Card reader with multiple chip cards slot opening
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsEgbert Jelinek, Stefan Goss
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Abstract
A card reader for chip cards, which have contacts on a front face for reading and entering card information, with a card slot for receiving chip cards via an opening with a first contact arrangement mounted in the card slot for contacting the contacts of an inserted chip card and a first switching arrangement that responds to the presence or absence of chip cards in the card slot and a second contact arrangement opposite the first contact arrangement for contacting a second inserted chip card.
Claims12
A card reader for chip cards, each chip card having a front face with contacts for reading or entering information, comprising:
- a card slot for receiving chip cards via an opening;
- a first contact arrangement in the card slot for contacting the contacts of a first chip card inserted in the opening of the card slot;
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- a first switching arrangement responding to one of a presence and absence of chip cards in the card slot, the first switching arrangement including a second contact arrangement opposite the first contact arrangement in the card slot for contacting a second chip card inserted in the opening of the card slot;
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- a first device placing a single chip card inserted in the opening of the card slot in contact with the first contact arrangement if the contacts of the single chip card face the first contact arrangement, the first device placing the single chip card inserted in the opening of the card slot in contact with the second contact arrangement if the contacts of the single chip card face the second contact arrangement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.