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Information recording and reproducing apparatus

US5821515A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 6, 1996
Grant dateOct 13, 1998
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Expiry dateAug 6, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K7/0021
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a mechanism for accepting a card recording medium having a plurality of recording sections includes at least one recording section including at least an IC chip. A recording/reproducing circuit performs at least one of a recording mode for recording information into the IC chip and a reproducing mode for reproducing the information from the IC chip, a transporting mechanism for transporting the recording medium to a first position in which the IC chip faces the recording/reproducing circuit, and a moving mechanism for, in order to bring the IC chip into contact or close to the recording/reproducing circuit, moving the recording medium transported to the first position by the transporting mechanism toward the recording/reproducing circuit to a second position in which the recording/reproducing circuit can perform at least one of the recording mode and the reproducing mode.

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