Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.

Erich Straub

Hans Kieninger

Bernhard Rupp

Herbert Sommer

Richard Fenske

Bernard Rupp

A connector is provided with a contact that is grounded to a metal shell, which can be constructed at low cost. A grounded contact device (1A) that lies in a passage (10) of a connector housing, has a contact (20A) with a front mating end (3) and a rear terminating end (2) for connecting to a cable wire, the contact device also having a grounding element (9) in the form of a sleeve that lies around the contact and that can be inserted with the contact into the passage. The grounding element has a surrounding part (34) that closely surrounds a flange (8) on the contact, and has a rear portion with slots forming a plurality of tines (44) with a larger outside diameter than the surrounding part. When the contact device is inserted into the passage, the tines are compressed to squeeze the surrounding part of the grounding element tightly against the flange. The housing includes an insulator part (11) surrounded by a metal shell (52), the passage extending through the insulator part adjacent to its periphery (62), and with at least part of the passage having one side forming an opening (60) which is open to the shell. A portion (13) of the metal shel! lies in the opening and directly engages the grounding element of the contact device.

Electrical connector with grounded contact

The description relates to a backshell for a connector, consisting of a cylindrical metallic part (1) in which the cable (20) comprising a screening braid (21) is inserted and which comprises means for establishing electrical contact between the screening braid and the backshell. A non-metallic sleeve (2) is provided inside the backshell (1), which sleeve comprises webs (3) which extend substantially axially and are resilient radially to deflect inwards. A metallic clamping ring (4) is also provided, one end (4B) of which can be pushed over the webs (3) in the axial direction such that the screening braid (21) is clamped between the webs (3) and the clamping ring (4). A contact face of the clamping ring (4) bears against a pressure face (1B) of the backshell (1).

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Weinstadt, Germany

Erich Straub