Card reader and abnormality coping method for card reader
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorYasuhiro Kitazawa
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Abstract
A card reader includes a shutter provided at a card insertion port, a shutter opening and closing detection device for detecting the shutter being opened and a control device for taking the card shaped medium into the inside of the card reader. In a waiting state where the shutter is closed and a card shaped medium is not present in the inside of the card reader and further, when the shutter opening and closing detection device detects opening of the shutter without detecting insertion of a card shaped medium from the card insertion port, the control device decides occurrence of abnormality to perform abnormality coping processing.
Claims5
A card reader comprising:
- a shutter which is provided at a card insertion port so as to be capable of opening and closing for permitting taking-in of a card shaped medium into an inside of the card reader,
- shutter opening and closing detection means for detecting the shutter being opened;
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- control means for taking the card shaped medium into the inside of the card reader to perform a prescribed processing when the card shaped medium is normal;
- wherein, in a waiting state where the shutter is closed and a card shaped medium is not present in the inside of the card reader and further, when the shutter opening and closing detection means detects opening of the shutter without detecting insertion of a card shaped medium from the card insertion port, said control means decides occurrence of abnormality to perform abnormality coping processing.
An abnormality coping method for a card reader comprising the steps of providing a shutter at a card insertion port so as to be capable of opening and closing for permitting taking-in of a card shaped medium into an inside of the card reader;
- providing a shutter opening and closing detection means for detecting the shutter being opened;
- deciding occurrence of abnormality when the shutter opening and closing detection means detects opening of the shutter without detecting insertion of a card shaped medium from the card insertion port in a waiting state where the shutter is closed and a card shaped medium is not present in the inside of the card reader, and
- performing abnormality coping processing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.