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US 2006/0219785 A1Published application
IC card connector
AssigneeYamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorShigeru Sato
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Abstract
When inserting a MEMORY STICK MS, the tip portion of the MEMORY STICK MS rotates and detrudes the contact pressing plate, so that contact portions of contact terminals 14ai for a SD card SD are pressed down by a rim of slits 20ai of the contact pressing plate 20 up to a position where the contact portions do not interfere with the MEMORY STICK MS.
Claims7
An IC card connector to be used in common for a plurality of IC cards of mutually different shapes via a common card inserting opening, comprising:
- a card accommodation portion including a front section for accommodating one IC card and a rear section formed at a position farther from said card inserting opening than the front section so as to partially overlap with the front section for accommodating the other IC card;
- a group of front contact terminals and a group of a rear contact terminals disposed in the front section and the rear section respectively, for electrical connection with the one IC card and the other IC card respectively;
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- a contact pressing plate which is disposed such that an end portion thereof facing said card inserting opening is movably provided between the first section and a space, in the rear section, overlapping with the front section in a thickness direction of the one and the other IC card, and which selectively presses the group of contact portions of the front contact terminals down up to a predetermined position;
- wherein said contact pressing plate presses the group of contact portions of the front contact terminals down to a predetermined position according to insertion of the one IC card or the other IC card to be accommodated in said front section and rear section
- thus to make the one IC card accommodated in the front section electrically connectible with the group of contact portions of the front contact terminals or to make the other IC card accommodated in the rear section electrically connectible with the rear contact terminals, or releases the a group of contact portions from the predetermined position according to ejecting operation of the one IC card or the other IC card accommodated in the front section and the rear section.
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An IC card connector, comprising:
- a multiple card accommodation including a first section for removably accommodating via a common card inserting opening a first IC card out of a plurality of IC cards of mutually different shapes, a second section for accommodating a second IC card, formed at a position farther from the card inserting opening than the first section in a line therewith and partially overlapping therewith, and a third section for accommodating a third IC card, formed at a position still farther from the card inserting opening than the first and the second sections, in a line therewith and partially overlapping therewith;
- a group of first contact terminals, a group of second contact terminals and a group of third contact terminals sequentially disposed in the loading/unloading direction of the IC card so as to correspond to the first section, the second section and the third section respectively, for electrical connection with the first IC card, the second IC card and the third IC card respectively;
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- a contact pressing plate slidably and rotational movably disposed midway between said group of the first contact terminals and the group of second contact terminals, so as to press the group of contact portions of the second contact terminals down to a predetermined position or to release the group of contact portions from the predetermined position according to insertion or removal operation of the second IC card or the third IC card.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.