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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Tetsuya Furusawa, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Alps Electric Co., LTD, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/364 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 1/364 ;
Abstract
A female connector for an IC card having a housing provided with terminal pin receiving holes provided with positioning projections. Terminal pins each having a base part and contact parts, and inserted in the terminal pin receiving holes are positioned by the positioning projections. A front end portion of the base part of each terminal pin near the contact pin receiving hole is held in a space, the free front end portion of the base part is held in a space between the positioning projections and a side wall of the terminal pin receiving hole to prevent the base part from buckling.