VERTICALLY INTEGRATED CARD HOUSING

摘要

An integrated card housing (10) to house two or more PC cards is disclosed. In one embodiment, the housing (10) includes a first slot (15) to receive a PCMCIA card, and a second slot (16) to receive a Smart card, stacked on one another, thereby permitting integration into a personal computer or laptop computer without requiring side-by-side slots for PCMCIA and Smart card media. The housing (10) includes conventional I/O connectors (18) and power connectors (20) for each of the respective media slots (15, 16).