DATA PROTECTING ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20120126004A1
• Filed: 02/02/2011
• Published: 05/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Uniform Industrial Corporation
• Original Assignee: Uniform Industrial Corporation
• Inventors: CHEN, Yu-Tsung
• Granted Patent: US 8,251,289 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/435
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0021 for reading/sensing record carriers having surface contacts
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/006 the housing being a portable casing

Abstract

A data protecting electronic device is adapted to read and store information, and includes: a circuit board; a first loop circuit, having a first contact and a second contact, constituting a wire mesh, and positioned on the circuit board; a substrate, configured on the circuit board; a data reading element, electrically connected to the first loop circuit, and one end thereof being passed through the circuit board to position on the substrate; a cover, covering the circuit board; a flexible circuit board, stuck to inner faces of the cover, and including a second loop circuit having a third contact and constituting the wire mesh; an electrical conductor, having a first end connected to the second contact and a second end connected to the third contact; and a conducting element, electrically connected to the first contact and covered by the cover.

Claims

1. A data protecting electronic device, adapted to read and store information, comprising:

a circuit board, comprising a first face and a second face;

a first loop circuit, constituting a wire mesh, and positioned on the circuit board, comprising;

a first contact, positioned on the first face; and

a second contact, positioned on the second face;

a substrate, configured on the second face;

a signal reading element, electrically connected to the first loop circuit, and one end thereof being passed through the circuit board to position on the substrate;

a cover, covering the circuit board and the substrate;

a flexible circuit board, stuck to an inner face of the cover, comprising a second loop circuit having a third contact, and the second loop circuit constituting the wire mesh;

an electrical conductor, electrically connected to the first loop circuit and the second loop circuit, and comprising;

a first end, connected to the second contact to conduct the first loop circuit; and

a second end, opposite to the first end, and connected to the third contact to conduct the second loop circuit; and

a conducting element, electrically connected to the first contact to conduct the first loop circuit and covered by the cover;

wherein the signal reading element is caused to break and the information is deliberately erased when one of the first loop circuit and the second loop circuit is opened or broken.

2. The data protecting electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising a bracket, adapted to prop the flexible circuit board against inner faces of the cover, and to position the electrical conductor.

3. The data protecting electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the flexible circuit board comprises a top face and a bottom face opposite to each other, the third contact is positioned on the top face, and the bottom face is stuck tightly to the inner faces of the cover.

4. The data protecting electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the conducting element comprises:

a bottom portion, electrically connected to the first contact; and

a top portion, opposite to the bottom portion and comprises an insulator.

5. The data protecting electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the electrical conductor drives the first loop circuit to be opened with the second loop circuit while being separated form the second contact or the third contact.

6. The data protecting electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the first loop circuit is caused to open when the conducting element is separated from the first contact.

7. The data protecting electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the first loop circuit is caused to break when the signal reading element and the substrate is pulled out forcibly causing the circuit board to be damaged.

8. The data protecting electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises a third loop circuit constituting a signal circuit, the third loop circuit is electrically connected to the first loop circuit, and the first loop circuit and the third loop circuit are caused to be opened or break when the signal reading element is separated from the substrate.