Card for multi-purpose using
AssigneeMedea International (Taiwan) Corporation
InventorVau Sheung Cheung
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a novel card for multi-purpose using, and more particularly, a card suitable for utilizing in a magnetic stripe card reader, an IC card reader and an optical driver to read out the data. The thickness (0.8 mm) of the card corresponds with to the specification of the ISO 7816. The card comprises a reading area of an optical disc, a magnetic stripe and an IC chip, and can be placed on a casing plate with a thickness of 0.4 mm so that the card for multi-purpose using combines the functions of a conventional dual mode (magnetic stripe/IC chip) card and a conventional optical disc, so as to achieve advantages such as convenience for magnetic stripe and IC chip reading and larger memory capacity asscessing.
Claims15
A card for multi-purpose using, comprising:
- a card, comprising at least one reading zone, with a thickness making it able to pass in and out of a card reader;
- and
- a casing plate, comprising two convex platforms on each side for positioning said card;
- wherein said casing plate with said positioned card is able to be inserted into an optical driver.
A card for multi-purpose using, comprising:
- a card, comprising at least one reading zone;
- and
- a casing plate, comprising a transparent loading zone for positioning said card;
- wherein the thickness of said casing plate associated with said positioned card is equally a disc thickness following by Compact Disc Digital Audio Standard described as the Red Book and Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) Standard described as the Orange book.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.