Computer-dedicated auxiliary data access device

• Main Authors: WEI TZU HSIANG, CHEN KEVIN ALEXANDER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 12.06.2001
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; INFORMATION STORAGE; INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORDCARRIER AND TRANSDUCER; PHYSICS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ARTCOLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS

A computer-dedicated auxiliary data access device comprised of a device case having a minimum of one horizontal slot in the front side and, furthermore, a housing cavity perpendicularly formed inward beyond the horizontal slot, a universal serial bus interface socket installed at the end section of the housing cavity, an IC circuit board disposed in parallel alignment with the horizontal slot, a card terminal connector respectively situated at the end face of the IC circuit board, and a number of perpendicularly supportive spring contacts of the card terminal connector that are connected via a flat cable routed to the interface socket. The horizontal slot provides for the sideways insertion of an ultra thin flat memory card, with the memory card internally consisting of high-speed flash memory chips and also including a main controller IC and a memory IC which have a read/write specification of 10,000 times to enable the rapid reading and writing of data. An exposed read access area is formed in the top of memory card that is in parallel alignment with the card terminal connector, the read access area consisting of an elastically loaded plurality of contacts intervallicly disposed that enable perpendicular mutual engagement. A transmission cable is installed to interface socket and the other end is installed to the USB port of a computer. As such, the present invention achieves computer-dedicated high speed and high capacity auxiliary memory access operations, while providing for convenient portability.