Patent ID: 8529298

Claim:
An electronic card connector for mating with an electronic card, comprising: an insulative housing having a bottom wall; a plurality of contacts retained on the insulative housing; and a metal shell covering the insulative housing, the metal shell having a top wall opposed to the bottom wall, and a pair of side walls, the top wall having a lower surface and an upper surface; wherein the shell and the insulative housing cooperatively define a receiving space with a front inserting port in a front-to-back direction, the metal shell has a releasing portion, the releasing portion has a depressed portion, which is recessed from an inner side of a corner of the top wall and one of the side walls to enlarge a space of a corresponding corner of the inserting port; wherein the receiving space is disposed between the top wall, and the bottom wall for receiving the electronic card, and the depressed portion communicates with the inserting port; wherein the insulative housing has an arm portion extending upwardly from one side of the bottom wall and a rear wall extending upwardly from a rear end of the bottom wall, and the side walls of the metal shell comprise a left side wall opposed to the arm portion and a right side wall covering the arm portion, and the receiving space is formed by the top wall, bottom wall, left side wall, arm portion and the rear wall; wherein the electronic card connector further comprises a pair of detect terminals retained at a rear side of the insulative housing, the detect terminals has an immovable contact and a movable contact, and the immovable contact has a first fastening portion extending along the up to down direction and retained in the rear wall, a first connecting portion bending forwardly from a lower end of the first fastening portion, a first soldering portion and a first resilient strip respectively sidewardly extending from rear and front sides of the first connecting portion, and the movable contact has a second fastening portion, a second resilient strip sidewardly and forwardly extending into the receiving space from an inner end of the second fastening portion, and a second soldering portion extending backwardly from a lower end of the second fastening portion, the second resilient strip moves backwardly to contact with the first resilient strip along the up to down direction when the electronic card is inserted into the receiving space.