Patent ID: 7004774
Filing Date: 2006-02-28
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A memory card connector having an interior cavity for receiving a memory card, comprising: an insulative housing having a rear terminal-mounting section at the rear of the cavity, and at least one longitudinal side wall section extending forwardly from one end of the rear section at one side of the cavity, the housing having a bottom surface for mounting on a circuit board; a plurality of terminals mounted on the rear terminal-mounting section of the housing and having contact portions for engaging appropriate contacts on the memory card; a pair of switch terminals mounted on the side wail section of the housing, one switch terminal having an elastic contact arm which may be engageable by the memory card received in the cavity and movable into engagement with a contact arm of the other switch terminal; complementary interengaging mounting means between at least one of the switch terminals and said longitudinal side wall section of the housing and including a body portion of the at least one switch terminal engaged in a retaining slot in the side wall section, and a locking tab projecting from the body portion against a locking shoulder on the side wall section in the slot to prevent the body portion from pulling out of the slot; and said at least one switch terminal having a soldering tab projecting from a bottom edge of the body portion for solder connection to the circuit board, wherein said elastic contact arm of said one switch terminal is at one end thereof adjacent said longitudinal side wall section of the housing, and including a second elastic contact arm at an opposite end of the one switch terminal adjacent the rear terminal-mounting section of the housing for engaging a third switch terminal in response to insertion of the memory card into the cavity.