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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2006
Dieter Schliebe, Bad Wünnenberg, DE;
Michael Nolte, Brakel, DE;
Thomas Nickel, Paderborn, DE;
Abstract
The invention describes a device for a self-service terminal which contains a card reading device, for preventing the possibility of data on a card which is to be read by the card reading devicebeing spied-out by means of a spying-out apparatus which is installed in the vicinity of the card reading device. The device comprises a protection apparatusfor generating a protective electromagnetic field which is suitable for impairing the functioning of the spying-out apparatus. The protection apparatus is controlled by a control unitof the card reading device, which control unit also controls a card transportation apparatusand/or a reading apparatusof the card reading device, such that the protective field is changed during reading of the card in the card reading devicesuch that it is ensured that reading of the card in the card reading deviceis not impaired.