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Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2013
Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Inventors:

Kyung-Up Kim, Gyeongsangbuk-do, KR;

Je-Hyun Son, Gyeonggi-do, KR;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 7/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/041 (2013.01); G06K 7/0069 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are a device and a method for detecting a reversed insertion of the SIM card into a SIM card socket unit in the terminal. The device includes a SIM card socket unit including a detection terminal that is disposed at a position to be contacted with a GND terminal of the SIM card, and when the SIM card is inserted, and outputs a voltage received from a contacted terminal of the SIM card. The SIM card socket unit having received the voltage from the detection terminal is transmitted to a controller as a SIM card insertion direction detection signal. When the SIM card insertion direction detection signal received from the SIM card socket unit is a reversed insertion detection signal, the controller is configured to inform the user that the SIM card is inserted in a reversed direction.


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