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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1999
Takashi Futatsugi, Tokyo, JP;
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a card connector assembly for connecting cards such as PC cards including memory cards to circuit boards, which makes it possible to obtain highly reliable electrical connections, and which has a low height. The card connector assembly (,) is equipped with a card connector (,), pin contacts (,) of which have card contact sections (,) that electrically connect with the card, and substantially horizontal sections (,) that protrude from a first housing (,) substantially parallel to a circuit board (,), and a mating connector (,) electrical contacts (,) of which have termination portions (,) that are electrically connected to the circuit board (,), and contact portions (,) which are exposed at an upper surface of a second housing (,) and which electrically engage the pin contacts (,). Furthermore, the substantially horizontal sections (,) of the pin contacts (,) are pressed against the contact portions (,) of the contacts (,) from the area above the mating connector (,), so that these substantially horizontal sections (,) are caused to electrically engage the contact portions (,).
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