Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.

Zhen-Ye Lin

Yusho Nakase

Shi-Jie Tan

Xiao-Dong Hu

A card connector () includes an insulative housing (), a number of contacts () retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell () covering the insulative housing for defining a receiving space (), and an ejector () assembled on the insulative housing. The ejector includes a cam portion () and a shaft () actuating the cam portion. The cam portion includes a pivoting portion (), a first arm portion () and a second arm portion () respectively and angularly extending from the pivoting portion, and at least one positioning portion () extending from the pivoting portion along a vertical direction. At least one of the metal shell and the insulative housing defines a hole () receiving the at least one positioning portion.

Card connector with improved ejector cam portion

A card connector () includes an insulative housing (), a number of contacts () retained in the insulative housing, a metal shell () attached to the insulative housing for cooperatively defining a receiving space (), and a tray () received in the receiving space. The metal shell includes a pair of elastic portions (). The tray has a frame portion () having two lateral edges. Each lateral edge has a notch () securing with the corresponding elastic portion when the tray is fully inserted in the receiving space along an insertion/ejection direction and an inclined surface () on which the elastic portions bias to slow down ejection of the tray.

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