Nonconducting Pusher Patents (Class 439/159)
  • Patent number: 7758361
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) for mounting on a printed circuit board (PCB), includes an insulating housing (10), a plurality of terminals (13) received in the insulating housing, a metal shield (12) covering the insulating housing for defining a card receiving space, a grounding piece (14) and a conductor (108) electrically connected with the grounding piece and the metal shield. The grounding piece is attached to the insulating housing and has one surface electrically connected with the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7744391
    Abstract: A memory card connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing, a card eject mechanism and metal shell attached to the insulative housing. The insulative housing defines a card receiving cavity for insertion of a memory card. The card eject mechanism includes a slider moveable along card-insertion or card-withdraw directions and a locking member fixed to the slider. The locking member includes a protrusion which forms a sideward dimple. The metal shell includes a top wall covering the card receiving cavity. The top wall defines a slit for receiving the protrusion. An arced surface of the dimple is driven to abut against an inner side of the slit in order to reduce friction therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin
  • Patent number: 7744422
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical card connector comprising: a first connector with a plurality of first contacts; a second connector located at the lateral side of the first connector and with a plurality of second contacts; a PCB located at the bottom of the first connector and the second connector; a shell covering the first connector; a bottom plate mounted at the bottom of the shell; the first connector and the second connector are held on the same side of the PCB, a first receiving room is defined between the shell and the bottom plate, and the second receiving room is defined between the bottom plate and the PCB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Jen Ting, Hung-Chi Yu
  • Publication number: 20100159724
    Abstract: A card connector includes a housing having a receptacle to receive therein a card in an insertion direction and the card has a terminal member. A connection terminal is secured to the housing and is configured to contact the terminal member of the card. A card ejecting action detecting switch is configured to detect when the card is ejected from the housing. A card guide mechanism is provided with an urging member for urging the card in a direction opposite the insertion direction. The card guide mechanism is configured to hold the card at a locked position to ensure that the terminal member of the card is in contact with the connection terminal and to permit movement of the card in the opposite direction by a pushing force exerted on the card in the insertion direction. The card guide mechanism ejects the card after performing a pushing action on the card a plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Inventors: Ayako Ida, Hisato Takase, Junichi Miyazawa, Akihiro Tezuka, Hideo Nagasawa, Katsunori Kasahara
  • Patent number: 7736162
    Abstract: A card connector includes an insulating housing defining a receiving chamber for receiving a card having a gap at one side edge, an ejecting device for withdrawing the card from the card connector and including a sliding body, and a cover coupled on the insulating housing. One side of the receiving chamber defines a sliding recess where the sliding body is slidably disposed. The sliding body protrudes toward the receiving chamber to form a projection buckled into the gap of the card for securing the card. The cover is provided with a propping means at one side away from the ejecting device. The propping means includes a propping arm stretching into the receiving chamber and inclined toward the ejecting device for propping against the other side edge of the card to make the card close to the sliding body and further secure the projection in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shu-Man Chiang
  • Publication number: 20100144179
    Abstract: A stacked card connector (100) for receiving different cards comprises: a main base (1), a subbase (2) separately assembled to the main base (1) making repairing or changing the lower contacts easier and occupying less space, a bottom cover (42) placed in a bottom of the main base, and a top shell (41) enclosing the main base (1) and the subbase from a top side of the stacked card connector; the main base and the bottom cover defining a first space (11) with a first inserting opening (15), the subbase and the main base defining a second space (12) with a second inserting opening (16), the subbase and the top shell defining a third space (21) with a third inserting opening (24), the second inserting opening and the third inserting opening arranged in a side along a top-to-bottom direction, the first inserting opening arranged in a side perpendicular to the side where the second and third inserting opening are allocated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2009
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: JING-JIE GUO, WEI-PING LIU, YUN-JEN LEE
