Patent ID: 7431615

Claim:
A coaxial male connector for electrically interconnecting center and outer conductors of first and second coaxial signal lines, said connector comprising: a. a rear tubular connector body section which is adapted to attachment in electrically conductive contact to an outer conductive metal sheath comprising an outer conductor of a first coaxial signal line, said rear tubular body section having disposed longitudinally therethrough a rear coaxial bore for receiving a center conductor of said first coaxial signal line, b. a front tubular connector body section which is axially aligned with and in electrically conductive contact with said rear tubular body section, said front tubular connector body section having disposed longitudinally therethrough a front coaxial bore axially aligned with said rear coaxial bore and adapted to receive therethrough said center conductor of said first coaxial signal line, said front bore having in a front portion thereof a circumferential wall surface extending longitudinally rearwards from a front annular face of said front tubular connector section, said circumferential wall surface having a diameter larger than an outer diameter of an externally threaded female coaxial connector shell which said bore is adapted to receive, and said tubular front section having disposed longitudinally in a rear portion of said front bore an inner cylindrical wall surface thereof a helically threaded surface of smaller inner diameter than said front portion of said front bore and adapted to threadingly engage external threads of said female coaxial connector, and c. whereby said front portion of said front bore serves as a pilot tube for insertably receiving an externally threaded female connector and thus constraining said male and female connectors to be in substantial axial alignment before respective threaded surfaces of said male and female connectors make mutual contact.