Patent ID: 9197021
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06K,H01R

Abstract:
1. A micro SIM card socket, the micro SIM card socket comprising: an insulative housing and a metal shell supported by the housing, the metal shell and housing cooperatively defining a card-receiving slot for a micro SIM card, the housing further including a plurality of terminal-receiving cavities disposed therein within the housing card-receiving slot; and a plurality of first and second conductive terminals extending lengthwise in the housing, each of the first and second terminals including a tail portion and a contact portion interconnected by an intervening horizontal body portion, the terminal tail portions being configured for mounting to a printed circuit board, the terminal contact portions being disposed in the terminal-receiving cavities, and the terminal horizontal body portions being coupled to the housing such that the terminal contact portions can deflect under pressure of a micro SIM card inserted into the card-receiving slot; wherein the first terminals have a first length and the second terminals have a second length, the first length being greater than the second length, the first terminal horizontal body portions including a widthwise offset and the second terminals extending lengthwise within the first terminal horizontal body portion offsets, front ends of the terminal body portions of the first and second terminals having a U-shaped configuration in a horizontal plane when viewed from above and at least partially defining the terminal contact portions, the terminal contact portions including sloped portions that extend upward in a front to rear direction with respect to the housing and which terminate in contact ends of the terminals.