Patent ID: 7074059

Claim:
A smart card connector for receiving a fully installed smart card, said connector having an insulative connector frame with a frame face that lies facewise adjacent to a smart card that has been fully installed, and said connector having a plurality of transversely spaced blade contacts with card-engaging parts that project vertically beyond said frame face for engaging contact pads of the smart card, wherein the connector is mounted on a circuit board that has at least one signal trace and at least one ground trace, and wherein a first of said blade contacts is a signal contact that has a rear end forming a signal tail that lies at a rear end of said frame and that is connected to one of said signal traces, and a second of said blade contacts is a ground contact with a rear end forming a ground tail that is connected to said ground trace, comprising: a shield structure mounted on said connector, said shield structure having a rear part that lies rearward of said signal tail to block the unauthorized projection of a conductor device from the rear of said connector against said signal tail; said shield structure includes a metal shield with a metal rearward portion that forms part of said rear shield portion; said metal shield having a tongue that directly contacts said ground blade contact; said rear end of said frame being adjacent to rear end of the installed smart card.