Dual card reader for mobile device
AssigneeiZettle Merchant Services AB
InventorsOlle Gustafsson, Peder Stahle
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Abstract
The invention relates to a card reader for use with a mobile phone comprising, a flat body comprising an upper side, a lower side and at least one side wall, a connector for connecting the card reader to a mobile phone, a chip card reader, comprising an elongated opening in a side wall of said card reader, adapted to read a chip card, positioned in a first plane, in said opening; and a magnet stripe reader comprising a slot in a side wall of the card reader, said slot being adapted to read a magnet stripe slid in the slot along a second plane; wherein the first plane and the second plane intersects.
Claims20
A card reader for use with a mobile phone comprising:
- a flat body comprising an upper side, a lower side and at least one side wall;
- a connector for connecting the card reader to a mobile phone;
- a chip card reader, comprising an elongated opening in a side wall of said card reader, adapted to read a chip card, positioned in a first plane, in said opening;
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- a magnet stripe reader comprising a slot in a side wall of the card reader, said slot being adapted to read a magnet stripe slid in the slot along a second plane;
- wherein the first plane and the second plane intersects.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.