Thin smart card connector

Details Thin smart card connector Thin smart card connector

2000-02-14

2000-09-19

Bradley, Paula

Electrical connectors

With insulation other than conductor sheath

Plural-contact coupling part

439862, 4397331, H01R 2400

Patent

active

061203289

ABSTRACT:
A thin electrical connector for connecting to contact pads of a smart card, includes contacts (44) and a support plate (42) that holds the contacts on a circuit board (16), where the contacts and plate are thin. Each contact has a contact blade (60) that projects at an upward incline through and above a slot (52) in the support plate, and each contact has a rear portion (61) for mounting. The rear portion includes a mount part (66) joined to the blade and a pair of retainers (80) on laterally opposite sides of the mount portion. The retainers have ears (104,118) lying out of the plane of the mount part The support plate has a downwardly-opening recess (70) for receiving the mount part, and has upwardly-opening recesses (98, 120) for receiving the ears, to thereby fix the contact to the support plate. A switching contact (44A) includes a pair of laterally-spaced blades (162) and a switching beam (156) lying between the blades but connected to them so when the blades are depressed by a card, the beam is depressed against a trace (163) on a circuit board.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3933405 (1976-01-01), Patterson, Jr. et al.
patent: 5882230 (1999-03-01), Bricaud et al.

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