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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2004
Takayuki Nagata, Higashiosaka, JP;
Yasuo Nakai, Nara, JP;
Akihiro Tanaka, Matsubara, JP;
Hosiden Corporation, Yao, JP;
Abstract
The invention relates to a card connector, and more particularly to a card connector having a function of half-locking a cardsuch as a memory card inserted into a card insertion space of a case, in an extractable state. The invention provides a card connector which exhibits an excellent half-lock performance for a long term, and which, in a card-set state, exhibits an enhanced half-lock performance. In the card connector of the invention, a slideris attached to the casein a longitudinally movable manner, and the slideris always elastically urged in the card ejecting direction. A half-lock mechanismwhich engagingly holds the card in an extractable manner is disposed on the slider. The half-lock mechanismis formed with being divided into: a movable piecewhich is configured by a resin-molded member, and which has an engaging projectionthat engagingly holds the cardin an extractable manner; and a metal-made-spring memberwhich elastically urges the movable piecein the direction along which the engaging projectionis to be fitted into a recessof the card. The card connector further has an auxiliary spring memberwhich, when the slideris at the pushed position, increases the elastic force of the spring member
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