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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2003
Toru Nishioka, Miyagi-ken, JP;
Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A card connector apparatus that can prevent forced removal of a card at a predetermined mounting position and transmission of a force exerted when trying to pull the card out by force to a locking mechanism is provided. An apparatus of the present invention includes a slider, an ejection spring, a locking mechanism for the slider including a heart-shaped cam groove and a latch-pin, an engaging member, that is, a leaf spring, provided on the slider, and a fixed portion, for example, a shoulder, with which an end portion of the leaf spring engages when a compact memory card is in a state of being held at a predetermined mounting position, and an attempt is made to move the compact memory card in the ejecting direction, that is, toward the insertion port, the shoulder being formed on a housing.