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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2017
Nidec Sankyo Corporation, Suwa-gun, Nagano, JP;
Hiroyuki Aiyoshi, Nagano, JP;
Toshio Tatai, Nagano, JP;
NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION, Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A card reader may include a fixed body having a card moving passage, a pulling-out prevention member supported by the fixed body and structured to turn between a closing position and an open position, and structured to prevent pulling-out of the card at the closing position, a first urging member which urges the pulling-out prevention member toward the closing position, a lock member to prevent turning of the pulling-out prevention member toward the open position, and a lock member drive mechanism. The lock member may be driven by the lock member drive mechanism and swung so as to be switched from one of an unlocking attitude permitting turning of the pulling-out prevention member toward the open position and a locking attitude interfering with the pulling-out prevention member and preventing turning of the pulling-out prevention member toward the open position to the other of the unlocking attitude and the locking attitude.