or by releasably mounting the compression element to a port seal that is mounted to extend from the internally-threaded nut, and wherein the compression element is configured to be detached from the front lip of the internally-threaded nut and inserted into the rear end of the connector body to lock a coaxial cable in place inside the coaxial connector.