Patent ID: 7566233

Claim:
A card connector comprising: an insulating housing defining a base, a corner portion juxtaposed with the base and a guiding plate extending forwardly from the corner portion; a plurality of terminals received in the base of the insulating housing; a shell covering the insulating housing to define a card slot and a card insertion direction, the guiding plate of the insulating housing extending in the card slot in a direction intersecting the insertion direction; and an ejecting mechanism assembled on a side of the shell for moving an inserted card towards a removing direction opposite to the insertion direction, the ejecting mechanism comprising: an ejecting member placed at one lateral side of the insulating housing and protruding into the card slot to engage with the card; a pushing member mounted at one side of the shell; and a rotary member having two ends connecting with the ejecting member and the pushing member, respectively, and placed on the corner portion and being rotatable around a rotation center thereof, the rotation center being disposed on the corner portion; wherein the ejecting member and the pushing member linked at two opposite ends of the rotary member in a Z-shaped manner.