Device for receiving a memory card

• US 5,957,718 A
• Filed: 01/15/1998
• Issued: 09/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Qisda Corporation
• Original Assignee: Acer America Incorporated (Acer, Inc.)
• Inventors: Pan, Long-Jyh, Sun, Hsueh-Wen, Cheng, Yin-Shiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Bradley, Paula
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ta, Tho D.
• Application Number:
  US09/007,721
• Time in Patent Office: 621 Days
• Field of Search: 439/347, 439/358, 439/923, 439/152, 439/946, 439/157, 439/159, 379/357, 379/429, 364/708.1, 361/684, 235/479, 455/90
• US Class Current: 439/347
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 13/0806 using an arrangement for ejection of an inserted card
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 13/22 Contacts for co-operating by abutting
• CPC Class Codes: H01R 2201/16 for telephony
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3816 Mechanical arrangements for accommodating identification devices, e.g. cards or chips; with connectors for programming identification devices

Abstract

A device for receiving a memory card of a portable telephone set. The memory card-receiving device includes a memory card chamber for receiving the memory card. The memory card chamber can be freely inserted into or ejected from an open slot formed in the end surface of the portable telephone set. When the memory card chamber is fully inserted into the open slot, it is engaged with the portable telephone set by an engaging mechanism. The memory card chamber is ejected from the open slot by a curved spring strip disposed at the bottom of the open slot when the engaging mechanism is released.

Claims

1. A memory card-receiving device having an open slot formed in an end surface of an electronic device, the memory card-receiving device comprising:

a memory card chamber for receiving a memory card, capable of being freely inserted into or slid out of the open slot;

an engaging means for maintaining engagement of said memory card chamber onto the electronic device when said memory card chamber is fully inserted into the open slot; and

an ejecting means for ejecting said memory card chamber from the open slot when said engaging means is released.

2. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said memory card chamber is rectangular in shape and is formed by a top end surface, a bottom end surface, a first side surface and a second side surface, and includes a cut out portion formed at corner of the top end surface and the first side surface;

and said engaging means is disposed at a top of the open slot in proximity to the cut out portion of said memory card chamber when said memory card chamber is fully engaged in the open slot and includes an engaging member for engaging with said cut out portion and a biasing means, said biasing means is biased when the engaging member is engaged with the cut out portion of the memory card chamber.

3. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said ejecting means is a curved spring strip including a curved portion, disposed at the bottom of the open slot in such a manner when said memory card chamber is inserted into the open slot and engaged by said engaging member, the curved portion of said ejecting means comes in contact with said memory card chamber.

4. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said biasing means is a coil spring.

5. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said engaging member is a sliding member capable of sliding along the end surface of the electronic device and having a protrusion block so that when said sliding member is pressed toward said memory card chamber, the protrusion block becomes engaged with the cut out portion.

6. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said memory card chamber includes an inclined surface formed at the corner of the bottom end surface and the first side surface so that when said card chamber is inserted into the open slot, the inclined surface urges said sliding member to slide back.

7. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 5, wherein said memory card chamber includes a wedge portion formed at the corner of the top end surface and the first side surface thereof.

8. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 2, wherein said memory card chamber includes a first elastic member disposed at the second side surface in proximity to the bottom end surface, and in an inner side wall of the open slot a first groove is formed for receiving said first elastic member.

9. The memory card-receiving device as claimed in claim 8, wherein said memory card chamber further includes a second elastic member disposed at the second side surface in proximity to the top end surface, and a second groove for receiving the second elastic member is formed above the first groove.