Patent ID: 7066748
Filing Date: 2006-06-27
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A smart card connector which has a housing that forms a card-receiving slot that receives a card by sliding the card forwardly into the slot, the connector including a slide assembly that is slideable in forward and rearward directions on said housing, an assembly spring that urges the slide assembly rearward, the slide assembly having a branch that presses against a front of the card so forward movement of the card moves the slide assembly forward and so that the slide assembly pushes the card rearward when released to do so, wherein: said slide assembly includes a card-holding slider with a rear end having a retention bar which is urged upward toward a retention position wherein a front surface of the retention bar lies directly behind the slot to abut the card rear end, the retention bar being downwardly deflectable to a release position wherein the bar lies lower than in said retention position to allow the card to move largely rearward of the bar and out of the card-receiving slot.