Patent ID: 8465314

Claim:
A card edge connector mountable to a mounted object and connectable to a card having a side edge, the card edge connector comprising: a plurality of contacts; a holding member holding the contacts so that the contacts are arranged in a first direction, and a pair of arms held by the holding member, the arms extending from the holding member in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction while being apart from each other in the first direction, each of the arms including a fixing portion and a spring portion, the fixing portion being configured to be fixed to the mounted object, the fixing portion being provided with an abutment portion, the spring portion extending continuously from the fixing portion so as to be elastically bendable outward in the first direction, the spring portion being provided with a latch and an abutting portion, the latch being configured to be engaged with the side edge of the card under a connected state where the card edge connector and the card are connected to each other, the abutting portion being configured, when the card in the connected state presses the latch to move in a third direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction, to be brought into abutment with the abutment portion in the third direction so that the abutting portion regulates a movement of the latch in the third direction.