Nidec Sankyo Corporation

Tetsuo Mochida

Kazunori Takahashi

A card reader includes a pulling-out prevention member turnable between a closing position where a card moving passage is closed and an open position and preventing pulling-out of a card having been inserted into a card reader at the closing position. The pulling-out prevention member is provided with a main body member and a card abutting member which closes the card moving passage when the pulling-out prevention member is located at the closing position. A rear end of the card abutting member is capable of contacting with a front end of the card having been inserted into the card reader when the pulling-out prevention member is located at the closing position. The main body member of the pulling-out prevention member is formed of resin, and the card abutting member is formed of material having a strength higher than a strength of the resin.

Card reader

A card reader may include a transport path; a housing; a magnetic head to read the magnetic information at a reading position of the transport; and a first inductive proximity sensor. The first inductive proximity sensor may include a first oscillation circuit; and first and second detection coils connected in parallel to the first oscillation circuit. The magnetic head may be accessible to the magnetic card from a first side of the transport path in a first direction perpendicular to a transport face of the magnetic card. Coil center lines of the first and second detection coils may extend in the first direction on the first side of the transport path. The first and second detection coils may be disposed adjacent to each other in the transport direction and structured to generate magnetic fields in opposite directions in the first direction when the first inductive proximity sensor is driven.

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Nagano, Japan

Tetsuo Mochida