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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 14, 1999
Hidenori Muramatsu, Kanagawa, JP;
Satoru Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
The Whitaker Corporation, Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a PC card connector which has a small number of parts, and which makes it possible to obtain good operating characteristics and a low-operating force by means of a relatively simple structure. A guide plate assembly ( ) of the PC card connector has a guide plate ( ) which has guide grooves ( ) and a circular cam groove ( ); furthermore, the guide plate assembly ( ) also has pressing-bar assemblies ( ) which are disposed on both sides of the guide plate Each of the pressing-bar assemblies ( ) has a swinging plate ( ) which is pivot mounted on a pin ( ) in a front portion. Pins ( ) and projection ( ) of the pressing-bar assembly ( ) respectively slide along a guide groove ( ), circular cam groove ( ) and guide groove ( ) of the guide plate ( ) in accordance with the operation of the pressing-bar assembly ( ). When the knob ( ) is pressed, the swinging bar ( ) is displaced in a lateral direction and engages with an eject bar ( ) so that the eject bar is pushed thereby operating an ejection member ( ) to eject a PC card ( ) from the card connector.