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Card package production system with a multireader card track and method

US6719198B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 19, 1998
Grant dateApr 13, 2004
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Expiry dateMay 19, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K13/08
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A card package production system (30) for producing card packages each with at least one card (48) bearing card information at a plurality of different card information locations on the card (48) with a card multireader (54) having an elongate card track (52) with a succession of reading stations located along the track (52) with readers for respectively reading the card information at the different locations on the card (48) with means for simultaneously sliding a plurality of the cards (48) along the track (52) in seriatim relationship through the succession of reading stations of the multireader 54 for simultaneous reading of the card information at the different locations on the cards (48) by the multireader (54).

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