Patent ID: 8371878

Claim:
A portable electronic device, comprising: a housing defining an insertion opening; a chip card holding mechanism inserted into the insertion opening and received in the housing comprising: a base seat comprising a main body and an enlarged end at an end of the main body; a support bracket fixed on the base seat, the support bracket comprising a bottom cover, the bottom cover comprising a bottom surface, two side walls and an abutting wall extending upward from three continuous edges of the bottom surface, and the bottom surface, the two side walls and the abutting wall cooperatively defining a receiving space with an opening apart from the abutting wall; a resilient member fixed on the abutting wall; a latching assembly comprising a latching member, the latching member comprising a pivot and a latching hook connecting with the center of the pivot; a tray comprising a supporting portion, a covering portion, an urging portion, an elongated groove formed in the transitional region of the urging portion and the covering portion, a rectangular groove formed in the supporting portion to receive a chip card, and the tray is received in the receiving space locked in the elongated groove engageably by the latching hook and resists the resilient member.