Game card

• US 20060266844A1
• Filed: 03/14/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Aruze Corp., SETA Corporation (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aruze Corp., SETA Corporation (Universal Entertainment Corporation)
• Inventors: Nonaka, Nobuyuki, Koyama, Toshimi
• Application Number:
  US11/374,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20060266844A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 1/00 Card games aspects of games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions showing representations related to the game A63F13/00; card games played on a gaming machine G07F17/32
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2009/2429 IC card, chip card, smart card
• 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

There is provided a game card including an IC device and an antenna that do not reduce uniformity of thickness of the card due to the IC device and the antenna. The game card stores authentication information readable by a reader/writer that emits electromagnetic waves, and includes an IC device for transmitting and receiving data according to a request from the reader/writer, an intermediate member having a space for housing the IC device, and an antenna provided by printing on the intermediate member with conductive ink and connected to the IC device. A front surface member and a rear surface member are joined to opposite sides of the intermediate member by bonding or the like to form the game card.

Claims

1. A game card that stores data readable by a reading device having an antenna that emits electromagnetic waves, comprising:

a circuit for transmitting and receiving data according to a request from the reading device; and

an antenna that is connected to the circuit, is electromagnetically coupled to an antenna of the reading device, can supply electric power to said circuit, forms a resonant circuit via the electromagnetic waves, and can transfer data to the reading device by load modulation.

2. The game card according to claim 1, wherein said circuit and said antenna are provided in the game card.

3. The game card according to claim 1, wherein said game card comprises a plurality of plate members, and at least one of said plate members have a housing space for housing said circuit.

4. The game card according to claim 3, wherein the circuit is entirely housed in the housing space.

5. The game card according to claim 2, wherein said game card comprises a plurality of plate members, and at least one of said plate members have a housing space for housing said circuit.

6. The game card according to claim 5, wherein the circuit is entirely housed in the housing space.

7. A game card that stores data readable by a reading device that emits electromagnetic waves, comprising:

a circuit for transmitting and receiving data according to a request from the reading device;

a plate member having a housing space for housing said circuit means; and

an antenna provided in said plate member and connected to said circuit.

8. The game card according to claim 7, wherein said antenna is a conductive layer provided on said plate member.

9. The game card according to claim 7, wherein the circuit is entirely housed in the housing space.

10. The game card according to claim 8, wherein the circuit is entirely housed in the housing space.