US 11,721,937 B2
Push-pull coaxial connector
Jin Liu, Jiangsu (CN); Hongjuan An, Jiangsu (CN); Jien Zheng, Jiangsu (CN); and Yujun Zhang, Jiangsu (CN)
Assigned to CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
Filed by CommScope Technologies LLC, Hickory, NC (US)
Filed on Sep. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/466,021.
Claims priority of application No. 202022099357.3 (CN), filed on Sep. 23, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0094104 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/62 (2006.01); H01R 24/40 (2011.01); H01R 103/00 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/62 (2013.01) [H01R 24/40 (2013.01); H01R 2103/00 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A push-pull coaxial connector, wherein the coaxial connector comprises:
an external conductor, where the external conductor is configured to internally receive a matching external conductor of a mating connector, with concave parts or through holes on an inner surface of the side wall of the external conductor that house retainers and corresponding matching concave parts on an outer surface of the side wall of the mating external conductor, of which, there are one or more protrusions on the outer surface of the side wall of the external conductor;
a sleeve surrounding the external conductor, where the sleeve is able to slide between a front position and rear position along the external conductor and is able to rotate around the circumference of the external conductor, of which, there are the one or more corresponding notches to receive the one or more protrusions on the rear surface of the sleeve;
wherein, when the sleeve is at the front position, the one or more protrusions are staggered away from one or more notches and abutted on the rear surface of the sleeve to prevent the sleeve from moving backward, and at this point, part of the retainer is in the concave part or through hole of the external conductor and part of it is in the mating concave part of the mating external conductor, thus maintaining the connection between the coaxial connector and mating connector;
wherein, when the sleeve is at the rear position, the one or more protrusions are received in the one or more corresponding notches, and at this point, the retainer fully leaves the matching concave part of the mating external conductor, thus separating the coaxial connector and the mating connector.