Abstract:
A card reader (1) is provided with: a pre-head (50) which detects change in the magnetic field by magnetoresistive elements (21, 22); a voltage applying circuit (23) which applies a voltage to the pre-head (50); and a reference voltage circuit (30) which superimposes a reference voltage (V0) onto the voltage signal (S1) from the pre-head (50); the card reader is also provided with a signal processing circuit (24) which outputs a detection signal (S4) on the basis of the difference between the voltage signal (S1) and the reference voltage V0. Further, the card reader (1) is provided with a coupling capacitor (26) which is inserted between the pre-head (50) and the signal processing circuit (24), and a switching circuit (27) which connects the coupling capacitor (26) and the signal processing circuit (24) at the same time that voltage is applied to the pre-head (50) from the voltage applying circuit (23).
Abstract:
A card reader may include a card-inserting opening at which the card is inserted; a biometric authentication sensor arranged proximate to the card-inserting opening and structured to acquire user biometric authentication data from a user; a contact structured to read the card biometric authentication data recorded on the card; a memory structured to store the user biometric authentication data acquired by the biometric authentication sensor; and a processor configured to compare the user biometric authentication data acquired by the sensor, which is stored in the storage unit, against the card biometric authentication data recorded on the card.
Abstract:
A peak detecting unit includes: a judging section, judging whether a current digital value produced by an AD converter has changed from a prior digital value; a holding section, being capable of holding the digital value output from the AD converter as an extreme value and its position information; and an updating section which, when the current digital value has changed from the prior digital value, updating the extreme value and its position information held in the holding section with the current digital value as a current extreme value and its position information, or when the current digital value matches the prior digital value, acquiring the intermediate position between the position of the current digital value and the position of the prior digital value as a current extreme value position, holding the matching digital value as a current extreme value, and updating the position information with the intermediate position information.
Abstract:
A card reader may include a magnetic sensor to detect whether magnetic data are recorded in the magnetic stripe of the card; a control section to supply electric power to the magnetic sensor and into which an output signal of the magnetic sensor is inputted; and a card insertion port into which the card is inserted and in which the magnetic sensor is disposed. The magnetic sensor may output an output signal when the electric power is supplied from the control section. The control section may supply the electric power to the magnetic sensor during a first supply time period which is shorter than a card passage time period.
Abstract:
A card reader may include a card insertion port; a card passage; and a disturbing magnetic field generator. The disturbing magnetic field generator may include a first disturbing magnetic field generation part and a second disturbing magnetic field generation part which are disposed so as to interpose the card passage. The first disturbing magnetic field generation part may include a first core formed of magnetic material and a coil wound around the first core, and the second disturbing magnetic field generation part may include a second core formed of magnetic material and a coil wound around the second core.
Abstract:
A demodulation method of magnetic data may include a first data creating step which creates a preliminary data string for creating the demodulation data on a basis of an interval that is a time interval between peaks of a read signal of an analog-shaped magnetic data, and a second data creating step which creates a demodulation data creating data for creating the demodulation data on a basis of the preliminary data string created in the first data creating step. When a peak of the read signal is not detected for a predetermined time, a pseudo-peak is generated and a pseudo-interval is stored in a data storage section, and steps similar to the first data creating step and the second data creating step are executed, and the pseudo-peak is generated until the demodulation data creating data corresponding to a final interval is created.
Abstract:
A module provided in a predetermined space of an operation panel of a transaction terminal device to input and output digital information, includes: a wireless unit, a scanner unit, and a housing. The housing has a first front surface member and a second front surface member, a lower side of the first front surface member projects toward an operator with respect to an upper side of the first front surface member, an upper side of the second front surface member projects toward the operator with respect to a lower side of the second front surface member, an antenna of the wireless unit is provided on a back side of the first front surface member, a lower side of the antenna projects toward the operator with respect to an upper side of the antenna, and the scanner unit reads a code through an opening of the second front surface member.
Abstract:
This magnetic head, which reads and writes magnetic information, prevents a signal from being read between the magnetic head and the write circuit during reading of magnetic information. A card reader 1 is provided with a magnetic head 6 which reads and writes magnetic information. Bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B are arranged inside of a head case 21 of the magnetic head 6. A write signal from a write circuit 72 is inputted via the bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B to a writing coil 34 wound around a core 32 of the magnetic head 6. The bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B and a demodulation IC 61 are mounted on a first board surface 62A of a control circuit board 62, and the control circuit board 62 is fixed to the head case 21 so that the bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B and the demodulation IC 61 are covered by the head case 21.
Abstract:
An MR sensor structured to detect whether or not magnetic data are recorded in a magnetic stripe of a card having first and second tracks may include a first resistor and a second resistor serially-connected with each other and disposed at positions where the first track is passed; and a third resistor and a fourth resistor serially-connected with each other and disposed at positions where the second track is passed. The second resistor and the fourth resistor may be connected with a power supply, and the first resistor and the third resistor may be ground grounded. A potential difference between a first midpoint between the first resistor and the second resistor and a second midpoint between the third resistor and the fourth resistor may be an output of the MR sensor.
Abstract:
The present invention is to provide a card reader that can prevent the illegal acquisition of magnetic information recorded on a magnetic stripe, based on an output signal from a pre-head. More specifically described, in a card reader having a card insertion slot for guiding a magnetic card having a magnetic stripe to a transport passage and a pre-head arranged in the vicinity of the card insertion slot for detecting the presence of the magnetic stripe, the pre-head is equipped with a head portion having at least one pair of magnetic cores arranged to be opposite from each other having a magnetic gap between them and coils wound around a pair of the magnetic cores; and a signal different from that of the magnetic information recorded on the magnetic stripe is output from the pre-head.