Card edge connector equipped with rotatable ejector

An electrical connector for receiving a memory module, comprising:

• an insulative elongated housing having a pair of elongated side walls extending along a longitudinal direction with a receiving slot formed therebetween in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction;
• a pair of towers formed at two opposite ends of the housing in the longitudinal direction;
• a plurality of contacts retained in the pair of side walls and having corresponding contacting regions exposed in the receiving slot;
• a pair of rotatable ejectors mounted in the corresponding towers and moveable between an open position and a closed position, respectively, each of said ejectors including a main body and a kicker at a bottom portion thereof;
• wherein
• when the ejector is moved to the open position, a tip of the kicker is not only higher, in a vertical direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction, than the contacting regions of a pair of corresponding outermost contacts neighboring the ejector for efficiently ejecting the memory module, but also spaced, with a distance, from the outermost contacts in the longitudinal direction for no interference therebetween;
• wherein
• each tower restricts the memory module in both the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction while the ejector restricts the memory module in the vertical direction;
• wherein
• the tower forms a front edge, and the tip of the kicker of the corresponding ejector extends behind the front edge in the longitudinal direction when the ejector is moved to the closed position while extending beyond the front edge in the longitudinal direction when the ejector is moved to the open position;
• wherein
• another distance formed between the front edge and the outermost contact in the longitudinal direction, is essentially equal to 0.84 mm.