Card connector with an ejection mechanism and a flexible printed circuit harness therefor

Claim 2

A memory card connector as claimed in clam 1, wherein said operating rod (15) is mounted along a side surface of said frame (11).

Claim 3

A memory card connector as claimed in claim 2, wherein said operating rod (15) includes an overhang (34) spaced from the side surface of the frame, one end of said spring (17) is connected to said overhang (34).

Claim 4

A memory card connector as claimed in claim 3, wherein said frame includes a mounting member (19) to which another end of said spring (17) is connected.

Claim 5

A memory card connector as claimed in claim 4, wherein the other end of the spring (17) is shorter than the one end thereof.

Claim 6

An assembly of memory card connectors (10, 10') each of which comprises a frame (11) in which a memory card (100) is to be received, an electrical connector (60) provided for each frame (11), an ejection mechanism (15 and 16) mounted on said frame (11) for ejecting the memory card therefrom, characterized in that said ejection mechanism includes an operating rod (15) movably mounted along a side surface of said frame (11) and operatively connected to a cam bar (16) pivotally mounted on said frame for engagement with the memory card thereby ejecting the memory card upon linear movement of said operating rod (15), and a spring (17) connected between said operating rod (15) and said frame (11) for maintaining the operating rod in a non-ejecting position and against said frame (11) whereby the frames (11) and connectors (120) are stacked together with the connectors opposite one another and the operating rods (15) extending along opposite side surfaces of the stacked frames (11).

Claim 7

An assembly of memory card connectors as claimed in claim 6, wherein electrical contacts (122a, 122a', 122b and 122b') in the stacked connectors (120) are electrically connected to conductive pads (111) of folded over sections (111a and 111b) of a flexible printed circuit (102).

Claim 8

An assembly of memory card connectors as claimed in claim 7, wherein the flexible printed circuit (102) includes further sections having conductive pads (112 and 113) for electrical connection to other components.

Claim 9

A flexible printed circuit harness for electrical connection to electrical components (120, 130 and 140) at least two of which (121a and 121b) are in a stacked arrangement, comprising a flexible printed circuit (102) having sections (102a, 102b, 102c and 102d) on which conductive pads (111, 112, 113 and 151) are located for connection to the electrical components, said flexible printed circuit (102) being folded along one of said sections (102c) causing other of said sections (102a and 102b) to be overlapped for electrical connection to the stacked components (121a and 121b).

Claim 10

A flexible printed circuit harness as claimed in claim 9, wherein the parts of said sections, (102b and 102c) containing conductive pads that are not (112 and 113) the overlapped sections extend outside the overlapped sections (102a and 102b).