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US 6,547,138 B1Granted
Contacting device
AssigneeAmphenol-Tuchel Electronics GmbH
InventorsGerhard Braun, Michael Heim, Manfred Reichardt
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Abstract
The invention relates to a contacting device for a chip card, wherein the term chip card also includes so-called IC cards or a SIM (subscriber identity module). In any case, the chip card comprises a chip (a contact image) with corresponding contact surfaces which, with the card being inserted, are contacted in the contacting device by corresponding contacts of the contacting device.
Claims10
A contacting device for a chip card with the following features:
- a housing with
- a housing body, in which contacts for contacting corresponding contact surfaces on the chip card are arranged,
- a cover pivotably connected on the housing body, wherein
- the cover, after being pivoted against the housing body and after subsequent parallel displacement relative to the housing body, can be locked thereat,
- a switching contact arranged in the cover and embodied and arranged such that said switching contact is electrically activated exclusively when a chip card is inserted and the cover is locked on the housing body, wherein the switching contact cooperates with a first and a second contact location which are arranged perpendicularly to the displacement direction of the cover in a plane parallel to the cover at a spacing to one another in the locking position.
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