Patent ID: 7435127

Claim:
A card-type apparatus comprising: a circuit substrate including a substrate surface and a circuit comprising a terminal; a card-type case configured to accommodate the circuit substrate, the card-type case including a flat portion disposed opposite to the substrate surface of the circuit substrate with a gap defined between the substrate surface of the circuit substrate and the flat portion, a part of the gap defining a memory card accommodating space configured to removably receive a memory card from a memory card slot communicating with the memory card accommodating space in an insertion direction parallel to the circuit substrate surface; the terminal configured to connect electrically the memory card with a circuit on the circuit substrate and provided on a region of the circuit substrate in the memory card accommodating space; a plate section configured to adjust the gap disposed on the flat portion of the card-type case at a position opposing the memory card when inside the memory card accommodating space; and a protrusion provided on the plate section so as to increase contact pressure between the memory card inside the memory card accommodating space and the terminal by pressing the memory card against the terminal on the circuit substrate.