Electronic card connector with a releasing portion for inserting or ejecting an electronic card smoothly
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
InventorsFang-Yue Zhu, Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao
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Abstract
An electronic card connector defining a receiving space for receiving an electronic card, includes an insulative housing, a number of contacts retain in the insulative housing, and a metal shell covering the insulative housing. The insulative housing has a bottom wall. The metal shell has a top wall opposed to the bottom wall, and a pair of side walls. The metal shell defines a depressed portion outwardly recessed from an intersection portion of the top wall and the side wall.
Claims18
An electronic card connector for mating with an electronic card, comprising:
- an insulative housing having a bottom wall;
- a plurality of contacts retained on the insulative housing;
- and
- a metal shell covering the insulative housing, the metal shell having a top wall opposed to the bottom wall, and a pair of side walls, the top wall having a lower surface and an upper surface;
- wherein the metal shell has a releasing portion between the top wall and the side wall, and the releasing portion has an inner surface which is outwardly offset from the lower surface along an up to down direction or an inner surface of said side wall along a transverse direction of the insulative housing.
An electronic card connector defining a receiving space for receiving an electronic card, comprising:
- an insulative housing having a bottom wall;
- a plurality of contacts retain in the insulative housing;
- and
- a metal shell covering the insulative housing, the metal shell having a top wall opposed to the bottom wall, and a pair of side walls;
- wherein the metal shell defines a depressed portion outwardly recessed from an intersection portion of the top wall and the side wall.
An electrical card connector for use with an electronic card, comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a card mating surface;
- a metallic shell attached to the housing, said shell including a primary wall oppositely facing the card mating surface in a vertical direction, and a pair or opposite side walls unitarily extending from two opposite edges of the primary wall in said vertical direction;
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- a card receiving cavity being defined among the opposite primary wall and card mating face, and the opposite side walls for receiving said electronic card, the primary wall defining a horizontal interior surface facing toward the card receiving cavity in the vertical direction for intimate engagement with the electronic card in said vertical direction, and each of said side walls defining a vertical interior surface facing toward the card receiving cavity in a transverse direction perpendicular to said vertical direction for intimate engagement with the electronic card in the transverse direction;
- wherein
- an intersection corner region between the primary wall and one of the side walls defines a curved exterior face, and at least one of said horizontal interior surface and said vertical interior surface defines a recess away from the card receiving cavity around said intersection corner region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.