Electrical card connector

An electrical card connector comprising:

• an insulative housing defining a receiving space for receiving a card;
• a plurality of contacts retained in the housing and having a contacting portion extending into the receiving space;
• and
• an ejector assembled to the housing, the ejector having a slider, a spring located between the insulative housing and the slider, and a cam follower for controlling positions of the slider, the cam follower having a pivoting end, a sliding end and a connecting portion connecting the pivoting end and the sliding end;
• wherein
• the housing defines a first recess and a second recess both formed along a top-to-bottom direction and communicating with each other along a left-to-right direction, the pivoting end is inserted in to the first and the second recess and is limited by a bottom of the first recess and a top of the second recess;
• wherein
• said bottom and said top are offset from each other in the left-to-right direction.

An electrical card connector assembly for use with an electronic card, comprising:

• an insulative housing defining a bottom wall and a pair of side walls extending upwardly on two opposite lateral sides of the bottom wall;
• a metallic shell positioned upon the housing and cooperating with the housing to define a card receiving space therebetween in a vertical direction;
• a plurality of contacts disposed in the bottom wall with contacting sections extending into the card receiving space;
• an ejector, for loading/unloading the electronic card, assembled to one of said side walls of the housing, said ejector defining a slider back and forth moveable relative to the housing in a front-to-back direction perpendicular to said vertical direction with a heart-shaped slot therein, and a cam follower defining a first end section extending in a transverse direction, which is perpendicular to both said vertical direction and said front-to-back direction, and moveable along the heart-shaped slot, and said cam follower further defining a second end section, opposite to the first end section in the front-to-back direction, extending in the transverse direction and pivotally mounted into a pivot hole of said one of the side walls, said hole defining an axis extending in said transverse direction;
• said housing further defining an upward facing recess, said recess defining a receiving slot to communicate with an exterior in the transverse direction and a limiting slot intersecting said receiving slot and extending in the front-to-back direction with a distance;
• and
• said shell defining a downwardly extending limiting tab inserted into the limiting slot;
• wherein
• said receiving slot defines a lower portion of said pivot hole under condition of a lower portion of the second end section downwardly facing and upwardly supportably seated upon an abutment face of the receiving slot while an upper portion of the second end section upwardly abutting against the limiting tab.