Patent ID: 7131871

Claim:
A chip card retaining mechanism for retaining a chip card mounted in an electronic device, the electronic device including a housing, the housing having a battery compartment defined therein, the chip card retaining mechanism comprising: a receiving cavity defined in the housing for receiving the chip card therein, the receiving cavity having an opening facing the battery compartment of the electronic device; and a locking member movably received in the receiving cavity with a first end thereof extending out of the opening and an opposite second end thereof in the receiving cavity, the locking member including a resisting portion formed at the second end, the resisting portion being configured for abutting a first end of the chip card, the locking member configured for locking the chip card in the receiving cavity, the locking member has at lease one wing extending from a given side thereof; the wing is arranged in a manner so as to be spaced both from the first end and the opposite second end; wherein the locking member includes a planar body; wherein the locking member further comprises an elastic arm extending therefrom and abutting an inner surface of the housing; wherein the elastic arm includes an elastic portion and a protrusion formed at a distal end of the elastic portion, the housing has at least two spaced recesses defined in the inner surface of the housing, the protrusion selectively engaging in one of the recesses; wherein the elastic arm is formed by cutting the planar body to form an U-shaped slit.