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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2008
Kazunori Takei, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiromichi Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Kazunori Takei, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kikuchi, Tokyo, JP;
Hirokazu Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiromichi Kato, Tokyo, JP;
DDK Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A card connector includes a plurality of contacts adapted to contact memory cards, a housing holding the contacts and having a plurality of inserting openings arranged in vertically overlapping relationship for inserting memory cards, respectively, and a shell covering the housing. A pivot member is installed at a predetermined position in the housing so as to be pivotally moved when one memory card is inserted in one of the inserting openings such that part of the pivot member extends into all the inserting openings except for the one inserting opening, thereby preventing a further memory card from being inserted into the card connector. In assembling, after the pivot member is set in the housing so that protrusions provided in the housing are fitted in slits formed in the pivot member, the shell is fitted on the housing to push the pivoting member into the predetermined position.