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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 14, 1988
Norio Shimamura, Tokyo, JP;
Taiji Sudo, Tokyo, JP;
Tokyo Tatsuno Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A reader and/or writer for an IC card as external memory, which has an angularly movable arm and an extended lever longitudinally movable respectively for locking the card at the trailing edge and a carriage holding the card at the same time and adapted to be concurrently disengaged from the locking so as to assure reliable reading and/or writing without adverse affection of locking force on the IC card. A contact head having a plurality of contact points to be electrically connected with those of the card is held by a link mechanism so as to assure a stable relative movement therebetween for automatic cleaning regardless of varied thicknesses of the cards.