  • Publication number: 20100136811
    Abstract: A button device includes a button operations part; a button base part connected to a mechanism part, the mechanism part being operated by operating the button operations part; and a connecting part configured to connect the button base part and the button operations part to each other at least based on the operation of the button operations part. The connecting part includes a mechanism configured to break connection between the button operations part and the button base part in a case where an external force equal to or greater than strength of the button base part is applied to the button operations part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Kazuaki TAKAO
  • Patent number: 7727023
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) includes an insulating housing (30), a metal shield (10) shielding over the insulating housing for defining a card receiving space, a plurality of contacts (32) received in the insulating housing and a base (20) assembled at a side of the metal shield. The insulating housing has a body portion (31) and first and second assembling boards (301, 302) formed at two ends of the body portion. The first assembling board defines a first retaining hole (35) and the second assembling board defines a second retaining hole (37). The base includes a guiding portion (21), an extending portion (22) at a front part of the guiding portion and a protruding portion (23) bending laterally from a distal end of the extending portion. The metal shield forms a first fastening element (15) received in the first retaining hole. A second fastening element (27) is retained by the protruding portion and is received in the second retaining hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Publication number: 20100130040
    Abstract: A connector has an ejection mechanism operable to eject a card having a notch along a length direction, at least one contact, a housing for holding the at least one contact, and a cover for covering the housing. The ejection mechanism includes a movable unit that is movable between a holding position, at which the movable unit is located when the card has been inserted in the connector, and an ejecting position, at which the movable unit is located when the card has been ejected from the connector, along the length direction during insertion and ejection of the card. The movable unit includes a lock portion movable along a width direction perpendicular to the length direction as well as along the length direction when the movable unit moves along the length direction. The lock portion is located within the notch of the card to prevent ejection of the card when the movable unit is located at the holding position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Inventor: Akihiro Matsunaga
  • Publication number: 20100130041
    Abstract: A card connector includes a housing inserted a card therein, a slider, a rotating cam member having a shaft portion that is retained so as to be rotatable by the slider, and a compression coil spring that biases the rotating cam member. The slider includes second chevron teeth that engage with first chevron teeth provided at an end of the rotating cam member. The rotating cam member is provided with a first broad protrusion and a second narrow protrusion alternately at an outer circumference of the shaft portion. When inserting the card, since the rotating cam member turns by a predetermined angle so that the first protrusion faces the starting end of the passage groove, the slider is locked. When pushing the card again, since the rotating cam member turns by a predetermined angle, the second protrusion faces the starting end of the passage groove, the card can be ejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2009
    Publication date: May 27, 2010
    Applicant: J.S.T. Mfg. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masaki TSUJIMOTO
  • Patent number: 7717724
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) for insertion of an electrical card (200) includes an insulative housing (1) defining a receiving space (14) for insertion of the electrical card. The insulative housing includes a bottom wall (10) and a side wall (12) extending from a lateral side of the bottom wall. A number of terminals (3) are retained in the insulative housing and extend into the receiving space for electrical connection to the electrical card. An ejecting mechanism (4) includes a slider (41) movable along card-insertion or card-withdraw directions, a coil spring (42) for urging the slider, and a connecting rod (43) having an one-end bend portion retained in the insulative housing and an other-end bend potion movable in a heart-shaped cam groove (412) formed in the slider. The side wall of the insulative housing has a protrusion (125) extending from an upper side thereof to abut downwardly against the slider (41).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin
  • Publication number: 20100120277
