Card connector

• US 20080268682A1
• Filed: 04/30/2008
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/30/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Ting, Chien-Jen
• Granted Patent: US 7,666,034 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 439/159
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 13/08 Feeding or discharging cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 13/0806 using an arrangement for ejection of an inserted card

Abstract

A card connector (100) includes a first connector (10), a second connector (20), a first ejecting mechanism (6) and a second mechanism (5). The first connector defining a first receiving space (14) includes a first insulating housing (30) located in the receiving space and a plurality of first terminals (4) retained in the first insulating housing. The second connector is assembled with the first connector and includes a second insulating housing (22) equipped with the first insulating housing to define a second receiving space (220), and a plurality of second terminals (24) assembled with the second insulating housing and protruding into the second receiving space. The first insulating housing forms a base section (31) and a base seat (33) extending laterally from the base section, and the first ejecting mechanism and the second ejecting mechanism are mounted on the base seat.

Claims

1. A card connector comprising:

a first connector comprising a first receiving space for a first card fitting/ejecting, a first insulating housing located at one end of the receiving space, and a plurality of terminals retained in the first insulating housing to engage with the first card which is fitted in the first receiving space;

a second connector assembled with the first connector and comprising a second insulating housing equipped with the first insulating housing to define a second receiving space, a plurality of second terminals assembled with the second insulating housing and protruding into the second receiving space; and

a first ejecting mechanism and a second ejecting mechanism extending into the first receiving space and the second receiving space, respectively, to remove the first card and the second card;

wherein

the first insulating housing forms a base section and a base seat extending laterally from the base section, and both the first ejecting mechanism and the second ejecting mechanism are mounted on the base seat.

2. The card connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first insulating housing further comprises a triangular guiding portion extending forwardly from the base seat in the first receiving space.

3. The card connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein the base section, the base seat, and the guiding portion are integral.

4. The card connector as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a first metal shell mounted on the first insulating housing and completely covering said first ejecting mechanism and said second mechanism.

5. The card connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first metal shell is approximately of a rectangular shape, a width of which is equal to a combined width of the base section and the base seat along a lateral direction.

6. The card connector as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base seat defines two sliding grooves side by side, said first and second ejecting mechanism are disposed in the two sliding grooves, respectively.

7. The card connector as claimed in claim 6, wherein each of the first ejecting mechanism and the second ejecting mechanism comprises an ejecting member protruding into corresponding receiving space, a spring member connecting with the ejecting member in a card inserting direction, a heart groove disposed on the ejecting member, and a latch member with one end movably received in the heart groove.

8. The card connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the ejecting members of the first ejecting mechanism and the second ejecting mechanism protrude into the first receiving space and the second receiving space along a different direction.

9. The electrical card connector as claimed in claim 8, wherein the extending direction of the first ejecting member and the second ejecting member are perpendicular to each other.

10. The card connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the first connector is stacked with the second connector.

11. The card connector as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a second metal shell between the first insulating housing and the second insulating housing cooperating with the second insulating housing to define the second receiving space.

12. The card connector as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second terminals are retained in a terminal module equipped with the second metal shell, and the second insulating housing is covered by the second metal shell associating with the terminal module.

13. The stacked card connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first shell comprises a pair of elastic pieces pressing on the latch member of each ejecting mechanism, respectively.

14. A card connector comprising,

a first connector comprising a first metal shell defining a first receiving space for a first card fitting/ejecting, a first insulating housing disposed in one end of the first receiving space, a plurality of first terminals retained in the first insulating housing and protruding into the first receiving space to engage with the first card;

a second connector assembled with the first connector and comprising a second insulating housing cooperating with one face of the first insulating housing to define a second receiving space for a second card fitting/ejecting, and a plurality of second terminals mating with the second insulating housing and protruding into the second receiving space for engagement with the second card which is fitted in the second receiving space; and

a first ejecting mechanism and a second ejecting mechanism disposed in the first receiving space side by side.

15. The card connector as claimed in claim 14, wherein the first receiving space defines an L-shape card slot and a rectangular receiving space at a corner thereof, the first insulating housing is retained in a narrower end of the L-shape card slot beside the rectangular receiving space.

16. The card connector as claimed in claim 15, wherein the first ejecting mechanism and the second ejecting mechanism are received in the rectangular receiving space.

17. A card connector assembly comprising:

a first connector defining a first insulative housing with a plurality of first contacts therein and an L-shaped first card receiving space thereabouts, a base seat unitarily formed with the first housing beside said L-shaped receiving space;

a second connector having a stacked relationship with the first connector and defining a second insulative housing with a plurality of second contacts therein and a rectangular second card receiving space thereabouts;

first and second ejection mechanism side by side disposed on the base seat and respectively equipped with first and second ejectors respectively protruding into the first and the second card receiving spaces.

18. The card connector assembly as claimed in claim 17, wherein the first card receiving space plus the base seat is generally dimensionally equal to the second receiving space.