Patent ID: 8562363
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
Classification: G06K,H01R

Abstract:
1. A card connector, comprising: a base member having an insertion port of an IC card, the IC card inserted from the insertion port in a card insertion/withdrawal direction, and defining a card accommodating space for housing the IC card, a cover member assembled on the base member, and a plurality of contacts arranged on the base member to be electrically connected to the IC card accommodated in the card accommodating space; the card connector comprising an ejection mechanism including a metallic ejection lever, a compression coil spring keeping the metallic ejection lever in the card accommodating space, and a guide member leading the metallic ejection lever in the card insertion/withdrawal direction, the ejection mechanism being used to pull the IC card accommodated in the card accommodating space out of the card accommodating space, and the metallic ejection lever including an arm portion inclined from the card insertion/withdrawal direction for coming in contact with the IC card, a coil mounting portion on which the compression coil spring is mounted, a slide portion sliding in the guide member, and a pull portion extending outside the base member, wherein, on the coil mounting portion of the ejection lever, a tubular coil stopper is mounted between the arm portion and the mounted compression coil spring in order to stop the compression coil spring from sliding out of the arm portion.