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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 19, 2001
Wataru Oguchi, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to the present invention, provided is a card connector device in which supporting positions of the individual connection terminals with respect to a header are formed on a straight line without being shifted forward and backward and rigidity of the respective supporting portions of the individual connection terminals increases as the length to the contact portion increases, so that the contact pressure of the respective connection terminals is uniform and the miniaturization of the whole connector device can be accomplished. The card connector device comprises a header provided side by side with a plurality of connection terminals made of electrically conductive metal plate; and a frame, at one end of which the header is arranged and into which is fitted a card with a plurality of contacts capable of being connected to the connection terminals, wherein the connection terminals are provided with a supporting portion supported by the header and a contact portion elastically contacted with the corresponding contact of the card at a free end extended from the supporting portion, and wherein the connection terminals are formed so that the supporting portions are positioned side by side on a same straight line having a direction perpendicular to a card-inserting direction. The length from the supporting portions to the contact portions differs and, at the same time, as the length from the supporting portion to the contact portion increases, rigidity of the supporting portion increases.