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Abstract

A SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card stores all the subscriber-related information data for a terminal. This invention relates to a locating a SIM card (postage stamp type, module type or IC type) in a battery of the terminal as opposed to in a body of the terminal, in order to use space within the terminal more efficiently. In the terminal, a terminal body has a main PCB (Printed Circuit Board), an interface connector connected to the main PCB, and at least a pair of first SIM card connecting terminals and a charging terminal which are integrally formed with the interface connector and exposed from a body base. A battery pack is detachably mounted on the base of the terminal body, a SIM card reader is built in the battery pack, a SIM card contact device is fixed to the SIM card reader and has a cover and a plurality of terminals connected to the SIM card reader, for holding a SIM card, the postage stamp type SIM card is slidably inserted under the cover of the SIM card contact device, and at least a pair of second SIM card connecting terminals are electrically connected to the SIM card reader and exposed at the positions corresponding to the first SIM card connecting terminals on a base of the battery pack, for electrically connecting the SIM card in the battery pack to the main PCB of the terminal body.

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First Claim