Molex Corporation

Liu-Yuan Chen

Yu-Wen Chen

Wei-Sun Chang

Nai K Wong

An IC card kit adapted for receiving a circuit board assembly, which assembly includes a generally planar circuit substrate with an electrical circuit and electrical components mounted on a surface thereof. The electrical circuit includes a ground circuit. The kit includes a frame adapted for receiving the circuit board assembly, a receptacle connector for mounting at the edge of the assembly, a pair of cover panels for sandwiching the frame and circuit board assembly, and a conductive grounding clip on the frame for engaging the ground circuit of the circuit board assembly. The clip includes a spring arm for preassembling the circuit board assembly to the frame.

Grounding clip for IC cards

An ejector mechanism is provided for ejecting an IC card from a header connector which has a mating end, a terminating end and first and second opposite sides extending between the ends. A generally L-shaped ejector frame is adapted to be mounted about the header connector with a base leg of the L-shaped frame along the terminating end of the header connector and a side leg along one side of the header connector. The side leg has a channel therein. An ejector lever is pivotally mounted on at least one of the header connector or the ejector frame and has a first lever end and a second lever end. The second lever end is adapted to eject the IC card from the header connector. An elongated push-rod is reciprocally mounted in the channel and has a first rod end pivotally associated with the first lever end of the ejector lever and a second rod end for manual actuation to effect pivoting of the eject lever and ejection of the IC card. The ejector frame is adapted to be mounted with the side leg thereof along either the first or second opposite sides of the header connector. Therefore, the ejector frame and push-rod can be used as either a 'right-hand' or a 'left-hand' ejector mechanism without altering the header connector.

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Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Liu-Yuan Chen