Electrical connectors – With indicating or identifying provision – Connection indicating provision
Reexamination Certificate
2001-10-30
2003-02-11
Gutierrez, Diego (Department: 2859)
Electrical connectors
With indicating or identifying provision
Connection indicating provision
C116S06700A, C116S100000, C116S306000, C116S315000, C116S200000, C235S486000, C235S483000, C439S630000, C070S432000, C070S441000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06517376
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is related to a positioning-sounding device for a card puller, and especially to such a positioning-sounding device provided in a card puller in order that the positioning-sounding device can make sure that an inserting and extracting member has been inserted in position, this can eliminate failure of contact and error in reading in successive using of the inserting and extracting member.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Since the advent of the automation science and techniques, automation equipment of digital science and techniques have substituted for a lot of things, important matters can be more precisely dealt with by the digital science and techniques, and data can be recorded in detail and well conserved. Therefore, various complicated as well as disordered matters and information can be put in order to make more convenience and comfort for daily life of people, and a goal of a life of the new age brought by the digital science and techniques can be enjoyed by people.
By virtue that IC cards and memory cards are small in volume, they are convenient for personal carrying, and are highly safe, numerous data cards thereby all are made in the forms of IC cards and memory cards. For example, IC cards can be used for monetary cards, credit cards, key cards, bus ticket cards, membership cards etc.; while memory cards can be used for compact flash cards, secure digital cards, memory stick cards, smart media cards and multi media cards etc.
The contents of the above listed cards all must be read with a reader, desired operations can then be proceeded to, in reading, a card is inserted into the reader for reading by the operation system in the reader and executing of an operation. When the card is inserted into the reader, it must be inserted to a correct position in order that the reader can read data without error; thereby, if the card is not certainly inserted to the correct position, the reader may make errors frequently during reading, and even information recorded in the card may be destroyed.
Therefore, the inventor of the present invention decided to study and develop a more reliable positioning device of a card puller in view of the above stated defects of the conventional card puller being subjected to uncertain insertion connecting and resulting of errors in reading and destroying of data. During the process of studying and developing, the inventor had developed an elastic-sheet mode card-positioning structure (as shown in FIG.
1
), the positioning structure is provided mainly in an insertion seat
10
thereof with a pusher elastic sheet “A” and a knocker elastic sheet “B”.
Wherein: the insertion seat
10
is provided therein with a channel
11
for positioning of an inserting and extracting member
20
, the channel
11
is provided in the inner area thereof with a knocking block
12
. The pusher elastic sheet “A” is provided with a bended section having a pushing section “C” and a top contacting end “D”; the knocker elastic sheet “B” is provided with a bended section having a knocking end “E” and a contacting point “F”. The top contacting end “D” of the pusher elastic sheet “A” is abutted against the contacting point “F” of the knocker elastic sheet “B”, while the pushing section “C” is extended in the channel
11
.
When the inserting and extracting member
20
enters the channel
11
, the inserting end thereof presses the pushing section “C” of the pusher elastic sheet “A” inwardly (as shown in FIG.
2
). When the pushing section “C” is moved inwardly, the top contacting end “D” of the pusher elastic sheet “A” pushes the contacting point “F” of the knocker elastic sheet “B” to make the knocking end “E” of the knocker elastic sheet “B” be raised away from the knocking block
12
. And when the inserting and extracting member
20
completely enters the channel
11
(also referring to FIG.
3
), the top contacting end “D” of the pusher elastic sheet “A” passes the contacting point “F”, so that the knocker elastic sheet “B” can be restored elastically to make bouncing of the knocking end “E” thereof back to the knocking block
12
to generate a knocking sound at the time of positioning.
Such a card positioning structure can make a knocking sound at the time of positioning, however, the elastic sheets may get elastic fatigue after using for a period of time, and thereby the actions between the pusher elastic sheet “A” and the knocker elastic sheet “B” will become uncertain, and the expected effect will not be achieved.
Referring simultaneously to
FIGS. 4-7
, the inventor of the present invention had developed another card positioning structure, the card positioning structure mainly is provided in an insertion seat
10
with a sounding device “G” which is provided with a link “J” behind a slide block “H”. The link “J” is provided on the end thereof with a pushing away round block “K”.
Before an inserting and extracting member
20
is inserted into the insertion seat
10
, the round block “K” and the link “J” are locked by clamping of contacting sections ‘M’, “N” of an elastic sheet “L”, when the inserting and extracting member
20
is inserted into a channel
11
to abut against and push inwardly the slide block “H”, the round block “K” on the end of the link “J” is moved inwardly (as shown in
FIG. 6
) to push away the contacting sections ‘M’, “N” of an elastic sheet “L”. And when the inserting and extracting member
20
is pushed in position, the round block “K” on the end of the link “J” is released from clamping of the elastic sheet “L”, so that the contacting sections ‘M’, “N” collide with each other (as shown in
FIG. 7
) to make a sound indicating that the inserting and extracting member
20
is inserted in position.
The card positioning structure surely can generate a sound when the inserting and extracting member
20
is positioned, however, the sound of collision by the contacting sections ‘M’, “N” of the elastic sheet “L” is smaller, the effect of indicating by the sound is not ideal; and by repeated entering and drawing out of the round block “K”, the elastic sheet “L” is extremely subjected to elastic fatigue and losing its elasticity.
In summarizing the above defects of conventional card positioning structures, the inventor of the present invention developed a sounding-positioning device for a card puller after continuous studying and improvement successfully to get rid of the aforesaid defects of the conventional card positioning structures.
In particular, the positioning-sounding device for a card puller of the present invention mainly is mounted in a slide groove of an insertion seat; the sounding device is comprised of a slide block and an elastic element. The slide block and the elastic element can slide in the slide groove of the insertion seat, thereby, when an inserting and extracting member is inserted into the channel of the insertion seat, it pushes the slide block for moving, so that the elastic element thereunder is compressed; when the inserting and extracting member is inserted in position, the slide block is exactly abutted against and is released from the inserting and extracting member and is elastically restored to its original position by the elastic element.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The main object of the present invention is to provide a function to make a user be certain that an inserting and extracting member is surely inserted in position by a knocking sound when a slide block collide the inner wall of a slide groove by restoring of the slide block to its original position by the elastic restoring of an elastic element.
The secondary object of the present invention is to make wide using of a sounding device, which is capable of making sound when the inserting and extracting member is inserted in position, on the inserting and connecting structures of card puller devices for various IC cards and memory cards (such as smart cards, MS cards, SD cards, CF cards, Pcmcia cards, SMC cards and MMC cards etc.). Thereby, by indicating being in position with the sound d
Bacon & Thomas PLLC
Gutierrez Diego
Reis Travis
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