公开(公告)号：US20170358166A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-14

申请号：US15616184

申请日：2017-06-07

Applicant: ENTRUST DATACARD CORPORATION

Inventor： Alexander K. ZABOROWSKI ,  David E. WICKSTROM ,  Patrick C. CRONIN ,  Rajesh K. JURIASINGANI

IPC: G07F7/08 ,  G06K13/08

Abstract: A card mechanism used in an array with other card mechanisms. Each card mechanism handles plastic cards that are to be personalized and provided to end users. The plastic cards can be cards such as financial cards including credit and debit cards, identification cards, driver's licenses, and other plastic cards that are personalized. The card mechanism(s) can supply cards to be personalized in one or more other card mechanisms and/or in a card personalization machine used with the card mechanism(s) in which case the card mechanism(s) is configured as a card input hopper, collect cards that have been personalized in which case the card mechanism is configured as a card output hopper, and/or perform one or more personalization operations on the cards in which case the card mechanism is configured as a card personalization mechanism.