Registers – Coded record sensors
Patent
1995-08-31
1997-11-11
Pitts, Harold
Registers
Coded record sensors
235441, G06K 700
Patent
active
056867140
ABSTRACT:
A portable IC card reader for retrieving information from an IC card incorporating a semiconductor memory device and for displaying at least part of retrieved information. The portable IC card reader, which is of a size suitable to fit in a clothes pocket, a bag, or the like, includes a housing having a display portion provided on a part of the housing for displaying at least part of the retrieved information, and incorporating a controller. The housing further includes, at least at a part of the surface thereof, an IC card insert port through which the IC card is inserted and an IC card accommodating unit extending straight from the IC card insert port to an opposite side of the housing. The housing further includes a foreign-matter ejection exit formed by extending the IC card accommodating unit and opening at the opposite side of the integrated-circuit card insert port. In operation, foreign matter is ejected form the IC card accommodating unit by insertion of the IC card, thereby advantageously preventing the IC card reader from malfunctioning as a result of the foreign matter.
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Abe Yuhei
Azumi Takashi
Filipek Jeffrey R.
Hitachi , Ltd.
Pitts Harold
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