Patent ID: 8186590

Claim:
High speed machine for personalizing portable objects incorporating an integrated circuit having at least one memory, the machine comprising: a transfer device for the portable objects to be personalized and a rotating drum including a plurality of interface couplers for processing data to be recorded in the portable objects, each of the couplers being connected to at least one personalization station including at least one linking device communicating with the integrated circuit of a portable object, each of the personalization stations being brought by the rotating drum into a loading position to load a portable object to be personalized arriving from a transfer device; or brought to an unloading position to unload a personalized portable object towards the transfer device; each of the couplers is removably mounted so that it can be adapted to the type of programming used for the personalization data to be recorded in the portable objects, and the personalization stations are also removably mounted for their adaptation to various types of portable objects and/or couplers used for personalizing the portable objects, and each of the personalization stations includes fixation structure cooperating with complementary fixation structure present on the rotating drum.