JP2647161B2 - Card carrier - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Object of the Invention] <Industrial Application Field> The present invention relates to a card transport device for transporting a card between two positions.

<Conventional technology> Conventionally, for example, a magnetic card or an IC having a magnetic stripe
A card reader for reading or writing a card as an information storage medium having an optical, magnetic, electronic, physical, or other type of information storage means, including an IC storage card having a built-in storage element. In a writer, there are various types of devices for transporting cards.

For example, there is a type in which a card inserted into a casing is conveyed while being sandwiched between a driving roller and a driven roller facing each other. As shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, a drive roller 35 is provided coaxially with a drive pulley 34 driven by a motor 33 on the upper frame 32 side of the casing 31 and a lower frame of the casing 31 is provided. A driven roller 37 is provided on the 36 side. These drive rollers
The driven roller 35 and the driven roller 37 are arranged in pairs at a predetermined interval in the conveying direction of the card 38, and both drive rollers 35 are wound around a transmission pulley 39 provided coaxially with each other. Connected via a belt.

According to the above structure, each pulley is supported rotatably about an axis parallel to the card transport surface. To reduce the thickness of the apparatus, it is necessary to minimize the outer diameter of the pulley. However, when a pulley smaller in diameter than the minimum pulley diameter for the belt is used, the durability of the belt deteriorates, and if the minimum pulley diameter is secured, it is difficult to reduce the thickness of the apparatus. Also, for example, when transferring information to and from a magnetic tape provided on a card while carrying the card, it is necessary to make the card run at a constant speed as much as possible. It is not preferable to reduce the pulley diameter,
As described above, there is a problem in reducing the thickness.

<Problems to be Solved by the Invention> In view of such a problem of the related art, a main object of the present invention is to provide a card transport device capable of reducing the thickness of the device.

[Constitution of the Invention] <Means for Solving the Problems> According to the present invention, an object of the present invention is to provide a card transport device for transporting a card between two positions, the card transport device being orthogonal to the card transport direction. And a disk-shaped member rotatably supported about an axis inclined with respect to the transport surface of the card,
A flat motor arranged on the side of the disc-shaped member, an idle gear interposed between the disc-shaped member to transmit the rotational force of the flat motor to the disc-shaped member, and Opposing pressing means opposing the closest portion for holding and conveying the card in cooperation with the closest portion to the conveying surface, wherein the idle gear is provided for the disc-shaped member and the flat motor. This is attained by providing a card transport device characterized by being disposed in an upper space.

<Operation> In this way, the card can be transported by the disc-shaped member provided at an angle to the card transport surface, and a large flyhole effect is secured without increasing the overall height of the apparatus. A disk-shaped member having a large diameter can be used as much as possible, and the disk-shaped member, the flat motor, and the idle gear can be efficiently arranged to reduce the thickness of the apparatus.

<Embodiment> Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a cutaway upper surface of a casing 1 of a card transport device according to the present invention, and FIG.
FIG. 2 is a side sectional view taken along line II-II in FIG. The casing 1 is flat and has a box shape that is long in the left-right axis direction in the figure, and is opened at the rear end face on the right side in the figure. At the front end on the left side of the casing 1 in the figure, for example, an insertion slot 3 for inserting a magnetic card 2 is provided. FIG. 3 is a view taken along the line III-III in FIG. 1, and as is well shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, the bottom wall 1a of the casing 1 has a card 2 transfer surface. A guide groove 4 having a bottom surface is provided. Note that guide plates 5 fixed to the bottom wall 1a by screws are provided on both side edges of the guide groove 4 in order to prevent the card 2 moving while being received in the guide groove 4 from the both side edges. It is provided so as to slightly face the guide groove 4.

The casing 1 has a plate-like frame 10 whose end is supported by a portion on the insertion opening 3 side and both side walls along the longitudinal direction.
Is provided so as to cover the upper surface of the casing 1, and a plate-like bracket 6 extending in the left-right direction of the casing 1 and facing the bottom wall 1 a is fixed to the lower surface of the rear part of the frame 10. The flat motor 7 is fixed to the lower surface. A drive gear 8 composed of a spur gear fixed to the drive shaft of the motor 7 projects above the upper surface of the bracket 6 partially exposed at the cutout portion 10a of the frame 10,
The drive gear 8 meshes with an idle gear 9 having a relatively large diameter supported by the bracket 6. The drive gear 8 and the idle gear 9 are each rotatable around an axis orthogonal to the card 2 transport surface.

The idle gear 9 meshes with an idle gear 12 formed of a relatively small diameter spur gear disposed on the insertion port 3 side. The idle gear 12 is formed by a bracket 11 screwed to the frame 10 with an adjustment allowance.
Are rotatably supported about axes parallel to each other.
On the lower surface of the idle gear 12, a small-diameter gear 15 integrally formed coaxially is provided so as to protrude below the frame 10.

In the vicinity of the insertion opening 3 of the casing 1, an L-shaped bracket 13 having a base end fixed to the insertion opening 3 side portion of the frame 10 is provided.
Are provided slightly inclined in a direction facing the card 2 transport surface and perpendicular to the card 2 transport direction. bracket
Below the free end of the gear 13, a gear portion 16 composed of a gear and a transport roller 14 as a disc-shaped member are integrated in this order, and are orthogonal to the transport direction of the card 2 and the transport surface thereof. Are supported so as to be rotatable around an axis inclined with respect to. The gear portion 16 and the small-diameter gear 15 are meshed with each other. They are formed so as to coincide with each other, that is, with the same twist angle as the inclination angle of the conveying roller 14 with respect to the card 2 conveying surface.

