TWI590529B - Electrical card connector - Google Patents

Description

Electronic card connector

The present invention relates to an electronic card connector, and more particularly to an electronic card connector with a tray.

Smart phones generally have a small width and a long length. The electronic card connector for user identification and storage is generally disposed at the side of the length direction of the smart phone. Moreover, with the versatility of the user, a vertical electronic card connector housing at least two electronic cards has appeared. However, since the vertical electronic card connector is laterally disposed on the side of the smart phone, the length direction of the electronic card connector itself occupies a small width direction of the smart phone, which is easy to interfere with the battery connector, and the customer is inconvenient to use.

U.S. Patent No. US20150056851 discloses a vertical electronic card connector including an insulative housing, a plurality of conductive terminals housed in the insulating body, a metal shielding housing surrounding the insulating body to form an accommodation space, and an activity receiving device. The tray in the space. The tray is provided with two card accommodating grooves arranged in the front/rear direction (also referred to as vertical arrangement) in the insertion/ejection direction for accommodating two cards. The electronic card connector is arranged vertically, and the tray is retracted by a card ejecting mechanism disposed on the insulative housing. The card ejecting mechanism includes a push rod located on a side of the receiving space and an actuator located behind the receiving space. The electronic card connector further includes a detecting terminal for detecting the insertion of the tray, and the detecting terminal is also disposed at the rear of the accommodating space. Since the tray includes two card accommodating grooves extending forward and backward in the insertion/exit direction, the detecting terminal and the releasing member of the card ejecting mechanism are disposed behind the accommodating space, further increasing the insertion/exit direction of the electronic card connector. The length of the upper part makes the push rod of the card withdrawal mechanism be designed to be long. Vertically arranged left and right direction of the electronic card connector The upper width is not enough, and the space setting of the actuator and the detecting terminal of the card ejecting mechanism is slightly cramped, that is, the overall structural layout of the vertical electronic card connector is unreasonable.

Therefore, in view of the above problems, it is necessary to provide an electronic card connector capable of accommodating a plurality of electronic cards and optimizing the overall structural layout to solve the above problems.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic card connector that can accommodate multiple electronic cards and optimize the overall structural layout.

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an electronic card connector including an insulative housing, a conductive terminal housed in the insulative housing, a metal shielding housing surrounding the insulative housing to form an accommodation space, and being movable in the insertion/exit direction. a tray, an ejecting mechanism and a detecting terminal in the accommodating space, wherein the conductive terminal comprises a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal disposed in a left-right direction perpendicular to the insertion/ejection direction, and the tray is disposed in the left-right direction The first card accommodating slot and the second card accommodating slot include a push rod located on a side of the accommodating space and an actuator located behind the accommodating space, and the detecting terminal is disposed at a rear of the accommodating space and is left and right The direction is on the other side of the actuator.

Further, the size of the accommodation space in the left-right direction is larger than the size in the insertion/exit direction.

Further, the tray is provided with a third card accommodating groove on the same side of the second card accommodating groove and partially overlapping with the second card accommodating groove, and the conductive terminal includes a third conductive terminal.

Further, the first conductive terminal and the insulating body holding the first conductive terminal are solidified into a first terminal module, a second conductive terminal, a third conductive terminal, and an insulating body holding the second conductive terminal and the third conductive terminal Cured into a second terminal module.

Further, wherein the first conductive terminal is located on the right side, the second conductive terminal is located on the left rear side, and the third conductive terminal is located on the left front side.

Further, wherein the first conductive terminal and the third conductive terminal are two rows, and the second conductive terminals are in a row.

Further, the first conductive terminals are disposed in two rows, the third conductive terminals are disposed in the left and right rows, and the second conductive terminals are disposed in the left and right rows behind the third conductive terminals.

Further, the first card accommodating groove and the third card accommodating groove receive the micro SIM card, and the second card accommodating groove accommodates the micro SD card.

Further, wherein the tray simultaneously stores two micro SIM cards, and simultaneously stores a micro SIM card and a micro SD card.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention has at least the following beneficial effects: the tray of the electronic card connector of the electronic card connector of the present invention is provided with at least two card accommodating grooves disposed on the left and right sides, so that the size of the accommodating space in the left and right direction is compared. The size in the insertion/exit direction is large, so that the detecting terminal and the actuator of the card ejecting mechanism are located at the rear of the tray accommodating space, and do not interfere with each other, thereby optimizing the overall space layout of the electronic card connector.

