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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2020
Ppc Broadband, Inc., East Syracuse, NY (US);
Harold J. Watkins, Chittenango, NY (US);
Noah P. Montena, Syracuse, NY (US);
Steve Stankovski, Clay, NY (US);
Jeremy Amidon, Raleigh, NC (US);
Richard Maroney, Camillus, NY (US);
Amos McKinnon, Liverpool, NY (US);
Daniel Daoust, Syracuse, NY (US);
PPC BROADBAND, INC., East Syracuse, NY (US);
Abstract
A coaxial cable connector includes a nut having a seal-grasping surface portion and a seal having an elastically deformable tubular body attached to the nut. The body has a posterior end with a sealing surface that cooperatively engages the seal-grasping surface portion of the nut and an anterior end with a forward sealing surface configured to cooperatively engage an interface port. The nut defines a first through hole extending in the longitudinal direction and configured to receive a center conductor of a coaxial cable. The anterior end of the seal defines a second through hole extending in the longitudinal direction and configured to receive a center conductor of a coaxial cable. A center axis of the first through hole and a center axis of the second through hole are offset from one another such that the anterior end the seal is configured to urge at least the center conductor of the coaxial cable to an off-center position of the second through hole when the nut is coupled with the interface port thereby creating radial interference between the nut and the interface port. The nut is urged to make contact with the interface port whenever mounted thereon, thus maintaining electrical grounding between the nut and the port, even when the nut is loosely coupled with the interface port.