Patent ID: 7967640

Claim:
A card connector for long side insertion of a rectangular SIM card with a built-in integrated circuit, having a bottom wall of a base member that supports a plurality of cantilevered contacts, wherein the plurality of contacts are arranged to correspond to respective plural external contact points of the inserted SIM card with the built-in integrated circuit; each of the contacts has a contact portion for contacting one of the external contact points of the SIM card with the built-in integrated circuit, two elastic deformation portions configured to enable the contact portion to be elastically displaced up and down, and a terminal portion a part of which is for fixation to the bottom wall and connection to an external contact point of the electronic apparatus in which the card connector is installed; the two elastic deformation portions are connected to form a substantially isosceles triangle shape with a vertex angle θ 1 at a vertex corresponding to the contact portion; and the plurality of contacts are arranged parallel to one another, each in an inverted V shape with respect to the card insertion direction.