Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics Gmbh

Amphenol Corporation

Robert Bleier

Manfred Reichardt

Bernd Schuder

Eberhard Raab

Hans G Hubner

A smart card reader ( ) has a housing ( ) with contact elements ( ) fixed in the housing, which are resiliently biased into a space into which the smart card is slid. When released, the contacts ( ) move into the space to make electrical contact with areas on the smart card now inserted. The contacts are held out of the space by a pivot member ( ) which is actuated by a cover ( ) which is slidably mounted in the housing. The cover, pushed inward by the inserted card, moves the pivot member. Thus there is no contact until the card is in position.

Smart card reader

A smart card contacting apparatus comprising: a frame in which contact elements are mounted, a locking element mounted on the frame and adapted to lock a smart card directly or indirectly in a reading position on the frame in which the contact elements contact smart card contacts of the inserted smart card, and a mechanical an unlocking elements provided on the frame and adapted to unlock the locking means when the smart card is moved out of the reading position.

Contacting apparatus for a smart card

A contact element support for a smart card reader having a card support surface, a plurality of chambers formed in the contact element support in the area of the card support surface, contact elements forming a snap-in to co-operate with the contact element support in an operative or inserted position, an abutment surface provided at the contact element support for co-operation with the snap-in device such that shortly before reaching the end position a snap-in tongue formed by the snap-in device snaps into a snap-in opening of the contact element support so that the contact element is fixedly held in its inserted operative position.

Chip or smart card reader

SMT reader for SIM-card and standard cards

The invention is directed to a chip card reader with a housing, a guide track built into the housing for receiving a chip card as well as a contact carrier on the side of the housing, the contacts thereof being able to contact corresponding contacts of the chip card in the read position of the chip card in the housing.

Chip card reader

The invention relates to a housing for receiving a chip card, especially a SIM card, into a hand telephone.

Receptacle for a chip card

The invention concerns a chip card reader with a housing (10), a guideway (12) provided in the housing (10) for holding a chip card (14), a contact carrier (26), located on the housing, and a locking element (16) which latches behind the chip card in the read position, the locking element consisting of an L-shaped arm.

A chip card reader includes a frame, reading contact elements, and an end position switch which includes two switching contact elements arranged to either close or open upon reaching of the reading position by a chip card. The contact elements are identical in both the arrangement in which the elements open to indicate reaching of the reading position by the chip card and the arrangement in which the elements close to indicate reaching of the reading position by the chip card. The frames may also be identical in the opener arrangement and the closer arrangement.

Chip card reader with an end postition switch

A chip card reader comprises a contact support and a card receiver. The card receiver can be moved back and forth in the contact support so that, when a chip card is inserted in the card receiver, the card receiver is moved (lowered), together with the card, toward the contacts in the contact support.

Chip card reader with an end position switch

A set of contact elements for use with a card comprising contact zones, including an insulating body having an upper surface and a bottom surface, reading contact elements inserted into the insulating body and extending with the contact regions beyond the upper surface of the insulating body, and at least one additional contact element located adjacent to one of the reading contact elements so as to form together therewith a card presence switch.

Set of contact elements for contacting the contact zones of cards

A contact element is adapted to be efficiently mounted in a contact support which, in turn, can be used in a chipcard reader. The contact spring may readily inserted into the contact support such that the contact spring is, after insertion, in a biased condition.

Contact spring, set of contact springs and chipcard reader using said

A chipcard reader includes an arrangement for guiding a contact support which is reciprocally mounted between an initial position and a reading position. The contact support carries a set of contact elements adapted to contact the contact of chip cards in the reading position. The guiding arrangement causes a lowering movement of the contact support when the contact support is moved form the initial position to the reading position.

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Untergruppenbach, Germany

Robert Bleier