KR200430767Y1 - USB driver storage which is attached and detached from the USB memory storage within auto-run function having a combi smart chip and a circular antenna - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a USB drive device equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip. The device 10 according to the present invention is a USB device having a structure in which a contact / contactless smart chip 13 having contact and contactless functions and an RF antenna 12 for carrying out a contactless function are included in the ring 16; Contact / contactless smart in the form of a coupling part 14 and 26 for coupling with the USB memory device 20 having an autorun function and a connector 25 for connecting to the USB connector 15 in the device 10. The chip features a built-in USB drive.

Auto run, contact / contactless smart chip, USB smart card control chip, USB hub, memory control chip, RF antenna, card reader, smart chip, combi chip, prepaid electronic money, postpaid electronic money, RF reader

Description

UBS drive device with annular antenna with detachable contact / contactless smart chip with built-in autorun function {USB driver storage which is attached and detached from the USB memory storage within auto-run function having a combi smart chip and a circular antenna}

1 is a configuration diagram of a ring type USB drive device according to the present invention and a memory device with a built-in autorun function detachable to the device;

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

10: ring type USB drive device with contact / contactless smart chip

11: strap connection, 12: RF antenna, 13: contact / contactless smart chip (combi chip)

14: coupling portion for coupling with the auto run memory device 20

15: USB connector, 16: hook, 17: USB smart card control chip

20: Memory device with built-in autorun function

21: memory, 22: USB hub chip, 23: memory control chip, 24: USB connector

25: Connector connected with the USB connector (15)

26: coupling portion for coupling with the ring type USB electronic money device (10)

(Technology)

The present invention relates to a USB (Universal Serial Bus) device equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip, and more specifically, by mounting a contact / contactless smart chip in the USB device, the USB device is used for various non-contact applications of the smart chip. The present invention relates to a USB chip device equipped with a smart chip, which can be used for various types of contact uses of the smart chip, and particularly, a contact / contactless structure having a structure that can accommodate a memory device with a removable autorun function. The present invention relates to a USB drive device with a built-in smart chip.

(Background)

Smart chip is an IC chip equipped with a microprocessor, operating system, security module, memory, etc. and is used in many fields such as transportation, finance, education, communication, administration, electronic money, information recording, loyalty management, identity verification, electronic bank account, etc. It is now widely used as a means. Smart chips are classified into contact chips, contactless chips, and combi chips (contact / contactless smart chips), depending on how the data is read. Smart chip refers to a form in which smart chip contacts are activated by the contact of the smart chip with the contact point of the interface device. In the non-contact smart chip, power is required for the operation of the smart chip through the RF antenna, and communication is performed in an electromagnetic induction manner. Combi chip is a smart chip that supports both contact and contactless functions.

Recently, in order to connect the smart chip with other devices such as a computer, an additional USB terminal is formed, and using the USB terminal, the external device and the smart chip can be communicatively connected.

In the early days, smart chips were widely used as transportation cards, one of prepaid electronic money. This prepaid transportation card is a card type contactless card with a built-in contactless smart chip and RF antenna.The card is charged at the charging station in advance and charged to the card. It is inconvenient to visit the charging station in order to charge as a smart card of the way that the corresponding fare is reduced from the amount. Since then, the transportation card has been combined with a credit card that can be paid by credit without recharging the transportation fare. This kind of built-in transportation card is a combination of a contactless smart chip and RF antenna in the credit card. As the applications of mobile communication terminals (mobile phones) and smart chips have been expanded, smart chips have been used in the form of being mounted on mobile communication terminals. An example of applying a smart chip to a mobile communication terminal is a mobile phone equipped with a contactless smart chip and an RF antenna to pay for a transportation fee. As another application example, a combi chip including both contact and contactless devices is mounted on a mobile phone to mount a prepaid traffic card function on a contactless portion, and the amount of a transportation card by mobile communication through contact with a mobile communication terminal of a contact portion. There is a mobile phone that can charge.

In addition, in order to solve the inconvenience of charging the prepaid smart chip, a technology that can charge a transportation card through the Internet by connecting a charging module to the computer has been proposed. These smart chips are equipped with various solutions such as certificate, credit information, prepaid payment, membership, and membership depending on their purpose.

By creating peripherals based on the common interface provided by UBS, developers can reduce the burden of developing new interfaces and conflicting with existing peripherals when creating peripherals, while using Plug and Play (PnP: Plug and Play). By supporting the function of), users can install peripherals more easily without opening the computer without any additional setting. These features are automatically detected by the computer's BIOS and operating system, and do not require installation.

Many applications running on a computer must go through the installation process, which requires that the program be installed in order to run the program. This installation is done once on the user's computer and no further installation is required, but for computers that do not have an application running by the user, the user has a CD-ROM or a specific storage medium to install the application. I have a problem to go to. In order to solve the above problems, a technology called auto run is widely used as an application program execution method that can execute an application program stored in a removable storage device without an installation process. For example, in the case of an Internet phone (for example, VOIP), the user is simply configured to insert a device into a USB terminal to install a drive and an application and automatically execute the program.

The purpose of the present invention is to create a personal USB drive device equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip capable of communicating with an internet-enabled computer in the form of a ring shape, which is widely popular as a mobile phone accessory, and thus the user's portability I want to increase.

The purpose of the present invention is to drive and program necessary to drive personal USB devices equipped with contact / contactless smart chips, and to support the autorun function in order to install affiliate programs of affiliated electronic money companies, affiliate traffic card companies and affiliate advertising companies. By providing a structure that can be combined with the device, the company intends to increase the utilization of a personal USB drive device equipped with a conventional contact / contactless smart chip.

