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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Toshihisa Matsushita, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Yoshimasa Kuroda, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A pressing member is provided in an accommodating section of a housing to suppress first connector terminals to press down contacts towards a bottom of the accommodating section; when a first card is inserted, a pressing member is not displaced but brings the contacts of the first connector terminals into contact with a contact terminal section of a first card; when a second card is inserted, a bottom face of the second card and the pressing member come into contact with each other to displace the pressing member; and the contacts of the first connector terminals are pressed down by that displacement to a position in which they do not come into contact with the bottom face of the second card.