Patent ID: 6712279
Filing Date: 2004-03-30
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
A module for a data carrier which may be used for both operations with contacts and operations without contacts, with the module containing an integrated component, which has component connections used for operations with contacts and here being in an electrical conductive connection with counter contacts of a communication station and having component connections used for operations without contacts and here being in an electrically conductive connection with counter contacts of a transmission means which work in a contactless manner, and with the module having a contact field with module connecting contacts accessible to counter contacts, wherein each component connection used for operations with contacts being in an electrically conductive connection with a module connecting contact of the contact field and wherein each component connection used for operations without contacts also being in an electrically conductive connection with a module connecting contact of the contact field, wherein each component connection used for operations without contacts is also in an electrically conductive connection with a supplementary connecting contact for providing an electrically conductive connection with a counter contact of the transmission means which work in a contactless manner.