According to the present invention, there is provided a UBS drive device having a contact / contactless smart chip, which can be combined with a UESB memory device having an autorun function, and equipped with an RF antenna (loop antenna) in a ring.

 The USB drive device according to the present invention is a device capable of inputting / outputting data by being connected to a computer capable of internet, a contact / contactless smart chip having contact and contactless functions, and a contactless function of the smart chip connected to the smart chip. Includes an annular RF antenna for implementation.

Preferably, the contactless function of the contact / contactless smart chip includes a traffic card function, and is connected to the management server of the electronic money company, and the electronic payment on the Internet is charged with the amount of the transportation card function under the control of the management server. Can be done.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail with the USB drive device equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip according to the present invention. The following embodiments are merely illustrative descriptions according to the present invention, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.

1 illustrates an example of a USB device in which an example contact / contactless smart chip is embedded and a memory device having an autorun function detachable from the USB drive device.

Referring to FIG. 1, the USB drive apparatus 10 having a built-in contact / contactless smart chip according to the present invention is equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip 13 having contact and contactless functions as in a conventional device. The contact / contactless smart chip 13 has a variety of solutions required for the contact function of the contact part and the contactless function of the contactless part, for example, an authentication certificate, a credit card, a prepaid transportation card, or the like, depending on its use. Various solutions (applets) can be mounted for application to electronic money, membership cards, electronic bankbooks, etc., such as postpaid transportation cards.

The RF antenna 12 of the present invention is a conventional RF antenna inserted into the ring 16 and connected to the contact / contactless smart chip 13 to enable a contactless function (for example, a traffic card), and is widely known. As described above, the antenna generates an induced electromotive force when approaching an RF reader (eg, a traffic settlement terminal) to transmit data related to a payment function such as a traffic fee between the contact / contactless smart chip 13 and the RF reader. The RF antenna 12 is connected to two terminals of a contact / contactless smart chip.

When the contact terminal of the contact / contactless smart chip 13 of the present invention is connected to the USB smart card control chip 17 and the USB connector 15 is connected to the USB port of the Internet-enabled computer, the data stored in the smart chip 13 is Updating and controlling data is possible to the extent permitted by the computer. In addition, the contactless part and the RF antenna 13 act on the contactless part of the smart chip 13 while not connected to the computer, thereby providing a non-contact function such as a prepaid transportation card, a postpaid transportation card, or a membership card. Can be done.

The present invention is distinguished from the USB drive device equipped with a conventional contact / contactless smart chip by applying a ring-shaped design which is widely used in the form of a mobile phone accessory. Implementing the RF antenna 12 for use inside the ring 16 allows access to the ring 16 to the RF reader in addition to the accessory function of the existing ring to perform a contactless payment function.

In addition, the present invention is intended to automatically perform the program installation tasks for supporting the limitations of existing USB devices such as contact / contactless smart chip installation, for example, drive and electronic money related applications and other additional services. By providing coupling portions 14 and 26 for easily detaching the UBS memory device 20 having the autorun function, a UBS memory device having an autorun function for providing the above service can be provided. 20 has a connector 25 for connecting with the USB connector 15 of the USB drive device 10, the contact / contactless smart chip is built-in, the memory 21 for storing programs and drivers to be automatically executed, The memory control chip 23 and the contact / contactless smart chip that supports the memory control and autorun function Stored consists yueseubi drive apparatus 10 and the memory control chip 23 at the same time yueseubi hub chip for performing the functions yueseubi 22, and yueseubi connector 24 for connecting with a computer that supports yueseubi.

The present invention described above is a USB device equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip in which a RF antenna is inserted into a ring in order to maximize portability and improve contactless performance.

The present invention can provide a differentiated service using the same by providing a structure that can easily detach a memory device with an autorun function. For example, customers can receive transportation cards, authentication, and various smart card supplementary services using the USB device with the ring-shaped contact / contactless smart chip of the present invention, as well as a memory device with an autorun function. In addition to this, you can automatically execute various additional services such as automatic installation of drives, automatic execution of payment services of affiliated electronic money companies, automatic execution of service programs for affiliated online shopping mall companies, automatic execution of affiliated messenger programs, and automatic screen save function. Can provide extended memory for customers.

This design makes it possible to select according to the customer's economic potential by configuring each device as a separate product instead of implementing two devices as one product, and the electronic money service is provided in the USB device with the built-in contact / non-contact smart chip. Equipped with an electronic money company affiliated service, the built-in memory device with built-in autorun function can implement various types of services according to each company's policy.

Claims (2)

In a USB drive device 10 equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip connected to a computer capable of internet, a device having a contact / contactless smart chip 13 and a smart card control chip 17 having contact and contactless functions. As an RF antenna 12 inserted into the ring 16 to perform a contactless function as an example; USS drive device is provided with a contact / contactless smart chip (13) having a coupling portion 14 for coupling the US memory device (20) to the device (10). The memory 21, the memory control chip 23, and the USB hub chip 22 in order to impose an autorun function in combination with the USB drive device 10 equipped with a contact / contactless smart chip. In the memory device 20 having an autorun function, a coupling part 26 for engaging with the USB drive device 10 having a contact / contactless smart chip and a connector 25 for contacting with the USB connector 15 are provided. USS memory device 20 having an autorun function.

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