Patent attributes
The invention relates to a card connector. On one side of a housing 11 into which a card 1 having a cutaway portion 2 on one end side of a tip end is to be inserted, the card connector has a sliding member 50 which has a projecting portion 51 to be fitted into the cutaway portion 2 of the card 1, and which is movable in a card insertion/extraction direction. Erroneous insertion preventing means into which, when the card 1 is erroneously inserted in an inverted surface and rear face relationship and inclined so as to eliminate a gap which is formed by the cutaway portion 2 of the card 1 positioned in a side in the housing 11 opposite to the sliding member 50, an edge of a tip end portion of the card 1 on the side of the cutaway portion 2 is fitted to block insertion of the card 1 is disposed at a position on a side face portion 33 of the housing 11 opposite to the sliding member 50, the position being close toward a card insertion port 10.
