Self-Cleaning Smart Card Connector Cleans Contacts with Every Mating Cycle

Industrial@Amphenol Card|Mate ideal for applications with limited space

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Apr 30, 2015, 03:05 ET

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich., April 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Industrial@Amphenol, a leader in industrial interconnect products, introduces Card|Mate®, an extremely small smart card connector with self-cleaning wiping contacts that ensures a reliable data connection on every insertion.

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The compact and robust connector can withstand up to 500,000 mating cycles and measures just 57 mm x 30.5 mm x 5 mm, providing the smallest form factor and the most economical design on the market.

Because of its miniature size and enhanced security features, this new integrated circuit connector is ideal for use in payment terminals and physical access systems for networks, where space is limited, yet data is highly sensitive.

To help avoid manipulation via the card slot and to protect against fraud, eight data contacts are designed into the rear of each unit. This feature also allows for easy access to the contacts should re-work be required during the printed circuit board assembly process.

In an effort to avoid equipment from malfunctioning, Amphenol's new smart card reader connector features dust protection for the 'card present' switch as well as a debris slot at the rear of the connector.

Delivered in trays for easy use with pick and place processing equipment, Card|Mate offers SMT solderability and complies with ISO 7810 and ISO 7816, two leading international standards for electronic ID cards.

Card|Mate has an operating temperature of -25 degrees C to +70 degrees C. It has a current rating of <1 A and a rated voltage of <15 VDC. The data contacts have a maximum contact resistance of 100 megaohms, while the switch has a contact resistance of 1 Ohm.

Technical Specifications

Compact: 57 mm x 30.5 mm x 5 mm
Withstands up to 500,000 mating cycles
Eight data contacts
ISO 7810 and ISO 7816 compliant
Operating temperature: -25 degrees C to +70 degrees C

For more information, please visit http://www.amphenol-sine.com/ or e-mail [email protected] / Phone: 586-913-8619

READER SERVICE INQUIRIES: Please forward all reader service inquiries to: Alvaro Arrocha, Business Development Manager, Amphenol Sine Systems, 44724 Morley Drive, Clinton Township, MI 48036; e-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.amphenol-sine.com/

Editor's Note: INDUSTRIAL@AMPHENOL is a member of the US-based Amphenol Corporation. With our 40,000 employees and locations spread all over the world, we offer our customers exceptional technical support, technology, logistics and service in the areas of design and manufacturing.

As a globally trusted market leader, we connect and provide power and data transmission in a broad industrial field. Our experts collaborate with customers in nearly every industrial field including energy generation and distribution, transportation, heavy equipment, medical, factory automation, wireless outdoor, chip card readers, entertainment, lighting, security — enabling smarter, faster and better technologies to connect products to customer solutions.

The satisfaction of our customers enjoying our globally trusted logistics and services is a main priority. Through our worldwide customer, distribution and service network, we deliver products in the shortest possible time with the proper quantity to the exact locations.

Editorial Contact:
The Simon Group, Inc.
Joanna Puglisi-Barley or Beth Smith
Phone: (215) 453-8700
E-mail: [email protected]

SOURCE Amphenol Sine Systems