Scm Microsystems Gmbh

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Wolfgang Neifer

Robert Schneider

Jochem Sowa

A chip card reader is disclosed having a plug-in-socket, an insertion slot for a chip card, and a housing according to a PCMCIA format. The housing includes a base plate and a cover plate extending between the plug-in socket and the insertion slot. The base plate and the cover plate include a plastic part and a metallic part and the metallic part of the base plate is directly welded to the metallic part of the cover plate.

Chip card reader

The interface device between a semiconductor storage medium ( ) for multimedia contents and a television standard video port comprises a PCMCIA slot ( ) and a card reader ( ) in a PCMCIA card format which is connectable therewith. A video graphics control unit ( ) is connected to a video overlay interface ( ) arranged between the PCMCIA slot ( ) and the graphics control unit. A RAM memory ( ) is allocated to the video graphics control unit ( ). A digital-to-analog encoder ( ) is arranged between an output of the video graphics control unit ( ) and the SCART format television standard video port. The card reader is configured for the particular data format of the semiconductor storage medium ( ) and transfers the data read out of the semiconductor storage medium ( ) to the video overlay interface ( ) in a data format suitable for the latter.

Interface device between a semiconductor storage medium for multimedia and a standard video terminal

The invention relates to a card reader for chip cards which comprises a housing of the PCMCIA type. Said housing comprises a multi-contact strip ( ) on the front end thereof, and has an insertion slot for the chip card on the rear end of the housing. Said insertion slot is formed between a base plate ( ) and a cover plate ( ) which is parallel thereto. The base plate ( ) extends beyond the cover plate ( ) at the rear end of the housing.

Card reader for chip cards

An apparatus for reading chip cards with at least one channel receiving a chip card and having at least one read head, the apparatus being detachably insertable into a receiving shaft intended for receiving modules in a computer, whereby in the channel for receiving at least one chip card two back limiting walls are provided in two different planes which are disposed at different distances from the opening of the channel so that two chip cards disposed directly one above the other are insertable into the channel by different lengths, permits insertion of two chip cards into a receiving channel in simple fashion in that a prestressing device is provided which is so prestressed that upon insertion into the empty apparatus the lower of the two chip cards is pressed into the lower plane in the direction out of the plane of the upper of the two different planes, the prestressing device being disposed on the upper limiting wall of the upper of the two different planes.

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Freising, Germany

Wolfgang Neifer