US 2009/0023318 A1Published application

Rcard connector

AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorsToru Nishioka, Kazuki Satoh, Toru Wagatsuma

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Abstract

Provided is a card connector including a first contact which is connected to a first card (card B), a second contact which is disposed toward an insertion port of the card from the first contact so as to be connected to a second card (card C), and a protection plate which protects the second contact from the contact with the first card. A guide piece which guides the bottom surface of the first card is formed in a housing in which the first and second cards are selectively mounted, and a support surface which is disposed in a position toward the insertion port and on the upper side from the guide piece is formed on the protection plate. The first card is inserted in a state where the leading end thereof is inclined more downward than the rear end thereof.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A card connector for a card, comprising:

a housing having a card mounting space where at least first and second cards can be selectively mounted;
an insertion port for the cards formed at one end of the housing;
a first contact connected to a contact portion of the first card;
a second contact disposed toward the insertion port from the first contact so as to be connected to a contact portion of the second card;
and
a protection plate protecting the second contact from the contact with the first card,
wherein a first bottom-surface guide portion guiding the bottom surface of the first card during the insertion of the first card is formed in the housing, and a second bottom-surface guide portion disposed in a position toward the insertion port and on the upper side from the first bottom-surface guide portion to guide the bottom surface of the first card during the insertion of the first card is formed in the protection plate such that the first card is inserted in a state where the leading end of the first card is inclined more downward than the rear end thereof.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/134,694Filed 6 Jun 2008
Priority: JP 2007-18743318 Jul 2007
Published: 22 Jan 2009
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Classification6 codes

H01R 27/00
Coupling parts adapted for co-operation with two or more dissimilar counterparts
G06K 7/0034
By galvanic contacts, e.g. card connectors for ISO-7816 compliant smart cards or memory cards, e.g. SD card readers: the connector being capable…
H01R 13/24
Contacts for co-operating by abutting: resilient; resiliently-mounted
H01R 2201/26
Connectors or connections adapted for particular applications: for vehicles