Patent ID: 8205798

Claim:
A card holding apparatus into which a card-type memory medium having a terminal on a principal face thereof can be loaded, the card holding apparatus comprising: a housing; a lid that is rotatably supported by the housing and disposed on a principal face of the housing; retaining portions that are formed on an inner face of the lid opposite the principal face of the housing and can retain the card-type memory medium; contact terminals that are disposed on the principal face of the housing opposite the lid and can be brought into contact with the terminal of the card-type memory medium; a contact terminal portion in which the contact terminals are arranged; and an elastic member surrounding an entire periphery of the contact terminal portion to seal the contact terminal portion, wherein a distal end face of the elastic member opposite the lid has a height that allows the distal end face of the elastic member to come into surface contact in a flat manner with the inner face of the lid when the lid is in a position in close proximity to the principal face of the housing.