Patent ID: 6932653

Claim:
A card connector including a connector body having front and rear faces and a card insertion opening at said front face and a card receiving space in the connector body for receiving therein a card inserted through said card insertion opening, wherein the card connector is provided with a card existence detecting contact formed of a front contact and a rear contact being electrically connected to each other, and the front contact made of a metal plate piece is installed in a contact receiving portion of said connector body by inserting said front contact from said front face side and the front contact is provided with slightly swelling protrusions on both sides in a width direction of the front contact at a position near the front face, and a rear contact made of a metal plate piece is installed in said contact receiving portion by inserting said rear contact from the rear face side and the rear contact is provided with slightly swelling protrusions on both sides in a width direction of the rear contact being fitted in recesses provided on opposite sides of a part of a groove in the contact receiving portion, while one end of said front contact and one end of said rear contact in said contact receiving portion are in physical contact to each other with sufficient resiliency to provide an electrical connection.