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US 6,629,860 B1Granted
Electrical card connector with an improved shell
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsJinkui Hu, ZiQiang Zhu, ZhangLan Xue
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Abstract
An electrical card connector (5) has a shell (1), a housing (2), a plurality of terminals (3) received in the housing and an ejector (4). The shell has a main body (10) and an extended portion (11) extending from one end of the main body, thus a memory card received in the eclectrical card connector may be fully shielded by the shell, and be prevented from being accidentally destroyed.
Claims2
An electrical card connector assembly comprising:
- a printed circuit board;
- an electrical connector mounted on a front edge region of the printed circuit board and including:
- an insulative housing being far away from a front edge of said front edge region;
- a plurality of terminals received in the housing;
- an ejection mechanism located beside said housing and moveable along a front-to-back direction, said ejection mechanism being spaced from the front edge while being closer to said front edge than said housing;
- and
- a metal shell extending from said housing to the front edge, and enclosing both the housing and the ejection mechanism;
- wherein
- a front end of the ejection mechanism is essentially located around a middle portion of the shell:
- wherein
- a rear portion of said shell is larger than a front portion thereof for enclosing said ejection mechanism.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.