Patent 7447522 was granted and assigned to NEC Corporation on November, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
There is provided a card holding structure that holds a SIM card in a housing without covering with a chargeable battery case to hold the SIM card. A card connector is fixed on a board of a portable terminal. The card is held by card holding portions provided at a front part of the card in a sliding direction of the card connector. A slope 4 provides a stopper, which slope is formed by a rectangular elastic piece, one end of which is fixed to a housing.