US 2002/0170473 A1Published application

Card security device

OwnerBrad Fettis, Walter Shawlee, IIinventors

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Abstract

A card security device for cards which have coded information on or within the cards has a mechanically closeable and releasably lockable card vault for releasable locking enclosure of cards within the card vault, the card vault releasably lockable by a releasable lock. The lock is releasable by a recognition processor upon recognition of a user's behavior pattern by the recognition processor. Repeated use of an incorrect recognition pattern by a user and recognition processor, or forcible entry into the card vault either by forced releasing of the vault door or disruption of the vault casing results in a triggering of a destruction device for rendering useless and unrecoverable by disfigurement or destruction by the destruction device of the coded information on the information carrying medium.

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Dependent claims

A card security device for cards which have coded information stored on information storage media on or within the cards comprising a releasably and lockably closable card vault for releasable locking enclosure of at least one of said cards within said card vault, said card vault having a casing which, when closed, has no substantially structurally weakened areas which may provide for a breach access during assault on said casing,

said card vault releasably and lockably closable by a latch which is releasable by means for user behaviour pattern recognition cooperating with an actuator for opening said latch locking closed a door on said card vault said actuator releasing said latch so as to allow said door to be opened upon recognition of a correct behaviour pattern by said means for user behaviour pattern recognition, wherein repeated incorrect behaviour patterns by a user, or assault of said card vault results in a triggering, by monitoring and triggering means mounted within said casing, of a destruction means for rendering useless and unrecoverable said coded information on said information storage media.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.