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Patent US7710736 - Memory card with latching mechanism for hinged cover - Google Patents
An enclosed re-programmable non-volatile memory card includes a cover that is hinged to the card to normally cover a set of external contacts to which the memory is connected but which can be rotated out of the way by hand to expose that set of contacts for connection with a mating receptacle of a host...http://www.google.com/patents/US7710736?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7710736 - Memory card with latching mechanism for hinged cover
Publication number US7710736 B2
Application number US 11/462,430
Also published as US20080030963, WO2008019258A2, WO2008019258A3
Publication number 11462430, 462430, US 7710736 B2, US 7710736B2, US-B2-7710736, US7710736 B2, US7710736B2
Inventors Warren Middlekauff, Robert C. Miller
Patent Citations (123), Non-Patent Citations (34), Referenced by (15), Classifications (19), Legal Events (4)
Memory card with latching mechanism for hinged cover
US 7710736 B2
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U.S. Classification 361/737, 257/679, 439/638, 235/492, 361/755, 439/76.1
Cooperative Classification H01R12/88, H05K5/026, H05K5/0278, G06K19/07743, G06K19/07732, G06K19/077
European Classification H05K5/02H2, G06K19/077E7, H05K5/02H2C, H01R23/68B4B, G06K19/077, G06K19/077K
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