Patent ID: 7544097

Claim:
A card connector comprising: a connector housing constituted of electrical insulators and capable of housing cards inside a bottomed card holding cavity which is formed therein so as to be enclosed on three sides by an opposed pair of first and second frames and a third frame that links end portions of the first and second frames, and so as to be open at the front and top; contact terminals that are deposed inside the connector housing's card holding cavity; and an open-close cover that covers the open portions of the connector housing's card holding cavity; the open-close cover having a sensing member that senses the installation status of the card, and a cover locking mechanism that latches onto either the first or the second frame and locks the open-close cover in the closed state; and the rear of the open-close cover being rotatably pivoted on the first and second frames and moreover being fixed to the first and second frames so as to be horizontally movable; and after installation of a card inside the card holding cavity, the card's installation status being sensed by closing the open-close cover and positioning the sensing member at the rear end portion of the card; and the open-close cover being retracted and being thereby locked in the closed state via the locking mechanism.