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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. 11, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Minoru Igarashi, Yotsukaido, JP;
Assignee:
Yamaichi Electronics Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235492 ; 235486 ;
Abstract
A card contacting construction includes a floating member capable of movement upwardly and downwardly in a generally vertical direction with respect to a direction of insertion of a card. The floating member is lowered in the generally vertical direction by being pushed by the card when the card is inserted contacts are arranged so as to be contacted under pressure with electrode pads which are arranged on a lower surface of the card, and the contacts are pushed down by the lowering floating member, so as to shift downwardly to preload an upwardly-directing resilient force.