Push button for a card connector and the card connector using the same
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorTomihisa Hara
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Abstract
A push button for a connector having a push bar slidably retained in a channel structure formed on a longitudinal side of the connector. The push button comprises a linking receptacle having a body portion fixed to the push bar at a first face thereof and two tabs extending from a second face opposite the first face thereby defining a recess therebetween. A button device is partially and pivotably received in the recess of the linking receptacle by a pivot and includes a spring having a first end fixed therein and a second end pivotably engaged with the pivot.
Claims12
A card connector comprising an insulative header having a plurality of contacts partially received therein and partially extending therefrom, a pair of guiding arms extending from opposite ends of the header, each guiding arm defining an inner channel exposed toward each other guiding a card to electrically connect with the contacts the header, an ejection mechanism pivotably engaged with header, a push bar linked with the ejection mechanism slidably received in an outer channel formed on one of for of the and the guiding arms, and a push button engaged with the push bar and comprising a linking receptacle and button means pivotably engaged with the linking receptacle, the linking receptacle having a body portion fixed to the push bar on a first face thereof and two tabs extending from a second face opposite the first face thereby defining a recess therebetween;
- wherein the button means is partially and pivotably received in the recess of the linking receptacle by a pivot, the button means includes a spring having a first end being fixed in the recess and a second end being pivotably held by the pivot.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.