    Abstract: An electrical card connector comprises an insulative housing, a shield covering the insulative housing, a plurality of terminals received within the insulative housing, and an ejection mechanism. The insulative housing and the shield define a receiving space for receiving an electrical card. The ejection mechanism disposed on one side of the receiving space comprises a base and a movable push rod mounted within the base. A reinforced rib protruding from a surface of the rear portion of the push rod, and a corresponding receiving groove is defined on the base for receiving said the reinforced rib movable therein. A guide groove is defined on the bottom wall of the push rod, and a guide rib protrudes from the base, which is received within said guide groove and movable therein. Therefore, the push rod will have improved mechanical strength and is not easily broken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Nagesh Kestur Nagarajan, Yan Margulis
  • Publication number: 20100112840
    Abstract: A memory card connector includes an insulative housing having a terminal-mounting section which mounts a plurality of conductive terminals having contact portions for engaging appropriate contacts on a memory card. The housing at least in part defines a card-receiving cavity for receiving the memory card. A card eject mechanism includes a slider movably mounted on the housing. The slider is engageable with the memory card for movement therewith into and out of the cavity between an inserted connection position and a withdrawal position. A slide lock member is mounted on the connector, independent of the eject mechanism, and is engageable with the slider to hold the slider in its inserted connection position. An ejection control member is mounted on the housing for releasing the slide lock from engagement with the slider to allow the slider and memory card to be ejected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Shinichiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7708574
    Abstract: A memory card connector (34) includes an insulative housing (36) having a terminal-mounting section (36a) which mounts a plurality of conductive terminals (44) having contact portions (44a) for engaging appropriate contacts on a memory card. The housing at least in part defines a card-receiving cavity (40) for receiving the memory card. A card eject mechanism (46) includes a slider (50) movably mounted on the housing. The slider is engageable with the memory card for movement therewith into and out of the cavity between an inserted connection position and a withdrawal position. A slide lock member (52) is mounted on the connector, independent of the eject mechanism, and is engageable with the slider to hold the slider in its inserted connection position. An ejection control member (54) is mounted on the housing for releasing the slide lock from engagement with the slider to allow the slider and memory card to be ejected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Shinichiro Maruyama
  • Patent number: 7708575
    Abstract: In a card connector for connection to a card, a connector frame defines a region allowing the card to be fitted therein and holds a contact adapted for contact with the card. For ejecting the card, an eject member is movable with respect to the connector frame and swingably holds a locking member having a locking function to lock the card. The locking member swings due to engagement with the connector frame according to movement of the eject member, thereby controlling the locking function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Joe Motojima
  • Publication number: 20100099284
    Abstract: A card connector essentially includes an insulation body, a metal shell and an ejection lever. The insulation body includes a pair of two guide arms formed at two sides of the insulation body, a plurality of conductive terminals and an ejection apparatus formed at one of the two guide arms. The metal shell is engaged with the insulation body for receiving a card. The ejection lever is pivotally attached to an inner surface of the metal shell thereby forming a pivot mechanism, and operatively connected to the ejection apparatus such that the ejection lever rotates around the pivot mechanism when the ejection apparatus is actuated. The metal shell includes an integrally formed bulge protruding from the metal shell, and the bulge is formed in the vicinity of the pivot mechanism so as to reinforce the strength and rigidity of the metal shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Publication date: April 22, 2010
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Shantha Kumar Sambhandam Palani, Nagesh Kestur Nagarajan
  • Patent number: 7699659
    Abstract: A surface contact card latching assembly (100) is located in a portable electronic device (200). The latching assembly includes a receiving portion (11) and a latch portion (12). The receiving portion is configured for receiving a surface contact card (20). The receiving portion includes an aperture (113) formed at a first end thereof via which the surface contact card enters or exits, and a latching containing portion (114) formed at an opposite second end thereof. The latch portion is received in the latching containing portion. The latch portion is operable to move in the latching containing portion so as to drive the surface contact card to move out of the receiving portion through the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignees: Shenzhen Futaihong Precision Industry Co., Ltd., FIH (Hong Kong) Limited
    Inventors: Rui-Hao Chen, Peng-Jin Ge, Ye Liu, Hsiao-Hua Tu, Chia-Hua Chen
