Mea Technologies Pte. Ltd.

J.s.t.mfg. Co.,ltd.

Fan Shin Hong

Taichi Inoue

Shao Yenn Florence

Shao Yenn Florence Chee

Weng Heng Liong

A card connector has: a connector housing which is formed therein so as to be enclosed on three sides by an opposed pair of first and second frames and a third frame that links the end portions of the first and second frames; and an open-close cover. The open-close cover has a sensing member that senses the installation status of the card, and a cover locking mechanism that latches onto either the first or the second frame and locks the open-close cover in the closed state. The rear of the open-close cover is rotatably pivoted on the first and second frames. The card's installation status is sensed by closing the open-close cover and positioning the sensing member at the rear end portion of the card; and the open-close cover is retracted, being thereby locked in the closed state via the cover locking mechanism.

Card connector

A card connector has: a connector housingconstituted of electrically insulating bodies in which is formed a bottomed card holding cavity that is open at the front and top and is enclosed on three sides by a pair of first and frames and by a third frame that links one pair of end portions of the first and second frames; contact terminalsanddeployed inside the connector housing's card holding cavity; and an open-close coverthat covers the openings of the connector housing's card holding cavity. The rear of the open-close cover is rotatably pivoted on the first and second frames. Thanks to such structure, the interior of the card holding cavity can be examined when a card is installed, so that a card connector is provided in which cards of differing size and thickness, etc., can be installed reliably and in a simple manner.

An electric connector includes a plug terminaland a connector housing. The plug terminalhas a contact portionin one end and an electric wire connecting terminalin the other end, and the connector housingaccommodating the plug terminal. In the plug terminal, the contact portion and the electric wire connecting portion are connected through an elastic spring portion, the connector housingaccommodates both the plug terminaland a gate memberwhich holds a contact portion of the plug terminal, the contact portionof the plug terminal is held in the connector housing by the gate memberwhile the spring is compressed and pushed in, and the hold state is released to project the contact portion of the plug terminal from the connector housing in coupling the electric connector to the mating connector. Therefore, the invention can provide the electric connector enabling it to protect the plug terminal with a simple structure in which the contact portion of the plug terminal is pushed in the connector housing before coupling the electric connector to the mating connector.

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Fan Shin Hong