Mobile telephone connector module

US6735308B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• ITT MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES LLC · US

Inventors

• Manfred Illg · Waiblingen, DE
• Martin Gollhofer · Fellbach, DE
• Dieter Clauss · Winnenden, DE
• Derek Andrews · Vinkel, NL
• Tobias Schimmele-Brell · Waiblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 28, 2000
• Grant date: May 11, 2004
• Expiry date: Sep 25, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H01R2201/16
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A connector module (10) for installation on a small mobile telephone to enable the module to rest at a docking station where contacts mate to pass multiple medium to low frequency signals and power and to pass high frequency signals through a coaxial connection of high frequency signals as to an external antenna. The module includes a molded dielectric body (11) having a first body part (13) that holds the first contacts (17) for medium to low frequency signals and power, and having a second body part (14) that extends from a longitudinal end (98) of the first body part and that holds the coaxial contacts (16). The first contacts have strip-shaped mating sides (18) fixed to the body for engaging mating contacts by merely pressing the body against a row of resilient contacts on the docking station, while the coaxial contacts are constructed with the inner contact having a face that can be deflected by a mating inner contact (28) and with the outer coaxial contact (34) forming a conical recess (15) for receiving a corresponding projection on the mating outer coaxial contact member of the docking station.