Abstract: An apparatus for reading chip cards includes a housing, a printed circuit board arranged in the housing and a card reader which is arranged above the printed circuit board. The housing has a slot for introduction of the chip card. The slot in the housing wall and a guide means are arranged behind the slot in the wall, for the chip card, so that the slot in the card reader is aligned with the guide means. A spacer is arranged between the printed circuit board and the card reader, and the spacer is fixedly connected to the printed circuit board, and the card reader is releasably connected to the spacer.

Abstract: Read apparatus for chip cards with a housing formed in two parts from a lower part (1) and an upper part (2), the upper part (2) of which contains a contact support (3), with a number of contact pairs (4) that corresponds to the number of read tracks and can be connected to a respective contact lead-in via a limit switch (20), wherein the upper frame part (1) and the lower frame part (2) enclose an insertion slot for the chip card, in which the lower frame part (1) is constructed as a slide guided so as to be displaced on the upper frame part (2) between two engaged positions, of which one engaged position defines the insertion or removal position and the other engaged position defines the read position for the chip card.

Abstract: Read apparatus for chip cards with a housing (1) in which a contact support (3), with a number of contact pairs (4,4a) that corresponds to the number of read tracks and that can be connected by a limit switch (12), is held and a slide (6), operated by the chip card and acting on the contacts (4,4a) or the contact support (3), is guided such that, upon moving the card close to its end position, the contacts (4,4a) are pressed, on the one hand, firmly onto the contact field of the chip by means of the slide (6) and, on the other hand, the limit switch (12) is closed, wherein the limit switch (12) is arranged on the side next to the contact support (3) in the area between the card insertion slot and the slide (6), and wherein the slide (6) is equipped with a bar (13) having a tab (14) which reaches behind the contacts (12a, 12b) of the limit switch on the side of the card insertion slot with a spacing such that the limit switch (12) is closed by the entrainment of the slide (6) brought about by the approach of t

Abstract: A reader for chip cards with a housing (3) featuring an insertion slot (1) for the chip card (2), a number of pairs of contacts (6,7) corresponding to the number of read tracks, and a contact support frame (5) connected to the contact lead-ins (4), in which the contact lead-ins (4) held in the housing (3) are inserted in parallel from one side into the contact support frame (5) held in a free suspension by the contact lead-ins (4). On the side of the contact support frame (5) turned away from the contact lead-ins (4) there is an actuator element designed as a double arm lever (9, 10). The actuator element is held in the housing (3) by a transverse torsion spring arm (8) and its power arm (9) lies in the insertion path of the chip card (2) such that the work arm (10) of the actuator lever is twisted during insertion of the chip card (2) under tension of the torsion spring arms (8) and the contact support frame (5) and thus its associated contacts (6,7) are pressed against the chip card (2).

Abstract: A plug-in cable connector comprises an optional number of plate-shaped contact carrier modules that are provided with defining walls which partially close the duct-shaped chambers of the modules in a mirror-image fashion. In connection with the provision of a stop shoulder on a contact carrier module on one hand and the incorporation of half walls in the module carrier casing on the other hand, each of the modules may be individually inserted in an operative manner into the casing, forming a self-contained enclosed unit.