James L Cannon, 45Colorado Springs, CO

6602093, Aug 5, 2003

Aug 22, 2002

10/225890

James Edward Cannon - Colorado Springs CO

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H01R 905

439578

A solution to problems of poor RF performance in conventional BNC connectors is to first, eliminate the use of Teflon, in favor of an air dielectric in the vicinity of the mating parts, and support the male and female center pins further back within the body of the connector, using other proven dielectric materials borrowed from the precision type N connector, or from another 7 mm RF connector. Next, a captive knurled draw nut provides positive displacement and the tension needed to draw the already mated male and female connector halves together, in place of the conventional spring tension. It is the bottoming out of the male shell inside the female shell that resists the positive displacement and the tension supplied by the knurled draw nut, ensuring that the two connector halves are actually in contact, and that the edges of shell surfaces that need to âvanishâ for good operation do indeed vanish. The mating center conductors are rigidly mounted within their shells and bottom out against each other at the same time as do the shells. The basic bayonet latch mechanism is retained, so that either half of the new connector will mate with opposite sex halves of conventional BNC connectors.

6609925, Aug 26, 2003

Apr 30, 2002

10/136120

James Edward Cannon - Colorado Springs CO

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H01R 905

439332, 439578

A solution to problems of poor RF performance in conventional BNC connectors is to first, eliminate the use of Teflon, in favor of an air dielectric in the vicinity of the mating parts, and support the male and female center pins further back within the body of the connector, using other proven dielectric materials borrowed from the precision type N connector, or from another 7 mm RF connector. Next, a captive knurled draw nut provides positive displacement and the tension needed to draw the already mated male and female connector halves together, in place of the conventional spring tension. It is the bottoming out of the male shell inside the female shell that resists the positive displacement and the tension supplied by the knurled draw nut, ensuring that the two connector halves are actually in contact, and that the edges of shell surfaces that need to âvanishâ for good operation do indeed vanish. The mating center conductors are rigidly mounted within their shells and bottom out against each other at the same time as do the shells. The basic bayonet latch mechanism is retained, so that either half of the new connector will mate with opposite sex halves of conventional BNC connectors.

6639796, Oct 28, 2003

Jan 24, 2002

10/056151

James Edward Cannon - Colorado Springs CO

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H05K 720

361695, 24457, 248505, 361710, 361825, 454184

A fastenerless clip attaches a system component to the inside of a chassis of a computer system. The clip is detachably mountable and includes a clip body with a resilient portion to provide a compressive force that securely holds the system component in position against a face of the chassis. The fastenerless clip is useful in attaching rotary cooling fans to a lateral face of a computer system chassis.

6717803, Apr 6, 2004

Feb 12, 2002

10/075831

James Edward Cannon - Colorado Springs CO

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G06F 116

361683, 361685, 312333, 360137

A bracket attached to a peripheral device of a computer system aligns and attaches the peripheral device to the inside of a computer system chassis. The bracket is detachably mountable and includes a bracket body having an aperture therein through which the peripheral device is inserted. The bracket includes a support bar having a tab that fits into a slot in the chassis to securely hold the peripheral device in position such that the front panel of the peripheral device is aligned within an aperture in a face of the chassis.

6790080, Sep 14, 2004

Oct 29, 2002

10/283544

James Edward Cannon - Colorado Springs CO

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H01R 1373

439551, 4395401

A sub-chassis bracket attached to a horizontal motherboard has holes: (a) through which the connectors pass and that space the connectors apart by an intended nominal amount; and (b) that allow the connectors to shift horizontally as needed to form the mechanical path from a particular spacing on the motherboard to a front panel, with its own actual particular spacing, and to which panel the connectors are each fastened with a nut. The nuts are have a symmetrically tapered or curved surface on the side that contacts the outside of the panel, whose holes therethrough are somewhat oversize. The nuts individually center the connectors in their respective panel holes, and draw each connector perpendicular to the panel. To provide a particular connector feature orientation, and to prevent the connectors from rotating and disturbing that orientation during the tightening of the nuts, each connector has a central region of increased diameter that has two flats and that forms a shoulder. The shoulder bottoms out in a stepped hole in the sub-chassis, the larger diameter of which accepts the shoulder and is of a shape that is the complement of the diameter with the flats.

6808407, Oct 26, 2004

Aug 22, 2003

10/646320

James E. Cannon - Colorado Springs CO

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H01R 1362

439314, 439332, 439578

A precision locking BNC male connector mates without requiring twisting of the cable or multiple bends to accommodate the rotation of the BNC latch. The shell portion of the male connector that carries the adapter connector or cable clamp on one end and that is the male cylindrical shield at the other end, is free to rotate whenever the precision locking BNC male connector is not locked, whether or not it is mated with a female connector. A knurled sleeve is captive at a location along the male shell, but is free to rotate. The knurled sleeve has internal threads that engage external threads on a portion of the BNC latch. A radial friction device is in contact with both an-external surface of the BNC latch and the internal surface of the knurled sleeve. When not engaged with the bayonet pins of a female connector, rotating the knurled sleeve will rotate the BNC latch also, by virtue of the friction device, but both will, as a unit, rotate freely relative to the shell. Once the bayonet pins engage the spiral portion of the slot in the BNC latch, the friction between the sleeve and the latch is sufficient to rotate the latch all the way into the detent.

6876183, Apr 5, 2005

Mar 24, 2003

10/395989

James E. Cannon - Colorado Springs CO, US

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G01R031/02
H01R009/05

324 725, 439578

Electronic probes are provided. One such electronic probe includes: a housing configured to house electronic components; a coaxial cable connector configured to rotationally engage the housing, the coaxial cable connector having at least one inner surface that faces at least a portion of a first hole that extends through the coaxial cable connector, and having at least one outer surface; a coaxial cable having an inner conductor and an outer conductor, the outer conductor being attached to the at least one inner surface of the coaxial cable connector, and the inner conductor extending through the first hole in the coaxial cable connector. Methods and other systems are disclosed.

6884099, Apr 26, 2005

Jan 26, 2004

10/764928

James E. Cannon - Colorado Springs CO, US

Agilent Technologies, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

H01R013/62

439318, 439314

The push-on latching function of a male BNC latch carried in a housing, and the positive locking of fully mated male and female connectors, are performed by three parts: The first is a male double shell assembly having two male sleeves that receive an intervening BNC female shell. An outer portion near the middle of the male double shell carries several turns of an exterior left-hand thread. The second is a spring biased self-latching BNC latch having an interior bore by which it snugly engages, and then rotates upon, the exterior of the male double shell. One end of the BNC latch has ramps and detents for engaging the bayonet pins of a female BNC connector, and the other end has a section of exterior right-hand threads proximate the exterior left-hand threads of the male double shell. The third is a barrel that has a bore therethrough with both left and right hand internal threads that engage the exterior threads of the BNC latch and the male double shell. Rotation of the barrel in one direction causes the BNC latch to move toward the male double shell, and pulls the male assembly toward the female connector for full and locked mating.