Contact frame for an IC card reader

A contact frame for contact with an IC card of an IC card reader, said IC card having opposite side edges, said contact frame comprising, in particular, guide means for guiding or positioning the IC card, together with contact elements for providing electrical connection with the conducting pads on the IC card via which circuits are established to the apparatus including the IC card reader, the improvement wherein the contact frame comprises an inner frame portion of insulating material molded over the contact elements for providing electrical connection to the IC card, said inner frame portion being a hollow structure comprising at least two side members and two beams supported between the two side members, said two beams each carrying a contact set, with said contact sets mainly extending from one beam in the direction of the other, and two extensions extending said inner frame portion sideways towards said side edges of the card and beyond said side edges, each of said two extensions carrying means for defining the portion of a corresponding one of two card-guiding slideways.