Card processing device
AssigneeNidec Sankyo Corporation
InventorShinya Miyazawa
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Abstract
A card processing device has a card insertion section into which a card is inserted, a card receiving section in which the card is received with a rear end section of the inserted card exposed from the card insertion section, a reader that reads information recorded in the card received in the card receiving section, a holding member that holds a front end section of the card and, in response to a card-pulling operation by an operator, releases the front end section of the card, and a detector that detects that the card is at a position held by the holding member.
Claims7
A card processing device for use with a card, the card processing device comprising:
- a card inserting portion in which the card is inserted;
- a card accommodating portion which structured to accommodate said card while a rear end portion of the inserted card is exposed from said card inserting portion;
- a reader structured to read information recorded on said card;
- a holding member structured to hold a front end portion of said card inside said card accommodating portion and release the front end portion of the card with a card-pulling operation by a user;
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- a detector structured to detect that said card is in a position of being held by said holding member;
- wherein the holding member is a resilient member having a pressing portion configured to press against a face of the card in a thickness direction of the card and an inclining portion which is continuously formed with the pressing portion to guide the card to the pressing portion;
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- wherein the inclining portion is formed so that, when said card is inserted and a front end of said card is abutted with the inclining portion, said card is subjected to a push-back force toward said card inserting portion by an inclined face of the inclining portion and, when said card is further inserted against the push-back force until said card reaches said pressing portion, the pressing portion presses the face of the card in a thickness direction of the card and the card is held by the pressing portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.