Patent ID: 7517237

Claim:
A card connector for use with an electronic card, comprising: an insulative hosing unitarily forming a base and a pair of side arms commonly defining a card receiving cavity; a plurality of contacts disposed in the base; each of said side arms defining at least one slit communicating with the card receiving cavity and extending upwardly through an upper face of the corresponding side arm; a metallic elastic piece downwardly assembled into the slit from said upper face of each said side arm with thereof a distal end extending into the card receiving cavity; and a metallic shell assembled upon the housing and covering the upper face of each said side arm to prevent withdrawal of the elastic piece from the corresponding slit under a condition that said elastic piece is only allowed to be disassembled from the corresponding slit via said upper face after removal of said shell from the housing; wherein said elastic piece is moveable in a transverse direction toward the corresponding side arm when said electronic card is inserted into the card receiving cavity in an insertion direction perpendicular to said transverse direction.