Patent ID: 8613628

Claim:
A card edge connector used to be mounted on a connector mounting surface of a motherboard to connect a daughterboard to the motherboard, the card edge connector comprising: an elongated housing; a plurality of contacts held by the housing; an arm member for pressing, toward the connector mounting surface, the daughterboard to be displaced in a direction away from the connector mounting surface, wherein the arm member includes an arm inserted portion, the housing includes an insertion groove in which the arm inserted portion of the arm member is inserted, the arm inserted portion of the arm member is inserted in the insertion groove of the housing to allow the housing to hold the arm member freely swingable about the arm inserted portion with respect to the housing, and gap amount securing means for securing at least a predetermined gap amount of a pair of swing gaps is provided in at least one of the pair of swing gaps, the pair of swing gaps being formed in a longitudinal direction of the housing between the arm member within the insertion groove and the housing.