Card connector
AssigneeYamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorMasaaki Ooya
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Abstract
A spring piece section of the contact terminal is split into a plurality of spring piece units; each the split spring piece unit having a bending position not coinciding with that of the other, and a pressed portion against which is pressed a portion of the spring piece unit extending from the bending position to the fixing section is arranged in the connector housing.
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A card connector a plurality of contact terminals, each having a terminal section to be connected to a printed circuit board, a fixing section to be secured to a connector housing and a spring piece section having a contact point section at a distal end thereof and bent to be elastically deformable, for holding an IC card, within said connector housing so that, when said IC card is loaded therein, a plurality of contact pads of said IC card are brought into contact with said contact point sections of said plurality of contact terminals, respectively, arranged in said connector housing,
- wherein said spring piece section of said contact terminals is split into at least a first and a second spring piece unit, each of said split spring piece units having a bending section provided proximal to said fixing section, said bending section of said second spring piece unit not coinciding with said bending section of said second spring piece unit, said first spring piece unit of each spring piece section having a different width than the width of said second spring piece unit of the same spring piece section.
A card connector comprising a plurality of contact terminals, each having a terminal section to be connected to a printed circuit board, a fixing section to be secured to a connector housing and a spring piece section having a contact point section at a distal end thereof and bent to be elastically deformable, for holding an IC card within said connector housing so that, when said IC card is loaded therein, a plurality of contact pads are brought into contact with said contact point sections of the plurality of contact terminals, respectively, arranged in said connector housing,
- wherein said spring piece section of said contact terminal is split into a plurality of spring piece units, each said split spring piece unit bending so that a bending section is located by a side of said distal end thereof from said fixing portion in said split spring piece unit, and
- a surface in said connector housing against which is pressed a portion of one of the plurality of spring piece units extending to said fixing section from said bending section in said spring piece unit, and a portion of the other spring piece unit extending to said fixing section from said bending section is in a free state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.