US 2014/0213083 A1Published application

Memory card connector

AssigneeHonda Tsushin Kogyo Co., Ltd.

InventorsTakeshi SATO, Kenichi TAKAHASHI

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Abstract

Disclosed a memory card connector including a case body having a memory card storage portion which allows insertion of either a memory card having single row of signal pad portions and a memory card having front and rear rows of the pad portions, the case body having rear-row signal contacts coming into abutment with the rear-row signal pad portions of the memory card and contacts that establish electric contact by coming into abutment with the single row of signal pad portions or the front-row signal pad portions. Each the rear-row signal contact has two contact ends to abut only with the case portion of the card when the card having single row signal pad portions is stored in the storage portion, and to abut only with the rear-row signal pad portion of the card when the card having the two rows of pad portions is stored in the storage portion.

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Dependent claims

A memory card connector comprising:

a case body having an opening portion which allows insertion of both of a memory card having single row of signal pad portions and a memory card having two, that is, front and rear rows of the pad portions including front-row signal pad portions and rear-row signal pad portions and a memory card storage portion, the case body having rear-row signal contacts coming into abutment with the rear-row signal pad portions of the memory card and contacts that establish electric contact by coming into abutment with the single row of signal pad portions or the front-row signal pad portions,
wherein a distal end of each of the rear-row signal contacts is formed with two contact ends including
a contact end for contact with a case portion, which is a projection coming into abutment only with the case portion of the memory card when the memory card having the single row signal pad portions is stored in a storage portion, and
a contact end for contact with the rear-row signal pad portion, which is projection coming into abutment only with the rear-row signal pad portion of the memory card when the memory card having the two rows of pad portions is stored in the storage portion.

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Facts

Application: 14/100,495Filed 9 Dec 2013
Priority: JP 2013-01305328 Jan 2013
Published: 31 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H01R 13/64
Details of coupling devices of the kinds covered by groups H01R12/70 or H01R24/00 - H01R33/00: means for preventing incorrect coupling
G06K 7/0021
By galvanic contacts, e.g. card connectors for ISO-7816 compliant smart cards or memory cards, e.g. SD card readers: for reading/sensing record…
G06K 7/003
For reading/sensing record carriers having surface contacts: means for pressing the connector contacts in the direction of the card contacts to…
H01R 13/2442
Resilient; resiliently-mounted: with a single cantilevered beam

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