Patent ID: 7371079

Claim:
An electrical card connector comprising: an insulating housing having a top surface, a bottom surface and a plurality of passageways running through the top surface and the bottom surface, the insulating housing formed with a plurality of bars downwardly protruding from the bottom surface; a plurality of contacts assembled into the insulating housing from bottom to top, each contact having a mating portion extending upwardly beyond the top surface of the insulating housing through the corresponding passageway, a soldering portion and a horizontal portion, at least one side of the horizontal portion being held by the bar; wherein each contact has two parallel horizontal portions, and said mating portion is formed between the two horizontal portions and extends along the horizontal portions, both horizontal portions are retained by the bars; wherein each contact comprises a rectangular base portion formed with the mating portion and the horizontal portion, and said soldering portion extends from the base portion; the base portion has a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion bended from two opposed lateral ends thereof; wherein the base portion has at least one engaging portion with a vertical portion at a lateral end thereof, the insulating housing defines a plurality of slots for receiving corresponding vertical portions; wherein the insulating housing is formed with a plurality of protrusions exposed in the slots, and the contact is provided with at least one notch on the vertical portion for engaging with the protrusions; wherein each bar formed on two sides of each passageway has a barb protruding toward the corresponding passageway for restricting the horizontal portion of the contact.