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US 6,149,064 AGranted
IC card reader
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho
InventorsMamoru Yamaoka, Kazunori Takahashi, Shigeyuki Nagata
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Abstract
A contact carriage 2 is movably provided in an opening 12 formed in a frame 11 having a card path 8 into which an IC card 9 is inserted, and of the opposed side faces defining the opening 12, the side face 13b which confronts a carriage movement reference surface 17 used when the contact carriage 2 moves in the opening 12 includes a flat portion 14a and a arcuately protruded portion 15a.
Claims21
An IC card reader comprising:
- contacts to be in contact with a contact terminal pattern of an IC card;
- a contact carriage moving, with insertion of the IC card, to a card insertion end position and to a contact position where said contacts come in contact with said contact terminal pattern;
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- an opening formed in a frame having a card path into which an IC card is inserted, through which said contact carriage is freely movably provided,
- wherein a side face of said contact carriage, located closer to a carriage movement reference surface used when said contact carriage moves with respect to said opening, and a side face of said opening which faces said side face of said contact carriage are each formed to have an arcuately protruded portion and a flat portion.
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An IC card reader comprising:
- contacts to be in contact with a contact terminal pattern of an IC card;
- a contact carriage for carrying said contacts thereon, said contact carriage moving with insertion of the IC card to a contact position where said contacts come in contact with said contact terminal pattern at a card insertion end position;
- a frame having a card path into which the IC card is inserted;
- an opening formed in said frame so as to allow the movement of said contact carriage therein;
- a carriage movement reference surface for positionally regulating said contact carriage moving in said opening;
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- one of the side face of said contact carriage, which confronts said carriage movement reference surface, and the side face defining said opening, which confronts said side face of said contact carriage being flat, while the other side face being arcuate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.