Integrated circuit card and case therefor

• US 20030107877A1
• Filed: 12/12/2002
• Published: 06/12/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Axalto SA (Thales SA)
• Original Assignee: Axalto SA (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Delaunay, Eric, Mennecart, Jose
• Granted Patent: US 7,175,084 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/752
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 11/182 Credit card holders
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/005 the record carrier comprising an arrangement to facilitate insertion into a holding device, e.g. an arrangement that makes the record carrier fit into an etui or a casing ticket holders A45C11/18
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07345 by activating or deactivating at least a part of the circuit on the record carrier, e.g. ON/OFF switches
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card

Abstract

An assembly comprises an integrated circuit card capable (2) of communicating data in a contactless fashion. The assembly further comprises a case (32) for the integrated circuit card. The case has an electrical circuit (14, 16) which, when the integrated circuit card is inside the case, is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit card so as to prevent the integrated circuit card from communicating data in a contactless fashion.

Claims

1. / An assembly comprising:

an integrated circuit card capable of communicating data in a contactless fashion; and

a case for the integrated circuit card, the case having an electrical circuit which, when the integrated circuit card is inside the case, is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit card so as to prevent the integrated circuit card from communicating data in a contactless fashion.

2. / An assembly as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the card comprises an antenna for communicating data in a contactless fashion, and in that the case comprises a short circuit which short circuits the antenna when the integrated circuit card is inside the case.

3. / An assembly as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the card comprises a switch coupled between a data-handling circuit and an antenna for communicating data in a contactless fashion, and in that the case comprises a battery which activates the switch when the integrated circuit card is inside the case, so that the antenna is decoupled from the data-handling circuit.