| US 7,568,928 B2 | ||
| Card connector and card connector assembly | ||
| Pin-Yuan Hou, Hsin-Tien (Taiwan); Yao-Te Wang, Hsin-Tien (Taiwan); and Wen-Chih Ko, Hsin-Tien (Taiwan) | ||
| Assigned to Advanced Connectek Inc., Hsin-Tien, Taipei Hsien (Taiwan) | ||
| Filed on Jul. 11, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/171,409. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 96211894 U (TW), filed on Jul. 20, 2007. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2009/0023319 A1, Jan. 22, 2009 | ||
| Int. Cl. H01R 29/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 439—188 [439/630] | 7 Claims |
| 1. A card connector comprising:
an insulative housing having
an open top;
a bottom;
two opposite sidewalls;
an open front end;
a rear end;
a space defined in the insulative housing and communicating with the open top and open front end;
an opening defined through the bottom; and
two rail slots defined respectively in the sidewalls and communicating with the space;
a plurality of terminals mounted in the opening in the bottom;
a pair of hook assemblies mounted on the insulative housing adjacent respectively to the sidewalls and each hook assembly
having
a hook mounted on the insulative housing and having
a mounting portion mounted on the rear end of the insulative housing;
a resilient portion being U-shaped and formed on and protruding perpendicularly from the mounting portion; and
a hooking portion being angled and formed on and protruding from the resilient portion; and
a sheath being angled, covering the hooking portion of the hook and having hardness;
a cover being U-shaped, mounted on the insulative housing, covering the hook assemblies and having two side sections and an
intermediate section formed between the side sections; and
a tray detachably mounted slidably in the space of the insulative housing and having
hardness being higher than that of said each sheath;
an open bottom;
two opposite sides;
a cavity defined in the tray and communicating with the open top;
two slides being longitudinal, formed respectively on the sides and slidably mounted respectively in the rail slots of the
insulative housing; and
two positioning notches transversely defined respectively in the slides and selectively engaged respectively with the sheathes
on the hooks.
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