Patent ID: 8147262

Claim:
A card connector for coupling to an electronic card, comprising: an insulative body having a main body, a plurality of terminal slots defined in the main body; a plurality of conductive terminals respectively received in the terminal slots; a metal shell covering the insulative body, a receiving space being defined between the metal shell and the insulative body; and a supporting plate movably disposed in the receiving space of the insulative body, the supporting plate having a substrate, the substrate comprising a front substrate, a rear substrate, a swingable connecting portion coupled to the front substrate and the rear substrate, and a handheld portion extending from a front end of the front substrate, wherein a base slot is defined in a middle of an upper surface of the front substrate for receiving the electronic card, and a connecting slot which penetrates the substrate is defined in a middle of the base slot; wherein the front substrate can swing up and down relative to the rear substrate through the design of the swingable connecting portion.