Patent ID: 7296754

Claim:
An IC card module having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, comprising: a cut-away portion being formed at the first side, a plurality of first external connecting terminals and a plurality of second external connecting terminals both exposed to one surface of a card substrate; a microcomputer chip connected to the first external connecting terminals; a first flash memory chip and a controller chip for the first flash memory chip electrically connected to the second external connecting terminals; and a resin molding the microcomputer chip, first flash memory chip and controller chip; wherein a shape of the IC card module and a layout of the first external connecting terminals are based on a standard of plug-in UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card) at ETSI TS (European Telecommunications Standardization Institute Technical Specification) 102 221 V4.4.0 (2001-10), wherein the second external connecting terminals are disposed outside a minimum range of the terminal layout based on the standard for the first external connecting terminals, wherein the first external connecting terminals and the second external connecting terminals respectively include signal terminals electrically separated from one another, wherein the microcomputer chip has an EEPROM, wherein the data capacity of the first flash memory chip is greater than that of the EEPROM, wherein a planar area of the first flash memory chip is larger than that of the microcomputer chip and the controller chip, wherein the second external connecting terminals are arranged nearer the first side than the first external connecting terminals, and wherein the microcomputer chip and the controller chip are arranged nearer the first side than the first flash memory chip.