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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1993
Filed:
Oct. 16, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235492 ; 235488 ;
Abstract
In an IC card of the invention, an IC module (3) is adhered to a first concave (9) of a card base (1) by means of an adhesive (7) and a gap (8) is formed between the outside surface of the IC module (3) and the inside surface of the first concave (9), the gap being wider in the inside upper part and narrower in the inside lower part of the first concave (9), so that the IC chip in the IC module (3) and the card base (1) can be protected from damages caused by bending of the the card base (1).