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US 5,847,932 AGranted
Stacked IC card assembly for insertion into stacked receiver
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorEdward A. Kantner
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AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorEdward A. Kantner
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A new IC card is described, which can fit into standard card-receiving hosts that each has a host connector with 68 contact positions; however, the new IC card has more than 68 card contacts that can mate with more than 68 host connector contacts. The new IC card is designed to be inserted into a host stack of at least two vertically-spaced hosts. The new IC card includes upper and lower card connectors that each have 68 contact positions in accordance with PCMCIA specifications, and has a card frame that holds the two card connectors at a spacing equal to the vertical spacing of the host connectors. The card frame has slots on either side to receive mid walls that form parts of the host edge guideways, the card frame also including a slot at the front between the upper and lower card contacts to receive a separation wall of the host stack which separates the host connectors. The new card can have a key that operates at least one switch on a modified host stack, to sense the insertion of the new card and couple the host connector contacts to circuitry designed to connect to the new card.
An IC card which can be inserted simultaneously into upper and lower card-receiving hosts arranged in a host stack, wherein each of said hosts has a guideway with laterally-spaced opposite edge guides, and each host has a host connector at a rear end of the corresponding guideway, said host stack including at least one mid guide wall located at each of said opposite sides and lying vertically between a pair of said edge guides, comprising:
A method for constructing a new IC card with more than 68 contacts, but which is mateable to card-receiving hosts which have standard PCMCIA host connectors that each includes 68 contact positions arranged in two laterally-extending rows of 34 contact positions each and wall surfaces forming laterally opposite edge guides extending longitudinally forward of said connectors, wherein said hosts are available in stacks that each includes at least two hosts with their host connectors vertically spaced, comprising:
An IC card that is mateable to hosts of a stack of hosts that each has a host connector with a predetermined number of contact positions, comprising:
A method for constructing a new IC card with more than a predetermined number of contacts, but which is mateable to card-receiving hosts which have host connectors that each includes said predetermined number of contact positions and wall surfaces forming laterally opposite edge guides extending longitudinally forward of said connectors, wherein said hosts are available in stacks that each includes at least two hosts with their host connectors vertically spaced, comprising:
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