JP2707670B2 - Combined card reader - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION (a) Technical Field to which the Invention pertains This invention relates to a manual type composite card reader which permits a plurality of types of card transactions, such as an IC card and a magnetic card. The present invention relates to a composite card reader with improved operation performance.

(B) Conventional technology In recent years, there has been known a composite card reader having a high card transaction capability for permitting card transactions of both an IC card and a magnetic card.

This compound card reader is equipped with a slider that moves back and forth in conjunction with the card insertion / removal operation. The sliding operation of this slider causes the IC contacts or magnetic stripe of the card to be moved to the internal IC contacts or magnetic head. Data processing is performed in response to contact.

By the way, at the time of card transaction, when a customer inserts the card to a predetermined position while holding the rear end of the card in a card transaction, the inserted card is locked by a lock mechanism linked to a lock solenoid. The card is allowed to be pulled out by the unlocking action interlocked with the unlocking solenoid.

When the lock is released, the card is ejected vigorously to the outside by the inner spring pressure. If the card is pulled out, the magnetic head is brought into contact with the magnetic stripe and the data is processed. It can not be applied to the card reader of this, and for this reason, it is conceivable to use a lock release structure to prevent the card from popping out,
In this case, if the card withdrawal operation is delayed, the card is locked again and the card cannot be pulled out. therefore,
It is conceivable to maintain the open lock by turning the lock release solenoid ON for a long time, but in this case, the solenoid rises in temperature and burns out.

(C) Problems to be Solved by the Invention An object of the present invention is to provide a composite card reader capable of stably and reliably extracting a card while maintaining an unlocked state at the time of card extraction.

(D) Means for Solving the Problems The present invention performs data processing by connecting an IC contact of a card to an IC contact by a sliding operation of a slider that moves forward and backward in conjunction with an insertion and removal operation of the card, or What is claimed is: 1. A compound card reader for performing data processing by bringing a magnetic stripe into contact with a magnetic head, wherein the card slot is opened and closed, and a shutter lever urged in a closing direction and an opening and closing operation of the shutter lever via a link mechanism. A shutter interlocking lever that swings in conjunction with the shutter, and a shutter interlocking lever that swings so as to restrict the opening of the shutter lever at the standby position of the slider and release the restriction as the slider moves forward to allow the shutter lever to close. Regulating means for regulating the movement of the shutter lever, a driving means for opening the shutter lever via the shutter interlocking lever, and a shutter lever of the forward / reverse driving means. Based on the opening operation of the slider, the urging lever which is urged by receiving the pressing force of the slider when the slider moves forward is urged and engaged with the shutter interlocking lever to regulate the opening of the shutter lever, and the initial movement of the slider retreat is performed. Maintaining the urging engagement of the urging lever;
When the first restricting means restricts the shutter interlocking lever to the opening of the shutter lever by the subsequent retreat, the swinging of the shutter interlocking lever is restricted so that the urging engagement of the urging lever is released and the restriction is released. This is a composite card reader including a second regulating means.

According to the present invention, the slider moves forward based on the operation of inserting the card into the insertion slot, and in conjunction with the forward movement, the first regulating means regulates the swing (opening) of the shutter interlocking lever. Lock) is released to allow the shutter lever to close, the shutter lever is closed, and the card inserted here is locked. In this locked state, for example, the IC contact of the card is connected to the IC contact so that the card can be closed. Perform data processing. After this data processing, the shutter lever is opened by the driving means, the card is allowed to be drawn out based on the opening operation, and the second regulating means regulates the shutter interlocking lever to open the shutter lever ( The first restricting means takes over the restriction (open lock) of opening the shutter lever, the insertion slot is kept in an open state, and the card is pulled out. When the card is pulled out, for example, a magnetic stripe is brought into contact with a magnetic head to perform data processing on the card.

