Patent ID: 6163081
Filing Date: 2000-12-19
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
An arrangement for the interchange of data between a rigid or semi-rigid data medium and a data interchange device of the type comprising a unit into which the medium is introduced manually into a housing in the unit in which it occupies a determined active position, and of the type in which the device comprises means for longitudinally holding the data medium in an active position in the unit and means providing assistance with introducing and extracting the data medium, wherein the data medium has a window, and the unit comprises a lever for immobilizing the medium which is mounted so that it can pivot, about an axis, between a stable immobilizing position towards which the immobilizing lever is elastically returned and in which an immobilizing finger formed at the free end of one arm of the immobilizing lever extends vertically into the window, and a stable retracted position towards which the immobilizing lever is elastically returned and in which the immobilizing finger is outside the window, to allow the data medium to be extracted from the unit.