WO2016165417A1

WO2016165417A1 - Card holder, card slot, and card insertion apparatus

Info

Publication number: WO2016165417A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/070079
Authority: WO
Inventors: 汪超
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-09-18
Filing date: 2016-01-04
Publication date: 2016-10-20
Also published as: CN205029705U

Abstract

Provided are a card holder (10), a card slot (20), and a card insertion apparatus; the card insertion apparatus comprises the card holder (10) and the card slot (20), and the card holder (10) comprises: a first position limiter (101) securing a first card (50), and a first layer groove (30) located on said card holder (10); a second position limiter (102) securing a second card (60), and a second layer groove (40) located on said card holder (10); the second layer groove (40) and the first layer groove (30) have an overlapping space, and the overlapping space at least corresponds to a pin of the second card (60); a non-overlapping-space position of the first layer groove (30) at least corresponds to a pin of the first card (50).

Description

Cato, card slot and card device

Technical field

The present invention relates to mobile communication technologies, and in particular, to a card tray, a card slot, and a card insertion device.

Background technique

With the development of mobile terminal technology, the memory of the mobile terminal cannot meet the needs of the user. Therefore, most mobile terminals can add an external memory card, so that the mobile terminal needs at least two card slots to insert the communication card and the memory card respectively. The mobile terminal can not only communicate through the communication card, but also expand the memory of the mobile terminal through the memory card. However, as the functions of mobile terminals become more and more powerful, the structure of mobile terminals becomes more and more compact. Therefore, the space occupied by communication cards and memory cards in mobile terminals is excessive.

Summary of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention are expected to provide a card tray, a card slot, and a card insertion device, which can reduce the space occupied by the communication card and the memory card in the mobile terminal.

The technical solution of the embodiment of the present invention is implemented as follows:

In a first aspect, a card tray is provided, the card tray comprising:

Fixing a first stopper of the first card, located in the first layer groove of the card holder;

a second stopper for fixing the second card, located in the second layer groove of the card holder;

Wherein the second layer groove and the first layer groove have overlapping spaces, the overlapping space corresponding to at least a pin of the second card; and an unoverlapping space of the first layer groove Corresponding at least the pin of the first card, such that the pin of the first card contacts the corresponding first metal leg of the card slot, and the pin of the second card and the card slot The corresponding second metal legs are in contact.

Optionally, the angle between the first card fixed to the first stopper and the second card fixed to the second stopper on the plane of the card holder is 90 degrees.

Optionally, the card tray further includes:

When the first stopper is not fixed with a card, the shielding plate is fixed to the first stopper, and the shielding plate is configured to protect the second card fixed to the second stopper from Falling off from the card holder.

Optionally, the shape and size of the shielding plate are the same as the first card.

Optionally, the shielding panel comprises:

Covering body;

a hanging hole that is convenient for the user to carry;

a standby trigger embedded on the shutter; wherein, when a trigger for triggering the ejection of the tray is lost, the standby trigger is used as a trigger of the tray; when the tray is triggered The device is not lost and the spare trigger is only part of the shutter.

Optionally, the first card is a memory card, and the second card is a customer identification module SIM card, a micro-customer identification module nano-SIM card or a small-customer identification module micro-SIM card.

In a second aspect, a card slot is provided, the card slot comprising:

a first metal foot contacting the pin of the first card fixed by the first stopper of the card holder;

a second metal foot that is in contact with a pin of the second card to which the second stopper of the card holder is fixed.

Optionally, the card slot further includes:

Card slot frame

Slide the card tray into or out of the slide rail of the card slot;

And a spring device that ejects the card tray from the card slot by triggering of the trigger.

Optionally, the first metal elastic foot is a metal elastic foot corresponding to a pin of the memory card; the second metal elastic foot is a customer identification module SIM card, a micro-customer identification module nano-SIM card or small Type - Customer identification module The micro-SIM card's pin corresponds to the metal foot.

