发明申请
- 专利标题: PROTECTIVE SERPENTINE TRACK FOR CARD PAYMENT TERMINAL
- 专利标题(中): 卡付款终端的保护性履带
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申请号: US13087538申请日: 2011-04-15
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公开(公告)号: US20110255253A1公开(公告)日: 2011-10-20
- 发明人: Andrew Campbell , Brian Docherty , James Churchman , Kevin Maidment , Nick McGarvey
- 申请人: Andrew Campbell , Brian Docherty , James Churchman , Kevin Maidment , Nick McGarvey
- 主分类号: H05K5/00
- IPC分类号: H05K5/00 ; H05K1/16
摘要:
A multi-layer Printed Circuit Board (PCB) holds a number of sections of serpentine track on two or more internal layers of a multi-layer PCB. The sections are connected in series with resistors between each section. One end of each of the resistors a connection to an analogue to digital converter is made. In its simplest form, each of the serpentine track is produced on a separate internal layer of the PCB. The outer layers are typically ground planes. Attempts to drill through the PCB are likely to short the ground plane to one or more of the internal serpentine tracks, which will alter the voltages on the analogue to digital connections. Shorting out sections of serpentine track with a view to then drilling through undetected are made very difficult in this scheme since shorting any tack to the ground plane or any track to any other track or breaking any track will be detected by changes to the voltages on the connections to the analogue to digital converter inputs.
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