Kyocera Elco Corporation

Masaki Sakaoka

Yoshiyuki Ota

Hirohisa Takano

A memory card is comprised of a synthetic resin frame, a memory board housed in a frame, metal contacts for connecting conductor patterns of a memory board and external pins, a connector body formed from synthetic resin having a number of contact compartments in which the contacts are received, a metal cover plate which covers an opening of the frame in which the memory board and the connector body are housed, and a cut-away portion which is formed on at least one of the contact compartments of the connector body and which is opposed to the cover plate. A method for manufacturing contacts having a ground terminal for the memory card includes forming a pattern contact piece which comes into contact with one of the conductor patterns of the memory board, a pin contact piece which comes into contact with the external pin inserted from the outside, and a ground contact piece which projects from the cut-away portion to come into contact with the metal cover plate, on each of the contacts, and bending the ground contact piece when inserted in the corresponding contact compartment so as to project outward from the cut-away portion, and inserting the contacts in the corresponding contact compartments.

Method for manufacturing a memory card electrical connector with

A memory card connector assembly superimposed on a substrate includes a plurality of memory card connectors stacked on top of each other whose contacts are to be connected to corresponding terminals of associated memory cards. The contacts of a lowermost memory card connector are soldered to the substrate, and the contacts of at least one upper memory card connector are connected to an FPC board.

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Kanagawa-ken, Japan

Masaki Sakaoka