Patent ID: 7614891

Claim:
A card connector for receiving or ejecting a card along an inserting or removing direction opposite to the inserting direction, comprising: an insulating body retaining a plurality of terminals; a shell covering the insulating body to define a card slot adapted to receive the card; and an ejector mounted on a lateral side of the shell, comprising: an ejecting member for engaging with the card; and an operating member operable to move the ejecting member towards the removing direction and comprising a base having a substantially heart-shape groove, a slider capable of moving in the groove together with the card removing, a pushing bar, and an elastic member for urging the pushing bar to an original position, the groove defining two opposite channels, the two opposite channels diverging forwardly and extending backwardly in a crossed direction to meet each other then extending horizontally to form a horizontal groove; wherein the horizontal groove communicates with the substantially heart-shape groove of the operating member and extends toward the card slot in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the inserting direction; wherein the ejecting member comprises an ejecting bar adapted to engage with the card, a passive bar having a bevel interface to intervene with the slider of the operating member, and a transmitting bar to transmit operation of the passive bar to the ejecting bar; wherein when no card in the card slot, the slider locates in the horizontal groove and projects into the card slot, and the passive bar of the ejecting member is separated with the slider; and wherein when the card is inserted, the ejecting bar is promoted by the card to move toward the card inserting direction, and the passive bar moves toward the removing direction to lean against the slider and make the slider displace from the horizontal groove to the channels of the substantially heart-shape groove.