Patent ID: 7044798
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: H01R

Abstract:
1. A card connector for a card having a plurality of recesses extending in parallel with one another from its front end toward its rear end and contact pads each being received in said recess, said card connector comprising: a connector housing having a pair of guide grooves for supporting and guiding both side edges of the card being inserted into the card connector and an insertion space for the inserted card; contact terminals made of a springy and electrically conductive material arranged in said connector housing and each having a contact portion brought into contact with said contact pad of said card normally inserted in the card connector; support protrusions each provided at a location below at least the contact portion of the contact terminal for limiting the downward displacement of the contact portion of the contact terminal; and misconnection preventing stoppers for preventing a wrong insertion of a card, said stoppers each located laterally adjacent said support protrusion and received in said recess when the card has been normally inserted in the card connector, said stoppers and said support protrusions provided integrally with one another, and said stoppers each having an end face to abut against the rear end of the card at a position slightly short of the contact portion of the contact terminal when the card is wrongly inserted into the card connector.