Patent ID: 6568960
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: G06K,H01R,H04B

Abstract:
An electrical connector for making electrical connections with contact pads on the active faces of first and second thin and flat circuit cards where said first and second circuit cards respectively have first and second sets of contact pads arranged in first and second pad patterns on their active faces, comprising:a body including an insulative frame and first and second sets of contacts mounted on said frame, with said contacts having pad-engaging contact-ends arranged in first and second contact-end patterns a card-holder unit which is coupled to said body and which has first and second card-holding compartments for respectively holding said first and second card against said pad-engaging contact ends; said card-holder unit is constructed with said compartments being vertically spaced to hold said cards in vertically-spaced parallel planes, with at least a portion of a card in the second compartment lying directly over a card in the first compartment when said cards lie in horizontal planes in said compartments; said card-holder unit is slideable in forward and rearward direction on said frame, with said cards being installable and removable from said card-holder unit after said card-holder unit is slid rearward, and said cards being positioned with their contact pads engaging said pad-engaging contact-ends of said contacts when said card-holder unit has been slid forward to a forward position.