Card sending device
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorKeiji Ohta
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Abstract
A card sending device for use with cards may include a card storage part in which a plurality of cards are stacked and stored, a gate through which a card is capable of passing to an outside of the card storage part, a sending pawl which is capable of engaging with the card to send it to the gate one by one, a pawl feeding mechanism for moving the sending pawl, a sending drive roller for sending the card which is sent by the sending pawl, one drive source for driving the pawl feeding mechanism and the sending drive roller together and a transmission mechanism for transmitting a driving force of the drive source to the pawl feeding mechanism and the sending drive roller so that a sending speed for the card by the sending drive roller is set to be faster than a sending speed for the card by the sending pawl.
Claims12
A card sending device for use with cards comprising:
- a card storage part in which a plurality of the cards are stacked and stored;
- a gate through which a card stored in the card storage part is capable of passing to an outside of the card storage part;
- a sending pawl which is capable of engaging with the card to send the card which is stored in the card storage part to the gate one by one;
- a pawl feeding mechanism for moving the sending pawl;
- a sending drive roller for sending the card which is sent by the sending pawl;
- one drive source for driving the pawl feeding mechanism and the sending drive roller together;
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- a transmission mechanism for transmitting a driving force of the drive source to the pawl feeding mechanism and to the sending drive roller and structured so that a sending speed for the card by the sending drive roller is set to be faster than a sending speed for the card by the sending pawl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.