In this way, as is well shown in FIG. 2, the drive gear 8 projects above the motor 7 disposed in the space beside the transport roller 14, and the drive gear 8 projects above the transport roller 14 and the motor 7. The idle gears 9 and 12 are disposed in the space, and the rotational force of the drive gear 8 is reduced via the idle gears 9 and 12 to form the gear unit 16 integrated on the upper side of the conveying roller 14. Is transmitted to the transport roller 14 via the Therefore, each component is suitably assembled so as to increase the space efficiency in the flat casing 1.

An annular roller portion 17 having a U-shaped cross section inward in the radial direction and made of, for example, rubber
Is fitted. A roller 17 is provided on the bottom wall of the guide groove 4.
A pair of driven rollers 18a and 18b as opposing pressing means is disposed at a position facing an approaching portion with respect to the card 2 transport surface so as to face the bottom surface of the guide groove 4 from below.
These driven rollers 18a and 18b are formed by a free end of a leaf spring 19 having a base end fixed to an L-shaped bracket provided on the bottom wall of the guide groove 4, as shown in FIG. The card 2 is pivotally supported so as to be rotatable in the conveying direction, and is resiliently urged against the conveying surface of the card 2 from below. The other driven roller 18a is positioned at a position where one of the driven rollers 18a faces the closest part of the conveying roller 14 to the card 2 conveying surface.
18b are arranged at a predetermined interval on the insertion port 3 side.

A magnetic head 20 for accessing the magnetic stripe 2a of the card 2 is disposed on the side of the portion of the transport roller 14 closest to the card 2 transport surface. The magnetic head 20
As best shown in FIG. 4, the resection 10a of the frame 10
The card 2 is supported at a middle portion of a leaf spring-shaped pressing spring 22 having both ends supported by a pair of locking portions 21 arranged so as to face each other in the transport direction of the card 2. Is urged upward from above. A pad member 23 having a curved surface protruding toward the magnetic head 20 is provided on the bottom wall of the guide groove 4 from below through the opening formed in the bottom wall of the guide groove 4. It is provided so as to face.

In the card transport device thus configured, when the card 2 is inserted from the insertion slot 3 in the direction of arrow A in FIG. 1, for example, a sensor (not shown) operates, and the motor 7 rotates. The transport roller 14 is driven in the direction of arrow B in FIG. 1 via both idle gears 9 and 12. Then
Since the leading end of the card 2 is resiliently clamped between a portion of the roller portion 17 of the conveying roller 14 approaching the conveying surface of the card 2 and the driven rollers 18a and 18b, the card 2
Can be conveyed toward the rear end side. At this time, as shown in FIG. 4, the card 2 moves so as to be clamped between the magnetic head 20 elastically urged toward the pad member 23 and the pad member 23. Reading and writing of information can be reliably performed by the magnetic head 20 on the second magnetic stripe 2a. After reading / writing information, the card 2 can be taken out by turning the motor 7 backward and returning the card 2 toward the insertion slot 3.

In this embodiment, the magnetic card carrier is shown, but the present invention is applicable to a carrier for carrying various cards such as an IC card.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, a card is conveyed by a disk-shaped member provided so as to be inclined and confronted with a card conveyance surface, without increasing the overall height of the apparatus. A large-diameter disk-shaped member can be used, a card can be transported while securing a large flyhole effect, and a flat motor is arranged in a space beside the disk-shaped member, and the Since the idle gear is disposed in the upper space to enhance the space efficiency, the device can be easily made thinner, and the effect is extremely large.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a cutaway upper surface of a casing of a card transporting device according to the present invention. FIG. 2 is a side sectional view taken along line II-II of FIG. FIG. 3 is a view taken along line III-III in FIG. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of a principal part taken along line IV-IV in FIG. FIG. 5 is a plan view showing a conventional embodiment. FIG. 6 is a side sectional view taken along line VI-VI of FIG. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Casing, 1a ... Bottom wall 2 ... Card, 2a ... Magnetic stripe 3 ... Insertion slot, 4 ... Guide groove 5 ... Guide plate, 6 ... Bracket 7 ... Motor, 8 ... Drive Gear 9: Idle gear, 10: Frame 10a: Cutout section, 11: Bracket 12: Idle gear, 13: Bracket 14: Transport roller, 15: Small diameter gear 16: Gear section, 17 … Roller parts 18a, 18b… Follower roller 19… Leaf spring, 20… Magnetic head 21… Locking part, 22… Pressing spring 23… Pad member, 31… Casing 32… Upper frame, 33 … Motor 34… Driving pulley, 25… Driving roller 36… Lower frame, 37… Driving roller 38… Card, 39… Transmission pulley

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A card transport device for transporting a card between two positions, wherein the shaft is rotatable about an axis orthogonal to a transport direction of the card and inclined with respect to a transport surface of the card. A supported disk-shaped member, a flat motor disposed on the side of the disk-shaped member, and an idler interposed between the flat-shaped motor and the flat-shaped motor to transmit a rotational force of the flat motor to the disk-shaped member. A gear, and opposing pressing means for opposing the closest portion to pinch and convey the card in cooperation with the closest portion of the disc-shaped member to the conveying surface; A card transport device, wherein the card transport device is disposed in a space above the disc-shaped member and the flat motor.