A card index comprises a housing containing a drawer which holds a stack of punched cards. All the cards have punched holes in which a row of dogs in the bottom of the drawer engage and the cards also have punched selection holes in which selection stop cams can engage. Each card has selection holes in register with all of the stop cams except one. To select a card, a button corresponding to the card is pressed and this rocks a key lever to move the corresponding stop cam downwards. The cam pass...

An IC card reader/writer includes a control unit incorporating a central processing unit, read only memory, and random access memory. In addition, the reader/writer includes a UART, a sending circuit for modulating a digital signal received from the UART, transmitting and receiving antennas, and a receiving circuit for demodulating received signals. The control unit controls the IC card reader/writer by setting an interval between a trigger signal and a start flag at the time of data transmissio...

In a card socket (21-1) having a socket body (21) in which a memory card (10-1) is set and socket electrodes (22) formed on a bottom surface of the socket body (21) to be electrically contacted to exposed electrodes (12) of the memory card (10-1) when set into the card socket (21-1), the memory card (10-1) is magnetically contacted and fixed to the bottom surface of the socket body (21). The card socket (21-1) further has a card removal button (24) for releasing the memory card (10-1) from the c...

A card guide for holding a stack of cards to be separated, and a card picker for separating a single card from a stack of cards at a first location and moving the separated card to a second location, where each card has substantially the same thickness and substantially the same periphery. The card guide is includes a frame having a periphery sufficiently larger than the card periphery to permit the cards to readily enter the frame while remaining substantially aligned. The card guide has an ope...

A credit card (1) with a storage medium such as, for example, a magnetic strip (4) is provided. The credit card (1) is made multi-part and consists of a card body (2) and a strip (3) which can be applied thereto. The strip (3) can be replaced, as required, by new strips, making it possible to use the actual card body (2) several times. As a result, the costs of using the credit card are reduced substantially.

A small card to be punched for accounting purposes has approximately the dimensions of a cheque card and is made of a plastics material that may be creased. Positioning holes defining a punching box are provided at regular intervals in lines and columns parallel to the longitudinal edges and the transverse edges of the card. Outside the punching boxes, clocking holes are provided punched parallel to a longitudinal edge. The card is used in combination with specially adapted pliers thereby facili...

The invention relates to a multi-layered identification card comprising a card core laminated between cover sheets with user information appearing on the card inlet. At least one of the cover sheets is transparent. The information is provided on the inlet by means of a laser beam being controlled accordingly so as to protect against forgery. When producing the card the information is provided onto the inlet through the transparent cover sheet.

An optical information-bearing debit card having servo tracks and calibration works on a recording medium for aligning a reading or writing light beam with a nearby value site area. The medium is an elongated strip of reflective information storage material adhered to a self-supporting card, like a credit card. The value site area may be decremented by the light beam changing the optical characteristics of the recording medium. The servo tracks are lengthwise, parallel to the long dimension of t...

Provided is an identification card having a photographic image support, the lower layer of which is impregnated with a hot-melt type thermoplastic adhesive, and a laminable indicia bearing layer and a durable resilient backing to which the support and bearing layer are laminated.

A card assembly comprising a backing sheet, a first transparent film bonded to the backing sheet along one side margin area portion through a first pressure sensitive adhesive coating, a transparent releasable film attached to the first transparent film along the remaining area portion, a cut line of a generally closed-loop configuration formed through the first transparent film and the releasable film to define a configuration corresponding to the circumference of a thin article to be interpose...