Claims
- 1. A system having a memory card and a memory card receptacle for writing or reading information signals to/from said memory card;said memory card comprising: a card body incorporating at least one memory chip, the card body having a top, a forward and a rearward end; the top of the card body having a concavity open at the forward end; and a plurality of terminals disposed side by side in the concavity in the inserting direction of the card body; and a projection formed in at least a part of a space between two successive terminals disposed in the concavity to protect the terminals from undesired outside contact; the concavity having an inner wall inclined to the inserting direction of the card body; said memory card receptacle comprising: a body; a receiving concavity open at an end of the body of said memory card receptacle and in which said memory card is introduced; a plurality of terminals to be connected to said plurality of terminals of said memory card respectively; and a plurality of projections; wherein said plurality of projections are slidable on said plurality of terminals of said memory card respectively before said plurality of terminals of said memory card receptacle are connected to said plurality of terminals of said memory card.
- 2. A memory card receptacle comprising:a body; a receiving concavity open at an end of the body of said memory card receptacle and in which a memory card is introduced, said memory card having a memory card body, a concavity formed in the card body having an inclined wall, and electrical contacts disposed in the concavity; a plurality of terminals to be connected to the contacts of the memory card respectively, and the tips of said plurality of contacts being disposed inside said receiving concavity; and a plurality of projections provided ahead of the plurality of terminals of said memory card receptacle and formed so as to slide on the contacts of the memory card respectively before said plurality of terminals of said memory card receptacle are connected to said contacts of said memory card so that the projections remove foreign materials from inside the concavity of the memory card over the inclined wall of the concavity of the memory card.
- 3. The memory card receptacle as set forth in claim 2, wherein only one of said terminals of said memory card receptacle is used for transmitting data between said memory card receptacle and said memory card.
- 4. The receptacle as set forth in claim 2, wherein said memory card has a concavity open at an end of said memory card and an inclined inner wall of said concavity substantially perpendicular to the direction in which said memory card is introdued into said receptacle, said contacts of said memory card being disposed inside said memory card concavity, and said plurality of projections contacting said inclined inner wall after sliding on said contacts of said memory card.
Priority Claims (2)
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9-267181 |
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Parent Case Info
This is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/088.590, filed Jun. 2 1998 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,109,939.
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