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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:
Apr. 18, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Albert Hoolhorst, Aardenburg, NL;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
235475 ; 235479 ;
Abstract
A card reading device has a contact carrier part and a card carrier part. The card carrier part is formed with a card receiving portion into which the card to be read is inserted. The card carrier part, together with the card, is inserted at least partially into or onto the contact carrier part. The card carrier part has an elastically deformable tongue element which projects at least partially into and over the card receiving portion.