Patent ID: 7659606
Filing Date: 2010-02-09
Classification: H05K,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A contacting unit, especially according to the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) Standard, with a plug-in card-shaped housing, comprising a base plate and a cover plate essentially congruent in at least in the transverse direction, between which a slit-like plug-in channel that opens on one end of the housing is formed to receive a chip card, and which is provided on the other side with a connector strip, and with a circuit board arranged parallel to the plug-in channel in the housing, which is electrically connected to the connector strip and provided on its surface with a contact field for contacting of the chip card, in which the plug-in channel includes openings on both lateral sides essentially over an entire length of the channel in the plug-in direction of chip card, and in which the base plate and the cover plate are firmly connected to each other only in the area adjacent to the plug-in channel in the plug-in direction, wherein at least one lateral guide device is directly connected to a lateral edge of either the base plate or the cover plate so as to at least partially bound the opening at least one of the lateral sides of the plug-in channel.