Patent ID: 6929494

Claim:
A connector for being electrically connected to a memory card, comprising: a substantially cylindrical housing; plural elastically deformable contacts inside the housing; wherein the housing includes: a card insertion slot which is cut and formed on one end side thereof; and an abutting portion which is provided on the other end side of the card insertion slot; wherein the plural contacts are provided in positions opposed to the card insertion slot and extend toward the other end side of the housing and the abutting portion; a gap between distal ends of the plural contacts and the abutting portion is smaller than a thickness of the memory card; whereby the contacts are elastically deformed and the memory card is held between the contacts and the abutting portion when the memory card is inserted in the card insertion slot and a proximal end side of the memory card is inclined to the one end side of the housing; and whereby the distal end of the memory card slides on surfaces of the contacts when the memory card is inserted in the card insertion slot and the proximal end side of the memory card is inclined to the other end side of the housing.