HK1027881B - Visiting card with cd rom - Google Patents

Description

The invention concerns a business card in the sense of the concept of an independent patent claim.

Business cards have long been commonly known and used. They are printed and provided with names, company names and other visually recognizable information on paper or other media. Because the format is relatively small, only a very limited amount of information can be printed on it. This amount of information is sufficient when handed directly to a conversation partner.

The reader has three holes that interfere with the holes in the card. Such a reader has a rotating reader. This means that a special reader is needed in which the card remains in position and the reader rotates around the card. These cards cannot be used with a regular CD. The CD card thus provides a common positioning aid, but no means of centering in a CDL.

JP 04040586 (Nippon Telegr.) shows a credit card with CD reader area. It has a center hole for recording the thorn in a CD device. This card can be plugged with the center hole into a drive thorn in a CD drive. This is only possible on a drive that is completely freely accessible from above, such as a laptop drive.

The purpose of the invention is to indicate a business card which can be printed in the conventional way with information and which additionally allows a large amount of information to be conveyed.

This task is solved by the invention mentioned in the claims.

An additional advantage of the invention is that as information, for example, entire company information, such as company program, catalogs, order forms, and, for example, even automatic Internet entry into the company's home page on the business card can be present.

A further advantage of the invention is that the business card according to the invention can also be produced in different formats.

The invention is described below in the context of the drawings. Figure 1 an example of a business card in a bottom view;Figure 2 the business card inserted in the CD-ROM drive;Figure 3 an example of a business card in cross section;

The invention is now described in more detail in the context of the drawings.

The basic idea of the invention is to combine a business card and a CD-ROM. On the one hand, business cards are usually made of paper, half-board or plastic. They have a certain format, similar to that of credit cards, which is common and very common worldwide. On the other hand, CDs with music or with catalogue and company information have also been sent by various companies. However, they cannot be put in business card boxes because they are too large and round.

The new business card now makes both possible. It is a CD which is similar in format to business cards and can still be inserted and read in a normal CD drive.

A typical CD drive has a central drive thorn and a circular drive center into which a CD is inserted. The drive center centers the inserted CD and is driven into the drive by the drive thorn. During operation, the CD is in and on a small air cushion in the drive center and is driven by the thorn and the central edition.

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A CD with the size and shape of a business card is too small to fit in the drive's center. It does not correspond in any way to the format of the normal or the mini-CD. The crucial problem is the center in the usual CD-drive. This is now solved, in which the business card is designed as a CD-ROM in the business card format and is provided with appropriate means for centering in the CD-drive.

A business card 1 is shown in Figure 1 from below. It has a format similar to that of business cards. It is made like a regular CD from the same material and is made identically. In the center is a drive excerpt 11 surrounded by a print area 15. It is connected to the data area 14 which can be described with data and read on the CD drive. A number, preferably four, of 13 circles are arranged in a circle. The 13 circles are arranged so that when the business card is inserted into the CD drive, the 13 circles are at the center of the center of the disk (Figure 2) and the 23 circles are at the center of the disk.

In Figure 2, a business card 1 of the invention is inserted into a drive drawer 20 of a CD drive 2. It is shown in the section A - A as shown in Figure 1. It is clearly visible how the drive drawer 20 has a first centre aperture 22 for ordinary CDs and a second centre aperture 23 for mini-CDs. The drive thorn 21 and drive drive 21' of the drive and drive 11 are only attached because they are not in the A - A drive. The visitor card 1 is now located with its vertical downward-moving centers 13, 13a at the center edge of the drive 23 for a straight-moving drive 23 of the drive 23 respectively. This ensures that a centrifugal drive is formed in the middle of the drive 11 and that it is not simultaneously connected to the air drive 21 and the visitor card 11 by means of a vertical and vertical thrust.

The mold is now not produced by milling the mold from a finished CD, but by a stamping process. This allows the mold and the means to center the business card CD to be produced in a single work. In order for the mold to be cut neatly around the perimeter and the center strips to be formed, the stamping process must be slow, so that in the production of the center strips 13 a deformation occurs, but no breakthrough. The center strips 13 are slowly pushed down through small stamps in the stamping tool and the material is plastically deformed.

The top of the business card can be printed as before with names, addresses and other information. The bottom, the data page, is a common CD that can be described with computer-readable data. For example, a company profile, a company catalogue and similar information including multimedia can be played.

The technique of manufacturing the business card 1 and the arrangement of the central points 13 now makes it possible to design the business card in almost any shape, i.e. with almost any outer contour, since it is centered in the drive by the central points 13 and not by the outer circumference.

Claims (8)

1. A visiting card (1) of plastic with a printed upper side (12') with directly visually readable information, wherein the lower side (12) of the visiting card (1) is provided with electronically processed data which can be optically or acoustically reproduced by a CD drive with drive drawer with a centering shoulder (23) for Mini-CD, characterised in that the visiting card (1) comprises means extending from the lower side (12) downwards for its centered accommodation in a CD drive,. which means come into bearing on the centering shoulder (23) of the Mini-CD of the drive drawer with its outside linings lying on circlular sector.
2. A visiting card according to claim 1, characterised in that the means for the centered accommodation in the CD drive consists of a number of centering cams (13) projecting downwardly from the lower side (12), wherein the centering cams (13) are arranged such that in a condition of the visiting card inserted into a CD drive they at least approximately bear on the centering shoulder (23) for Mini-CD's.
3. A visiting card according to claim 1, characterised in that the means for the centered accommodation in the CD drive consists of a number of centering beads (13a) projecting downwardly from the lower side (12), wherein the centering beads (13a) are arranged such that in a condition of the visiting card inserted into a CD drive they at least approximately bear on the centering shoulder (23) for Mini-CD's.
4. A visiting card according to claim 2 or 3, characterised in that the centering cams (13) or the centering beads (13a) are produced by plastic deformation.
5. A visiting card according to claim 2 or 3, characterised in that the centering cams (13) or centering beads (13a) are adhesed onto the lower side (12).
6. A visiting card according to one of the claims 1 to 5, characterised in that it has any shape at the circumference.
7. A visiting card according to claim 6, characterised in that the shape may be produced by a punching procedure from a CD.
8. A visiting card according to claim 7, characterised in that the centering cams (13) or the centering beads (13a) and the shape can be produced in the same punching procedure.