CARD STORAGE APPARATUS

Abstract

A card storage apparatus includes a box body. At least one side of the box body is provided with an accommodating slot, a main control panel, a battery and a sound generator are installed in the accommodating slot. The main control panel is provided with a Bluetooth main control chip and an antenna module, the Bluetooth main control chip is electrically connected to the battery, the sound generator and the antenna module, respectively. The main control panel, the battery and the sound generator are staggered. The card storage apparatus is novel in structure, and functional modules of a Bluetooth tracker are staggered and dispersed, so that a surface space of the card storage apparatus is fully utilized, and the portability thereof is improved.

Claims

1. A card storage apparatus, comprising a box body, wherein at least one side of the box body is provided with an accommodating slot; a main control panel, a battery and a sound generator are installed in the accommodating slot; the main control panel is provided with a main control chip using a wireless radio-frequency technology and an antenna module; the main control chip is electrically connected to the battery, the sound generator and the antenna module, respectively; the main control panel, the battery and the sound generator are staggered, the battery and the sound generator are provided at opposite ends of the main control panel; the box body is made of a hard metal material; and the box body is provided with a through hole passing through two opposite sides of the box body, and the antenna module is disposed to correspond to the through hole.

2. The card storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the main control panel is provided with a switch button electrically connected to the main control chip.

3-4. (canceled)

5. The card storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein supporting pieces are disposed in the through hole.

6. The card storage apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the supporting pieces are made of glass.

7. The card storage apparatus according to claim 5, wherein two supporting pieces are provided, and two sides of an inner cavity of the box body are correspondingly provided with the supporting pieces, respectively.

8. The card storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the box body is further provided with a covering structure for covering the accommodating slot.

9. The card storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an NFC (Near Field Communication) module is further disposed in the accommodating slot, and the NFC module is electrically connected to the main control chip.

10. The card storage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the box body is further provided with an indicator lamp, and the indicator lamp is electrically connected to the main control chip.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0017] FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a card storage apparatus according to one or more embodiments.

[0018] FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a card storage apparatus with a covering structure being hidden according to one or more embodiments.

[0019] FIG. 3 is an exploded diagram of a card storage apparatus according to one or more embodiments.

[0020] FIG. 4 is a circuit block diagram of a card storage apparatus according to one or more embodiments.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

[0021] In order to describe the technical contents, achieved objects and effects of the application in detail, description will be shown below in conjunction with implementations and in cooperation with the accompanying drawings.

[0022] Refer to FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, according to one or more embodiments, a card storage apparatus includes a box body 1 for containing cards, at least one side of the box body 1 is provided with an accommodating slot 11, a main control panel 2, a battery 3 and a sound generator 4 are installed in the accommodating slot 11, the main control panel 2 is provided with a Bluetooth main control chip 5 and an antenna module 6, the Bluetooth main control chip 5 is electrically connected to the battery 3, the sound generator 4 and the antenna module 6, respectively, and the main control panel 2, the battery 3 and the sound generator 4 are staggered.

[0023] The card storage apparatus is novel in structure, and functional modules of a Bluetooth tracker are staggered and dispersed, so that a surface space of the card storage apparatus is fully utilized; and compared with a card storage apparatus additionally provided with a Bluetooth tracker of which functional modules are designed to be stacked, the card storage apparatus is obviously reduced in local thickness, so that the portability of the card storage apparatus with positioning and tracking functions is greatly improved, and the use experience of a user is enhanced.

[0024] It should be noted that when two sides of the box body 1 are both provided with the accommodating slots 11, one of the accommodating slots 11 is idle, at the moment, the main control panel 2, the battery 3 and the sound generator 4 are all installed in the other accommodating slot 11; and in order to ensure that there is a sufficient space to install the main control panel 2, the battery 3 and the sound generator 4 on the surface of the box body 1, one of the accommodating slots 11 is used for installing one of the main control panel 2, the battery 3 and the sound generator 4, and the other accommodating slot 11 is used for installing the other two, for example, the sound generator 4 and the main control panel 2 are installed in the same accommodating slot 11, and the battery 3 is installed in the other accommodating slot 11, at the moment, the battery 3 selects a higher-capacity battery.

[0025] In some embodiments, the Bluetooth main control chip 5 selects an NRF52832 chip, and the antenna module 6 selects a ceramic antenna. In other embodiments, the Bluetooth main control chip 5 further selects other types of chips according to actual demands, and similarly, the antenna module 6 selects other types of antennae, such as a patch antenna and a metal antenna, according to actual demands.

[0026] The sound generator 4 is an electroacoustic transducer, such as a piezoelectric ceramic buzzer.

[0027] The battery 3 is a dry battery or a storage battery and is specifically selected and set according to actual demands. When the battery 3 is the dry battery, the battery 3 is a button battery, etc.; and when the battery 3 is the storage battery, the battery 3 is an ultrathin battery. At the moment, the main control panel 2 is provided with a charging interface for charging the storage battery, and the box body 1 is provided with an exposed window for accommodating the charging interface.

