Patent ID: 7862382

Claim:
A memory card connector comprising: a connector unit that comprises: a container, in which a memory card having a notch part in one side, is removably inserted through a card insertion slot; and a connecting terminal that connects with an electrode of the memory card accommodated in the container; a slider that is arranged movably along a direction of insertion of the memory card by a side of the container; has a lock claw part that engages with a concave part of the memory card inserted in the container, from a side of the concave part; moves along the direction of insertion together with the memory card to be inserted; fixes the memory card accommodated in the container by an engagement of the lock claw part with the concave part; and makes the lock claw part detachable from the concave part by swinging the lock claw part in a direction orthogonal to the direction of insertion in the plan of the memory card, in a location at a card insertion slot end, the card insertion slot end being the location in which the memory card is inserted halfway; an urging element that urges the slider in a direction of removal opposite from the direction of insertion; a pressuring element that presses the slider from above the slider and regulates movement of the slider in the direction of removal; and a claw pressing element that presses the slider, which is located at the card insertion slot end, toward the container in the direction orthogonal to the direction of insertion in the plan of the memory card, and makes the lock claw part detachably engage with the concave part of the memory card which is inserted halfway in the container.