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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1999
Toru Nishioka, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An IC card connector device in which an IC card ejecting operation and a misoperation canceling operation are selectively performed. A frame for guiding an IC card at insertion and extraction is provided with a circulation cam groove and a clearance groove with which a second transmission pin pivotally supported by a pushrod is selectively engaged. By pushing the pushrod after projecting it to a first projecting, a drive plate that is placed in the circulation cam groove is pushed via the second transmission pin, thereby ejecting the IC card. When a misoperation occurs, the second transmission pin is caused to trace the clearance groove, by pulling the pushrod frontward and then pushing the pushrod, thereby canceling an IC card ejecting operation. Furthermore, a handle (actuating element) of the pushrod is provided with a heartshaped cam groove with which a first transmission pin pivotally supported on the frame is engaged. The pushrod can be held in a predetermined retracted position by retaining the first transmission pin at a predetermined position of the heart-shaped cam groove.