Patent ID: 6890195

Claim:
A card connector comprising: a slider which is longitudinally movably attached to a case forming a card insertion space, said slider being to be pushed by a card which is inserted into said card insertion space, to be moved from a standby position to a pushed position corresponding to a card set position, said slider being resiliently urged at said pushed position in a direction of ejecting the card; and a cam mechanism having functions of locking said slider to said pushed position, and canceling the locked state where said slider is locked to said pushed position, said cam mechanism has: an engagement pin which is attached to one of said case and said slider; and a cam body disposed on another one of said case and said slider, and comprising a loop groove into which an engagement end of said engagement pin is relatively displacealby fitted, said loop groove of said cam body comprises: a protruding engagement portion which is to be engaged with said engagement end that has passed through a forward path of said loop groove, thereby locking said slider to said pushed position corresponding to said card set position; an escape path which, when said slider at said pushed position is further pushed, allows said engagement end to escape from a position a of engagement with said engagement portion to a start portion of a return path of said loop groove; and a stepped surface which, when said slider is to be retracted, is engaged with said engagement end that escapes to said return-path start portion, to block said engagement end from reversely moving, thereby retaining said engagement end in said return path, and said engagement end is elastically pressed against a bottom face of said escape path, wherein said bottom face of said escape path has an inclined surface of a rising gradient which is directed toward an upper edge of said stepped surface.