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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1989
Filed:
May. 29, 1987
Norio Shimamura, Tokyo, JP;
Taiji Sudo, Tokyo, JP;
Tokyo Tatsuno Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Device for reading/writing IC card as external memory, the device being electrically coupled with a data processing apparatus, and has a slit provided at one end of the device casing through which the IC card is loaded and unloaded in a horizontal direction. The device has a carriage member which operates upon angularly movable conductive terminals provided in the casing when pushed forward by the inserted card so as to cause angular movement of the conductive terminals and frictional contact of terminals of the card with the first terminals and holds the inserted card in a reading/writing position during a reading/writing operation of the data processing apparatus.