(F) Effects of the Invention For this reason, when the card is pulled out, the shutter lever is opened (open lock) by the second restricting means, whereby the card is pulled out. As a result, even if the card withdrawal operation is delayed, the shutter lever is not locked again, and the card can be reliably withdrawn.

Further, the second regulating means keeps the shutter lever open even if the driving means such as a solenoid is temporarily turned on to open the shutter lever and then turned off, so that the driving means reduces the ON operation time. By shortening the length, problems such as temperature rise and burnout can be solved.

(G) Embodiment One embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

The drawings show a composite card reader. In FIGS. 1 and 2, the composite card reader 11 can handle an IC card, a magnetic card, a card sharing them, and the like. (See FIG. 4, FIG. 4) into the combined card reader 11 to process the card transaction data.

The above-mentioned composite card reader 11 has a card insertion slot 13 for inserting the card 12 on the front face,
14, card board surrounded by lower board 15, left board 16 and right board 17
Inside the slider 18, a slider 19 that slides in the front-rear direction in conjunction with the insertion / removal operation of the card 12 is provided.

The above-mentioned slider 19 is supported by slider shafts 20 and 20 on both sides thereof, and is allowed to slide in the insertion / removal direction of the card 12, and is normally urged by a spring 21 so as to be positioned at the card insertion slot 13 side. I have.

The front end of the card 12 at the time of card insertion comes into contact with the card receiving surface 22 which is vertically provided on the front side of the slider 19, so that the slider 19 is moved forward by the front slider against the urging force of the spring 21. Slide to the position of the stopper surface 23.

By moving the slider 19 forward to this stopper position,
The contact 25 of the tilting lever 24 attached to the card 12
The data processing of the card 12 is performed in contact with the IC contact of the card 12.

Also, a magnetic head 26 arranged at the start end side of the card path 18
Then, the magnetic stripe of the card 12 inserted therein comes into contact with the magnetic stripe, and the magnetic data processing of the card 12 is performed.

By the way, with respect to the card insertion slot 13, while forming a concave recessed portion 27 that allows finger insertion by hand,
A shutter lever 28 for permitting / restricting insertion / removal of the card 12 inserted here is provided.

The shutter lever 28 is moved down to close the card insertion slot 13 in order to prevent accidental removal of the card during the card data processing, and when the data processing is completed, the shutter lever 28 is closed. Is moved upward to open the card insertion slot 13 to allow the card to be removed. This opening / closing operation is performed by moving the shutter interlocking lever 30 via a link mechanism 29 described later with the slider 19 and the solenoid. The shutter lever 28 is opened and closed by linking the movement of the shutter 31.

The support structure of the shutter lever 28 has a shutter piece 32 that is bent downward at the distal end of the lever, and a lower portion at the base end side of the lever is pivotally supported on a first fulcrum pin 33 that is horizontally laid on the upper surface of the upper plate 14 in the left-right direction. With the link mechanism 29
By moving the first link piece 34 back and forth, the shutter lever 28 moves up and down with the first fulcrum pin 33 as a fulcrum, so that the shutter piece 32 on the tip side moves up and down. The insertion slot 13 is opened, and when moving downward, the shutter piece 32 closes the card insertion slot 13 opened in the horizontal direction in an orthogonal state.

The above-described link mechanism 29 is configured by sequentially and sequentially pivotally connecting first to third link pieces 34 to 36.
Is pivotally connected to the above-described shutter lever 28, one side of the L-shaped second link piece 35 is pivotally connected to the rear side, and one side of the third link piece 36 is pivotally connected to the other side. The other side is pivotally connected to a shutter interlocking lever 30, which will be described later, to form a link.
The central part of the second link piece 35 of the shape is upper plate with the second fulcrum pin 37
The first link pin 35 is rotatably supported on the first link 14 and the second link piece 35 is allowed to rotate using the second fulcrum pin 37 as a rotation fulcrum.
The shutter piece 32 of the shutter lever 28 is moved up and down via the link piece 34.

