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US 5,125,505 AGranted
Card holder
AssigneeNifco Inc.
InventorMutsuo Kurosaki
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a card holder for holding a card. The card holder comprises a card holding member, a latch and an urging member disposed inside a card case body and a hook provided on one of first and second plate-like members of the card base body, characterized in that an inserted card is pressed against the urging force of an urging member so as to be held in a card accommodating position, and the card is further pressed from the card accommodating position so as to release the same from being held at the card accomodating position, thereby forcing out the card into a card insertion slot of a card case body by the urging force of the urging member.
Claims20
A card holder comprising:
- card accommodating means for inserting a card therein and accommodating the same therein;
- card moving means capable of moving the card between a card accommodating position where the card is locked and a card non-accommodating position where the card is attached to said card moving means in said card accommodating means;
- urging means for urging said card moving means toward said card non-accommodating position;
- locking means for locking said card moving means in a locked state at said card accommodating position when said card is pressed against an urging force produced by said urging means;
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- lock releasing means for releasing the locked state of the card, said lock releasing means being activated by the card being pressed deeper than the card accommodating position.
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A card holder comprising:
- a card accommodating member comprised of a first and a second plate-shaped member combined into a single unit with a predetermined space defined therebetween, said card accommodating member having at one end thereof a card insertion slot defined therethrough;
- a card moving member capable of moving a card between a card non-accommodating position where the card is attached to said card moving member and a card accommodating position where the card is locked in said card accommodating member;
- an urging member for urging said card moving member in a card pulling-out direction;
- locking means comprising a block-shaped portion connected to said card moving member, a hooking member formed in a flexible member mounted on one of said first and second plate-shaped members of said card accommodating member so as to be swingable in a direction of thickness of said plate-shaped members and a latch member provided between said block-shaped portion and said hooking member so as to be slidable in a card insertion direction and in the card pulling-out direction, said locking means for locking said card moving member at said card accommodating position against an urging force of said urging member;
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- lock releasing means for unlocking said card moving member when the card is forced into a position deeper than the card accommodating position, said lock releasing means comprising a raised portion mounted on said latch member for unlocking said card moving member by moving said hooking member under pressure of said raised portion of said latch member, thereby unlocking said hooking member from said block-shaped portion and said latch member.
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A card holder comprising:
- a card case body including first and second plate-shaped members combined into a single unit with a predetermined space defined therebetween, said card case body having one end thereof provided with a card insertion slot defined therethrough and having flanges formed on a peripheral edge portion of the card insertion slot and hooks formed on surfaces of the first and second plate-shaped members in their thickness directions, said card case body further having a guide groove for slidably fitting a card holding member therein over an area ranging from a card insertion direction intermediate portion of one of said first plate-shaped member and said second plate-shaped member to a bottom thereof;
- the card holding member including a holder brought into contact with the insertion end of a card and a leg positioned at each end of the holder, whereby said card is held by said legs when said card is brought into contact with said card holding member;
- compression coil springs provided between said card case body and a bottom of said card holding member for urging said card holding member in a card pulling-out direction;
- locking means including a hook and a latch, said locking means being activated when said card is pressed in the card insertion direction to bring a block-shaped portion, formed so as to project from an intermediate portion between the legs in the card insertion direction, into contact with said latch and to hold said latch in engagement with said hook and to bring said block-shaped portion into contact with a lower end portion of said card case body, so that when said block-shaped portion is moved in the card pulling-out direction by an urging force of said compression coil springs, said block-shaped portion is held in engagement with said latch and with said hook so as to lock said card at a card accommodating position;
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- lock releasing means including a raised portion on said latch, said lock releasing means being activated when said card is pressed against the urging force of said compression coil springs from the card accommodating position where said card is locked to bring said block-shaped portion into contact with the lower end portion of said card case boy, so that when the card is moved in the card pulling-out direction by the urging force of said compression coil springs, said block-shaped portion is held in engagement with said latch to cause said hook to slide from said latch to said block-shaped portion, thereby releasing said card from being locked.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.