Electrical card connector
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorsMing-Lun Kuo, Chien-Jen Ting
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Abstract
An electrical card connector for receiving two electronic cards (7, 8) different in sizes and shapes comprises an insulating header (1), a plurality of electrical contacts (5) retained in the insulating header (1) and each having an engaging portion (51) for electrically connecting with an inserted card (7, 8), and a metallic shell (3) covering on the insulating header (1). The metallic shell (3) further has a top wall (31) providing at three elastic pieces (311, 312, 313). Wherein the width between a first and second elastic pieces (311, 312) accords with the width of a first card (7), and the width between the first and a third elastic pieces (311, 313) accords with the width of a second card (8).
Claims19
An electrical card connector for receiving a wider L-shaped card and a narrow quadrangular card selectively, comprising:
- an insulating header;
- a plurality of electrical contacts retained in the insulating header, and each having an engaging portion for electrically connecting with an inserted card;
- and
- a metallic shell covering on the insulating header, the metallic shell and the insulating header combining to define a receiving room with an opening, through which the card is inserted into the receiving room, the shell being formed in an L shape corresponding the L-shaped and comprising a narrow front portion corresponding to the quadrangular card, the metallic shell further having a top wall providing at least three elastic pieces;
- wherein
- the width between a first and second elastic pieces accords with the width of L-shaped card, and the width between the first and a third elastic pieces accords with the width of the quadrangular card.
An electrical card connector for receiving first and second electronic cards sized different from each other in a transverse direction, comprising:
- an insulating header,
- a plurality of electrical contacts retained in the insulating header, and each having an engaging portion for electrically connecting with one of said first and second cards;
- and
- a metallic shell covering on the insulating header, the metallic shell and the insulating header combining to define a receiving room with an opening, through which one of the first and second cards is inserted into the receiving room, the metallic shell farther having a top wall providing at least first, second and third elastic pieces which are deflectable in a vertical direction perpendicular to a card insertion direction and the transverse direction;
- wherein
- a width between the first and the second elastic pieces is equal to a transverse dimension of the first card, and a width between the first and the third elastic pieces is essentially equal to a transverse dimension of the second card.
An electrical card connector assembly comprising:
- first and second cards;
- an insulating header,
- a plurality of electrical contacts retained in the insulating header, and each having an engaging portion;
- and
- a metallic shell covering on the insulating header, the metallic shell and the insulating header combining to define a receiving room with an opening, through which one of said first and second cards are mutually exclusively inserted into the receiving room, the metallic shell further having a top wall providing at least first, second and third elastic pieces which are deflectable in a vertical direction perpendicular to a card insertion direction and the transverse direction;
- wherein
- a width between the first and the second elastic pieces is essentially equal to a transverse dimension of the first card, and a width between the first and the third elastic pieces is essentially equal to a transverse dimension of the second card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.