Card connector
AssigneeTyco Electronics AMP GmbH
InventorsYoshinori Watanabe, Hidenori Muramatsu, Katsumi Yamaguchi
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Abstract
A card connector defining one card-accommodating slot adapted to accommodate a thin card, such as a smart card, and another card-accommodating slot adapted to accommodate a thick card, such as an IC card. The insertion of thin cards completely into the card-accommodating slot which accommodates thick cards is prevented by a member which pivots into the thick card-accommodating slot. The member includes a cam surface adapted to be contacted by a thick card upon insertion into the thick card-accommodating slot and a groove adapted to accommodate a thin card upon insertion into the thick card-accommodating slot. The member is pivotally mounted by a shaft to a card guiding arm defining the thick card-accommodating slot.
Claims23
A card connector defining at least a first card-accommodating slot adapted to accommodate a thin card and a second card-accommodating slot adapted to accommodate a thick card, comprising:
- a thin card insertion-preventing device arranged to prevent invention of a thin card into the second card-accommodating slot,
- said insertion-preventing device comprising a member having a cam surface adapted to be contacted by a thick card upon insertion into the second card-accommodating slot and a groove adapted to accommodate a thin card upon insertion into the second card-accommodating slot, said member being pivotally mounted to the card connector such that said member is pivotable into the second card-accommodating slot.
A card connector, comprising
- means defining a first card-accommodating slot adapted to accommodate a thin smart card;
- means defining a second card-accommodating slot adapted to accommodate a thick IC card;
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- a thin card insertion-preventing device arranged to prevent invention of a thin card into said second card-accommodating slot,
- said insertion-preventing device comprising a member having a cam surface adapted to be contacted by a thick card upon insertion of the thick card into said second card-accommodating slot and a groove adapted to accommodate a thin card upon insertion of the thin card into said second card-accommodating slot, said member being pivotally mounted on said means defining said second card-accommodating slot such that said member is pivotable into said second card-accommodating slot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.