Portable electronic equipment

• US 5,532,466 A
• Filed: 04/19/1995
• Issued: 07/02/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Itoh, Shuji, Yoshiura, Kenichi, Inobe, Kazuhiko, Konno, Masaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Hajec, Donald T.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LEE, MICHAEL GUNYOUNG
• Application Number:
  US08/425,707
• Time in Patent Office: 440 Days
• Field of Search: 235/441, 235/375, 235/380, 235/472, 235/462, 361/681, 361/682, 361/683, 361/684, 361/686, 364/708.1, 364/709.11, 24/3 A, 24/3 F, 24/3 G, 24/3 J, 24/3 R, 439/271, 439/72, 439/377, 439/55
• US Class Current: 235/441
• 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 7/0021 for reading/sensing record carriers having surface contacts
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/006 the housing being a portable casing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 439/951 PCB having detailed leading edge

Abstract

This portable electronic device includes a body section and an IC card accessing part provided in the body section. The body section has an IC card insertion slot; an elastic wiper is provided in the IC card insertion slot to make contact with a contact part of an IC card when the IC card is inserted into the IC card accessing part through the IC card insertion slot and a surface of the IC card is guided by a side of the IC card insertion slot. In this way, water and the like can be wiped off of the contact part, via IC card slot wherein an elastic wiper extends downwardly from the upper first side of the IC card slot (i.e., the elastic wiper extends a part way across a portion of the IC card slot, but an embossed part of the IC card is not caught in the slot. The portable electronic device also includes a hand hold band which is attached to be removable when desired, but not by accident.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device comprising:

a body section;

an IC card accessing part provided in said body section and adapted to receive an IC card and to access data on said IC card, said IC card having a first surface and a second surface and having a contact part and an embossed part on said first surface, said IC card having a thickness h as measured between a top of said embossed part and said second surface;

an IC card insertion slot formed in said body section and positioned to allow said IC card to be inserted into said IC card accessing part, said IC card insertion slot having an upper side and a second lower side which is opposite to said first upper side, said first Upper side and said second lower side being adapted to face said first surface and said second surface of said IC card, respectively, when said IC card is inserted into said IC card accessing part, said first upper side and said second lower side being spaced apart by a distance H which is greater than said thickness h of said IC card, and said second lower side having a flat surface formed thereon; and

an elastic wiper extending from said first upper side of said IC card insertion slot and adapted to make contact with said contact part of said IC card when said IC card is inserted into said IC card accessing part through said IC card insertion slot and said second surface of said IC card is guided by said flat surface of said second lower side of said IC card insertion slot;

wherein;

when said IC card is inserted into said IC card accessing part through said IC card insertion slot, said elastic wiper presses on said first surface of said IC card so as to wipe said contact part of said IC card while said second surface of said IC card is guided smoothly by said second lower side of said IC card insertion slot.

2. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said body section is provided therein with a bar code pen storage part.

3. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 2, wherein said bar code pen storage part is provided therein with a hold means for holding a bar code pen which is stored in the bar code pen storage part.

4. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 3, wherein said hold means is made of an elastic material.

5. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said elastic material of which said hold means is made comprises sponge.

6. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 4, wherein said elastic material of which said hold means is made comprises rubber.

7. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said body section is provided therein a printer part having a printing sheet outlet port, and said printer part is covered with an openable water-tight cover together with said outlet port.

8. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising a hand hold band attached to said body section.

9. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 8, further comprising locking means for releasably locking one end of said hand hold band to said body section so as to prevent said hand hold band from coming off when a force is applied to said hold band downward from said body section.

10. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 9, wherein said locking means comprises a band attaching member attached to said hand hold band and having locking parts on opposite sides of said hand hold band;

and receiving parts formed on said body section and protruding toward said IC card acessing part, for locking said locking parts of said band attaching member.

11. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 9, wherein said locking means comprises a band attaching member attached to said hand hold band and having locking parts on opposite sides of said hand hold band, each having a back surface formed therein with a locking hole;

and receiving parts formed on said body section and protruding toward said IC card accessing part, for receiving said locking parts of said band attaching member, each having a back surface formed therein with locking protrusion for receiving said associated locking hole.

12. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 12, wherein said body section has a top side and a bottom side, and wherein said hand hold band is attached to said bottom side.

13. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 12, further comprising locking means for releasably locking one end of said hand hold band to said body section so as to prevent said hand hold band from coming off when a force is applied to said hand hold band downward from said body section.

14. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 13, wherein said locking means comprises a band attaching member attached to said hand hold band and having locking parts on opposite sides of said hand hold band;

and receiving parts formed on said body section and protruding toward said IC card accessing part, for locking said locking parts of said band attaching member.

15. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 13, wherein said locking means comprises a band attaching member attached to said hand hold band and having locking parts on opposite sides of said hand hold band, each having a back surface formed therein with a locking hole;

and receiving parts formed on said body section and protruding toward said IC card accessing part, for receiving said locking parts of said band attaching member, each having a back surface formed therein with locking protrusion for receiving said associated locking hole.

16. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 12, wherein said body section has a front end part and a rear end part, said IC card accessing part is disposed in said rear end part of said body section at said bottom side of said body section, and said hand hold band is attached to said body section at least at said front end part of said body section.

17. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 16, further comprising locking means for releasably locking one end of said hand hold band to said body section so as to prevent said hand hold band from coming off when a force is applied to said hand hold band downward from said body section.

18. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 12, wherein said locking means is comprises of a band attaching member attached to said hand hold band and having locking parts on opposite sides of said hand hold band;

and receiving parts formed on said body section and protruding toward said IC card accessing part, for locking said locking parts of said band attaching member.

19. A portable electronic device as set forth in claim 17, wherein said locking means comprises a band attaching member attached to said hand hold band and having locking parts on opposite sides of said hand hold band, each having a back surface formed therein with a locking hole;

and receiving parts formed on said body section and protruding toward said IC card accessing part, for receiving said locking parts of said band attaching member, each having a back surface formed therein with locking protrusion for receiving said associated locking hole.