Card reading device having card orientation correction mechanism
AssigneeTokyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshiaki Ono, Makoto Takahashi
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Abstract
A reading device includes an inlet port for a boarding pass, a reading section for reading data recorded on part of the boarding pass, and a feeding section for transporting a boarding pass from the inlet port to the reading section. The reading device further includes a rotating section for holding a boarding pass fed thereto and rotating together with the boarding pass, and a control circuit for checking the orientation of the boarding pass inserted into the inlet port, and instructing the feeding section to temporarily feed the boarding pass to the rotating section and instructing said rotating section to turn over the boarding pass when it is detected that the boarding pass has been inserted in a particular incorrect orientation.
Claims10
A reading device comprising:
- a card inlet to which a card having an axis is inserted;
- reading means for reading data recorded on the card, said reading means being formed of a single reading head;
- transport means or transporting the cad from said card inlet to said reading means;
- rotation means for storing the card supplied thereto during transport, and rotating together with said card, said rotation means including two substantially parallel plates that re rotatable about the axis of the card and substantially parallel to a feed direction of said card in order to reorient said card;
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- control means for checking the orientation of the card inserted into said card inlet, for instructing said transport means to temporarily feed the card to said rotation means, and or instructing said rotation means to turn the card over when it is detected that the card has been inserted in a particular incorrect orientation, said control means including sensing means for sensing the position of a data bearing portion on th card inserted in said card inlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.