100‧‧‧electronic card connector

1‧‧‧Insulating body

10‧‧‧ accommodating space

2‧‧‧Electrical terminals

21‧‧‧First conductive terminal

22‧‧‧Second conductive terminal

23‧‧‧ Third conductive terminal

3‧‧‧Metal shielding shell

4‧‧‧Tray

41‧‧‧The first card accommodating slot

42‧‧‧Second card accommodating slot

43‧‧‧The third card accommodating slot

5‧‧‧Return card agency

51‧‧‧Put

52‧‧‧Execution

6‧‧‧Detection terminal

24‧‧‧First Terminal Module

25‧‧‧Second terminal module

The first figure is a perspective assembled view of a first embodiment of the electronic card connector of the present invention.

The second figure is a partially exploded perspective view of the electronic card connector of the present invention.

The third figure is an exploded perspective view of the electronic card connector of the present invention.

The fourth drawing is a partially exploded perspective view of a second embodiment of the electronic card connector of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a specific embodiment of the electronic card connector 100 of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

Referring to the first to fourth embodiments, the first embodiment of the electronic card connector 100 of the present invention includes an insulative housing 1 and a conductive terminal 2 received in the insulative housing 1 to surround the insulative housing 1 to form an accommodation space 10 . The metal shielding case 3 has a tray 4 that is accommodated in the accommodating space 10 in the insertion/ejection direction, a card ejecting mechanism 5 that is attached to the insulative housing 1 side, and a detecting terminal 6 that is attached to the other side of the insulative housing 1. The present invention relates to the "up and down", "left and right", and "front and rear" orientations with reference to the first drawing, and is merely for convenience of description and does not limit the invention.

Referring to the second and third figures, the insulative housing 1 has a rectangular design, and the dimension in the insertion/exit direction of the tray 4 is smaller than the dimension in the left-right direction perpendicular to the insertion/exit direction. The conductive terminal 2 includes two horizontal rows of first conductive terminals 21 on the right side, one second conductive terminal 22 on the left rear side, and two vertical third conductive terminals 23 on the left front side. That is, the first conductive terminals 21 are disposed in two rows, the third conductive terminals 23 are disposed in the left and right rows, and the second conductive terminals 22 are disposed in the left and right rows of the third conductive terminals 23. The first conductive terminal 21 and the third conductive terminal 23 are for contact with a micro SIM card (not shown). The second conductive terminal 22 is for contact with a micro SD card (not shown).

Referring to the second and third figures, the tray 4 corresponds to the arrangement of the conductive terminals 2, and is provided with a first card receiving groove 41 on the right side, a second card receiving groove 42 on the left side, and the same on the left side and The second card accommodating groove 42 partially overlaps the third card accommodating groove 43. The first card accommodating groove 41 corresponds to the first conductive terminal 21 , the second card accommodating groove 42 corresponds to the second conductive terminal 22 , and the third card accommodating groove 43 corresponds to the third conductive terminal 23 . Therefore, the tray 4 can simultaneously accommodate two micro SIM cards, that is, the first conductive terminal 21 and the third conductive terminal 23 are respectively in contact with the micro SIM card; the tray 4 can simultaneously accommodate the micro SIM card and the micro SD card, that is, the first The conductive terminal 21 is in contact with the micro SIM card and the second conductive terminal 22 is in contact with the micro SD card. Because the second card accommodating groove 42 and the third card accommodating groove 43 partially overlap, the second conductive terminal 22 and the third conductive terminal 23 cannot be used at the same time, and can only be used one by one.

Referring to the second figure, the card ejecting mechanism 5 includes a push rod 51 located on the right side of the accommodating space 10 and an actuator 52 driven by the push rod 51 and located behind the accommodating space 10. After the detecting terminal 6 is located in the accommodating space 10 The left side of the member 52 is executed. In other embodiments, the push rod 51 can also be disposed on the left side of the accommodating space 10, and correspondingly, the detecting terminal 6 is located behind the accommodating space 10 and on the right side of the actuator 52.

