Patent ID: 7306467
Filing Date: 2007-12-11
Classification: G06F,G06K,H05K

Abstract:
1. A slot device, into which a card type insertion/ejection member is removably inserted, wherein said card type insertion/ejection member has, on one thickness direction side at a front end face in an insertion direction, a stepped portion, and at the front end face, a widthwise end portion is bounded by said stepped portion and is thinner than a middle portion, and wherein said card type insertion/ejection member includes a first stepped portion on one side in the direction of width, which is the stepped portion located on one thickness direction side at the front end face in the direction of insertion, and a second stepped portion, which is located on the other side in the direction of width, so that said card type insertion/ejection member is removably inserted into said slot device, the slot device comprising: a plate-like defining member, for defining a storage space on a first thickness direction side, that is opposite a second thickness direction side of said card type insertion/ejection member in a state where said card type insertion/ejection member has been inserted into said storage space; an oblique contact line portion, which serves as slot side edge of said plate-like defining member and is obliquely extended, in the direction of the depth of said storage space, so as to obliquely contact said stepped portion while said card type insertion/ejection member is inserted into said storage space, wherein said oblique contact line portion includes first and second line portions that are disposed either at the slot side or at the rear side so as to be continuously arranged in said storage space in the direction of depth, and wherein said second line portion is shaped like a line from said first line portion along the depth of said storage space; a widthwise movement inhibiting member for contacting the other widthwise end portion of said card type insertion/ejection member to inhibit the movement of said card type insertion/ejection member toward the other widthwise side end; a third line portion which is formed as a part of said slot side edge of said plate-like defining member so that while said card type insertion/ejection member is inserted into said storage space, said third line portion obliquely contacts said second stepped portion in the direction of depth, and said third line portion faces said second line portion in the widthwise direction of said storage space, wherein said third line portion also serves as the widthwise movement inhibiting member, and said second and third line portions are formed so that the distance between said second and third line portions, in the widthwise direction of said storage space, is gradually reduced along the depth of said storage space; and wherein, at the end position of said second line portion on the slot side, a distance between said second and said third line portions in the widthwise direction of said storage space is greater than a distance between said first and second stepped portions in the widthwise direction.