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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 1990
Filed:
May. 12, 1986
John N Tengler, Chico, CA (US);
John T Venaleck, Madison, OH (US);
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co., Saint Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A termination system for coupling to further circuitry one or more miniature coaxial cables terminated with respective impedance matched terminators each including a center signal contact and a concentric tubular sleeve contact having an external contact surface. The termination system includes a receptacle for a single terminator or a carrier block for a plurality of terminators. The receptacle includes a center pin contact extending along an axial extent of the receptacle, an outer tubular shell contact coaxially positioned with respect to the pin contact and having an internal contact surface for electrically connecting with the external contact surface of a terminator sleeve contact, and a spacer for maintaining electrical isolation and spaced relation of the pin and shell contacts for matching the impedance of the receptacle to that of the terminator and cable. The carrier block for a plurality of terminators is a conductive plate-like member having plural openings for receiving and electrically engaging with the external contact surface of respective terminator sleeve contacts thereby to couple the same to a common reference potential, such as ground reference potential, and is mountable and electrically connectable to a printed circuit board by a port member. The port member serves as a socket mount for the carrier block and, in the absence of a carrier block, serves to protect a plurality of pin contacts mounted to the printed circuit board for electrically connecting with the center signal contact of respective terminators held in the carrier block. Also disclosed are a resistance terminator and a shunt terminator.