In a third aspect, a card insertion device is provided, the card insertion device comprising:

Catard according to any of the preceding aspects;

The card slot of any of the second aspects.

The embodiment of the present invention provides a card tray, a card slot, and a card insertion device. The card holder includes: a first stopper and a second stopper; wherein the first stopper is used for fixing the first card, and the card is located at the card. a first layer of grooves; a second stopper for fixing the second card, the second layer groove of the card tray; wherein the second layer groove and the first layer groove have overlapping spaces, and the overlapping space at least corresponds to a pin of the second card; an unoverlapping space of the first layer of the recess corresponding to at least a pin of the first card, such that a pin of the first card and a corresponding first metal leg of the card slot While contacting, the pins of the second card are in contact with corresponding second metal legs in the card slot. In this way, by setting the first limiter and the second limiter, the card tray space is multiplexed, so that the user can use different specifications of the card in the same card tray, thereby ensuring different card specifications on the card tray. The pins can be in contact with the metal pins corresponding to the card slots. In this way, while ensuring the normal communication between the chip of the inserted card and the mobile terminal, the space of the card tray and the card slot is reused, thereby saving the space of the mobile terminal.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic structural view of a card holder provided by the present invention;

2 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a card holder provided by the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a card holder after the first card is inserted into the card tray according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 3-b is a schematic structural diagram of a card holder after the second card is inserted into the card tray according to the present invention; FIG.

4 is a schematic structural view of a shielding plate provided by the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic structural view of a card tray provided by the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural view of another card tray provided by the present invention.

detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Embodiment 1

The embodiment of the present invention provides a card holder 10. As shown in FIG. 1, the card holder 10 includes: a first stopper 101 and a second stopper 102;

The first stopper 101 is used for fixing the first card 50, and is located in the first layer groove 30 of the card tray 10 (not shown in FIG. 1);

The second stopper 102 is used for fixing the second card 60, and is located in the second layer groove 40 of the card tray 10 (not shown in FIG. 1);

Wherein, the second layer groove 40 and the first layer groove 30 have an overlapping space (the range included by the left slash in FIG. 1), and the overlapping space corresponds to at least the pin of the second card 60 (may be implemented as At least a portion of the pins of the second card 60 are opposed to each other; an unoverlapping space of the first layer of recesses 30 corresponds at least to the pins of the first card 50 (which may be implemented to oppose at least a portion of the pins of the first card 50) The pins of the second card 60 are in contact with the corresponding second metal legs of the card slot while the pins of the first card 50 are in contact with the corresponding first metal legs of the card slot. Here, the un-overlapping space of the first layer of grooves 30 may be more than one place (such as the range included by the right slash in FIG. 1), and a pin corresponding to at least the first card 50 is selected from the unoverlapping spaces. Here, the type of the first card 50 and the type of the second card 60 may be different, and the first layer groove 30 and the second layer groove 40 are not in the same layer, as shown in FIG. 2, two sections are observed from the cross section of the card holder 10. The layer grooves, the first layer groove 30 and the second layer groove 40 are on two different levels.

Preferably, as shown in FIG. 3-a and FIG. 3-b, the first card 50 fixed to the first stopper (the range of the thick black line of FIG. 3-a) and the second fixed to the second stopper The angle between the two cards 60 (the range of the thick black lines of Fig. 3-b) on the plane of the card is 90 degrees. Here, the specific relative position of the first stopper 101 and the second stopper 102 is not limited in this embodiment, as long as it is fixed to the first of the first stopper 101. The pin of the second card 60 fixed to the second stopper 102 of the card 50 can be in contact with the corresponding metal elastic foot on the card slot, and can normally communicate.

Optionally, the card tray 10 further includes:

The shielding plate 103 is fixed to the first stopper 101 when the first stopper 101 is not fixed with a card, and the shielding plate 103 prevents the second card 60 fixed to the second stopper 102 from being exempted from the second card 60. Falling off from the card tray 10. Preferably, the shutter 103 is identical in shape and size to the first card 50.

