Chip card reader
AssigneeAmphenol-Tuchel Electronics GmbH
InventorsRobert Bleier, Manfred Reichardt
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Abstract
A chip card reader comprises a contact support (2) in which are arranged read contact springs (17) and an end position switch in the form of switch contact springs (21, 22) which indicates the operating mode. The read contact-springs contact regions of a chip card (13) inserted in a read position in the chip card reader. In its operating mode in the read position of the card, the end position switch acts approximately perpendicular to the direction of insertion (20) of the card. Hence, in the read position, no component of force is produced which would act in the direction opposite to that of insertion of the card.
Claims19
A chipcard reader comprising a contact support within which reading contacts and switching contacts forming an end position switch are located, wherein the reading contacts are adapted for engagement with contact zones of a chipcard which has been inserted into said chipcard reader and moved relative to said contact support until it has reached a reading position,
- wherein the end position switch is designed such that it acts in its actuated position approximately perpendicular with respect to the direction of card insertion upon engagement of the card with the switch as the card is inserted into the reader such that no force component is generated which would act in the direction opposite to the direction of card insertion, wherein the chipcard has at least two contact zones, one of which is located forwardly of the other relative to the direction of card insertion, and
- wherein the end position switch comprises two similar components arranged in the direction of insertion of the chipcard behind each other such that a current circuit connected to the switching contacts is switched only if the forwardly located contact zone has already passed the contact for the other contact zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.