Insertable card for microcomputer constituting a reader for cards with flat contacts

Abstract

Abstract The invention relates to removable memory cards with several integrated circuits, for personal computers. These memory cards serve as a large-capacity mass memory intended to replace the diskettes and other removable magnetic media. They have a plug-in connector (12) at the end of the card and can be inserted into the reader to the PCMCIA standards of a microcomputer. According to the invention, it is proposed to make up a chip card reader with flush contacts from such a plug-in card (10). In order to do that, the card (10) includes an additional connector with flush contacts on its main face (14). The reader thus produced is transportable, with its application software stored in the card (10) onto no matter what microcomputer equipped with a PCMCIA reader. A credit card or security card (18) may then be inserted into this transportable reader. <IMAGE>

Inventors

• 👤 Jean-Yves Leroux

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