Methods for placing an EMV chip onto a metal card
OwnerJonny B. Vuinventor
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Abstract
A method for removing an EMV chip from a plastic credit card or debit card and placing the removed EMV chip onto a metal card, includes heating the plastic credit or debit card containing the EMV chip to loosen the EMV chip, the EMV chip being substantially square and planar, the EMV chip having an upward top face, a downward bottom face, and four sides; removing the loosened EMV chip from the plastic credit or debit card; bending the four sides of the EMV chip towards the downward bottom face of the EMV chip; applying an adhesive coating to the bottom face and the bended four sides of the EMV chip; and placing the adhesive coated bottom face and bended four sides of the EMV chip into a holding cavity of the metal card.
Claims20
A method of transferring one or more EMV chips from one or more cards to a metal card comprising:
- heating the adhesive of the one or more EMV chips of the one or more cards with a heat source, wherein a temperature of the heat source is inversely proportional to a time the heat is applied to the adhesive of the one or more EMV chips,
- removing the detached one or more EMV chips from the one or more cards;
- applying an adhesive coating to a bottom face of the detached one or more EMV chips;
- and
- placing the bottom face of the detached one or more EMV chips onto the metal card.
A method of removing an EMV chip from a plastic credit card or debit card and placing the removed EMV chip onto a metal card, comprising:
- heating the plastic credit or debit card containing the EMV chip to loosen the EMV chip, the EMV chip having an upward top face, a downward bottom face, and four sides;
- removing the loosened EMV chip from the plastic credit or debit card;
- applying an adhesive coating to the bottom face of the EMV chip;
- and
- placing the adhesive coated bottom face of the EMV chip onto the metal card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.