[0028] The main control panel 2 is provided with a switch button 7 electrically connected to the Bluetooth main control chip 5, the switch button 7 is a pressing switch, a toggle switch, a touch switch, etc., and a specific type of the switch button 7 is also selected as required. A user operates the switch button 7 to control whether the positioning and tracking functions of the card storage apparatus to be enabled, thereby reducing power waste of the battery 3 in the card storage apparatus.

[0029] The box body 1 is made of a hard metal material, and the box body 1 made of the hard metal material not only has good handfeeling, but also provides more sufficient protection for cards stored in the card storage apparatus. In some embodiments, the box body 1 is made of an aluminum material. In other embodiments, the box body 1 is made of a copper material, an iron alloy or other metal materials.

[0030] In order to ensure a signal transceiving performance of the antenna module 6, the box body 1 is provided with a through hole 12 passing through two opposite sides of the box body 1, and the antenna module 6 is disposed to correspond to the through hole 12. By disposing the through hole 12, the shielding of the box body 1 made of the metal material to an antenna signal can be relieved, so that the antenna module 6 can smoothly transceive a wireless signal no matter whether the card storage apparatus is in a state that an obverse side is upward or a reverse side is upward.

[0031] Supporting pieces 8 are disposed in the through hole 12, the supporting pieces 8 are connected to the box body 1 by adhesion or other manners, and the through hole 12 is closed by the supporting pieces 8, so that an area where the through hole 12 is located in the box body 1 also has sufficient strength, the situation that the through hole 12 is easily stabbed by a foreign object is relieved, it is beneficial to ensuring the handfeeling of the card storage apparatus and improving the use experience of a user. There are two supporting pieces 8, two sides of an inner cavity of the box body 1 are correspondingly provided with the supporting pieces 8, respectively, and thus, two ends of the through hole 12 are both supported. In some embodiments, the supporting pieces 8 are made of glass, the supporting pieces made of glass are low in antenna signal loss and are beneficial to ensuring that the antenna module smoothly transceives a wireless signal. In other embodiments, the supporting pieces 8 are made of other materials, such as hard plastics.

[0032] In order to ensure that holding handfeeling of the card storage apparatus, the box body 1 is further provided with a covering structure 9 for covering the accommodating slot 11. The covering structure 9 not only shields an accommodated object in the accommodating slot 11 to improve the beauty of the card storage apparatus, but also protects the accommodated object in the accommodating slot 11 to a certain extent, and the covering structure 9 is made of leather, plastics, etc.

[0033] In order to ensure the sound effect of the sound generator 4, in some embodiments, the box body 1 is provided with a sound generation hole 13 communicating with the accommodating slot 11 and the inner cavity of the box body 1, and the sound generator 4 is disposed to correspond to the sound generation hole 13. Of course, in an actual product, it is acceptable that the sound generation hole 13 is not disposed.

[0034] An NFC module 10 is further disposed in the accommodating slot 11, the NFC module 10 is electrically connected to the Bluetooth main control chip 5, and a user performs data transmission by using the NFC module 10, so that the card storage apparatus is more convenient to use. The NFC module 10 is used for near field wireless data transmission. During specific use, a user burns data in a card to the Bluetooth main control chip 5, and thus, when the user needs to show the data in the card, the user can show the data, such as access control card data, credit card data or identity data, in the card without takin the card out of the card storage apparatus, which is convenient for the user to use.

[0035] The box body 1 is further provided with an indicator lamp 20, and the indicator lamp 20 is electrically connected to the Bluetooth main control chip 5. When the positioning and tracking functions of the card storage apparatus is enabled, the sound generator 4 makes a sound, and the indicator lamp 20 emits lamplight. The card storage apparatus not only has a sound generation prompt function, but also has a lamplight prompt function, thereby making the user find the card storage apparatus more quickly and precisely.

[0036] In conclusion, the card storage apparatus provided in the application is novel in structure, and the functional modules of the Bluetooth tracker are staggered and dispersed, so that a surface space of the card storage apparatus is fully utilized; and compared with a card storage apparatus additionally provided with a Bluetooth tracker of which functional modules are designed to be stacked, the card storage apparatus is obviously reduced in local thickness, so that the portability of the card storage apparatus with positioning and tracking functions is greatly improved, and the use experience of a user is enhanced. The box body is provided with the through hole corresponding to the antenna module, so that the antenna module also has a good transceiving performance even if the box body is made of a metal material, which is beneficial to the enhancement of the use experience of a user.

[0037] Above descriptions are only embodiments of the application, and are not intended to hence limit the application scope of the application. Any equivalent transformations made according to the contents of the description and the accompanying drawings of the application are directly or indirectly applied to the related art and also fall within the application protection scope of the application in a similar way.