Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Qi-Jun Zhao

Jian-Fei Yu

Hua Yin

Mao-Lin Lei

Fang-Yue Zhu

Li Li

Feng Zhou

Yun-Song Sun

Ke-Hua Ye

Jia-Yong He

Shi-Gui Zhang

Yu-Long Mao

Xiao-Min An

Wen-Yu Liu

Xi-Fu Xu

Xiao-Ming Huang

A card connector () includes an insulative housing (), a number of conductive contacts () retained in the insulative housing () and a shell () enclosing over the insulative housing (). The shell () includes a top wall () and a pair of side walls () downwardly extending from two sides of the top wall (). The side wall () has a latching arm () at the bottom thereof to upwardly abut against a bottom face () of the insulative housing (). The insulative housing () has a top surface () facing the top wall (). The top surface () and the top wall () define a receiving cavity () to receive an electrical card. The side wall () also has a limiting portion () extending into the receiving cavity () and downwardly abutting against the top surface () of the insulative housing (). Therefore, the size of the card connector () is smaller which is in favor of a small-scale development of the card connector ().

Electrical connector having small size

An electrical card connector for holding a card with a notch defined on a lateral side thereof, includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts and a push-push mechanism. The push-push mechanism includes a slider movable between an initial position and a final locking position along a front-to-back direction, a spring abutting against the slider and an elastic locking arm having a card lock for locking with the notch of the card. The slider further includes a rigid protrusion to engage with the notch of the card. The rigid protrusion not only helps the card lock hold the card when the slider is located at the final locking position, but also helps the card lock prevent the card from flying out of the card receiving space when the slider moves from the final locking position back to the initial position.

Electrical card connector with reinforced card locking

An electronic card connector defining a receiving space for receiving an electronic card, includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retain in the insulative housing, and a metal shell covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a bottom wall. The metal shell has a top wall opposed to the bottom wall, and a pair of side walls. The metal shell defines a depressed portion outwardly recessed from an intersection portion of the top wall and the side wall.

Electronic card connector with a releasing portion for inserting or ejecting an electronic card smoothly

A card connector includes an insulative housing defining a card receiving space, a number of contacts retained in the insulative housing, an ejector received in the insulative housing and a metal shell covering the insulative housing. The ejector includes a movable slider, a spring, and a pin member, the slider defines a heart-shaped slot, and the pin member has a positioning end being rotatablely retained to the insulative housing and a free end being slidable along the heart-shaped slot to lock the slider. A latching piece is retained to the insulative housing and has a catching portion catching the pin member and an elastic portion connecting with the catching portion. When the pin member slides, the catching portion will bring the elastic portion to deflect and provide an outward or inward force to the pin member so as to control a movement trace of the pin member.

Card connector with ejector

A card connector () comprises an insulative housing (), a plurality of contacts () retained in the insulative housing () and an ejecting mechanism (). The insulative housing () defines an interface () in front and a receiving space () extending backwardly from the interface (). The ejecting mechanism () comprises a slider (), a spring () sandwiched between the slider () and the insulative housing (), and a pole () for controlling the slider (). The slider () defines a heart-shape groove () and a heart-shape block () located in the heart-shape groove (). The heart-shape groove () includes a first slot (). The heart-shape block () includes a mucro () at a rear end thereof. The mucro () and the first slot () define an escaping space () therebetween. When the pole () moves aslant, the escaping space () will receive the pole () for avoiding the pole () colliding with the mucro ().

Push-push card connector

An electrical connector includes an insulative housing having an inserting slot, and a bottom wall under the inserting slot. The bottom wall defines a supporting surface extending along a front-to-back direction, a horizontal guiding surface located in front of the supporting surface, and a plurality of depressions recessed from the supporting surface and arranged in one row along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction. A plurality of first contacts each has a planar first contact portion retained in the depression. A plurality of second contacts each has an arc-shaped second contact portion extending upwardly beyond the supporting surface and protruding into the inserting slot. The second contact portions are located behind the first contact portions.

Electrical card connector with improved contacts

A card connector for connecting an electronic card, comprises an insulative housing and an ejector. The insulative housing defines a receiving space extending backwardly along a front to back direction for receiving the electronic card. The ejector comprises a slider, a spring sandwiched between the slider and a rear end of the insulative housing and a pole for controlling movement of the slider. The slider includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion, the card connector has a first guiding groove engaging with the first protrusion and a second guiding groove engaging with the second protrusion, the slider defines a locking portion extending inwardly into the receiving space, the first guiding groove provides an escaping groove for the first protrusion thereby the slider can move along a insertion direction of the electronic card steadily.

