Card collection mechanism and card issuing device
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorKeiji Ohta
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Abstract
A card collection mechanism may include a card collection box for collecting a card, a feeding roller for carrying the card from a feeding passage to the card collection box, and a guide part for guiding the card to the card collection box. The guide part guides the card while the guide part causes the card to be resiliently bent in a direction where an urging force directed to a surface of the feeding roller is applied to the card when the card is fed to the card collection box, and the feeding roller carries the card to a state in which the card is capable of being collected in the card collection box. The card collection mechanism may be used in a card issuing device having a card issuing part.
Claims12
A card collection mechanism for use with at least one card comprising:
- a card collection box for collecting the card;
- a feeding roller for carrying the card from a feeding passage for card which is formed in a straight line manner to the card collection box;
- and
- a guide part for guiding the card to the card collection box;
- wherein the guide part guides the card while the guide part causes the card to be resiliently bent in a direction where an urging force directed to a surface of the feeding roller is applied to the card when the card is fed to the card collection box;
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- wherein the feeding roller carries the card to a state in which the card is capable of being collected in the card collection box.
A card issuing device comprising:
- a card collection mechanism comprising:
- a card collection box for collecting a card;
- a feeding roller for carrying the card from a feeding passage for card which is formed in a straight line manner to the card collection box;
- and
- a guide part for guiding the card to the card collection box;
- wherein the guide part guides the card while the card is resiliently bent in a direction where an urging force directed to a surface of the feeding roller is applied to the card when the card is carried to the card collection box;
- and
- wherein the feeding roller carries the card to a state in which the card is capable of being collected in the card collection box;
- and
- a card issuing part which comprises:
- a card storage part in which cards are to be stored;
- and
- a card sending mechanism for sending a stored card which is stored in the card storage part to the feeding roller;
- wherein the card issuing part is disposed so as to superpose the card collection box in a vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.