Patent ID: 7913914

Claim:
A card connector for a smart card, used in a portable electronic device comprising a card reader with a resilient card connecting device, for operative connection of the smart card to the card reader by introducing the smart card into the card reader or disconnection of the smart card from the card reader by withdrawing the smart card from the card reader by moving the smart card in a plane being substantially in parallel with the plane of the card reader, wherein the card connecting device is extending substantially along a plane being inclined in relation to the plane of the card reader at an angle α, wherein the angle α is neither 0° nor 90° and the card connecting device has two ends and is curved between the ends substantially along the incline plane, wherein the card connecting device never extends in a plane being perpendicular to or in parallel with the plane of the card reader and any plane of direction in which the smart card is introduced into or withdrawn from the card reader, whereby the contacting surfaces and edges of the connecting device and the smart card always meet at angle in relation to each other.