Patent ID: 6634561
Filing Date: 2003-10-21
Classification: G06K,Y10S

Abstract:
In a flat rectangularly shaped memory card having, in plan view, first and second pairs of opposing parallel straight edges forming four corners wherein one of said corners includes an angled edge segment that intersects adjacent edges of one of each of the first and second pairs of edges at acute angles, said first pair of edges being shorter than said second pair of edges, an electrical contact structure comprising:a row of nine rectangularly shaped recesses positioned along one of the first pair of shorter edges and the adjacent angled edge segment, the recesses being surrounded on three sides by walls, eight of the recesses opening on a fourth side to the shorter card edge and the other of the recesses opening on a fourth side to the angled edge segment, said recesses individually containing a single electrical contact mounted on a bottom surface except that the recess along the shorter card edge that is furthest removed from the angled edge segment includes two electrical contacts mounted on a bottom surface thereof, and wherein the contact in the recess that opens to the angled edge segment is set back further from the shorter edge than the contacts in the other recesses in the row.