Patent ID: 7510442

Claim:
A connector for receiving and electronically connecting to a card shaped connecting object, comprising a housing made of an insulating material having a bottom portion and side walls, and a plurality of electrical contacts made of an elastic material held in the bottom portion of said housing, and the bottom portion of said housing having a holding bar for holding the contacts in a laterally aligned relationship at predetermined intervals, and said contacts each having a contact portion at a location where it contacts a contact element provided on said card-shaped connecting object inserted in a predetermined position in the housing, wherein a rectangular recess is provided in a region of the bottom portion of the housing corresponding to tips of all said contacts extending from said holding bar upwardly and toward the interior of said housing, and a contact buckling-preventing plate is provided in said recess, which comprises an upper surface portion formed with through-holes at locations corresponding to said contact portions of the respective contacts, partition walls forming defined spaces therebetween for housing said contacts in cooperation with the upper surface portion, and pivot joints to be connected to both lateral inner ends of said recess positioned on the side of said holding bar in a manner to allow pivotal movement of the contact buckling-preventing plate.