  • Publication number: 20100093200
    Abstract: An electrical card connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals retained in the insulative housing, a slide carrier slidable in the insulative housing, an eject mechanism mounted in the insulative housing for pushing the slide carrier, and a locking body attached to the slider for locking the slier carrier with the slider together while an electrical card is inserted into therein. The locking body defines an engaging portion protruding into the insertion slot. The engaging portion is deflectable to release locking engagement between the slider and the slide carrier while another electrical card being inserted into the insertion slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ke-Hua Ye, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin
  • Publication number: 20100081305
    Abstract: An electrical card connector comprises an insulative housing (10), a plurality of contacts (20) received in the housing, a shell (30) covering the housing and an ejector (500. The housing is located at the front of the shell. The ejector comprises a base (51) and an ejecting member (53) assembled on the base, the base is located at the side of the housing, and the ejecting member is moveably in a card inserting direction. The base is secured to the housing to limit a lateral movement of the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: ZHI-FENG WANG, WEI KANG
  • Publication number: 20100081331
    Abstract: The electrical card connector (100) has a card receiving space for receiving an electrical card includes an insulative housing (10), a plurality of terminals (20) received in the insulative housing, a metallic shell (30) covered on the insulative housing, and an ejector (50) attached to a lateral side of insulative housing. The insulative housing is disposed on front section of the metallic shell. The ejector includes a base seat (51), a slider (53), a spring (52) and a cam follower (54). The slider is able to slide along a card inserting/ejecting direction. A metallic sheet (514) is assembled to the base seat. The base seat and the metallic sheet form a slot (515), the metallic sheet acts as a bottom wall and one lateral side wall of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: ZHI-JIAN CHEN
  • Patent number: 7686652
    Abstract: A USB card connector includes an insulative housing and a plurality of contacts retained in the insulative housing. The insulative housing includes a rear wall and a card receiving cavity located forward the rear wall. Each contact includes a contact portion protruding to the card receiving cavity. The contacts are divided into first and second contact groups with same contact arrangement in condition that each the first or the second contact group comprises four contacts for transmitting USB or similar-USB signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jian-Fei Yu, Qi-Jun Zhao, Hua Yin
  • Patent number: 7682168
    Abstract: An electrical card connector (100) adapted for receiving an electrical card comprises an insulative housing (1), a plurality of terminals (3) received in the insulative housing, and a shell (2) assembled on the insulative housing. The insulative housing comprises a front wall (12) and a pair of lateral walls (18) extending from the opposite ends of the front wall. The insulative housing defines a card inserting opening (101) opposite to the front wall along a card inserting direction. The shell comprises a main portion (21) and a pair of lateral portions (22) extending downwardly from the opposite sides of the main portion, each lateral portion only defines a soldering plate (226) extending inwardly therefrom at the distal end thereof adjacent to the card inserting opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsueh-Lung Hsiao
  • Patent number: 7682169
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bidirectional USB port for a vehicle. In order to allow a USB memory stick to be inserted into a USB port in either direction, two PCBs are provided in the USB port and are arranged in opposite directions such that the USB memory stick can be bidirectionally inserted into the USB port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventor: Sung Jun Park
  • Patent number: 7677909
    Abstract: A PC card has a card body portion in which a first card terminal portion is formed in one end and a second card terminal portion is formed in the other end. The card terminal portion has a chip slot. A SIM card inserted through an insertion port into the chip slot is electrically connected to a printed circuit board. The insertion port of the chip slot is opened in an outer side face of the second card terminal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
    Inventors: Junichi Ujii, Masato Nakashima
  • Patent number: 7670160
    Abstract: A card connector, comprising a housing having a card insertion slot, a contact carried by the housing, a slider carried by the housing and disposed substantially coplanar with the card insertion slot, the slider comprising a cam groove and a lock spring disposed substantially adjacent the lock spring, and a positioning member carried by the housing and being movable within the cam groove is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP K.K.