The tray 4 of the electronic card connector 100 of the present invention is provided with at least two card accommodating slots disposed on the left and right sides, that is, the first card accommodating slots 41 are located in the second card accommodating slots 42 and the third card accommodating portions. In the left-right direction of the slot 43, the accommodating space 10 of the electronic card connector 100 has a larger dimension in the left-right direction than in the insertion/exit direction, so that the detecting terminal 6 and the actuator 52 of the card-removing mechanism 5 are One side of the housing space 10 of the tray 4 is disposed on the side, and does not interfere with each other, and the overall space layout of the electronic card connector 100 is optimized.

In the second embodiment of the present invention, as shown in the fourth figure, the first conductive terminal 21 and the insulative housing 1 holding the first conductive terminal 21 are cured into the first terminal module 24, the second conductive terminal 22, and the third The conductive terminal 23 and the insulative housing 1 holding the second conductive terminal 22 and the third conductive terminal 23 are solidified into the second terminal module 25, and the first terminal module 24 and the second terminal module 25 are directly mounted on the printed circuit board 7. Therefore, the coplanarity is easy to control, and the modular design can be easily replaced according to customer needs, and the cost is low.

In summary, the present invention has indeed met the requirements of the invention patent, and has filed a patent application according to law. However, the above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto. Equivalent modifications or variations made by those skilled in the art in the spirit of the present invention are still included in the scope of the appended claims.

100‧‧‧electronic card connector

2‧‧‧Electrical terminals

21‧‧‧First conductive terminal

22‧‧‧Second conductive terminal

23‧‧‧ Third conductive terminal

3‧‧‧Metal shielding shell

4‧‧‧Tray

5‧‧‧Return card agency

51‧‧‧Put

52‧‧‧Execution

6‧‧‧Detection terminal

Claims (9)

An electronic card connector includes an insulating body, a conductive terminal housed in the insulating body, a metal shielding shell surrounding the insulating body to form an accommodating space, a tray movably accommodated in the accommodating space along the insertion/withdrawal direction, and a card retracting The mechanism and the detecting terminal, wherein the conductive terminal comprises a first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal disposed in a left-right direction perpendicular to the insertion/exit direction, the first conductive terminal and the insulating body holding the first conductive terminal Curing into a first terminal module, the second conductive terminal and the insulating body holding the second conductive terminal are solidified into a second terminal module, the insulating body of the first terminal module and the insulating body of the second terminal module Separated from each other, the tray is provided with a first card accommodating groove and a second card accommodating groove disposed in the left and right direction, and the card ejecting mechanism includes a push rod located on the side of the accommodating space and an actuator located behind the accommodating space, The measuring terminal is disposed behind the accommodating space and is located on the other side of the actuator in the left-right direction. The electronic card connector of claim 1, wherein the accommodating space has a larger dimension in the left-right direction than in the insertion/exit direction. The electronic card connector of claim 1 or 2, wherein the tray is provided with a third card accommodating groove which is located on the same side as the second card accommodating groove and partially overlaps the second card accommodating groove. And the conductive terminal includes a third conductive terminal. The electronic card connector of claim 3, wherein the second conductive terminal, the third conductive terminal, and the insulating body holding the second conductive terminal and the third conductive terminal are solidified into the second terminal module . The electronic card connector of claim 3, wherein the first conductive terminal is located on the right side, the second conductive terminal is located on the left rear side, and the third conductive terminal is located on the left front side. The electronic card connector of claim 5, wherein the first conductive terminal and the third conductive terminal are two rows, and the second conductive terminals are in a row. The electronic card connector of claim 6, wherein the first conductive terminal is disposed in front and rear two rows, the third conductive terminal is disposed in two rows on the left and the right, and the second conductive terminal is disposed on the left and right rows in the third row. Behind the conductive terminals. The electronic card connector of claim 7, wherein the first card accommodating slot and the third card accommodating slot receive the micro SIM card, and the second card accommodating slot accommodates the micro SD card. The electronic card connector of claim 8, wherein the tray simultaneously stores two micro SIM cards or one micro SIM card and one micro SD card at the same time.