Back to results
US 9,197,021 B2Granted
Micro SIM card socket
AssigneeMolex Incorporated
InventorSung Hyuk Joo
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The micro SIM card socket of the Present Disclosure, by manufacturing the contact terminals in a “U” shape, can resolve the problem of narrowing contact terminal installation space due to miniaturization trends, and also the problem of collision between the card front end and the contact terminals when a card is inserted; it can effectively prevent the malfunction or poor contact that can occur due to the inability of the contact terminals to firmly contact the connection terminals of the SIM card when the SIM card is inserted.
Claims9
A micro SIM card socket, the micro SIM card socket comprising:
- an insulative housing and a metal shell supported by the housing, the metal shell and housing cooperatively defining a card-receiving slot for a micro SIM card, the housing further including a plurality of terminal-receiving cavities disposed therein within the housing card-receiving slot;
- and
- a plurality of first and second conductive terminals extending lengthwise in the housing, each of the first and second terminals including a tail portion and a contact portion interconnected by an intervening horizontal body portion, the terminal tail portions being configured for mounting to a printed circuit board, the terminal contact portions being disposed in the terminal-receiving cavities, and the terminal horizontal body portions being coupled to the housing such that the terminal contact portions can deflect under pressure of a micro SIM card inserted into the card-receiving slot;
- wherein the first terminals have a first length and the second terminals have a second length, the first length being greater than the second length, the first terminal horizontal body portions including a widthwise offset and the second terminals extending lengthwise within the first terminal horizontal body portion offsets, front ends of the terminal body portions of the first and second terminals having a U-shaped configuration in a horizontal plane when viewed from above and at least partially defining the terminal contact portions, the terminal contact portions including sloped portions that extend upward in a front to rear direction with respect to the housing and which terminate in contact ends of the terminals.
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.