US 8,162,217 B2Granted

Magnetic card reader

AssigneeFujitsu Frontech Limited

InventorsYoshiaki Kasai, Toshiyuki Kobayashi, Toshiyuki Ichikawa, Noboru Ishii

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Abstract

A magnetic head is held by a side wall through a head fixing fitting so as to freely advance into and retreat from a card sliding groove. First and second head urging levers are swingably supported through a pin. In a standby state, the magnetic head is away from the card travel groove, and card engaging sections of the first and second head urging levers are staying in the card travel groove. When a magnetic card slides in a card sliding direction, the magnetic card makes contact with a card contact section to push the card contact section away from the card travel groove. This causes the first head urging lever to push out the magnetic head into the card travel groove so that the magnetic head makes contact with the magnetic card.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A magnetic card reader for reading data recorded in a magnetic card, comprising;

a card sliding groove along which the magnetic card slides manually;
a magnetic card inlet and a magnetic card outlet which are provided at both end of the card sliding groove, the magnetic card being inserted from the magnetic card inlet and pulled out from the magnetic card outlet;
a magnetic head held away from the card sliding groove, so as to freely advance into and retreat from the card sliding groove;
and
first and second head urging levers disposed closer to the magnetic card inlet and outlet respectively, wherein
one ends of the first and second head urging levers being staying in the card sliding groove, other ends thereof being staying behind the magnetic head in an initial state, and the first and second head urging levers are swingably supported through a pin so that the other ends each push out the magnetic head into the card sliding groove when the magnetic card pushes each of the one ends away from the card sliding groove.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/191,868Filed 27 Jul 2011 · continuation
Priority: 29 May 2009
Published: US 2011/0278359 A117 Nov 2011
Granted: 24 Apr 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G11B 5/00808
Magnetic sheets: magnetic cards
G06K 7/084
Inductive: sensing magnetic material by relative movement detecting flux changes without altering its magnetised state
G11B 5/105
Structure or manufacture of housings or shields for heads: mounting of head within housing or assembling of head and housing
G11B 5/48
Recording by magnetisation or demagnetisation of a record carrier; Reproducing by magnetic means; Record carriers therefor: disposition or…