IC card with board positioning means

A method for constructing an IC card, which includes forming front and rear connectors each with a laterally extending row of contacts, forming a circuit board with a laterally extending row of contact pads on its forward and rearward end portions, forming a cover, and assembling said connectors, circuit board, and cover into an IC card, characterized by:

• and step of forming said connectors includes forming each of said connectors with at least one upstanding peg on laterally opposite sides of said row of contacts;
• said step of forming said circuit board includes forming holes in said front and rear end portions laterally beyond said rows of contact pads, and including placing said circuit board end portions against said connectors with said pegs received in said holes.

An IC card which includes a circuit board assembly having a circuit board with circuit components thereon, said circuit board having forward and rearward end portions, opposite sides, and upper and lower surfaces, with said forward end portion having a row of contact pads, said IC card including front and rear connectors with at least said front connector having contacts engaged with said contact pads, and said IC card also including a cover that has upper and lower portions that lie respectively above and below a majority of said circuit board, characterized by:

• said front and rear connectors each have support parts with pegs and with board-supporting surfaces;
• said circuit board end portions each have holes that receive corresponding pegs and have board surface portions spaced from said row of contact pads and lying adjacent to said pegs and supported on said board-supporting surfaces.

An IC card which includes front and rear connectors and a circuit board assembly that includes a circuit board and components on the circuit board, wherein the circuit board has front and rear end portions mounted respectively on said front and rear connectors, and wherein said circuit board has a row of conductive pads at least said front end portions, wherein:

• said circuit board front end portion has a plurality of holes;
• said front connector has a row of contacts engaging said row of conductive pads on said circuit board front end portion;
• said front connector has at least one board-supporting surface and a plurality of pegs extending above said surface to project into said circuit board holes.