Card holding apparatus
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsShinji FUJITA, Syuji YASUOKA, Isao SHIMADA
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Abstract
A card holding apparatus of the present invention includes a seal member 12 that is provided so as to surround the periphery of a contact terminal portion 11. When a lid 3 is positioned in a closed position with a smart card 100 retained by the lid 3, the seal member 12 comes into close contact with the periphery of a terminal 101. Thus, even when foreign matter such as water or dust intrudes into a space between the lid 3 and a housing 1, adhesion of such foreign matter to contact terminals 11a or the terminal 101 can be prevented.
Claims4
A card holding apparatus into which a card-type memory medium having a terminal on a principal face thereof can be loaded, the card holding apparatus comprising:
- a housing;
- a lid that is rotatably supported by the housing and disposed on a principal face of the housing;
- retaining portions that are formed on an inner face of the lid opposite the principal face of the housing and can retain the card-type memory medium;
- contact terminals that are disposed on the principal face of the housing opposite the lid and can be brought into contact with the terminal of the card-type memory medium;
- a contact terminal portion in which the contact terminals are arranged;
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- an elastic member surrounding a periphery of the contact terminal portion,
- wherein a distal end face of the elastic member opposite the lid has a height that allows the distal end face of the elastic member to come into surface contact in a flat manner with the inner face of the lid when the lid is in a position in close proximity to the principal face of the housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.