# US 10,374,342 B2 · Memory card and electronic apparatus including the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,374,342 B2 - Document ID: US10374342B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 16/125,895 - Filed: 2018-09-10 - Published: 2019-07-04 - Granted: 2019-08-06 - Earliest claimed: 2018-01-04 - Assignees: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Seung-wan Koh; Seok-heon Lee; Seok-jae Han - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10374342B2 ## CPC - H01R 12/714: {with contacts abutting directly the printed circuit; Button contacts therefore provided on the printed circuit} - H01R 12/7005: {Guiding, mounting, polarizing or locking means; Extractors (for printed circuit boards H05K)} - H01R 13/2442: {with a single cantilevered beam} - H01R 13/245: {by stamped-out resilient contact arm} - H01R 13/2464: {characterized by the contact point} - H05K 1/11: Printed elements for providing electric connections to or between printed circuits - H05K 2201/094: Array of pads or lands differing from one another, e.g. in size, pitch or thickness; Using different connections on the pads - H05K 2201/09409: Multiple rows of pads, lands, terminals or dummy patterns; Multiple rows of mounted components - H05K 2201/09445: Pads for connections not located at the edge of the PCB, e.g. for flexible circuits - H05K 2201/09827: Tapered, e.g. tapered hole, via or groove - H05K 2201/09863: Concave hole or via - H05K 2201/10159: Memory - H01R: ELECTRICALLY-CONDUCTIVE CONNECTIONS; STRUCTURAL ASSOCIATIONS OF A PLURALITY OF MUTUALLY-INSULATED ELECTRICAL CONNECTING ELEMENTS; COUPLING DEVICES; CURRENT COLLECTORS - H05K: PRINTED CIRCUITS; CASINGS OR CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS OF ELECTRIC APPARATUS; MANUFACTURE OF ASSEMBLAGES OF ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS ## Abstract A memory card includes a substrate, first row terminals and second row terminals. The substrate has a first pair of side edges extending in a first direction and a second pair of side edges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first row terminals are arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the substrate, the first row terminals including a first power terminal, the insertion side edge being one of the first pair of side edges. The second row terminals are arranged further from the insertion side edge than the first row terminals, the second row terminals including a second power terminal. At least one terminal among the first and second row terminals includes a recess area in an exposed surface of the at least one terminal. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A memory card comprising: a substrate having a first pair of side edges extending in a first direction and a second pair of side edges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; first row terminals arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the substrate, the first row terminals including a first power terminal, the insertion side edge being one of the first pair of side edges; and second row terminals arranged further from the insertion side edge than the first row terminals, the second row terminals including a second power terminal, wherein at least one terminal among the first and second row terminals includes a recess area in an exposed surface of the at least one terminal. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The memory card of claim 1, wherein the recess area has a concave recess shape at a center portion of the at least one terminal. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The memory card of claim 2, wherein a side surface of the concave recess shape is tapered. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The memory card of claim 3, wherein the concave recess shape is a cone shape. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The memory card of claim 3, wherein the concave recess shape is a truncated cone shape having a radius decreasing toward a bottom. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The memory card of claim 5, wherein surface roughness of an exposed bottom surface of the concave recess shape is greater than surface roughness of an exposed upper surface of each of the terminals, the exposed surface including the exposed bottom surface and the exposed upper surface. ### Claim 7 (depends on 2) The memory card of claim 2, wherein at least one of the terminals among the second row terminals has a different length in the second direction, each of the terminals among the first and second row terminals includes the recessed area with the concave recess shape, center positions of the concave recess shapes for first row terminals are parallel to one another in the first direction, and center positions of the concave recess shapes for the second row terminals are parallel to one another in the first direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The memory card of claim 1, wherein the recess area has a rail groove shape passing through a center portion of each of the at least one terminal in the second direction, and the rail groove shape has a side surface with a staircase shape having at least one step. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The memory card of claim 1, wherein the recess area has a wedge recess shape having a width in the first direction decreasing along the second direction of the terminals away from the insertion side edge. ### Claim 10 A memory card comprising: a substrate having a first pair of side edges extending in a first direction and a second pair of side edges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; first row terminals arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the substrate and including a first power terminal, the insertion side edge being one of the first pair of side edges; second row terminals arranged further from the insertion side edge than the first row terminals and including a second power terminal and a first data terminal; and third row terminals arranged further from the insertion side edge than the second row terminals and including a second data terminal, wherein at least one terminal among the first, second, and third row terminals includes a recess area in an exposed surface of the at least one terminal. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The memory card of claim 10, wherein the recess area has a concave recess shape at a center portion of each of the at least one terminal. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The memory card of claim 10, wherein the recess area has a rail groove shape passing through a center portion of each of the at least one terminal in the second direction. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The memory card of claim 10, wherein the recess area has a wedge recess shape having a width in the first direction decreasing along the second direction away from the insertion side edge. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The memory card of claim 10, further comprising: a nonvolatile memory device; and a memory controller, wherein the first power terminal supplies power to the nonvolatile memory device, and the second power terminal supplies power to the memory controller. ### Claim 15 An electronic apparatus comprising: a socket; a tray detachable from the socket and having an accommodation space configured to receive a memory card; the memory card; and socket pins configured to electrically connect to the memory card, wherein the memory card includes, a substrate having a first pair of side edges extending in a first direction and a second pair of side edges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, first row terminals arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the substrate, the first row terminals including a first power terminal, the insertion side edge being one of the first pair of side edges, and second row terminals arranged further from the insertion side edge than the first row terminals, the second row terminals including a second power terminal, wherein each terminal among the first and second row terminals includes a recess area in at least part of an exposed surface, and wherein the socket pins includes first row socket pins and second row socket pins, each of the first row socket pins including a head portion configured to electrically contact one of the first row terminals by being inserted in the recess area of the one of the first row terminals, each of the second row socket pins including a head portion configured to electrically contact one of the second row terminals by being inserted in the recess area of the one of the second row terminals. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein the recess area of each of the terminals among the first and second row terminals has a concave recess shape, and when the tray is inserted in the socket, the head portion of each of the socket pins is moved to be inserted in the concave recess shape of each of the terminals among the first and second row terminals. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein surface roughness of an exposed bottom surface of the concave recess shape is greater than surface roughness of an exposed upper surface of each of the terminals among the first and second row terminals. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein the recess area of each of the terminals among the first and second row terminals has a rail groove shape passing through a center portion of the terminal in the second direction, and the socket pins are configured such that when the tray is inserted in the socket, the head portion of each of the socket pins is moved along the rail groove shape of the memory card. ### Claim 19 (depends on 15) The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein the recess area of each of the terminals among the first and second row terminals has a wedge recess shape having a width in the first direction decreasing along the second direction of the terminals away from the insertion side edge, and the socket pins are configured such that when the tray is inserted in the socket, the head portion of each of the socket pins is moved along the wedge recess shape of the memory card. ### Claim 20 (depends on 15) The electronic apparatus of claim 15, wherein the memory card further includes third row terminals arranged further from the insertion side edge than the second row terminals, each terminal of the third row terminals include a recess area in an exposed surface of each terminal of the third row terminals, and wherein the socket pins include third terminal socket pins, each of the third terminal socket pins including a head portion configured to electrically contact one of the third row terminals by being inserted in the recess area of the one of the third row terminals.