Patent ID: 7917087

Claim:
A wireless communication system comprising: a device having a device main body having a plurality of antennas; a plurality of cartridge loading portions provided at the device main body; and a plurality of cartridge parts removably loadable in the cartridge loading portions, wherein each of the plurality of cartridge parts have substantially the same configuration, each of the plurality of cartridge parts has a wireless communication tag, the wireless communication tags of the plurality of cartridge parts each being disposed at different positions; one set of the plurality of cartridge parts being loaded in upper and lower positions relative to each other and directly sandwiching around at least a first of the plurality of antennas of the device main body; another set of the plurality of cartridge parts loaded in right and left positions relative to each other and directly sandwiching around at least a second of the plurality of antennas of the device main body: and the first and the second of the plurality of antennas transmit and receive information with the wireless communication tags of the sets of the plurality of cartridge parts which sandwich the first and the second of the plurality of antennas, respectively, wherein said one set of the plurality of cartridge parts is horizontal, and said another set of the plurality of cartridge parts is vertical, an end of said one set of the plurality of cartridge parts is adjacent to an end of said another set of the plurality of cartridge parts.