Patent ID: 7086895

Claim:
A card connector adapted for receiving electrical cards, comprising: an insulating housing comprising a base and a pair of guiding arms extending from opposite lateral sides of the base along a card ejecting direction and defining a card receiving space; a plurality of contacts retained on the insulating housing to electrically connect with the corresponding electrical card; the insulating housing formed with a pair of mating portions, the contacts received in the mating portions, the mating portions extending from the base along the card ejecting direction to expose into the card receiving space and arranged in an upper and lower sides and spaced from each other, each guiding arm formed with one or more intermediate portions between the mating portions to sustain the electrical card to electrically connect with the corresponding mating portions; wherein the intermediate portions are formed with step portions at free ends thereof to prevent the corresponding electrical card from mismating; and wherein the guiding arms comprises upright portions, upper portions and lower portions, and wherein the upper and lower portions extend face to face from opposite upper and lower sides of the upright portions, and the intermediate portions position between the upper and lower portions.