Card connector
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorsYuji Naito, Mitsuhiro Tomita, Yoko Takeuchi
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Abstract
A card connector comprises a housing, an auxiliary urging member and a card guide mechanism. The housing is provided with connection terminals connected to a card housed therein. The auxiliary urging member is capable of urging the card in a direction opposite to an insertion direction of the card. The card guide mechanism is provided with an urging member capable of urging the card in the direction opposite to the insertion direction of the card. The urging member and the auxiliary urging member are also configured to cooperate with each other to move the card.
Claims20
A card connector, the card connector comprising:
- a housing, the housing being provided with connection terminals connected to a card housed therein;
- a cover member, the cover member being attached to the housing to cover at least a portion of an upper portion of the housing and the card housed therein;
- an auxiliary urging member, the auxiliary urging member being capable of urging the card in a direction opposite an insertion direction of the card, the auxiliary urging member being attached to the cover member;
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- a card guide mechanism, the card guide mechanism being provided with an urging member, the urging member being capable of urging the card in the direction opposite the insertion direction of the card;
- wherein the urging member and the auxiliary urging member are configured to cooperate with each other to move the card.
A card connector, comprising:
- a housing in which a card provided with terminal members is accommodated;
- connection terminals attached to the housing and capable of coming into contact with the terminal members;
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- a card guide mechanism provided with an urging member, the card guide mechanism being capable of urging the card in a direction opposite an insertion direction, the card guide mechanism being configured to engage one lateral end of the card to hold the card at a lock position to maintain a state where the terminal members of the card are in contact with the connection terminals, and to move the card in a direction opposite the insertion direction when the card reaches a terminal point, due to a push operation for pushing the card held at the lock position to be moved in the insertion direction, from the terminal point by an urging force of the urging member so that the card is discharged;
- wherein the card connector further comprises:
- an auxiliary urging member disposed at a position located further toward the inner side in the insertion direction than the card held at the lock position to urge the card in the direction opposite the insertion direction during a movement of the card in a region spanning from the terminal point to the lock position thereof;
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- an elastic member disposed at an end of the front side in the insertion direction of the housing to elastically deform while making a tight contact with the other lateral end of the card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.