Invention Application
- Patent Title: CARD READER
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Application No.: US15613840Application Date: 2017-06-05
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Publication No.: US20170351880A1Publication Date: 2017-12-07
- Inventor: Shigeki OZAWA , Fumiya AKASU , Hirofumi KUWAKI , Hiroshige TAKEDA
- Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION
- Priority: JP2016-112897 20160606
- Main IPC: G06K7/00
- IPC: G06K7/00 ; G06K7/08 ; G06Q20/34

Abstract:
A card reader may include a card passage; a shutter member to close the card passage; a magnetic head on a rear side of the shutter member reads or records data in a magnetic strip of a card; an electrostatic capacitance sensor on the rear side or the shutter member; a first guide member which structures at least a part of a face on a first direction side of the card passage when one side in a thickness direction of the card passing the card passage is referred to as a first direction; and a second guide member which structures at least a part of a face on a second direction side of the card passage. The first guide member may include insulating material and the second guide member may include conductive material. The electrostatic capacitance sensor may be attached to the first guide member.
Public/Granted literature
- US10068112B2 Card reader Public/Granted day:2018-09-04
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