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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 03, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Toshihiro Kitahara, Tokyo, JP;
Toshio Horiguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G06K / ; G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235440 ; 235492 ; 235454 ;
Abstract
A hybrid card comprises a substrate carrying an IC chip. An IC terminal is electrically connected to the IC chip and is arranged on a first surface of the substrate. A contact region is defined around the IC terminal and is occupied when a contact terminal of a recording/reproducing apparatus electrically contacts the IC terminal. An optical recording region has a plurality of tracks extending parallel to each other on the first surface. The contact region and the optical recording region are spaced apart in a direction parallel to the tracks.