Optionally, as shown in FIG. 4, the shielding plate 103 specifically includes:

a shielding body 1031;

The hanging hole 1032 is convenient for the user to carry; the hanging hole 1032 can hang the shielding plate 103 on the key chain of the user, thereby achieving the effect of being convenient to carry.

The standby flip-flop 1033 is mounted on the shutter 103, wherein when the trigger for triggering the pop-up card 10 is lost, the standby flip-flop 1033 is used as a trigger of the card tray 10; when the trigger of the card tray 10 is not lost The backup trigger 1033 serves only as part of the shutter 103. Preferably, the trigger is a card ejector pin.

Preferably, the first card 50 is a memory card, and the second card 60 is a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card, a nano-SIM card or a micro-SIM card.

In this way, by setting the first stopper 101 and the second stopper 102, the space of the card tray 10 is multiplexed, so that the user can use cards of different specifications in the same card tray, thereby ensuring the card tray 10 The pins of different specification cards can be in contact with the metal pins corresponding to the card slots. In this way, while ensuring normal communication between the chip of the inserted card and the mobile terminal, the space of the card tray 10 and the card slot 20 is reused, thereby saving space of the mobile terminal.

Embodiment 2

The embodiment of the present invention provides a card slot 20. As shown in FIG. 5, the card slot 20 includes:

a first metal elastic foot 201 that is in contact with the pin of the first card 50 fixed by the first stopper 101 of the cartridge 10;

A second metal foot 202 that contacts the pin of the second card 60 that is secured to the second limiter 102 of the cartridge 10.

It should be noted that the relative positions of the first metal leg 201 and the second metal leg 202 are determined according to the positions of the first stopper 101 and the second stopper 102 on the cartridge 10.

Optionally, as shown in FIG. 6, the card slot 20 further includes:

Card slot frame 203;

Slide the card tray 10 into or out of the slide rail 204 of the card slot 20;

And a spring device 205 that ejects the card tray 10 from the card slot 20 by triggering of the trigger.

Optionally, the first metal elastic foot 201 is a metal elastic foot corresponding to the pin of the memory card; and the second metal elastic foot 202 is a metal elastic foot corresponding to the pin of the SIM card, the nano-SIM card or the micro-SIM card. The memory card, SIM card, nano-SIM card or micro-SIM card can communicate with the mobile terminal by contacting these metal feet.

In this way, by setting the first stopper 101 and the second stopper 102, the space of the card tray 10 is multiplexed, so that the user can use cards of different specifications in the same card tray, thereby ensuring the card tray 10 The pins of different specification cards can be in contact with the metal pins corresponding to the card slots 20. In this way, while ensuring normal communication between the chip of the inserted card and the mobile terminal, the space of the card tray 10 and the card slot 20 is reused, thereby saving space of the mobile terminal.

Embodiment 3

The embodiment of the present invention provides a card insertion device 30. As an example of an actual implementation, the device 30 may be disposed in a mobile terminal (such as a smart phone or a tablet). The device 30 includes:

Any one of the card holders 10 described in the first embodiment;

And any one of the card slots 20 described in the second embodiment.

The card holder 10 includes a first limiter 101 and a second limiter 102;

The first stopper 101 is used to fix the first card 50, and is located in the first layer groove 30 of the card tray 10;

The second stopper 102 is used for fixing the second card 60, and is located in the second layer groove 40 of the card tray 10;

Wherein, the second layer groove 40 and the first layer groove 30 have overlapping spaces, and the overlapping space at least corresponds to the pin of the second card 60; an unoverlapping space of the first layer groove 30 at least corresponds to The pin of the first card 50 is such that the pin of the first card 50 contacts the corresponding first metal leg of the card slot, and the pin of the second card 60 corresponds to the corresponding slot of the card slot The two metal feet are in contact.

The card slot 20 includes: a first metal elastic foot 201 that is in contact with a pin of the first card 50 fixed to the first stopper 101 of the cartridge 10; and a second fixed to the second stopper 102 of the cartridge 10 The second metal foot 202 of the card 60 contacts the pin.