    Inventor: Junya Tsuji
  • Patent number: 7670161
    Abstract: An electrical card connector for receiving at least two electrical cards, comprises: an insulating housing; a shielding shell substantially enclosing the insulating housing; a front row of terminals and a rear row of terminals received in the insulating housing; an ejector receiving in one side of the insulating housing for ejecting two cards; wherein the front row of terminals are for connecting with one kind of electrical card and the front and the rear row of terminals together are for connecting with the other kind of electrical card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsueh-Lung Hsiao
  • Patent number: 7667972
    Abstract: A connector with a heat sink to prevented a card from being damaged due to friction when the card is inserted or removed includes a frame provided with two guide arms and two elastic members, each guide arm containing two chutes, each chute containing an upper and a lower limit zones; a pressurizing-down mechanism connected to the frame, a leading post received in the chute being disposed on each side arm, and a heat sink being provided on top; card insertion driving the pressurizing-down mechanism to move with its leading post in the chute for the heat sink to contact the card to conduct the heat generated from the card; and the elastic member moving the pressurizing-down mechanism into the upper limit zone to remove the card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Chant Sincere Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wu-Hsiung Chen, Wen-Ta Chiu
  • Patent number: 7666034
    Abstract: A card connector (100) includes a first connector (10), a second connector (20), a first ejecting mechanism (6) and a second mechanism (5). The first connector defining a first receiving space (14) includes a first insulating housing (30) located in the receiving space and a plurality of first terminals (4) retained in the first insulating housing. The second connector is assembled with the first connector and includes a second insulating housing (22) equipped with the first insulating housing to define a second receiving space (220), and a plurality of second terminals (24) assembled with the second insulating housing and protruding into the second receiving space. The first insulating housing forms a base section (31) and a base seat (33) extending laterally from the base section, and the first ejecting mechanism and the second ejecting mechanism are mounted on the base seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7661971
    Abstract: A card connector has a housing, a sliding member that is designed to receive a card, and a latching member that is connected to the housing. The sliding member is slidable relative to the housing. The latching member is designed to engage the card to prevent the card from being removed from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaichi Electronics USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Abe
  • Publication number: 20100035450
    Abstract: A docking station for a portable product is provided. The docking station has a body formed with an opening. A limiting block is formed on a bottom of the body to form a slide way. The limiting block and straight guide slots are on two opposite sides of the slide way. Through holes are formed around a connector in a docking cave. A slider of an ejection device on the slide way has oblique guide slots. A button is inserted into the opening to lean against an inclined surface of the slider. A push block is formed with a slide pin with two ends respectively inserted into the oblique and straight guide slots. A spring having both ends respectively pushing the body and fixed to the slider is for moving the slider to raise the button and locate the slide pin at a low end of the oblique guide slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Applicant: QUANTA STORAGE INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Kuang CHANG, Wen-Kuan Peng
  • Patent number: 7658638
    Abstract: A connector capable of preventing an engaging portion of an ejection mechanism from being damaged even when a card-type electronic component is inserted obliquely with respect to a card inserting/ejecting direction. A cover is mounted on a housing having a card accommodating portion for accommodating a memory card in a manner covering the card accommodating portion. The ejection mechanism ejects the memory card from the card accommodating portion. The ejection mechanism has a locking portion that is engaged with the memory card such that part of the memory card remains within the card accommodating portion during ejection of the memory card. The cover is provided with a guide for guiding a front end of the memory card in the card inserting/ejecting direction when the memory card is inserted into the card accommodating portion obliquely with respect to the card inserting/ejecting direction C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2010
    Assignee: Japan Aviation Electronics Industry, Limited
    Inventor: Joe Motojima
  • Patent number: 7654836
    Abstract: A card connector adapted for receiving a card, includes an insulating housing (10) including a base portion (11), a pair of arms (12, 12?) extending from opposite ends of the base portion, one of the arms having a locking device (121) at an outer side thereof; a plurality of terminals (20) retained in the insulating housing; a shell (30) covering the insulating housing and defining a cavity for receiving the card, and defining an inserting/ejecting direction of the card; and an ejector for moving the card along the inserting/ejecting direction comprising a base (51) defining a heart-shaped slot therein, an ejecting member (53) protruding into the cavity to engage with the card, a pin member (54), and a resilient member (52). The base includes a vertical wall (510) abutting against the one arm of the insulating housing, and a locking portion is disposed on the vertical wall and fastening with the locking device of the arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yung-Chang Cheng, Yong-Guang Zhu
