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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. 25, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
439630 ; 439188 ; 439 761 ; 235441 ; 235492 ;
Abstract
A chip card contacting unit has a housing and a printed circuit board mounted in the housing. The printed circuit board has contacts for contacting electrically and mechanically a contact array of a chip card received in the housing. A switch is mounted in the housing. The switch has a stop limiting insertion of the chip card into the housing. A guide member guides the chip card during insertion and acts on the side of the chip card opposite the contact array to ensure correct positioning of the contact array at the contacts by providing an abutment.