JPH01253484A - Manufacture of card - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To efficiently manufacture a card of type formed with a recess on a card body by inserting a module by an inserting machine to the recess formed on the body by a spot facing machine, and inspecting the position of the module inserted to the recess and the electric operation of the module by an inspecting unit. CONSTITUTION:A spot facing machine 4 for forming a recess 9a by spot facing on a card body 9, an inserting machine 6 for inserting the module 10 of an electric component to the recess 9a formed by the machine 4, and an inspecting unit 7 for inspecting whether the module 10 inserted to the recess 9a by the machine 6 is set at a home position or not and whether the module is electrically correctly operated or not are provided. Thus, the recess is formed on the body, and the module is inserted to the recess and then inspected, thereby efficiently manufacturing the card.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] Industrial applications The present invention relates to a card manufacturing device.

The structure of a conventional technology card, such as a conventional IC card, is as shown in FIG.

The Tsumeji card body is composed of a base body 1 and a top sheet 2, and the engineering C module 3 has a flange 3a on the lower side.

With this configuration, the IC module 3 is inserted into the hole 12L of the base 1, the collar 3a is sandwiched between the base 1 and the top sheet 2,
A base 1 and a top sheet 2 are bonded together by thermocompression.

Problems to be Solved by the Invention However, in the production of the above-mentioned IC card, heat stress is applied to the IC module 3 due to thermocompression bonding of the base 1 and the top sheet 2, which may damage it.

Therefore, consideration is being given to changing the structure of the IC card itself, forming a recess in the card body, and attaching an IC module to the recess.

An object of the present invention is to provide a card manufacturing apparatus that can efficiently manufacture a card of the type in which a recess is formed in the card body.

Means for Solving the Problems In order to achieve the above object, the card manufacturing apparatus of the present invention is constructed as follows.

Specifically, there is a spot punching machine that forms a recess in a card body, an insertion machine that inserts a module of an electrical component into the recess formed by the spot punch, and a module that is inserted into the recess by this insertion machine. The module is equipped with an inspection machine that performs at least one of inspecting whether the module is set in a fixed position and inspecting whether the module is electrically operating correctly.

According to the above-described method, recesses can be easily formed using a counterboring machine,
The module can be easily inserted into this recess using an insertion machine, and the module can be easily inspected using an inspection machine, making it possible to manufacture cards extremely efficiently.

EXAMPLE An example in which the present invention is applied to an IC card manufacturing apparatus will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In Fig. 1, 4 is a spotting machine, 6 is a washing machine, 6 is an insertion machine, 0 is an inspection machine, and 8 is a packaging machine.The details will be clarified below, but the card body 9 shows these machines. The IC module 10 is inserted into the IC module 10 by the insertion machine 6, inspected by the inspection machine 7, packaged by the packaging machine 8, and shipped to the user.

Now, the details of each part will be explained.

First, the card body 9 has a four-layer laminated structure made of vinyl chloride, and a recess 9 shown in FIG. 2 is formed on one side of the card body 9.

This recess 9& is formed by a spot punching machine 4 shown in FIG.
sheets are set. The spotting machine 4 is the drill 1 shown in Fig. 4.
1 are provided at a predetermined interval, and with these two drills 11, a recess 9a is first formed in the jikaroe on which the first card body 9 and the third card body 9 are seated. Next, a concave portion 9a is formed in which the second and fourth card bodies 9 are seated.

In this case, one side of the card body 9 is pushed by the movable body 13 so that the other side comes into contact with the position regulating body 12, and is further attracted by the air intake passage 14 at this position, thereby ensuring that it is inserted in the fixed position. The Rukoto.

Therefore, the drill recess 9a is reliably formed in the fixed position of the card body 9 by the drill 11.

In addition, 5°C cooled Doira air is blown onto the tip of the drill 11 through a pipe 16.
The life of the drill 11 itself is extended by cooling the drill 11, and the concave portion 91L is formed quickly by rotating at a higher speed, and the card body 9 is softened and the concave portion 9a does not lose its shape even with this high speed rotation. I'm going there for the sake of it.

In addition, air at room temperature is blown downward from the drill 11 through a pipe 16 in order to blow away the cutting waste out of the recess 9a.

Further, the drill 11 itself has a taper of θ=IQ degree at its tip, so that the outer circumferential wall of the recess 9a is also tapered outward from the bottom to the top.

The recess 9a is formed by digging twice as shown in FIG. In other words, first perform rough digging up to the line person, then perform finishing trench V up to line B, and thereby
In addition to adjusting the shape, the tapered outer peripheral wall as mentioned above is made into a smooth surface.

By the way, wind containing neutralizing ions is supplied to the drill 11 portion from an anti-static blower (not shown), and the neutralizing ions neutralize the cutting waste from the drill 11 from being electrostatically charged, and the cutting waste is transferred to the card body. This prevents it from re-adhering to 9 etc.

After the recess 9a is formed in this way, the card body 9 is sent to the surface presser 17 shown in FIG. 3.