  • Patent number: 7654869
    Abstract: A card connector (100) for connecting with an electronic element, includes a first connector (30) comprising a first insulating housing (50) retaining a plurality of first terminals (51) and a first cavity (20) for receiving a first card; a second connector (40) stacked with the first connector and comprising a second insulating housing (60) retaining a plurality of second terminals (131) and a second cavity (80) for receiving a second card; a printed circuit board (10) sandwiched by the first connector and the second connector, the first terminals and the second terminals set on opposite sides of the circuit board; and a third connector (14) mounted on the printed circuit board for connecting the first connector and the second connector with the electronic element electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7654863
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly (100) in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, comprises an electrical connector (200) for connecting an electronic package with a circuit substrate (60) and a connecting device (300) for fixing the electrical connector (200) to the circuit substrate (60). The electrical connector (200) includes a housing assembly (1) with a plurality of contacts (10) received therein. The connecting device (1) includes a first screw (70), a second screw (90) and a nut (80) connecting the first screw (70) and the second screw (90). The nut (80) connecting with the first screw (70) makes the first screw (70) securely located on the housing assembly (1) and prevents the first screw (70) losing in the transportation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chia-Wei Fan
  • Patent number: 7651352
    Abstract: A card connector adapted for receiving an electronic card has an insulating housing having a receiving recess. A plurality of terminals is received in the insulating housing and protruded into the receiving recess for contacting the electronic card. An eject mechanism is disposed in the insulating housing and beside the receiving recess. A locking element is mounted in the insulating housing and has a locking plate. The locking plate has a locking portion protruded into the receiving recess. The locking portion is capable of being pressed downwardly by the inserted electronic card and elastically released to engage with a recess of the electronic card when the electronic card is fully inserted into the receiving recess. A cover is coupled with the insulating housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ming-Chiang Chen, Yin-Lung Wu, Bing-Tao Yang
  • Patent number: 7651351
    Abstract: A card connector includes an electrically insulative frame base, which defines a card insertion space and a sliding slot at one side of the card insertion space, a metal shielding cover, which covers the card insertion space and has an elongated guide hole corresponding to the sliding slot, a slide slidably mounted in the sliding slot, an elastic member connected between the slide and the rear side of the electrically insulative frame base, a guide rod fastened to the rear side of the electrically insulative frame base to guide movement of the slide along the sliding slot, and a limiter member fastened to the slide and movable along the elongated guide hole of the metal shielding cover for guiding an electronic card into the card insertion space and holding the inserted electronic card in positive contact with respective metal terminals in the electrically insulative frame base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: Chant Sincere Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Ming-Hui Yen, Yeh-Hsi Lin
  • Patent number: 7648398
    Abstract: A memory card connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of terminals and an ejection mechanism mounted to a side of the insulating housing. The insulating housing defines a receiving space for receiving a memory card and a plurality of terminal grooves for correspondingly receiving the terminals therein. The ejection mechanism includes a slider. The slider has a base body, a sliding body extending inward from a rear of the base body to be located in the receiving space, and an elongated locking body extending frontward from a root portion of the sliding body and spaced from a bottom wall of the insulating housing. A free end of the locking body is projected downward to form a projection for being buckled into a recess formed at a side of the memory card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wei-Hong Liao, Ming-Chiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20100009562
    Abstract: A card connector (1) includes an insulative housing and a plurality of conductive terminals mounted on the housing. A card guiding mechanism has a slide member for guiding the electronic card as it moves within the card connector. The slide member is moveable along a path between an initial card insertion position and a fully inserted position. An urging member urges the slide member in a direction opposite to the card insertion direction to thereby ejecting a card by moving the slide member. A shell is mounted on the housing and covers at least the slide member and a part of the electronic card upon insertion of the card into the card connector. One of the housing and the shell has a guide surface with a bulge projecting into the path of the slide member and upon movement of the slide member from the fully inserted position to the initial card insertion position, the slide member engages the bulge (62; 11j) to slow the movement of the slide member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: MOLEX INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Takaaki Hirayama
