G06K7/0056

CONNECTOR

A connector is provided with a base, a terminal, a cover and a heat conductive member. The base has a holding portion, and the terminal is held by the holding portion. The cover is provided with a main portion having an inner surface and an outer surface. The heat conductive member is fixed on the inner surface. When the connector is connected to a card-type device, the terminal pushes a card-type device against the heat conductive member in a predetermined direction perpendicular to a circuit board. When the connector is connected to the card-type device, an interval between the main portion and the holding portion is kept constant in the predetermined direction.

MEMORY CARD SOCKET AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
20210259122 · 2021-08-19 · ·

An electric apparatus includes a substrate having a ground pattern on a top surface of the substrate; a conductive housing on the ground pattern and having an insertion space; a conductive connector disposed between the ground pattern and the conductive housing and connected to the ground pattern and the conductive housing, wherein the conductive housing is fixed to the substrate via the conductive connector; and a conductive cover coupled to the conductive housing, wherein the conductive cover is configured to move from a first position, at which the conductive cover externally opens the insertion space, to a second position, at which the conductive cover closes the insertion space.

Card connector having two sliding members

In a card connector, a main body has a plugging space formed therein and used to locate terminals of a terminal set, two sliding members of a sliding mechanism are movably disposed on two sides of the terminal set in the plugging space, respectively, and each sliding member has a supporting part protruded on a side thereof and extended into the plugging space, and elastic members are abutted between sides of the two sliding members and two opposite sidewalls of the plugging space, respectively; a terminal of a guiding rod is slid along a guiding groove, and an other terminal of the guiding rod is inserted through the main body; a push plate of a shielding housing is abutted with the guiding rod, so that a preset electronic card can be stably inserted into or ejected out of the plugging space through the two sliding members.

Card Managing Device for a Gaming Machine
20210295649 · 2021-09-23 ·

A card managing device for a gaming machine includes a housing unit having front and rear housings. The front housing includes a surface having first and second hollow portions and a card slot. The front housing further includes a card passage defined between upper and lower stop plates extending rearwards from upper and lower sides of the card slot, respectively. A control device is mounted in the housing unit and includes a controller, a reader/writer, a sensor, a display, and an inputting device. The reader/writer includes a read/write circuit board disposed on the upper stop plate and a read/write head mounted to the read/write circuit board and aligned with the card passage. The sensor is located on an upper side of the upper stop plate distant from the lower stop plate. The display and the inputting device are exposed via the first and second hollow portions, respectively.

CARD CONNECTOR
20230401404 · 2023-12-14 ·

A card connector includes an insulating holder base having a first slideway and a second slideway formed on both sides of a plug-in space therein, a terminal set with multiple conductive terminals set in the plug-in space, and a push-push mechanism including a main sliding seat and an auxiliary sliding seat independently structured and respectively set in the first slideway and the second slideway. The main sliding seat is provided with a first resisting arm, and a cyclic guide groove and a guide rod for sliding positioning. The auxiliary sliding seat has a second resisting arm. The first resisting arm and the second resisting arm are used for resisting and moving a combined structure of a preset SIM card and a tray, so that when the main sliding seat and the auxiliary sliding seat are moving, the main sliding seat has a greater resistance than the auxiliary sliding seat.

USER-INTERACTIVE DIGITAL SIGNAGE APPARATUS THAT DISPLAYS CONTENTS ASSOCIATED WITH PREPAID CARD
20210304188 · 2021-09-30 ·

A user-interactive digital signage apparatus includes a signage housing, a touch panel display, a card reader, and a controller. The card reader is configured to read card information from a prepaid card presented by a user at the retail space. The controller is configured to obtain map image data for a map image of the retail space using the card information, the map image data including information on one or more affiliated stores that are affiliated with the prepaid card among a plurality of stores in the retail space. The controller is configured to control the touch panel display to display a user-interactive retail space map including one or more map elements corresponding to at least a part of the one or more affiliated stores, in an emphasized display manner with respect to one or more map elements corresponding to one or more non-affiliated stores in the retail space.

Reader and data reading device
11120325 · 2021-09-14 · ·

A data reading device including a hangtag and a reader is provided. The hangtag includes a hangtag main body and a connection element including an RFID component, wherein the connection element passes through the hangtag main body, and two opposite ends with a first expansion and a second expansion abut against the surfaces of the hangtag main body. The reader includes a case, a reading head, and a circuit board. The case has a containing groove which has a groove shape corresponding to at least partial outer shape of the hangtag main body, the first expansion, and the second expansion. The reading head and the circuit board are set in the case, and electrically connected. When the hangtag with partial outer shape corresponding to the groove shape of the containing groove inserts in the containing groove, the RFID component corresponds to the reading head accurately to be connected rapidly.

CONNECTOR

A base of a connector defines an accommodation portion for accommodating a card-type device. The base has holding portions with surfaces directed to the accommodation portion. The holding portions hold held portions of terminals 40. Heat conductive members are provided on the surfaces of the holding portions. The heat conductive members are sandwiched between the card-type device and the holding portions when the card-type device is connected to the connector 10. In this way, heat conductive paths, which include the conductive members, are formed between the card-type device and held portions of the terminals 40.

WELDABLE CHIP CARD CONNECTOR AND CORRESPONDING MOUNTING METHOD

A memory card reader body includes an upper face consisting of a cover and a lower face consisting of a base in which there is made a through-orifice for receiving a memory card connector, wherein: said base is a metal component including first means of assembly with said cover, which means are each positioned on at least two opposing sides of said base, said cover is a metal component including second means of assembly with said base, which means are each positioned on at least two opposing sides of said cover, wherein said first means of assembly are intended to plug together with the second means of assembly to form two lateral walls of said memory card reader body, said lateral walls having the overall shape of a rectangular parallelepiped and extending substantially perpendicular to the lower face of said memory card reader.

ELECTRONIC DEVICE
20210049331 · 2021-02-18 ·

An electronic device includes a card interface and a processing module. The card interface is electrically connected to the processing module, and a SIM card or a memory card may be inserted into the card interface. The card interface includes 8 springs, where N>1; when a memory card is inserted into the card interface, the memory card is electrically connected to the processing module; and when a SIM card is inserted into the card interface, the SIM card is electrically connected to the processing module, and one metal pin of the SIM card is electrically connected to a first spring in the N springs and one spring adjacent to the first spring. The processing module is configured to determine, based on at least a level of the first spring, that an inserted card is a SIM card or a memory card.