Patent ID: 7612993
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A card connector into and from which a plurality of memory cards are detachably inserted and removed, including a required number of contacts adapted to contact connection portions of said memory cards, a housing arranging and holding said contacts and having a plurality of inserting openings arranged in vertically overlapping relationship for inserting said memory cards, respectively, and a shell covering said housing, wherein a pivot member is installed at a predetermined position in said housing so as to be pivotally moved upon one memory card being inserted into one of said inserting openings such that part of said pivot member extends into all the inserting openings except for said inserting opening into which said one memory card has been inserted, thereby permitting a memory card of one kind only to be inserted into the card connector at a time, wherein said pivot member is provided on both sides with axles for its pivotal movement, said axles being each formed at its tip with a slit, and said housing is formed with a through-hole for pivotally accommodating said pivot member, having bearing grooves for said axles of the pivot member, said bearing grooves being each formed with a protrusion which is fitted in said slit of the pivot member and located at a position short of said predetermined position where said pivot member is finally installed in the housing.