| CPC G09F 9/301 (2013.01) [G09G 3/035 (2020.08)] | 16 Claims |
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1. A flexibly deformable, rollable payment card shiftable between a flat configuration and a rolled configuration via a manual rolling process, said payment card comprising:
a plurality of laminations;
a plurality of rigid internal components disposed in said laminations,
said rigid internal components including—
a verification element,
a processor,
a communications element configured to send and receive information to and/or from the payment card to an external element,
an on-off sensor configured to determine an appropriate on-off response for the display unit, and
a geolocation element enabling transmittal of content to the display unit;
an electronic display unit in communication with the processor; and
a power element providing electrical power to the display unit,
said electronic display unit including an electronic display region configured to display an image that varies situationally,
said electronic display region being manually rollable,
said payment card in the flat configuration presenting a front face and a back face,
said front face being presented by a first one of the laminations and said back face being presented by a second one of the laminations,
said payment card further including laterally spaced apart first and second ends and longitudinally spaced apart top and bottom edges,
said first end overlapping said second end during the course of the rolling process, with said first end being disposed arcuately past said second end when the payment card is in the rolled configuration,
said payment card including a flexible, rollable region and a flat, rigid, non-rollable region adjacent the rollable region,
said non-rollable region being disposed adjacent one of the ends and extending between the top and bottom edges along a non-rollable region axis parallel to said one of the ends,
said non-rollable region being rectangular in shape,
said non-rollable region defining in part an outer layer of the payment card in the rolled configuration such that a variation in curvature between the flat portion and an adjacent flexible portion of the card is minimized,
each of said plurality of rigid internal components being axially aligned within and isolated in said non-rollable region so as be stacked along the non-rollable region axis and placed adjacent the first side edge,
said payment card in the rolled configuration presenting at least three overlapping layers,
at least two of said overlapping layers engaging one another,
said payment card in the flat configuration having a rectangularly prismatic envelope having a lateral first width,
said payment card in the rolled configuration having a cylindrical envelope having a lateral second width,
said second width being less than one fourth of said first width.
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