  • Patent number: 7637758
    Abstract: An electrical connector (100) includes an insulating housing (30), a plurality of terminals (32) received in the insulating housing, an L-shaped metal shield (10), a base portion (20) and an ejector (40). The metal shield covers the insulating housing for defining a card receiving space. The base portion comprises a guide rail (21) and a cam plate (22) integral with the guide rail. A pair of arms (not labeled) extends upwardly from the cam plate to define a receiving channel (225) and the receiving channel defines a heart-shaped slot (220) at a front end thereof. The ejector is received in the receiving channel of the base portion and comprises a slider piece (41), a pin member (42) and a resilient element (43). The slider piece is being moveable to drive the pin member to move in the heart-shaped slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chien-Jen Ting, Hung-Chi Yu
  • Patent number: 7637759
    Abstract: A card connector for inserting a card therein is disclosed. The card connector includes a housing body having a contact, a cover covering the housing body, a slider being movable between a card ejected position and a card attached position. The slider includes a slider body and a leaf spring part attached to the slider body for elastically locking to the card. The card connector includes an excess bending preventing part configured to prevent permanent deformation of the leaf spring part by the card being inserted into the card connector in an irregular manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Fujitsu Component Limited
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kobayashi, Koichi Kiryu, Hideo Miyazawa, Yasuyuki Miki
  • Patent number: 7637782
    Abstract: A card connector adapted for receiving a card has an insulating housing having a plurality of first terminal recesses. Each of the first terminal recesses includes a fixing recess extending frontward and rearward. The fixing recess has a substantially middle portion extending towards a side to form a sliding recess. The sliding recess has a rear portion extended rearward at a lower portion thereof to form a stopping recess and a stopping portion over the stopping recess. A plurality of first connecting terminals are received in the corresponding first terminal recesses. The first connecting terminal has a first fixing portion. A substantially middle portion of one side of the first fixing portion is extended sideward to form an engaging portion inserted into the stopping recess from the sliding recess for being stopped by the stopping portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2009
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Ling Yang, Hsin-Tsung Ho
  • Patent number: 7632117
    Abstract: An electrical card connector for receiving an integrated circuit card comprises an insulative housing having a base, left and right side walls, and a rear wall to commonly define a rectangular receiving space therebetween, an ejecting member disposed adjacent the right side wall and within the receiving space, the ejecting member including a slider defining a locking head engageable with a recess defined on the card, and a driving end proximate to the rear wall; a shell assembled onto the insulative body for covering a top face thereof. A partition wall extends forward with a distance from the rear wall to partly separate the receiving space into a first region for the card, and a second region for the ejecting member. The slider has at least a portion engaging the partition wall to prevent rotation of the slider when the card is locked in an operation position by the slider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hendrkus P. G. Van der Steen
  • Patent number: 7632140
    Abstract: A card connector (100) includes an insulating housing (2) comprising a base section (20) and a fixing portion (22) extending laterally from the base section, an ejecting mechanism (6, 7) mounted in the fixing portion, a plurality of first terminals (3) received in the base section for electrically engaging with a first card, a terminal module (45) located under the insulating housing and receiving a plurality of second terminals (6) for electrically engaging with a second card, and a socket device (9) comprising a spacer (91) mounted on a rear end of the insulating housing, a daughter board (92) in alignment with the spacer and having a plurality of connecting pins (921), and a rear socket (93) connecting with the connecting pins. Wherein the first terminals and the second terminals pass through corresponding terminal holes (912, 913) defined on the spacer, and engage with corresponding conductive portions (923, 924) formed on the daughter board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7628625
    Abstract: A card connector (1) includes an insulating housing (30), a metal shell (11), a plurality of terminals (4) and an ejecting mechanism (6). The insulating housing includes a base section (31), a base seat (33) extending from one side of the base section, and a guiding portion (34) extending forwardly from the base seat. The metal shell is mounted on the insulating housing to define a card receiving space (14). The terminals are retained in the base section and protrude into the receiving space. The ejecting mechanism includes an ejecting member (64) protruding into the receiving space, a spring member (62) for moving the ejecting member towards an ejecting direction of the card, a heart groove (63) fitted on the ejecting member, and a latch member (61) for holding the ejecting member in position. The ejecting mechanism is mounted in a sliding groove (330) formed on the base seat, and the ejecting member is capable of sliding in the sliding groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Chien-Jen Ting