The above-described shutter interlocking lever 30 is disposed long along the card insertion / removal direction, and the above-described third link piece 36 is pivotally attached to the lever distal end at a substantially right angle.
The 6th 38 of 31 is also pivoted at a right angle, and the middle of the lever is 3rd
The third fulcrum pin 39 is rotatably supported on the upper plate 14 by a fulcrum pin 39, and the third fulcrum pin 39 is provided so as to be tiltable at the pivot point.

In this case, a first position restricting piece 30a is protruded from an inner surface position on the distal end side of the shutter interlocking lever 30, and this position restricting piece 3
0a is the retracted position of the slider 19 as a normal standby position,
In a state where the initial position regulating piece 19a of the slider 19 is in contact with the shutter interlocking lever 30 and is regulated to the initial position, the slider 19 is separated when the slider 19 moves forward and the position regulation is released.

In conjunction with the execution of the position restriction release, the shutter interlocking lever 30 is in a free state with the third fulcrum pin 39 as a rotation fulcrum, and based on this, the link mechanism 29 and the position restriction are released to be in a free state. At this time, the shutter lever 28
Of the shutter piece 32 is moved downward by its own weight from the upward movement position.

Further, a second position restricting piece 30b protrudes from the inner surface of the shutter interlocking lever 30 at the base end side.
In addition, a position regulating lever 41 pivotally supported via a fourth fulcrum pin 40 erected on the upper plate 14 is detachably supported.

A coil spring 42 is interposed between the front end of the position regulating lever 41 and the rear end of the slider.
42 is fixedly connected at both ends to the lever and the slider, respectively.
42 pulls the position control lever 41 toward the short-term position,
The coil spring 42 is in a no-load extended state.

The coil spring 42 is compressed by receiving the pressing force of the slider 19 when the slider advances, and is urged toward the second position restricting piece 30b. In this urged state, the coil spring 42 and the second position restricting piece 30b Although it is disengaged from the position regulating lever 41, after the card data processing, when the solenoid 31 is turned ON to tilt the shutter interlocking lever 30 in the opening direction, the position is regulated in conjunction with the movement of the lever 30. The lever 41 is biasedly engaged with the second position regulating piece 30b so as to be opened and locked.

Further, in the open lock state, the initial position restricting piece 19a of the slider 19 is moved to the first position restricting piece 30a of the shutter interlocking lever 30 in a state where the open lock of the position restricting lever 41 is maintained at the initial stage of the slider retreat. Abuts and locks open.
When this open lock is performed, the position regulating lever 41
The open lock on the side is provided so as to be released when the slider 19 moves backward.

The card path 18 is provided with various switches such as a card insertion detection switch, a card insertion completion detection switch, and a shutter open / close detection switch (not shown) to detect a card insertion / removal state and a shutter lever open / close state. .

The composite card reader 11 configured as described above usually has
As shown in FIG. 1, the first position restricting piece 30a engages with the initial position restricting piece 19a, and the position of the shutter interlocking lever 30 is restricted to the initial standby position parallel to the card insertion / removal direction. The shutter piece 32 of the shutter lever 28 is further moved upward via the link mechanism 29, and the card insertion slot 13 is in an open locked state (see FIG. 2).

In this state, when the customer inserts the card 12 into the card insertion slot 13, the tip of the card 12 comes into contact with the card receiving surface 22 of the slider 19 located inside the card passage 18, and the slider 19 is moved. Move forward against the urging force of the slider 21,
Push down until it comes into contact with the slider stopper surface 23 corresponding to the card processing position.

At this time, as shown in FIG. 3, in conjunction with the forward movement of the slider 19, the slider initial position regulating piece 19a is separated from the first position regulating piece 30a, and the position regulation of the shutter interlocking lever 30 is released. As a result, the shutter lever 28 via the shutter interlocking lever 30 and the link mechanism 29 moves down by its own weight, and the rear end of the inserted card 12 is locked by the shutter piece 32. Reading of card data in this locked state,
Write processing is performed.