Also in this surface pressing machine 17, the card body is set in a fixed position by the position regulating body 18 and the movable body 19 as shown in FIG. be brought into contact with The sides of the opening of the one-piece recess 9a are cut with the drill 11, so there are small unevenness formed therein. The edges are pressed to make them extremely smooth.

Note that 22 is a thermocouple for controlling energization of the heater 20, and 23 is a card holder for holding down the card body 9 during the above-mentioned surface pressing operation.

Next, the card body 9 is opened on the left and right sides as shown in FIG.
After the sheets are stored at once, they are sent to the washing machine 6 shown in FIG.

The washing machine 5 has three tanks 6 & ~ 5c inside, -
Ultrasonic cleaning is performed in the liquid in the tank 5&, rinsing is performed in the second type 6b, and steam cleaning (rinsing) is performed in the third type 6C.

Here, the magazine 24 is set in the tanks 5a to SC so that the opening faces upward and downward, so that ultrasonic energy from an ultrasonic generator (not shown) at the bottom of the tank 5a is transmitted into the magazine 24. It will be effectively supplied.

Since the opening of the magazine 24 is oriented upward and downward in this manner, a long pin 24& is removably attached to each row to prevent the card body 9 from falling downward and floating upward. .

Next, the card body 9 cleaned in this way is placed in the magazine 2.
4 and sent to the adhesive applicator 26 in FIG.

At this time, the card bodies 9 arranged in three rows in the magazine 24 are first fed into the feeder 26 shown in FIGS.
The sheets are supplied one by one to the pallet 27 by the suction head 28, and the two pallets advance in a line toward the adhesive applicator 26.

The adhesive applicator 26 applies adhesive into the recess 9a in an arrangement similar to a "5" on a dice. For this adhesive, the main ingredient of silicone-based modified polymer is placed in a tank 29.
A curing agent is put into tank 3o and mixed.

This mixing is carried out by the mixing head 31 shown in FIG.
4.

A spiral screw 35 is rotatably housed in the mixing section 34, and the two liquids are mixed by this rotation and immediately sent to the nozzle 36.

The nozzle 36 is connected to the die as shown in Figs.
6", an opening 362L is formed, and this opening 3
Adhesive is applied from 62L to the bottom surface of the recess 9a.

The entire nozzle 36 is coated with Teflon, which increases the fluidity of the adhesive and prevents the opening 361L from clogging.

Furthermore, the opening 36a is provided at the tip of the protrusion with a tapered tip to reduce the amount of adhesive that adheres to the tip after the adhesive is applied to the recess 9&.

Furthermore, when applying this adhesive, the nozzle 36 descends together with the mixing head 31 into the recess 92L at once, but when rising, the nozzle 36 rises in two steps. This is in case there is any stringing of the adhesive from the opening 362L during this upward movement. Even if this stringing occurs, drop it from a low position into the recess 9 & never let it out of the recess 9a. This is to ensure that there is no such thing.

Now, in this state, the card bodies 9 are placed on a pallet (37 in FIG. 13) toward the insertion machine 6 in FIG. 1, and are advanced in one line by the belt 38.

Then, the inserter 6 stops at a regular position, and the IC module 10 is inserted into the recess 92L of the card body 9.

At this time, the IC module 10 is a cartridge (not shown).
A plurality of pieces are stored in the holder, and one by one is taken out by suction with a rad 39, and this head 39 descends toward the recess 9&. At this time, the head 39 descends within the tapered hole 4Qa of the guide body 40 and sets the IC module 1o at a fixed position within the recess 9a. However, in this state, the IC module 1Q merely rests on the adhesive in the recess 9a, so it is necessary to press it with the next presser 41 shown in FIG.

Pressing the IC module 1Q using the presser iso 41 is done 6 times at a time.
Do it one by one.

In Fig. 14, six pallets 37 carried by the belt 38 on the left are lined up with the stopper 42 at the top, and are pushed to the right by the presser 41. After this presser, they are further pushed to the belt 43 on the right, and then Move to the next step.

Now, the pressing by the presser 41 is performed by the rad 44 to the presser as shown in FIG.

This presser head 44 has four legs protruding downward at the four corners, and these legs push the four corners of the IC module 10 downward, and the IC module 10 is pushed into the recess 92L.
It is glued horizontally inside.

The holding head 44 is pressed by a spiral spring 45, so that the four corners of the IC module 1o are pressed with substantially the same load.

When this pressurization is finished, the presser head 44 moves the lever 4 against the force of the spring 46 to wait above for the next six pieces.
It can be lifted at 6.

Next, the card body 9 is placed in the first
It is placed in the drying chamber 47 shown in the figure, and is dried and cured at 46° C. for 2 hours.

The IC card thus formed is shown in FIG.
It is shown in Figure 7.

In this figure, the IC module 10 is glued horizontally within the recess 9a of the card body 9 with an adhesive 48.

At this time, the outer circumferential wall of the recess 91L is tapered by tapering the drill 11 and widening from the bottom to the top in response to external force, so that a gap is formed between the recess 91L and the IC module 10. This gap is card body 9
When the IC module 1 is bent, the outer peripheral wall immediately
Since it does not come into contact with zero, it is highly evaluated because it is less susceptible to stress.

