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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1999
Shinju Itou, Naka-gun, JP;
Yuhei Abe, Hitachinaka, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A portable terminal device for electronic money IC cards containing monetary data therein, comprises in a main body (,), a card slot opening (,) into which a plurality of electronic money IC cards (,) are inserted, electric contact terminals (,) for reading and writing the monetary data from and into the electronic money IC cards which are inserted into card slot opening, a display (,) for displaying money amount for the monetary data which is read out from the inserted electronic money IC cards or which is to be written into the inserted electronic money IC cards; and a button (,) for manipulating the reading and writing operations the monetary data from and into the electronic money IC cards which are inserted into the card slot opening. The card slot opening (,) is so configured that the plurality of the electronic into and positioned with being closely piled up with each other and shifted to each other in a direction parallel to main surface thereof.