US 9,754,635 B2 · Mobile data storage device

Abstract

A mobile data storage device is configured in the manner of a data storage card, or a data storage stick. The mobile data storage device can include at least one electrical coil (7), and energy storage (6), a data storage (1), at least one interface unit (3), and at least one permanent magnet (8). The at least one interface unit (3) is configured for the output or the receiving of data that is stored, or that can be stored, in the data storage (1). The energy storage (6) can be inductively charged by a magnetic alternating field, which can be generated by displacing the at least one permanent magnet (8) in a region of the electrical coil (7). At least one of the at least one interface unit (3) is electrically coupled to the energy storage for the energy supply thereof.

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Dependent claims

A mobile data storage device embodied as a data storage card or data storage stick and comprising:

a housing;
at least one electric coil arranged in the housing;
an energy store arranged in the housing and coupled to the coil;
a data store arranged in the housing;
at least one interface unit arranged in the housing and coupled to the data store and the energy store, the at least one interface unit configured for communicating data to or from the data store;
and
at least one permanent magnet arranged in the housing,
an opening in the housing;
and
a manually moveable control element mechanically coupled to the at least one permanent magnet, the manually moveable control element being manually accessible via the opening in the housing;
wherein manual movement of the control element via the opening in the housing moves the at least one permanent magnet relative to the electric coil in a region determined to generate a magnetic alternating field, thereby inductively charging the energy store.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Description2,434 words

Summary860 words

#This application is a U.S. National Stage of International Application No. PCT/EP2007/060943, filed Oct. 15, 2007 and claims the benefit thereof. The International Application and this application claims the benefits of German Application No. 10 2006 058 352.3, filed on Dec. 11, 2006, both applications are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.

#1. Field of the Invention

#The disclosure relates to a mobile data storage device which is embodied as a data storage card or data storage stick.

Brief description of the drawings5 figures

#These and other aspects and advantages will become more apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the exemplary embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:

#FIG. 1 shows a mobile data storage device,

#FIG. 2 a first embodiment of the mobile data storage device,

Detailed description1,490 words

#Reference will now be made in detail to the preferred embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

#Elements of identical design or function are labeled with the same reference numbers throughout the figures.

#A mobile data storage device is embodied as a data storage card or data storage stick. In particular the mobile data storage device is embodied as a chip card or smartcard or as a USB data storage stick. The chip card or smartcard has externally accessible contact surfaces, for example. A read/write unit into which the chip card or smartcard can be inserted is embodied for contacting the contact surfaces and for supplying the mobile data storage device with electrical energy. Furthermore, communication and data exchange between the read/write device and the mobile data storage device take place via the contact surfaces. Alternatively or in addition, however, the mobile data storage device can also be embodied for contactless communication or contactless data exchange by RFID. Electrical energy for powering the mobile data storage device is in this case taken from an electromagnetic alternating field which can be generated by the correspondingly embodied read/write unit.

Facts

Application

12/518,725Filed 15 Oct 2007

Priority

DE 10 2006 058 35211 Dec 2006

Published

US 2010/0026105 A14 Feb 2010

Granted

5 Sep 2017

Term ends

3 Jun 2029

Estimated · how

20 years from earliest known nonprovisional domestic filing plus recorded patent term adjustment, including 597 days of adjustment. Maintenance-fee lapses, terminal disclaimers and statutory extensions have not been checked. The continuity chain may be incomplete; this is not an enforceability determination.

Classification5 codes

G11C 5/142
Power supply arrangements , e.g. power down, chip selection or deselection, layout of wirings or power grids, or multiple supply levels:…
G06K 19/0702
At least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for power management: the arrangement including a battery
G06K 19/077
With integrated circuit chips: constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
G11C
Static stores

Timeline

11 Dec 2006Priority claimedDE 10 2006 058 352
15 Oct 2007Application filedUS 12/518,725
12 Jun 2009Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaftassignment of assignor's interest
4 Feb 2010PublishedUS 2010/0026105 A1
5 Sep 2017GrantedUS 9,754,635 B2
12 Oct 2026TodayWithin its term
3 Jun 2029Term endsEstimated, includes 597 days of adjustment

Mobile data storage device

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