Patent ID: 6802448
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A smart card reader for receiving a smart card that has a vertical thickness and horizontally extending width and length said card having opposite faces and contact pads on an active one of said card faces, wherein the reader includes a frame device having a card-adjacent surface lying in a horizontal plane, and a plurality of contacts mounted on said frame device for engaging said contact pads when said card active face lies in a horizontal plane, a carriage device that is slideable in forward and rearward horizontal longitudinal directions on the frame device and that has a card pushing surface for partially ejecting a card, and a spring that urges the carriage device rearward, comprising:a double click device that includes a largely planar cam-forming wall that has a recess forming a cam part, said double click device having a cam follower part engaged with the cam part, with one of said parts mounted on said frame device and the other mounted on said carriage device; said largely planar cam-forming wall lies in a substantially vertical plane that is substantially normal to a lateral direction that is horizontal and perpendicular to said longitudinal directions, to thereby minimize the lateral width of the double click device.