US 7,540,780 B2
Microphone connector
Hiroshi Akino, Machida (Japan)
Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Audio-Technica, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 03, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/195,829.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-250234 (JP), filed on Aug. 30, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0045303 A1, Mar. 02, 2006
Int. Cl. H01R 13/66 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 439—620.14  [439/620.22] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A microphone connector comprising a receptacle which is made of a conductive material, receives a cable connector at one end of a microphone cable, includes a bottom plate, and a plurality of pins passing through the bottom plate,
wherein a cylindrical metal tube is coupled to a periphery of the bottom plate and is electrically integral with the receptacle; a printed circuit board is attached to the cylindrical metal tube and covers an opening thereof; connecting terminals are electrically integral with the pins, extend outward from the bottom plate, pass through the printed circuit board, and are electrically connected to wiring patterns on the printed circuit board; and capacitors are connected between the wiring pattern for the grounding pin and the wiring patterns for the other pins, and short-circuit high frequency signals.