Card tray of electrical connector assembly having a front surface feature for increasing a withdrawn travel distance
AssigneesFoxconn (Kunshan) Computer Connector Co., Ltd., Foxconn Interconnect Technology Limited
InventorJUN ZHAO
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Abstract
A card connector assembly includes: an electrical connector including an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals secured to the insulative housing, a shell covering the insulative housing to form a receiving cavity, and an ejector having a pivot; and a card tray removably received in the receiving cavity, the card tray having a front surface, wherein the card tray has a protrusion at the front surface, and the pivot has an engaging portion for ejecting the card tray, the engaging portion having a recess for receiving the protrusion and an ejecting end for riding onto the protrusion.
Claims8
A card connector assembly comprising:
- an electrical connector including an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals secured to the insulative housing, a shell covering the insulative housing to form a receiving cavity, and an ejector having a pivot;
- and
- a card tray removably received in the receiving cavity between an inserted position and a withdrawn position, the card tray having adjacent first and second front surfaces positioned at different levels;
- wherein
- the pivot has an ejecting end engaging the first front surface when the card tray is at the inserted position while engaging the second front surface when the card tray is at the withdrawn position.
A card connector assembly comprising:
- an electrical connector including an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals secured to the insulative housing, a shell covering the insulative housing to form a receiving cavity, and an ejector having a pivot;
- and
- a card tray removably received in the receiving cavity, the card tray having a front surface;
- wherein
- the card tray has a protrusion at the front surface;
- and
- the pivot has an engaging portion for ejecting the card tray, the engaging portion having a recess for receiving the protrusion and an ejecting end for riding onto the protrusion.
A card connector assembly comprising:
- an electrical connector including an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals secured to the insulative housing, a shell covering the insulative housing to form a receiving cavity, and an ejector operable from an exterior and having a pivot having an engaging free end;
- and
- a card tray removably received in the receiving cavity along an ejecting direction, the card tray having a front end region to intimately confront the engaging free end of the pivot in said ejecting direction;
- wherein
- the engaging free end of the pivot and the front end region of the card tray are at least partially overlapped with each other in a transverse direction perpendicular to the ejecting direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.