Patent ID: 7357678

Claim:
A SIM card connector, comprising: a connector body having a housing base for receiving a SIM card, the connector body having a receptacle channel that extends inwardly from a front portion of the connector body, the receptacle channel further defining a first hole and a second hole; a plurality of terminals mounted in a middle portion of the connector body; a switch terminal mounted in the connector body, wherein the housing base has a flat top surface defining part of a receiving cavity for receiving a SIM card; wherein the switch terminal has a fixing portion received in the first hole and a contacting portion received in the second hole, the contacting portion forms an spring arm, and the spring arm forms an arced surface, a top of the arced surface is positioned in the second hole and protrudes above the top surface of the housing base in the receiving cavity; and wherein the fixing portion has a first contacting arm; wherein the contacting portion has a fixing plane in rectangular shape, the fixing plane having an aperture, an inner part of a back end of the aperture of the fixing plane extends and slopes towards an upside of the fixing plane to form the spring arm; wherein the spring arm makes electrical contact with the first contacting arm when no SIM card is in the receiving cavity, and insertion of the SIM card into the receiving cavity allows the SIM card to bias the top of the arced surface downwards, thereby disconnecting electrical contact between the spring arm and the fixing portion.