Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited

Manabu Ito

Akira Kimura

Takamitsu Wada

A new card connector has a connector element which has, at its opposite ends, projection portions, and a frame element which has a projection guide having a laterally elongated portion in parallel to a card insertion-withdrawal direction at a coupling portion between the frame element and the connector element. When the frame element is coupled with or released from the connector element fixed to a mounting board, an upper side of the laterally elongated portion of the projection guide of the frame element is guided by the projection portion of the connector element so that any contact is prevented between a grounding metal plate of the frame element and pin contacts of the connector element. When the frame element is to be coupled with the connector element by pushing it from the above toward the connector element, a lower side portion of the laterally extended portion of the projection guide is abutted against the projection portion of the connector element and, therefore, the grounding metal plate is prevented from being contacted with the pin contacts. Thus, in coupling and decoupling between the frame element and the connector element, no special care is required so as to avoid an interference between the grounding metal plate and the pin contacts, and desirable coupling and decoupling operation can be made without damages of the pin contacts.

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Hirosaki, Japan

Manabu Ito