Patent · US Expired

Device for receiving datacards

US5120946A · kind A · utility

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7Claims

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Assignee

Mannesmann Kienzle GmbH · DE

Inventors

Klaus Hug · Obermoschel, DE
Otmar Modest · Teningen, DE
Jürgen Götz · Graben-Neudorf, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 6, 1990
Grant date	Jun 9, 1992
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 6, 2010

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06K13/085
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A device for receiving data cards, including an essentially square-shaped housing; a guide chute for the data cards, the housing having a loading/output slot which forms an access to the guide chute; arrangement for read-in and readout of data from the data cards; mechanism for locking and unlocking the data cards, including a movable stop provided so as to cooperate with an end side of a loaded data card pointing inwards into the device; a gear connection for connecting the at least one latch with the movable stop; and a safety catch engageable with the geared connection, the at least one latch being arranged so as to embrace an outwardly pointing end side of the data card when the data card is in an end position in the device, the geared connection including a slide having one end connected to the movable stop for the inwardly pointing end side of the datacard, and a second end provided with a set of teeth the latch having a toothed quadrant and being rotatable supported and meshing with the set of teeth of the slide by way of the toothed quadrant.

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