Nidec Sankyo Corporation

Fumiya Akasu

Takeki Watanabe

Shigeki Ozawa

Hirofumi Kuwaki

Hiroshige Takeda

Yuji Fujimori

Akiyoshi Saito

A card reader may include a card reader main body having a card transport path and a card insertion port; and a magnetic sensor unit configured to detect the contact terminal of the IC chip of the card. The card reader main body may include a mount unit in which the magnetic sensor unit is detachably mounted. The mount unit may include a locked unit. The magnetic sensor unit may include a magnetic sensor having a sensor surface facing a side of the card transport path and an opposite surface facing an opposite direction of the sensor surface, a sensor holder having a locking unit locked into the locked unit and a fixation unit to which the magnetic sensor is fixed, and an adhesive configured to fix the magnetic sensor to the fixation unit. The adhesive covers the opposite surface.

Card reader and magnetic sensor unit

A card reader may include a card passage; a shutter member to close the card passage; a magnetic head on a rear side of the shutter member reads or records data in a magnetic strip of a card; an electrostatic capacitance sensor on the rear side or the shutter member; a first guide member which structures at least a part of a face on a first direction side of the card passage when one side in a thickness direction of the card passing the card passage is referred to as a first direction; and a second guide member which structures at least a part of a face on a second direction side of the card passage. The first guide member may include insulating material and the second guide member may include conductive material. The electrostatic capacitance sensor may be attached to the first guide member.

Card reader

A card insertion part for use with a card may include a card insertion port; a light guide member surrounding at least a part of a periphery of the card insertion port when viewed in an inserting direction of the card; a light source configured to emit a light toward the light guide member; a reflection member disposed on a rear side with respect to the light guide member in the inserting direction of the card; and a cover member including the card insertion port and covers at least the light guide member and the light source from a front side in the inserting direction of the card. The cover member may include translucent light transmissive material.

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Nagano, Japan

Fumiya Akasu