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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2017
Verifone, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Davey Faoro, Newcastle, CA (US);
Christian Eric Schulz, Rocklin, CA (US);
VeriFone, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A smart card connector including a housing defining a smart card receiving slot communicating with a smart card ingress slit formed in the housing, a plurality of smart card contacts mounted within the housing and being configured for reading contact with a smart card inserted into the slot and a movable smart card contact mounting assembly supporting at least one of the plurality of smart card contacts and for positioning the at least one of the plurality of smart card contacts in a first position, in the absence of a smart card in the slot, and in a second position, different from the first position, when a smart card is fully inserted in the slot, wherein when the at least one of the plurality of smart card contacts is in the first position it is relatively inaccessible to tampering via the smart card ingress slit.