Patent ID: 6872095

Claim:
A card slot connector to be mounted onto a printed circuit board for making a required electrical connection between a memory card and a printed circuit of the printed circuit board, said card slot connector comprising: a housing formed of a synthetic resin material and including a bottom plate and side walls projecting from said bottom plate, said bottom plate being arranged to be fixed to the printed circuit board such that the bottom plate faces the printed circuit board; and a metal shell mounted to said side walls of said housing and including a ceiling plate arranged to define, together with said bottom plate and said side walls of said housing, a card space for receiving the memory card, said card space having an open front end constituting a card-insertion slot through which the memory card can be inserted into said card space toward a rear end of said card space, said ceiling plate of said metal shell being mounted to said side walls of said housing so as to be spaced apart from the printed circuit board when said card slot connector is mounted on the printed circuit board; wherein said metal shell further includes a grounding contact constituted by a cut-out section of said ceiling plate of said metal shell, said grounding contact including a descendant section extending downwardly from said ceiling plate toward said bottom plate and an upward-oblique contact section extending generally laterally from a lower end of said descendant section so as to extend toward the rear end of said card space while sloping gradually upward toward said ceiling plate, said grounding contact being arranged to be contacted with a grounding terminal of the memory card when the memory card is inserted into said card space via said card-insertion slot.