  • Patent number: 7628633
    Abstract: An electrical card connector has an insulating housing (10) receiving a plurality of terminals (12), a shell (11) mounted on the insulating housing, a guiding portion (15) located at one lateral side of the insulating housing, and a metal plate (4) locking with the guiding portion, wherein the guiding portion comprises a triangle plate (150) having a fastening portion, and the metal plate comprises a fastening section engaging with the fastening portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Publication number: 20090298314
    Abstract: An easy-to-remove plug for insertion into a socket includes a body, two conducting plates extending forwardly and spacedly from a front end of the body, a shell sleeved on the body and movable forwardly and rearwardly relative to the body, and at least one linkage set. The linkage set is connected pivotally to one of the body and the shell, and has a force-bearing end and an abutting end. The force-bearing end has a connective relationship with the other of the body and the shell. When a force is applied to the shell to enable the shell to move rearwardly relative to the body, the force is borne by the force-bearing end and drives the linkage set to pivot so as to bring the abutting end to abut against the socket for separating the two conducting plates from the socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Applicant: WISTRON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Tien-Chung TSENG
  • Patent number: 7618272
    Abstract: An electrical card connector comprises an insulative housing, a shell covering the insulative housing, a plurality of terminals received in the insulative housing, an ejecting mechanism assembled on one side of the shell and a dustproof device. The dustproof device retains on the shell away from the terminals, witch comprises a door member, a base portion and a pair of vertical wall extending downwardly from opposite sides of the base portion separately. A horizontal wall extends horizontally from one side of the base portion for retaining the ejecting mechanism. A engagement portion extends outwardly from each vertical wall for holding the electrical card connector. The dustproof device has a simple structure and can be assembled easily and firmly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yung-Chang Cheng
  • Patent number: 7618273
    Abstract: A memory card connector adapted for selectively receiving one of a first and second types of cards therein. It includes a dielectric housing having a base and at least four surrounding walls disposed at circumference of the base. The base and the four surrounding walls define a recess therebetween in combination. A plurality of terminals is positioned in the recess of the dielectric housing. At least one resilient element is positioned in the recess of the dielectric housing. The resilient element is such that it can be elastically pressed downwardly by the first type of the card during insertion of said type of the card and thus is retracted in the base or urge against an edge of the second type of the card during insertion of the second card. The memory card connector of the present invention has a relatively small size and can selectively receive the first and second types of the cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Cheng Uei Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chin-Chou Wang, Mei-Chuan Yang
  • Patent number: 7614891
    Abstract: A card connector (1) for receiving or ejecting a card includes an insulating body (4) retaining a plurality of terminals, a shell (2) covering the insulating body to define a card slot (10), an ejector (2) mounted on a lateral side of the shell. The ejector includes an ejecting member (51) for engaging with the card and removing with the card and an operating member (52) adapted to promote the ejecting member. The operating member includes a base (521) having a circular groove (5211), a slider (522), a pushing bar (523), and an elastic member (524). The circular groove generally defines two opposite channels with different length, and the two opposite channels diverge forwardly and extending backwardly in a crossed direction to meet each other then extending horizontally to form a horizontal groove (5212) for locking the slider under a careless attitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hung-Chi Yu
  • Patent number: 7614890
    Abstract: A connector includes a housing having a card receiving space for selectively receiving one of two or more different electronic cards. A protective board is mounted on the bottom wall defining the card receiving space and slideable in a front/rear direction of the housing. First terminals and second terminals are mounted in the card receiving space. The protective board is not moved and the first terminals are in electrical contact with contacts of an electronic card when the electronic card is inserted into the card receiving space. When another electronic card is inserted into the card receiving space, the protective board is moved rearward to press the first terminals into guide slots in the protective board, allowing electrical connection of another electronic card with the second terminals while preventing electrical connection with the first terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2009
    Assignee: Tai Twun Enterprise Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Le-Yao Lin