Electrical card connector
AssigneeHon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
InventorWei-De Zhang
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Abstract
An electrical card connector includes an insulative housing (1), a number of contacts (3) assembled in the insulative housing, a pair of metal pads (5) assembled to the side walls of the insulative housing, and a metallic shell (2). The insulative housing has a base portion (10) and a pair of side walls (11) extending from the base portion. Each metal pad has a cavity (501) and an elastic tongue portion (53) extending into the cavity. The metallic shell forms a pair of pivots (220) extending through and movable in the cavity. The elastic tongue portion is resiliently engageable with the pivot in response to a movement of the pivot along an inner edge of the cavity.
Claims16
An electrical card connector comprising:
- an insulative housing having a base portion and a pair of side walls;
- a plurality of contacts assembled in the base portion of the insulative housing;
- a pair of metal pads assembled to the side walls of the insulative housing, each metal pad having a cavity and an elastic tongue portion extending into the cavity;
- and
- a metallic shell having a pair of pivots extending through and movable in the cavity;
- wherein
- the elastic tongue portion is resiliently engageable with the pivot in response to a movement of the pivot along an inner edge of the cavity.
An electrical card connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a card receiving space and a pair of securing portions around one end of the housing;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections extending into the card receiving space;
- a metallic cover defines at one end a pair of pivots respectively assembled around the securing portions;
- and
- a pair of metal pads assembled to the corresponding securing portions, respectively;
- wherein
- each of said metal pads defines a cavity to receive the corresponding pivot therein and further defines an elastic portion to divide said cavity into opposite first and second regions under condition that the pivot is allowed to move within the cavity and retained in said opposite first and second regions, respectively, by said elastic portion.
An electrical card connector comprising:
- an insulative housing defining a card receiving space and a pair of securing portions around one end of the housing;
- a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections extending into the card receiving space;
- a metallic cover defines at one end a pair of pivots respectively assembled around the securing portions;
- and a pair of metal pads assembled to the corresponding securing portions, respectively, each of said pads including a vertical section defining a cavity therein and a securing tab extending from the vertical section to retain the pad to the housing;
- wherein the cavity is dimensioned to be large enough to allow the corresponding pivot to move in a front-to-back direction between opposite first and second positions, if a large force is applied thereto, and also to be small enough to cooperate with a protrusion, which is located in a middle region of the cavity, to have the pivot stably retained in the first position and the second, respectively, if no force or a small force is applied thereto, wherein
- said protrusion is formed one the pad, wherein
- said protrusion is formed on an elastic portion, where
- said elastic portion extends from a horizontal section which unitarily extends from a lower edge of the vertical section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.