FORBINDELSEENHET FOR ETT PORTABELT FOREMAL

摘要

A connector for a portable object particularly adapted for credit cards having an IC chip thereon comprises an element incorporating a chamber having an opening adapted to receive the portable object along a predetermined direction. Means for grasping the portable object are contained in the chamber and actuable by the displacement of the portable object. The means for grasping the portable object comprises a first jaw and a second jaw formed by a member which is not integral with the element and cooperating with a guiding device such that it is displaced in the chamber along the predetermined direction between a stable idle position close to the opening and an operating position away from the opening. The member is tipped with respect to the portable object between the idle and operating positions. The member comprises an entrainment device disposed to receive an extreme portion of the portable object and for entrainment of the member between idle and operating positions by the sole displacement imparted to the portable object along the predetermined direction. Magnetization means may be included for retaining the jaws in the operating position. At least one of the jaws may include electrical contact elements arranged to make contact with corresponding output terminals on the chip. The electrical contact elements are flexible having one end fixed to the second jaw and its other end free.