Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Smart card reader with electrostatic discharge protection
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Application No.: US14981012Application Date: 2015-12-28
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Publication No.: US09886600B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: William Michael Beals
- Applicant: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
- Applicant Address: US CO Englewood
- Assignee: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
- Current Assignee: ECHOSTAR TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Englewood
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group LLP
- Main IPC: G06K7/00
- IPC: G06K7/00 ; G06K19/077

Abstract:
Various embodiments provide a smart card reader that includes a smart card reader body and smart card contacts. The smart card reader body is a single, contiguous piece of electrically dissipative material. As a smart card is inserted in to the smart card reader body and makes contact with portions of the smart card reader body, any electrostatic charge that has accumulated on plastic portions of the smart card is discharged through the smart card reader body itself, and to ground. As a result, damage to circuitry coupled to the smart card reader and an embedded circuit housed in the smart card is avoided.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170185810A1 SMART CARD READER WITH ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION Public/Granted day:2017-06-29
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