Now it is time for inspection, and the configuration of the inspection machine 7 is shown in FIGS. 18 to 20.

First, as shown in FIG. 16, the completed IC card 9m is placed in a magazine (49 in FIG. 18), and this magazine 49 is set on the base 50 as shown in FIG.

Then, the suction head 51 picks up the nine IC cards one by one and supplies them to the card supply device 52.

The card supply device 52 supplies the supplied IC card 9A to the turntable 63. The turntable 63 has four holders 54, and each holder 54 has one holder in the vertical direction.
24 [i! It has ii shelves into which the IC cards 9 are inserted one by one in order by a card supply device 62.

When all 12 cards are inserted, the turntable 53
rotates 9Q degrees, and nine IC cards are inserted into the next holder 54.

By the way, in the holder 54 rotated 90 degrees, 12
Contact points 56 shown in FIG. 19 are brought into contact with the electrodes of nine people (ten people in FIG. 16) on each IC card, respectively,
As a result, each IC card will be tested on nine people.

The inspection items are electrical confirmation items, and if the product is good, it will be transported to the magazine by 56 people at the next 90 degree rotation as shown in Figure 20. If the product is defective, it will be discharged onto the tray 56 at the next 9° rotation.

A computer 57 shown in FIG. 20 performs this control.

This computer 67 causes the reader/writer unit 58 to perform the electrical inspection of each of the nine IC cards. Since each reader/writer unit 58 has its own control command, each reader/writer unit 58 independently inspects the IC card 9A and transmits the determination result to the computer 67.

In response to this result, the computer 67 issues a control signal to move the non-defective items to the magazine 56A and the defective items to the tray 56, as described above.

Now, the good IC card 9Ai obtained in this way is placed in the magazine 56A, and then the next stamping machine 59 shown in FIG.
Then, in the inspection section 60, the final inspection is the appearance inspection and especially the card thickness inspection of 10 modules.
Packed with packaging machine 8.

It will be shipped.

Effects of the Invention As described above, the present invention provides a recess in a card body, inserts a module into the recess, and then performs an inspection, thereby making it possible to efficiently manufacture cards.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram showing one implementation of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a top view showing the card body, Fig. 3 is the front opening showing the spot boring machine part, and Fig. 4 is the drill part. 6 is a cross section N1 showing the same card body.
7 is a front view showing the washing machine section, FIG. 8 is a perspective view showing the loading machine section, FIG. 9 is a perspective view showing the adhesive applicator section, and FIG. 1Q is a front view showing the same washing machine section. 11 and 12 are a front view and a bottom view of the nozzle, 13 is a side view of the inserter, and 14 and 16 are the presser. FIGS. 16 and 17 are a top view and a sectional view of the human part of the IC card, and FIGS. 18 to 20 are perspective views of the inspection machine section. , a perspective view of main parts, and a control block diagram, FIG. 21 is a conventional I
It is a sectional view showing a C card. 4... Spot boring machine, 6... Washing machine, 6.
...Insertion machine, 7...Inspection machine, 8...
...Wrapping machine, 9...Card body, 9+! L...
...(IC card) recess, 9 people, mountain...IC card, 10...IC module, 10 people...
・(IC card) electrode, 11...Drill, 1
2. River... position regulating body, 13... movable body, 14
...Intake path, 15...Pipe, 16.
...Pipe, 1st place...Face presser, 18.
...Position regulating body, 19...Movable body, 2o
... Heater, 21 ... Face punch,
22...mark/thermocouple, 23...card holder, 2
4... Magazine, 25... Adhesive applicator, 26... Insertion machine, 27... Pallet, 28... Suction head, 29・River...tank, 3Q...tank, 31...mixing head, 32...pipe, 33...
Pipe% 34... Mixing section, 36 River...
Spiral screw, 36... River nozzle, 361L...
Opening, 37...Pallet, 38...
Belt, 39...Suction head, 4o...Guide body, 40a...Tapered hole, 41...River...
Presser, 42... Stopper, 43...
Belt, 44... River/presser head, 46... Spring, 46... V par, 47... Drying cabinet, 48... Adhesive, 49 ... Magazine, 5Q ... Base, 61 ... Suction head, 52 ... Card supply device, 53 ...
Turntable, 54...Holder, 56...
...Contact, 56...Tray, 56A...
... Magazine, 57 ... Computer, 15
8...Reader writer unit, 69...
...Stamping machine, 60...Inspection machine. Name of agent: Patent attorney Toshio Nakao and 1 other person No. 4
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Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) A counterbore machine that forms a recess in a card body by counterbore, an inserter that inserts a module of an electrical component into the recess formed by the counterbore machine, and a module that is inserted into the recess by this inserter. A card manufacturing device comprising an inspection machine that inspects at least one of whether the module is set in a fixed position and whether the module operates correctly electrically. (2) The card manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a washing machine for washing the card body after the recesses have been formed using a counterboring machine. (3) The card manufacturing apparatus according to claim 2, which has a magazine with left and right openings for storing a large number of card bodies, and the magazine is set in a washing machine with its openings facing up and down. (4) The card manufacturing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the cleaning machine has an ultrasonic generator at the bottom of the cleaning tank.