Patent ID: 8235753

Claim:
A card connector, comprising: an insulator member; contacts positioned in said insulator member and being placed in a card insertion space and contacted with contact pads which are disposed on one principal face of an inserted card; and wherein each of the contacts comprises a first plate spring piece portion having a first fulcrum portion in one side of said insulator member and extends in a cantilevered manner from said first fulcrum portion in a direction opposite to a card insertion direction so as to be elastically deformable in a thickness direction of said card, and a second plate spring piece portion having in one side a second fulcrum portion which is connected from another side of said first plate spring piece portion is formed in a shape where said second plate spring piece portion extends at an inclination angle in a cantilevered manner from said second fulcrum portion in the card insertion direction so as to be elastically deformable in the card thickness direction, and another side of said second plate spring piece portion is to be contacted with said contact pad of said inserted card; and wherein: a case member forming said card insertion space comprises a connector housing having a box-like shape configured by an insulative lower case to which said contacts are attached, and a conductive upper case which is coveringly attached to said lower case.