Patent ID: 6404335
Filing Date: 2002-06-11
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
An apparatus for issuing a wireless information storage medium provided with a semiconductor integrated circuit having a memory section for storing information and a wireless transmitter/receiver section for transmitting and receiving information by radio and an image recording area which is placed away from the semiconductor integrated circuit and on which visual information is to be printed, comprising:an insertion/ejection port for inserting or ejecting the wireless information storage medium; printing means for printing visual information corresponding to at least part of information to be written into the memory section on the image recording area; first carry means for carrying a wireless information storage medium inserted into the insertion/ejection port with its information recording area at the head to a position where it is opposed to the printing means; reader/writer means installed between the insertion/ejection port and the printing means for writing information into the semiconductor integrated circuit in a non-contact manner; and second carry means for carrying the wireless information storage medium to the insertion/ejection port for ejection.