Card receiver case

A card case for mounting on a circuit board and for receiving an electronic card that has a card lower face with electrical card terminals and laterally-spaced opposite card side edges, comprising:

• a plastic molded unitary receiver housing that has laterally spaced opposite sides forming slideways for slidably guiding the sides of said electronic card with said slideways each including walls for engaging the top and bottom and side edge of a card, and that has upper and lower plate-like crosspieces connecting said opposite sides of said housing with said crosspieces being vertically spaced to receive a card between them, and with said lower crosspiece having a center section, said receiver housing being mountable on said circuit board;
• a connector that has a connector frame with an upper surface and a plurality of contacts that each has a contact mount part mounted on said frame, a tail for mounting on said circuit board, and a card terminal-engaging blade projecting above said frame upper surface;
• said lower crosspiece has a center section with at least one vertical through hole therein, and said connector frame is fixedly mounted to said lower crosspiece with at least one of said contact blades projecting through said hole and with a blade portion lying above said lower crosspiece.

A card case for receiving an electronic card, comprising:

• a card receiver housing that has laterally spaced opposite sides forming slideways for slidably guiding the sides of said electronic card in longitudinal movement forwardly into said housing and rearwardly out of said housing, said housing having upper and lower plate-like horizontally-extending crosspieces with at least one of them connecting said opposite sides of said housing, with said crosspieces being vertically spaced to form a card-receiving slot between them, and with said housing forming a stop that define a forward end of said card-receiving slot;
• a first of said crosspieces has a brake tab with a rear end merging with the rest of said first crosspiece, and with a forward end, said brake tab having a tab portion extending at an incline to the horizontal to extend at least partially across the height of said card-receiving slot so said tab forward end resists card movement, with said tab forward end lying adjacent to, but slightly rearward of the forward end of said card-receiving slot to resist card forward movement only near full insertion of the card when a forward end of the card closely approaches said slot forward end.

A method for constructing a card case for receiving an electronic card that has a face with electrical card terminals and that has laterally spaced opposite card sides, comprising:

• molding a quantity of plastic into a one-piece housing with a card-receiving slot having an open rear end, and with integral laterally-spaced slideways for engaging the card sides and with integral upper and lower plate-like crosspieces connecting said slideways;
• forming a connector with a plastic connector frame and a plurality of contacts, where each contact has a contact mount part fixed to said connector frame and a connector blade projecting above said connector frame;
• fixedly mounting said connector on said lower crosspiece with said contact blades projecting upwardly into said card-receiving slot.