Patent 7314389 was granted and assigned to NorthStar Systems International on January, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention discloses an electronic card connector that includes a protruding member installed at a lateral side inside an insulating body, such that a sliding portion can latch an electronic card. With the protruding member installed at a lateral side inside an insulating body of the electronic card connector, the latch arm of the sliding portion will not be bent and the electronic card can be latched when an electronic card pushes the sliding portion into the electronic card connector. The invention can achieve the purposes of a high durability, a simple structure and a low manufacturing cost for the electronic card connector, since it is not necessary to bend the latch arm of the sliding portion to latch the electronic card when pushing the electronic card into the electronic card connector.