Connector for cards

Abstract

A pressing member is provided in an accommodating section of a housing to suppress first connector terminals to press down contacts towards a bottom of the accommodating section; when a first card is inserted, a pressing member is not displaced but brings the contacts of the first connector terminals into contact with a contact terminal section of a first card; when a second card is inserted, a bottom face of the second card and the pressing member come into contact with each other to displace the pressing member; and the contacts of the first connector terminals are pressed down by that displacement to a position in which they do not come into contact with the bottom face of the second card.

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a connection device for a card used in a compact memory card or the like used in various storage devices such as mobile phones and PCs, digital cameras, and digital AV equipment. Background technique [0002] As an extension recording device of electronic equipment such as a personal computer and a digital camera, a card connection device is generally used. As a storage medium of this card connection device, PC cards and memory cards can be widely used. [0003] The PC card and memory card are used to be inserted into the card connection device, and the necessary information is input and read. However, in recent years, for small memory cards, long, short, thick, Various types of memory cards, such as thin ones, have different shapes, and various connectors for cards have been developed accordingly. [0004] In this case, only one type of memory card can be supported as the card connecting device, and only one specific...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] However, in the case of equipped with a dedicated card connector for each memory card, the size of the electronic equipment loaded with the card connector will increase, and when the memory card is inserted, there will be errors in the selection of memory cards of different types, and the insertion The problem of malfunction caused by connecting to other card connectors

[0006] Therefore, in order to be able to insert two cards with different lengths, it has been proposed to arrange the connecting terminal parts that can be in contact with the contact terminal parts of each card in two rows along the card insertion direction. However, in this structure In this method, there is a problem that when a long card is inserted, the long card moves across the connecting terminal arranged on the near side to a position where it contacts the connecting terminal arranged on the back side, and thus the long card is not connected to the near side. The connecting terminal on the side rubs, which wears the bottom surface and increases the resistance when inserting

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