Patent ID: 7924573

Claim:
A card connector comprising: a metallic shell; an insulative housing positioned at a rear portion of the metallic shell and cooperating with said shell to form a card receiving space, said card receiving space defining an L-shaped configuration having a straight longitudinal side and an offset longitudinal side opposite to said straight longitudinal side, said offset longitudinal side defining a front outer section and a rear inner section; a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing and defining corresponding contacting sections extending into the card receiving space; an ejector assembled around the rear inner section, said ejector including a stationary base having a heart like guiding groove thereon, an ejecting member movable relative to the base along a card insertion/withdrawal direction and having an ejecting portion invading the card receiving space so as to interact with a card received in the card receiving space, a pin member having one end fastened to the ejecting member and the other end traveling along the heart like guiding groove, and a resilient member having an immoveable end and a moveable end which is directly linked to the pin member instead of to the ejecting member so as to urge the pin member along said card insertion/withdrawal direction and simultaneously make the pin member in a reliable tensional manner so as not to be dropped from the heart like guiding groove; wherein the ejecting portion is essentially sandwiched between the shell and the base in a vertical direction perpendicular to said card insertion/withdrawal direction.