Patent ID: 8246366

Claim:
An electrical card connector comprising: an insulative housing defining a card receiving space and a side wall located at a lateral side of the card receiving space; a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing with contacting portions extending into the card receiving space for mating with a card; a push-push mechanism comprising a slider slidably mounted in a first slot of the side wall, an elastic member received in the first slot for driving the slider and a locking arm fixed to the slider, the locking arm comprising a hook protruding into the card receiving space, the slider being slidable linearly along a card insertion or extraction direction; and a stop member for mating with the locking arm; wherein (i) the hook locks with a notch of the card when the card is fully inserted into the card receiving space at a card locking position; (ii) when the card is ejected to a card release position, the locking arm is outwardly deformable to disengage the hook from the notch; and (iii) in case the card is abruptly ejected past the card release position along the card extraction direction, the locking arm is restricted by the stop member to temporarily prevent the hook from releasing the card, and subsequently the card returns to the card release position along the card insertion direction.