Ic card interface mechanism

Abstract

Abstract PURPOSE:To store an IC card concurrently with pressure contact and to secure smooth loading/unloading operations of the IC card, by setting the IC card on its stage in accordance with a card guide and closing the tip part of a clip. CONSTITUTION:A clip-shaped contact part 11 contains a conductive contact 12 at its tip part and a signal line 13 connected to the contact 12 is led to a reading/writing device via the base end part of the part 11. While a compression spring 14 is attached to the base end part of the part 11 to press a card stage 15. Thus the center part of the part 11 is fixed rotatably to the stage 15 and therefore the contact 12 is always energized toward the stage 15. The IC card is set on the stage 15 in accordance with the card guide 16 and then pinched by the part 11. Thus the contact 12 is pressed to an external connection terminal of the card and the external signal is transmitted via a signal line 13.

Inventors

• 👤 Hiroshi Tanuma
• 👤 田沼　博志
• 👤 Shigeshi Shimizu
• 👤 清水　繁志

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