An electronic card connector () defining a receiving space () and includes an insulative housing (), a number of contacts () and an ejecting mechanism () retained in the insulative housing (), and a metal shell (). The ejecting mechanism () includes a slider () and a latch strip () fixed on the slider (). The latch strip () has a retention portion () retained on the slider () and a spring arm () extending sidewardly. The spring arm () has an arm portion () and a resistive portion () extending sidewardly. The resistive portion () is offset from the arm portion () along a width direction. The metal shell () has a limiting wall () extending into the receiving space () for protecting the spring arm () from being resisted overly by an electronic card. The limiting wall () defines a plane which is located between that of the resistive portion () and arm portion ().

Electronic card connector with a limiting wall for limiting an electronic card obliquely inserted therein

A card connector includes a first inserting slot () for insertion of a first memory card () with first terminals () extending thereinto; a second inserting slot () for insertion of a second memory card () with second terminals () extending thereinto; and a partition wall () located between the first and second inserting slots for separating the first and second inserting slots. The partition wall has one spring arm () integrally extending therefrom and located between the first and second inserting slots, when one of the first and second memory cards () is inserted into the corresponding one of the first and second inserting slots (), the spring arm () protrudes into the other one of the first and second inserting slots () so as to prevent the other one of the first and second memory cards from being inserted into the other one of the first and second inserting slots.

Card connector having an improved spring arm

An electrical card connector () includes a receiving space () for receiving an electrical card, and includes an insulative housing () and an ejecting mechanism () retained in the insulative housing (). The ejecting mechanism () includes a movable slider (), a coiled spring () urging the slider forwardly and a link rod () for controlling the slider to be positioned at a first position or a second position. The slider () includes a heart-shape groove () for guiding and limiting a movement of the slider () and a bulge () located at front of the heart-shape groove (). The bulge () defines a second inclined plane (), the second inclined plane () faces the heart-shape groove () for facilitating inclining movement of the link rod ().

Electrical card connector

An electronic card includes a housing, a plurality of contacts retain on the housing and a slider movably retained on the housing. The housing has a mating surface. The contacts are arranged in two rows along a length direction of the housing. Each contact in a first row has a flat first contact portion exposed to the mating surface. Each contact of a second row has a raised elastic second contact portion behind the first contact portion. The slider can move along the length direction of the housing to drive the second contact portions alternatively hiding below the mating surface or protruding out of the mating surface.

Electronic card with protecting mechanism for protecting contacts thereof

An electrical card connector () includes a receiving space () for receiving an electrical card, an insulative housing (), a metal plate () installed on the insulative housing () and an ejecting mechanism () retained in the insulative housing (). The ejecting mechanism () includes a movable slider (), a coiled spring () urging the slider forwardly and a link rod () for controlling the slider to be positioned at a first position or a second position. The slider () includes a heart-shape groove () for guiding and limiting a movement of the slider (). The metal plate () defines a pair of first and second retaining portions () for limiting movement of the slider ().

An electrical card connector () includes an insulative housing (), a set of first contacts (), and a metal shell () covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a receiving space () for receiving a first card and a bottom wall () under the receiving space. The bottom wall has a set of slots () extending along the first card insertion direction. The slots include a special slot () having a protrusion () extending thereinto. The contacts have first retaining portions () retained in the insulative housing, first contacting portions () received in the slots () and bending upwardly into the receiving space () for mating with the first card, and first tail portions () extending from the first retaining portions for being mounted to a PCB. The first contacts include a special contact () having a connecting portion () extending along the special slot () and located between the first contacting portion () and the first retaining portion (). The connecting portion () is sustained upwardly by the protrusion ().

An electrical card connector () includes an insulative housing (), a plurality of contacts () retained in the insulative housing () for mating with an electrical card and a block (). The insulative housing () defines a front mating face (), a receiving space () extending backwardly from the mating face () and an installing wall () located at a rear end of the receiving space (). The block () is retained in the insulative housing () for positioning the contacts (). The installing wall () defines a through hole () for receiving the block (). The block () has a pair of elastic segments () located at lateral sides thereof and a pair of slots () located beside the elastic segments () respectively for supporting elasticity of the elastic segments ().

An electronic card connector includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts and a first switch terminal retained on the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a receiving space, a receiving slot communicating with the receiving space along an up to down direction and a limiting block at a front side of the receiving slot. The first switch terminal has a fastening portion retained on the insulative housing, a connecting portion forwardly extending to the receiving slot, a limiting portion forwardly extending to a lower side of the limiting block and a tail portion. The switch terminal further has a guiding portion extending sidewardly. The insulative housing has a pre-pressing surface at one side of the receiving slot to pre-press the guiding portion and prevent the switch terminal from bouncing upwardly to resist a front side of the limiting block in an assembly process of the switch terminal.

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