Electrical connector for use with electronic smart card reader

摘要

Electric connector (10) for connecting an electronic smart card including a molded body of insulating material having a planar upper face (24) and a plurality of electric conductors in the form of elastically deformable blades (14). Each contact blade (14) comprises a first inwardly curved end (26) in contact with one of the card pads and a second end (30) for connecting the blade (14) to a circuit for processing the read/write device. The invention is characterized in that the body of insulating material (12, 16) includes an upper collar (38) extending laterally above second ends (30) for connecting the blades (14). The connector is also characterized in that the collar (38) includes a series of recesses (48) arranged at right angles to the second connection ends (30) for allowing access to these second ends for connection, especially by infrared welding, from the upper face (24) of the connector (10).