Patent ID: 8052450

Claim:
A card edge connector, comprising: an elongated housing having a pair of side walls and a central slot between the side walls; a plurality of contacts retained to the housing, each contact having a contact portion protruding into the central slot; and a retainer located at one end of the housing along an elongated direction of the housing, the retainer having a resilient retention arm and a rigid stop arm diverging from the retention arm along a transverse direction perpendicular to the elongated direction; wherein the retention arm has a locking section extending along the elongated direction to lock a daughter board and an operating section obliquely extending from the locking section along a third direction different from both elongated direction and transverse direction, and the stop arm has an abutting section behind the operating section along a fourth direction perpendicular to the operating section to limit a deflection of the operating section, and the stop arm extends beyond the locking section along the elongated direction.