Low insertion force card reader

Details Low insertion force card reader Low insertion force card reader

1979-07-20

1980-12-02

Cook, Daryl W.

Registers

Coded record sensors

Particular sensor structure

235479, 235482, G06K 706, G06K 1320, G06K 1324

Patent

active

042366674

ABSTRACT:
A low insertion force, handfed card reader is disclosed comprising a housing having a profiled passageway therein opening to a frontal side. The passageway is defined by a top wall having an array of contacts mounted therein, and a bottom wall slanted downwardly from a backward end of the passageway toward the frontal opening. A tray is provided within the passageway having a like-slanted bottom surface which is positioned against the bottom wall of the passageway. An encoded card can be freely inserted into the passageway a distance onto the tray, and as the tray is slid backward along the bottom wall, the encoded card is thereby moved upwardly against the contacts. A profiled retention spring system is further provided and pressures the encoded card against the top surface of the passageway to maintain the card reader in its read-mode until subsequently released by the user.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3308252 (1967-03-01), Rosen
patent: 3433932 (1969-03-01), Rolke
patent: 3492447 (1970-01-01), McFadden
patent: 3591773 (1971-07-01), Collier et al.
patent: 3627994 (1971-12-01), Sallach et al.

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