Patent ID: 6778384
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
An on-vehicle card holding mechanism comprising:a cardholder to hold a memory card; a case attached to an instrument panel on which instruments and switches are mounted on a front of a driver's seat, having an opening into which the cardholder is inserted; a connector that electrically connects the memory card to specific instruments when the cardholder holding the memory card is housed in the case; a restraint mechanism that restrains the cardholder from a move to a pullout direction of the cardholder, when the cardholder is housed in the case; a release mechanism that releases the restraint of the move to interlock with a pressing operation to the cardholder in a state that the cardholder is housed in the case; and an extrusion mechanism that extrude the cardholder so that the cardholder protrudes from a surface of the instrument panel when the release mechanism releases the restraint.