When the data read / write process for the card 12 is completed, the solenoid 31 is temporarily turned on,
Based on this ON operation, the shutter piece 32 of the shutter lever 28 moves upward via the shutter interlocking lever 30 and the link mechanism 29. At this time, when the solenoid 31 is turned ON, the second position restricting piece 30b and the position restricting lever 41 are engaged, and as shown in FIG. 4, the position of the shutter interlocking lever 30 is restricted to the restricting state of the initial position. The card insertion slot 13 is opened and the card is allowed to be pulled out. When you withdraw this card,
The magnetic stripe is brought into contact with the magnetic head 26 to perform magnetic data processing.

When the card 12 is pulled out, the slider 19 returns to the original retreat standby position by the return operation of the spring 21. At this time, as shown in FIG. When the position restricting piece 30a abuts and is opened and locked, thereafter, the engagement between the second position restricting piece 30b and the position restricting lever 41 is released, and the shutter interlocking lever 30 is released.
Is held as it is, the upward movement of the shutter lever 28 is held to maintain the open lock state, and the card insertion slot 13 waits in the open state to prepare for insertion of the next card.

As described above, when the card is pulled out, the shutter lever is kept in the open lock by the open lock operation of the shutter lever,
Even if the operation of pulling out the card is delayed, the shutter lever is not locked again, and the card can be reliably pulled out.

In particular, the opening lock operation of the shutter lever is temporarily turned on by the solenoid at the time of unlocking, but in the subsequent OFF state, the unlocked state is stably maintained throughout this open lock structure.

In correspondence between the present invention and the configuration of the embodiment, the card insertion slot of the present invention is
13. Similarly, the first regulating means corresponds to the initial position regulating piece 19a and the first position regulating piece 30a, the driving means corresponds to the solenoid 31, and the biasing lever corresponds to the position regulating lever. Although the second regulating means corresponds to the second position regulating piece 30b and the position regulating lever 41 corresponding to 41, the present invention is not limited to only the configuration of the above-described embodiment.

[Brief description of the drawings]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is a plan view showing a standby state of a composite card reader. FIG. 2 is a vertical sectional side view showing a standby state of a composite card reader. FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a card locked state of the composite card reader, and FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a card unlocked state of the composite card reader. 11 ... Composite card reader, 12 ... Card 13 ... Card insertion slot, 19 ... Slider 19a ... Initial position regulating piece, 28 ... Shutter lever 29 ... Link mechanism, 30 ... Shutter interlocking lever 30a ... First position regulating piece, 30b ... No. 2 position regulating piece 31 ... solenoid, 41 ... position regulating lever

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] An IC contact of a card is connected to an IC contact by a sliding operation of a slider which moves forward and backward in conjunction with a card insertion / removal operation to perform data processing, or a magnetic stripe is brought into contact with a magnetic head. A compound card reader for performing data processing, comprising: a shutter lever which opens and closes an insertion slot of the card and is disengaged in a closing direction; and a shutter interlock which swings in conjunction with an opening and closing operation of the shutter lever via a link mechanism. A lever, and restricting the shutter lever to open at a standby position of the slider,
First restricting means for restricting the swing of the shutter interlocking lever so as to allow the shutter lever to close by releasing the restriction with the forward movement of the slider; and driving means for opening the shutter lever via the shutter interlocking lever. Based on the opening operation of the shutter lever of the driving means, the disengaging lever, which is disengaged by receiving the pressing force of the slider when the slider is advanced, is urged into engagement with the shutter interlocking lever to open the shutter lever. When the first restricting means restricts the shutter interlocking lever to open the shutter lever in the subsequent retraction, the urging lever is thereafter moved. And a second regulating means for regulating the swing of the shutter interlocking lever so as to release the regulation by releasing the force engagement.