Patent ID: 6302715
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
A card connector comprising:a casing for accommodating a card,a rotary lever pivotally retained at a rear side of the casing and being responsive to an insertion of the card, andan ejection lever slidably attached to one side of the casing, and slidably connected to the rotary lever such that inserting the card into the casing turns the rotary lever that drives the ejection lever toward a front side of the casing, and that pushing the ejection lever toward the rear side of the casing turns the rotary lever to eject the card out of the front side of the casing,wherein the casing has a ceiling plate with a thickness, said ceiling plate defining an interior upper surface of said casing, said casing also having at the rear side a tongue piece and an aperture, the tongue piece having a depression to a depth equal to the thickness of the ceiling plate and extending across the aperture therein from one lateral side of the aperture, the rotary lever being disposed across the aperture, said aperture having a width wider than a width of the rotary lever, the rotary lever being pivotally mounted to the ceiling plate by the tongue piece.