Patent · US Expired

Chip card contacting unit

US6053775A · kind A · utility

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9References

8Claims

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Assignee

Stocko Metallwarenfabriken Henkels und Sohn GmbH & Co. · DE

Inventors

Heinz Ungermann · Gelnhausen, DE
Arnd Backer · Hellenthal, DE
Dieter Klatt · Wülfrath, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 22, 1998
Grant date	Apr 25, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Oct 22, 2018

Classification

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

Abstract

A chip card contacting unit has a housing and a printed circuit board mounted in the housing. The printed circuit board has contacts for contacting electrically and mechanically a contact array of a chip card received in the housing. A switch is mounted in the housing. The switch has a stop limiting insertion of the chip card into the housing. A guide member guides the chip card during insertion and acts on the side of the chip card opposite the contact array to ensure correct positioning of the contact array at the contacts by providing an abutment.

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