G06K 7/0013
Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by galvanic contacts
Official title: {by galvanic contacts, e.g. card connectors for ISO-7816 compliant smart cards or memory cards, e.g. SD card readers (connectors in general H01R13/00; connectors for SIM cards used in mobile phones or the like H04B1/3816)}
G06K7/0013 (Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers: by galvanic contacts) appears on 2,040 US grants and 1,538 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06K- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
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| 2024 | 43 | 36 |
| 2025 | 40 | 21 |
| 2026 | 24 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06K 7/0021For reading/sensing record carriers having surface contacts1,093
- G06K 7/0056Housing of the card connector591
- G06K 7/0047For reading/sensing record carriers having edge contacts247
- G06K 7/0086The connector comprising a circuit for steering the operations of the card242
- G06K 7/0034The connector being capable of simultaneously receiving a plurality of cards in222
- G06K 7/0052Connectors capable of contacting cards of different formats50
- G06K 7/0017The reading head of the connector being removably attached to the housing10
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