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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 07, 1994
Jagtar S Saroya, San Pedro, CA (US);
American Magnetics Corporation, Carson, CA (US);
Abstract
The flex cable common to commercially available smart card readers and hybrid card readers is eliminated resulting in lower cost, longer lifetimes, and increased reliability. The flex cable is replaced by an assemblage of molded plastic piece parts which travel in the plane of the card movement and elevate along an axis normal to that plane. The assemblage comprises a collar which moves in the plane of card movement but in a manner to elevate a mating spring contact array carraige vertically with respect to that plane. The vertical movement of the carraige distorts spring contacts in a mating, fixed position spring contact array so that the spring contacts distort to achieve electrical connection to the contacts on the card.