PC card with anti-smile cover

摘要

A sheet metal cover part (30) whose front end (70) lies against a surface (50) of a front connector, behind a projecting ridge (54), is prevented from deflecting upwardly and creating a "smile" by deforming a front end of the sheet metal to form a beam of greater height than the thickness of the sheet metal. In one construction, the front edge of the sheet metal is bent over by about over 45° so the sheet metal of 0.2 mm thickness is provided with a front edge where the distance (E) between the top and bottom is 0.3 mm. In another construction, a strip-shaped area (130) lying slightly rearward of the extreme edge (90C) of the sheet metal is deformed to form a stiffening beam.