Patent ID: 7156695

Claim:
An adapter for connecting a male end of a cable to a hollow connector body wherein the cable is of the type having inner and outer concentric electrical conductors, an annular dielectric separating said conductors and an outer jacket of electrically non-conductive material, said inner and outer conductors having exposed portions, said adapter comprising: a sleeve having a portion of electrically conductive material in surrounding relation to said jacket and contacting said exposed portion of said outer conductor, and first means for limiting inward radial contraction of said sleeve into engagement with said exposed portion of said conductor and said jacket without passing through said jacket into electrical contact with said outer conductor wherein said sleeve is in the form of a straight cylindrical portion at one end, said first means including said straight cylindrical portion being divided into arcuate segments by slots of a predetermined width and wherein the inward radial contraction of said segments is limited by movement of opposed facing edges of adjacent of said segments into abutting relation to one another; and second means including a crimping ring at said one end of said sleeve wherein axial advancement of said crimping ring over said one end of said sleeve imparts inward radial, non-yielding deformation to said sleeve into engagement with said jacket without crushing said outer conductor.