Patent ID: 7033221
Filing Date: 2006-04-25
Classification: G06K,H01R

Abstract:
1. A smart card connector that includes an insulative support and a sheet metal cover that form a rearwardly-opening card-receiving cavity, that is designed to receive an SD smart card that has a front lower surface with grooves and contact pads in the grooves to block receipt of an upside-down SD smart card, the cover having a top wall lying primarily in a horizontal plane, first and second laterally-spaced vertically-extending side walls, and inward projections at lower ends of said side walls for lying under a bottom of the support to hold the cover on the support, wherein: said support has a front wall with a top surface having a pair of laterally-spaced notches, and said cover top wall has a front end with a pair of partially downwardly-extending resilient projections that each lies in one of said notches; said top surface of said support top wall having portions lying immediately forward of said notches, and said cover being slideable rearwardly onto said support until said projections each snaps into one of said notches to lock said cover onto said support, a stop fixed to said support and projecting upward therefrom into said cavity, said stop being positioned to be received in one of said grooves.