Patent ID: 6443361
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
In a contact unit for a card-shaped carrier element of electronic components and including an insertable card-shaped housing that has a base plate and a cover plate that is congruent thereto at least in the transverse direction and between which is formed a slot-like insertion channel that opens on one end of said housing for receiving a chip-card, wherein an opposite end of said housing is provided with a plug-in strip, and wherein a printed circuit board is disposed in said housing parallel to said insertion channel and is electrically connected to said plug-in strip and is furthermore provided on its surface with a contact field for contact with said chip-card, the improvement wherein:exclusively said base plate, at said one end thereof, is provided with an extension in the form of a flat, extending segment that is joined to said base plate via a breaking line to form a first, convertible contact unit, wherein a second contact unit is formed when said segment is detached at said breaking line, and wherein said second contact unit is shorter than said first, convertible contact unit.