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Card connector device

US7018227B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateApr 23, 2004
Grant dateMar 28, 2006
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Expiry dateApr 23, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S439/945
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A card connector device comprising: a case 11 having a card slit port 19 capable of inserting hereinto a functional card having a terminal, and accommodating an internal connector 15 for card holding the functional card to be inserted and comprising a terminal 15b to be connected electrically with the terminal of the functional card; an external connector 17 provided protrusively on the case apart from the card slit port 19 and connected electrically with the internal connector for card; and a card stopper 20 located as being capable of sliding between the card slit port 19 of the case and the external connector, and comprising a first end 20b at the card slit port side and a second end 20c capable of protruding toward the external connector side; wherein the first end 20b clutches the functional card 14 when the card stopper 20 moves to the card slit port 19 side to suppress the functional card being pulled out of the card slit port, and the second end 20c protrudes in the protrusively provided direction of the connector 17 from the second edge 20c when clutching of the functional card 14 at the card slit port 19 is released.

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