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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:
Jan. 18, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2005
Yves Reignoux, Clery Saint André, FR;
Dorothée Nerot, Orléans, FR;
François Roussel, Sceaux, FR;
Gemalto SA, Meudon Cedex, FR;
Abstract
The chip card comprises a card body and an embedded chip module having a plurality of contact fields connected to respective terminals of the chip. The card body further comprises a positioning feature adapted to univocally identify said contact fields according to their location and orientation on the card body. The positioning feature is a hole or a notch formed on the card body in an area including the chip module such as a contact field which has no electrical functionality as contact field Caccording to ISO 7816-2. The invention is particularly adapted to card bodies including a plug-in removable portion of smaller size comprising said chip module and said positioning feature such as smaller size 'mini-plug' SIMs for mobile phones.