Patent ID: 7164344

Claim:
A non-contact IC card reading/writing apparatus, comprising: a loop antenna, which supplies both electric power and a transmission signal to a non-contact IC card by way of an electromagnetic induction effect and acquires a reception signal from the non-contact IC card by way of a load variation; a first resonant circuit, which resonates the loop antenna at a first frequency; a wireless transmitter, which supplies both electric power and transmission data via the first resonant circuit to the loop antenna; and a wireless receiver, which acquires a reception signal from the loon antenna via a second resonant circuit which is connected to the loop antenna by way of coupling capacitor and is resonated at a second frequency, wherein: data transmitted from the non-contact IC card is demodulated from the reception signal by a demodulating circuit; both a turn number “n 1 ” of the first coil which constitutes the second resonant circuit and a turn number “n 2 ” of the second coil which is coupled to the first coil by way of the mutual induction effect are selected in such a manner that said turn number “n 1 ” is matched to an output impedance “z 1 ” of the second resonant circuit, and the turn number “n 2 ” is matched to an input impedance of the wireless receiver; and both the first coil and the second coil own an impedance converting function.