Card reader
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorHiroyuki AIYOSHI
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Abstract
To provide a card reader that encrypts information acquired via an IC contact block. A card reader includes: an IC contact block including a contact spring capable of being in contact with an external connection terminal of an IC chip of a card; a flexible printed board to which a spring end of the contact spring is coupled; an encryption circuit mounted on the flexible printed board and electrically connected to the contact spring to encrypt information acquired from the IC chip via the IC contact block; and a resin sealing member that integrally covers the spring end and the encryption circuit.
Claims6
A card reader comprising:
- an integrated circuit contact block, including a contact spring capable of being in contact with an external connection terminal of an integrated circuit chip built in a card;
- a flexible printed board to which a spring end of the contact spring is coupled;
- an encryption circuit, mounted on the flexible printed board and electrically connected to the contact spring to encrypt an information acquired from the integrated circuit chip via the integrated circuit contact block;
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- a resin sealing member that integrally covers the spring end and the encryption circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.