Card reader
AssigneeNidec Instruments Corporation
InventorsMamoru MIZAWA, Ryo UCHIYAMA, Keiji OHTA
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Abstract
A card reader includes a main body frame formed with a card moving passage where a card inserted from a card insertion slot is moved. The main body frame is formed with a moving passage forming face which is a lower side face of the card moving passage, a receiving part which is recessed from the moving passage forming face toward a lower side and is disposed on the lower side in a vertical direction with respect to the card which is in contact with the moving passage forming face, and a liquid discharge passage for discharging liquid accumulated in the receiving part from the receiving part to an outside of the card reader.
Claims16
A card reader structured to perform at least one of reading of data recorded in a card and recording of data to the card, the card reader comprising a main body frame which is formed with a card moving passage where the card inserted from a card insertion slot is moved;
- wherein in a case that one side in a moving direction of the card which is linearly moved in the card moving passage is referred to as a front side, an opposite side to the front side is referred to as a rear side, and one side in a thickness direction of the card which is moved in the card moving passage is referred to as a first direction side, the card is inserted into the card insertion slot from the front side toward the rear side;
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- the main body frame is formed with:
- a moving passage forming face which is a face on the first direction side of the card moving passage;
- a receiving part which is recessed from the moving passage forming face toward the first direction side and is disposed on a lower side in a vertical direction with respect to the card which is in contact with the moving passage forming face;
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- a liquid discharge passage for discharging liquid accumulated in the receiving part from the receiving part to an outside of the card reader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.