Patent ID: 7077705

Claim:
A connector comprising: a housing; and a cover for covering the housing; wherein the housing includes: a thin card retention section of substantially a box shape having a card insertion port for accepting therein a memory card, a plurality of contacts which face the card insertion port to electrically contact with a distal end side of the memory card, a swing slider which is provided to freely swing in a direction substantially orthogonal to an insertion direction of the memory card, disposed inclined in the insertion direction of the memory card and engages with the distal end of the memory card to slide with the memory card in an insertion direction when once the memory card is inserted into the card insertion port of the card retention section, and a lock mechanism for swinging the swing slider toward the inside to engage the swing slider to a concave section formed on the side surface of the memory card for retaining the memory card when the memory card reaches a proximal end side of the housing, wherein the housing comprises a first guide having at the tip thereof a cylindrical protrusion in the opposing direction of the proximal end side of the housing, extending from the housing; and the swing slider comprises a countersunk long hole formed at the bottom surface of the swing slider for guiding the protrusion, the countersunk long hole being disposed along the longitudinal direction of the swing slider at the opposing side of the side which contacts the memory card, and wherein the protrusion slides in the countersunk long hole.