The United States of America

Gary Sturgill Clevinger, Jr

Donald Lee Knapp

Christopher Scott Anderson

Charles Forrest Mountford

A PCMCIA card connector that minimizes bent pins by employing a U-shaped outer guide rail, having a plurality of rigidly fixed pins, having at least one movable release pin, and having at least one alignment recess; a U-shaped inner guide rail, where the inside surface of the inner guide rail is shaped like a sideways flat-bottomed 'V,' having at least one alignment projection, and having a plurality of apertures; at least one guide spring; and at least one U-shaped release spring so that the PCMCIA card is aligned to the fixed pins of the connector prior to insertion of the pins into the PCMCIA card and the fixed pins are supported during insertion into the PCMCIA card.

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Laurel, MD, United States of America

Gary Sturgill Clevinger, Jr