Patent ID: 7255604

Claim:
A card connector comprising: a housing which is configured by a body made of a resin, and a cover made of a sheet metal, and which forms a slot inlet through which a memory card is to be inserted, and a slot which is to house said memory card inserted through said slot inlet; and contacts which are mounted on said resin body, and which are to make contact with terminals of said memory card inserted and housed in a card attachment position of said slot, to establish electrical connection to said terminals, said card connector further comprising an erroneous card insertion preventing thickened portion which is formed integrally with said resin body, which is to be positioned in an erroneous insertion preventing notch region of said memory card that is inserted and housed in said card attachment position of said slot in a normal insertion posture, and which is to butt against an insertion end face of said memory card that is erroneously inserted in a posture different from the normal insertion posture, to block the insertion of said erroneously inserted memory card to a card set position, a core member being embedded in said thickened portion, said core member being made of a material that is higher in strength than said resin forming said body.