Magnetic head and card reader
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorsTetsuo MOCHIDA, Hiroshige TAKEDA
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Abstract
A magnetic head structured to detect whether magnetic data are recorded on a medium or not may include a case provided with an opening part formed in a sensor face which faces a side where the medium is passed, a protection member positioned and disposed in the opening part with the sensor face as a reference, and a magneto-resistance effect element disposed in the opening part in a state that at least a part of the magneto-resistance effect element is covered by the protection member.
Claims20
A magnetic head which is structured to detect whether magnetic data are recorded on a medium or not, the magnetic head comprising:
- a case comprising an opening part formed in a sensor face which faces a side where the medium is passed;
- a protection member which is positioned and disposed in the opening part with the sensor face as a reference;
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- a magneto-resistance effect element which is disposed in the opening part in a state that at least a part of the magneto-resistance effect element is covered by the protection member.
A card reader for use with a card, the card reader comprising:
- a card insertion part comprising a card insertion port;
- a card reader main body comprising a card conveyance passage connected with the card insertion port, the card reader main body being structured to perform at least one of reading and recording of magnetic data to the card in the card conveyance passage;
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- a magnetic head which is structured to detect whether magnetic data are recorded the card, the magnetic head comprising:
- a case comprising an opening part formed in a sensor face which faces a side where the card is passed;
- a protection member which is positioned and disposed in the opening part with the sensor face as a reference;
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- a magneto-resistance effect element which is disposed in the opening part in a state that at least a part of the magneto-resistance effect element is covered by the protection member
- wherein the magnetic head is mounted in the card insertion part as a pre-head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.