Nidec Sankyo Corporation

Masaya Fujimoto

Junro Takeuchi

Shinya Miyazawa

Ryo Uchiyama

Shigeki Ozawa

Hirofumi Kuwaki

Hiroyuki Aiyoshi

Yosuke Oguchi

Kohei Okui

Hiroki Yaginuma

Ryota Hara

An input device includes a control portion for controlling the input device encrypts image data, which is data of an image displayed on a display surface of a display mechanism, and transmits it to the display mechanism, and a detection mechanism for detecting a position of the user's fingertip in an aerial-image display region encrypts position data, which is data of a detected position of the user's fingertip, and transmits it to the control portion. In addition, in this input device, at least a fraud against a position-data signal line which transmits the position data from the detection mechanism to a control board and a fraud against the control board can be detected by a fraud detection mechanism for detecting that a fraud against the input device.

Input device and information processing device

A card reader includes a card reader main body, a board which is fixed to the card reader main body, a light emitting element which is disposed on a surface of the board, a cover member which is made of light transmissive material and covers the board from an opposite side to the card reader main body, and a code imaging part which images a one-dimensional code or a two-dimensional code. The cover member is formed with a card insertion port, and the code imaging part is held by the cover member and is disposed at a position adjacent to the card insertion port in a longitudinal direction of the card insertion port.

Card reader

A card reader for use with a card may include a card insertion part provided with an insertion port into which the card is inserted, a protruded part which is provided on a front face of the card insertion part and is protruded to a front side with respect to the card insertion part, a breakage detection wiring which is provided in an inside of the protruded part, and a detection part which detects at least one of disconnection and a short circuit of the breakage detection wiring.

A card insertion unit is provided, which prevents the mixture of lights in different colors even with light sources to emit lights in different colors at the periphery of a card insertion slot. A card insertion unit, having a card insertion slot through which a card is inserted, includes: a plurality of light sources provided to surround the card insertion slot, when viewed in an insertion direction of the card, with a light emitting unit facing in a direction opposite to the insertion direction so as to each emit lights in multiple colors; a translucent cover member that is provided with the card insertion slot and is overlapped with the light sources in the direction opposite to the insertion direction; and a reflective member provided between the light sources and the card insertion slot to reflect light that is to travel from the light sources toward the card insertion slot.

Card insertion unit and card reader

An information processing device structured to process information of an information recording medium having been inserted inside may include a communication part which receives a radio wave of a specific frequency band, and a foreign matter detection part structured to detect that a foreign matter has been attached in response to an intensity of the radio wave received by the communication part being greater than or equal to a threshold value for a predetermined time.

Information processing device and foreign matter detection method

A card reader may include a break-in sensing circuit and a security circuit structured to output a break-in sensing signal into the break-in sensing circuit, and receive a returned break-in sensing signal that returns from the break-in sensing circuit. The security circuit may include an output terminal to output the break-in sensing signal, and an input terminal to receive the returned break-in sensing signal. The break-in sensing signal may be input to an input section of the break-in sensing circuit, and then output from an output section of the break-in sensing circuit as the returned break-in sensing signal. The break-in sensing signal may be a pulse signal. At least either one of the output terminal and the input terminal of the security circuit may include a protection element between the terminal itself and an earth ground.

A card insertion part may include a base plate secured to a card reader main body; a substrate that is disposed on an opposite side of the card reader main body with respect to the base plate and including a light source installed on a surface thereof on an opposite side of the base plate; a cover with optical transparency that spreads over the substrate on an opposite side of the base plate; an insulating member that is disposed between the substrate and the base plate; and a flexible wiring member connected to the substrate. The substrate may include an opening through which the card is passed, and a ground wiring pattern formed on an area surrounding the opening. The ground wiring pattern may be electrically connected to the card reader main body via the flexible wiring member.

Card insertion part and card reader

A card reader may include a main body frame; a flexible printed circuit board; and a protection board to protect a part of the flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board may include a data signal circuit layer having a data signal circuit for transferring data, and a destruction detection circuit layer having a destruction detection circuit. The destruction detection circuit layer may overlap the data signal circuit layer. A second destruction detection circuit may be provided on the protection board. The destruction detection circuit layer is provided on one side of the data signal circuit layer. Part of the flexible printed circuit board may be covered with the protection board. The data signal circuit layer may be arranged on the main body frame side at least in the unprotected area and the destruction detection circuit layer may be arranged on an outer side of the card reader.

A magnetic information processing device for use with a magnetic recording medium storing a magnetic signal may include a magnetic card detection unit comprising a sensor and being structured to detect insertion of the magnetic recording medium; a magnetic head structured to read the magnetic signal recorded in the magnetic recording medium, and output the magnetic signal as an analog signal; a signal detection unit structured to amplify the analog signal output from the magnetic head, and output a detection output signal when the analog signal exceeds a predetermined threshold value of a magnetic detection sensitivity; and a judgment unit structured to judge that the detection output signal output by the signal detection unit is different from the magnetic signal recorded in the magnetic recording medium, when no insertion of the magnetic recording medium is detected by the magnetic card detection unit.

Magnetic information processing device and magnetic information processing method

A card reader for use with a card may include a data signal circuit pattern structured to transmit at least one of a data signal read from a card and a data signal to be recorded to the card; and a breakage detection circuit pattern structured to detect at least one of its own disconnection and its own short-circuit. The data signal circuit pattern is disposed within a protected region that is a region surrounded from all directions by the breakage detection circuit pattern.

A flexible printed circuit board may include a data signal circuit layer on which a data signal circuit is formed; and a destruction detection circuit layer on which a destruction detection circuit, structured to detect at least one of a break and a short-circuit of the destruction detection circuit layer, is formed, the destruction detection circuit layer overlapping the data signal circuit layer. The destruction detection circuit may be structured to carry destruction detection signals which are squarewave-shaped digital signals. The data signal circuit layer may include a first data signal circuit layer on which the data signal circuit is formed, the data signal circuit including linear-shaped first pattern wirings arranged parallel to one another. The destruction detection circuit may include a first destruction detection circuit layer including second pattern wirings formed by a linear portions orthogonally crossing the first pattern wirings and arcuate portions.

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Nagano, Japan

Masaya Fujimoto