Patent ID: 7537486

Claim:
A card connector comprising: a connector housing constituted of electrically insulative bodies and capable of housing cards of differing size and thickness 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 the 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 openings of the connector housing's card holding cavity; the open-close cover has a sensing member for sensing the installation status of a first or second card type installed in the card holding cavity, and the installation status of a first or second card type, when installed into the card holding cavity, is sensed by closing the open-close cover and positioning the sensing member of the open-close cover at the rear end portion of the first or second card type; the rear of the open-close cover being rotatably pivoted on the first and second frames.