Card connector
AssigneeKel Corporation
InventorsShinichi Ikemoto, Tomoyuki Mogami
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Abstract
A connector element 5 removably holding a card 2 containing stored data is mounted within a case 100 such that the connector element is slidable in the card 2 insert/eject direction, this connector element 5 being normally urged in the card 2 eject direction by springs SP1, SP2. A connector element mounting member 120 is provided with a locked portion 125 detained by a locking member 143 urged rightward by a spring 142 when the connector element 5 has been slid in the card 2 insert direction, and the locking member 143 is unlocked by leftward motion thereof by means of magnetic attraction by a solenoid 140 operated by a switch 147.
Claims7
A card connector comprising:
- a connector element for removably holding a card containing stored data so as to allow data to be transmitted to and from this card;
- and
- a case for supporting said connector element so as to be slidable in said card insert/eject direction;
- wherein said card is inserted into or removed from said connector element with said connector element situated at a card insert/eject position to which said connector element has slid from said case in the eject direction;
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- data transmission is carried out with said card received and held by said connector element situated at card service position to which said connector element has slid into said case in the insert direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.