Patent ID: 7625226

Claim:
A connector that includes a barrel element for holding a contact-mounting body and a nut element that is rotatable about an axis around said barrel element, with an annular space lying between said barrel and nut elements, and with a resistance ring lying in said annular space and engaging both the barrel and nut elements to allow but resist nut rotation about the axis, wherein: said resistance ring has alternate inward and outward ring sections that extend in alternate inward and outward inclines to directions that are circumferential to said axis, with each inward ring section extending in a first circumferential direction (M) at a radially inward incline (B) of a plurality of degrees but less than 45° to said first circumferential direction from said nut to said barrel, and with each outward section extending in said first circumferential direction (M) but at a radially outward incline (A) of a plurality of degrees but less than 45° from said barrel to said nut; a plurality of said outward ring sections ( 66 ) having first ends ( 67 ) held against movement relative to a first of said elements, and a plurality of said inward ring sections having second ends ( 70 ) that slide only with resistance along a second of said elements.