PCMCIA card connector that minimizes bent contact pins

Details PCMCIA card connector that minimizes bent contact pins PCMCIA card connector that minimizes bent contact pins

1997-06-12

1999-01-19

Paumen, Gary

Electrical connectors

With guiding means for mating of coupling part

For guiding side of movable panel, e.g., circuit board

439381, H01R 1364

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058608281

ABSTRACT:
A PCMCIA card connector that minimizes bent pins by employing a U-shaped outer guide rail, having a plurality of rigidly fixed pins, having at least one movable release pin, and having at least one alignment recess; a U-shaped inner guide rail, where the inside surface of the inner guide rail is shaped like a sideways flat-bottomed "V," having at least one alignment projection, and having a plurality of apertures; at least one guide spring; and at least one U-shaped release spring so that the PCMCIA card is aligned to the fixed pins of the connector prior to insertion of the pins into the PCMCIA card and the fixed pins are supported during insertion into the PCMCIA card.

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patent: 5427534 (1995-06-01), Spickler et al.
patent: 5483422 (1996-01-01), Bowen et al.
patent: 5725385 (1998-03-01), Takano et al.

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