Holding device for chip cards which are used in vehicles and have the purpose of person-related collection of travel data

US6991171B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Kurt Benzing · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Klaus Hug · Obermoschel, DE
• Dieter Klostermeier · Villingen-Schwenningen, DE
• Andreas Lindinger · Clingen, DE
• Christoph Schubert

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 8, 2003
• Grant date: Jan 31, 2006
• Expiry date: Oct 29, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07C5/0858
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The aim of the invention is to prevent the plate contacts of chip cards from wearing as a result of vibrations that occur during the operation of a vehicle. To achieve this, the spring contacts of the read/write set of contacts in a holding device for chipcards are separated from the plate contacts of a chip card that has been inserted into the holding device, for a period, during which no trip or driver-related data is transmitted and said contacts are closed for only a relatively short time, i.e. during the reading of the chip card data into the relevant data recording device and during the writing of recorded data to the chip card. The holding device is configured in such a way that the relevant chip card remains inaccessible when the contacts are separated.