Patent ID: 7048589

Claim:
An electrical connector for a smart card of rectangular overall shape having a lower face with conducting pads, the pads of a fully inserted card engaging contact ends of elastically deformable conducting blades lying at the bottom of a card-receiving cavity that is formed in part by an insulative support that has a cavity bottom surface ( 46 ) that forms the bottom of the cavity, the connector including a sheet metal cover that is mounted on the support, wherein: said cover is slideably mounted on the support to slide between a rearward cover position and a forward cover position; said insulative support forms an inclined surface ( 78 ) that extends at a forward-downward incline below said cavity bottom surface and that guides the front of the card when said card extends at a forward-downward incline during an initial card insertion; said cover has a rear end that is bent upward to form a chamfer ( 88 ), and in said cover forward position said chamfer and said inclined surface are positioned so the cover chamfer ( 88 ) guides the upper surface of the inclined card while the insulative support inclined surface ( 78 ) guides the lower front of the card, said cover being slideable rearwardly over a card that has been pivoted down to the horizontal after the initial card insertion to press down the card against said contact ends of said blades wherein the rear end of the cover has a surface location that is aligned with a forward end of the inclined surface.