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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2010
Amihay Avital, Bat Hefer, IL;
Shih-an Steve Hsu, Taoyuan, TW;
Chi-jung Bruno Luo, Taipei, TW;
Yung-tai James Jiang, Luzhou, TW;
Richard Neo, Singapore, SG;
Amihay Avital, Bat Hefer, IL;
Shih-An Steve Hsu, Taoyuan, TW;
Chi-Jung Bruno Luo, Taipei, TW;
Yung-Tai James Jiang, Luzhou, TW;
Richard Neo, Singapore, SG;
Verifone, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A secure data entry device including a housing, a keypad mounted in the housing and including a plurality of selectably depressible keys, tampering alarm indication circuitry and at least one electrical conductor located in the housing in operative association with the keypad, the at least one electrical conductor being coupled to the tampering alarm indication circuitry and being arranged such that extraction of at least one of the plurality of selectably depressible keys results in at least one break in the at least one electrical conductor, which causes the tampering alarm indication circuitry to provide a tampering alarm indication.