Personalization station for programming integrated circuit cards

• US 5,378,884 A
• Filed: 01/12/1994
• Issued: 01/03/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Datacard Corp. (Entrust Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Datacard Corp. (Entrust Corp.)
• Inventors: Miller, Steven A., Lundstrom, Robert W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Willis, Davis L.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Frech, Karl D.
• Application Number:
  US08/180,657
• Time in Patent Office: 356 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/441
• US Class Current: 235/441
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations

Abstract

An integrated card programming device for programing an integrated circuit card. The integrated circuit card programing device has a base, a card input platform, and a transport. The transport is operably connected to the base and rotatably mounted about a rotational axis. The transport includes a transport arm radially disposed about the rotational axis. A card picker carriage is mounted on the transport arm. The card picker carriage has two picker arms. One or more personalization stations for programming an integrated circuit card are radially disposed about the transport. The personalization stations can program the cards to the French or ISO standards and are rotatable 180°.

Claims

1. A personalization station for an integrated circuit card programming device for programming integrated circuit cards, the personalization station comprising:

a personalization station base operably connectable to an integrated circuit card programming device base;

card receiving means for grasping the integrated circuit card to be programmed, the card receiving means having a contact for interfacing with an integrated circuit disposed on the card;

reversible mounting means for mounting the card receiving means on the base, the reversible mounting means being capable of mounting the card receiving means on the base in a first position wherein the contact is disposed on a first side of the base and a second position wherein the receiving means is rotated proximately 180°

about the longitudinal axis so that the contact is disposed on a second and opposite side of the base.

2. The personalization station, in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

a sensor for sensing the presence of the card in the receiving means, the sensor being fastenable to a receiving means and disposed on the second side of the base when the receiving means is in the first position and the sensor being fastenable to the receiving means and disposed on the second side of the base when the receiving means is in the second position.

3. A personalization station, in accordance with claim 1, further comprising a contact pin housing for mounting the contact in a first position corresponding to the French position and a second position corresponding to the ISO position.

4. A personalization station for an integrated circuit card programming device for programming an integrated circuit card, the personalization station comprising:

a personalization station base operably connectable to an integrated circuit card programming device base;

card receiving means for grasping the integrated circuit card to be programmed, the card receiving means having a contact for interfacing with the integrated circuit disposed the card;

a contact pin housing for mounting the contact in a first position corresponding to the French position and a second position corresponding to the ISO position.

5. The personalization station, in accordance with claim 4, further comprises a reversible mounting means being capable of mounting the card receiving means on the base in a first position wherein the contact is disposed on a first side of the base and a second position wherein the receiving means is rotated proximately 180°

so that the contact is disposed on the opposite side of the base.

6. The personalization station, in accordance with claim 5, further comprising:

a sensor for sensing the presence of the card in the receiving means, the sensor being fastenable to the receiving means and disposed on the second side of the base when the receiving means is in the first position and the sensor being fastenable to the receiving means and disposed on the second side of the base when the receiving means is in the second position.