Chip card reader having a dual reading modules

Abstract

In a mobile chip card reading module (20) with a channel (5) for accommodating a chip card (10) in which is arranged a reading head for reading the chip card (10), a front area (230), a rear area (220) which is shorter than the front area (230), a vertical pressing spring (2) arranged in the rear area (220), by which the chip card (10) when inserted into the reading module (20) is pressed towards a side wall of the channel (5), and by which the position of the inserted chip card (10) is fixed within the reading module (20), it has been made possible to make the chip card reading module even smaller and lighter in that the front area (230) of the chip card reading module (20) can be inserted into the accommodation channel (330) of a sleeve (300), which in its rear area (310), which is provided with a guide for the insertion of the chip card, has a collar (311) which fits snugly against the front edge of the rear area (220) of the chip card reading module, that the collar (311) in the inserted state of the chip card reading module forms with the rear area (220) thereof a unit whose height and width are each greater than those of the accommodation port of the computer, and the front area (230) of the sleeve (300) can be inserted into an accommodation port of the computer, the height and the width of this front area (230) being made sufficiently smaller than those of the accommodation port, so that it can be inserted to fit snugly into the accommodation port of the computer.

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