Patent ID: 7780476

Claim:
An electrical card connector, comprising: an insulative housing having a pair of side walls, a connecting plate extending laterally to connect the side walls, a receiving slot formed between the side walls to receive an electrical card; and a plurality of signal contacts retained in the insulative housing and extending into the receiving slot; a metal shell attached to the insulative housing; an ejecting mechanism including a slider positioned between the insulative housing and the metal shell to engage with the electrical card, a spring for pushing the slider along a card ejection direction, and a pin having a first end fixed in the housing and a second end movably mounted on the slider; the slider defines a first guiding protrusion extending from an upper face thereof and a second guiding protrusion extending from a lower face thereof, the side wall defines a first guiding slot to restrict the second guiding protrusion, and the shell includes a second guiding slot to restrict the first guiding protrusion.