For example, the first card 50 is a memory card, and the second card 60 is a Nano-SIM card. The card holder 10 includes a first stopper 101 and a second stopper 102. The card slot 20 includes a first metal tube. Foot 201 and second metal pin 202. The card slot 20 is provided with a spring means 205 which is capable of being ejected from the card slot 20 by the slide rail 204 by the triggering of the card ejector pin. First, the card ejector trigger spring device 205 is used to eject the card holder 10 from the slide rail 204. After the card tray 10 is completely taken out, the Nano-SIM is fixed to the second stopper of the second layer groove 40 of the card tray 10. 102, the memory card is fixed to the first stopper 101 of the first layer groove 30 of the card tray 10. At this time, the memory card and the pin of the Nano-SIM are not blocked by the other party, and both have One side of the pin faces the same direction, and the direction of the two cards is 90 degrees in the plane of the card. The card tray 10 is inserted into the card slot 20 through the slide rail 204, and the pin of the memory card on the card tray 10 contacts the first metal pin 201 of the card slot 20, and the pin and card of the Nano-SIM on the card tray 10 The second metal pin 202 of the slot 20 is in contact such that both the memory card and the Nano-SIM chip can communicate with the mobile terminal.

It should be noted that when the user does not use the first card 50 (memory card), the first card 50 is replaced with a shutter 103, that is, after the second card 60 (Nano-SIM) is fixed, the shutter 103 is provided. Fixed to the first limiter, ensuring that the second card 60 does not slip off the card holder 10 without the occlusion of the first card 50.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the present invention. Range of protection.

Claims

A card holder, the card holder comprising:

Fixing a first stopper of the first card, located in the first layer groove of the card holder;

a second stopper for fixing the second card, located in the second layer groove of the card holder;

Wherein the second layer groove and the first layer groove have overlapping spaces, the overlapping space corresponding to at least a pin of the second card; and an unoverlapping space of the first layer groove Corresponding at least the pin of the first card, such that the pin of the first card contacts the corresponding first metal leg of the card slot, and the pin of the second card and the card slot The corresponding second metal legs are in contact.
The card holder according to claim 1, wherein an angle between the first card fixed to the first stopper and the second card fixed to the second stopper on the plane of the tray is 90 degrees.
The card holder of claim 1 wherein said card holder further comprises:

When the first stopper is not fixed with a card, the shielding plate is fixed to the first stopper, and the shielding plate is configured to protect the second card fixed to the second stopper from Falling off from the card holder.
The cassette of claim 3, wherein the shutter is identical in shape and size to the first card.
The card tray of claim 4, wherein the shutter comprises:

Covering body;

a hanging hole that is convenient for the user to carry;

a standby trigger embedded on the shutter; wherein, when a trigger for triggering the ejection of the tray is lost, the standby trigger is used as a trigger of the tray; when the tray is triggered The device is not lost and the spare trigger is only part of the shutter.
The card holder according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the first card is a memory card, and the second card is a customer identification module SIM card, a micro-customer identification module nano-SIM card Or small-customer identification module micro-SIM card.
A card slot, the card slot comprising:

a first metal foot contacting the pin of the first card fixed by the first stopper of the card holder;

a second metal foot that is in contact with a pin of the second card to which the second stopper of the card holder is fixed.
The card slot according to claim 7, wherein the card slot further comprises:

Card slot frame

Slide the card tray into or out of the slide rail of the card slot;

And a spring device that ejects the card tray from the card slot by triggering of the trigger.
The card slot according to claim 7, wherein the first metal elastic foot is a metal elastic foot corresponding to a pin of the memory card; the second metal elastic foot is a customer identification module SIM card, and a micro-customer identification module The metal foot of the nano-SIM card or the pin of the small-customer identification module micro-SIM card.
A card insertion device, the card insertion device comprising:

a card holder according to any one of claims 1 to 6;

And the card slot according to any one of claims 7 to 9.