Card reader
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorKazunori Takahashi
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Abstract
In a card reader (1), if a shutter member (10), being located at a block position for blocking a card transfer path (3), rotates toward a deep side of the card reader, the shutter member moves to an open position. In a part within a surface of a side of the card transfer path in a thickness direction of the card (2), at a side deeper than the shutter member, there are formed only an open part (31) and an open part (32); the open part being for preventing an interference of the shutter member, rotating toward the open position, with the main body frame (4), as well as ejecting a foreign object out of the card transfer path; the open part being for preventing an interference of a movable component (21), placed so as to face the card transfer path, with the main body frame.
Claims18
A card reader for carrying out at least one of reading data recorded in a card and recording data into the card, the card reader comprising:
- a main body frame in which a card transfer path for moving the card is formed;
- a shutter member that is rotatable between a block position for blocking the card transfer path and an open position for opening the card transfer path;
- and
- a movable component that is placed at a position of a side deeper than the shutter member in the card reader, and placed so as to face the card transfer path, in order to carry out predetermined operation;
- wherein, the shutter member is rotatable with respect to a rotating axis in a widthwise direction of the card, the widthwise direction being perpendicular to both a moving direction of the card moving through the card transfer path, and a thickness direction of the card moving through the card transfer path;
- if the shutter member, being located at the block position, rotates toward a deep side, the shutter member moves to the open position;
- and
- in a part within a surface of a side of the card transfer path in the thickness direction of the card, at a side deeper than the shutter member, there are formed only a first open part and a second open part, and no other open part except the first open part and the second open part is formed;
- wherein the first open part prevents an interference between the main body frame and the shutter member that rotates toward the open position, and the first open part ejects a foreign object out of the card transfer path;
- the second open part prevents an interference between the movable component and the main body frame,
- wherein a part of the shutter member located at the open position and placed inside the first open part is represented as an open-part placement portion, and
- a maximum width of the first open part in the moving direction of the card is 1.3 through 2 times as large as a width of the open-part placement portion in the moving direction of the card.
A card reader for carrying out at least one of reading data recorded in a card and recording data into the card, the card reader comprising:
- a main body frame in which a card transfer path for moving the card is formed;
- and
- a shutter member that is rotatable between a block position for blocking the card transfer path and an open position for opening the card transfer path;
- wherein, the shutter member is rotatable with respect to a rotating axis in a widthwise direction of the card, the widthwise direction being perpendicular to both a moving direction of the card moving through the card transfer path, and a thickness direction of the card moving through the card transfer path;
- if the shutter member, being located at the block position, rotates toward a deep side of the card reader, the shutter member moves to the open position;
- and
- in a part within a surface of a side of the card transfer path in the thickness direction of the card, at a side deeper than the shutter member, there is formed only a first open part, and no other open part except the first open part is formed;
- wherein the first open part prevents an interference between the main body frame and the shutter member that rotates toward the open position, and ejects a foreign object out of the card transfer path,
- wherein a part of the shutter member located at the open position and placed inside the first open part is represented as an open-part placement portion, and
- a maximum width of the first open part in the moving direction of the card is 1.3 through 2 times as large as a width of the open-part placement portion in the moving direction of the card.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.