Patent ID: 6991171

Claim:
A holding device for chip cards for collection of travel data, comprising: a card holder arranged to guide a chip card between a removal position, a park position wherein read/write contacts are disconnected from the chip card and the card is stored within the housing, and a read/write position; a request element comprising actuation means; output means arranged to bring about a transfer of the chip card from the read/write position into the removal position after an actuation of the request element; and means for manipulation arranged within the card holder to, disconnect spring contacts of a set of read/write contacts from plate contacts of the chip card after the chip card has been input into the read/write position and after data has been read out from the input chip card; close the spring contacts after the request element has been actuated and the plate contacts of the chip card have been input; and trigger a release of the output means after travel data which has been collected in the meantime in a memory which is independent of the chip card has been written into the chip card.