27results about "Sensing by galvanic contacts" patented technology

The invention relates to an electronic terminal (10) comprising: A peripheral (20); An electronic card (30) extending in a given plane and comprising a front face of the electronic card (31) and a rear face of the electronic card (32); two card-to-card connectors (21, 22) for the electrical connection of said electronic card (30) to said peripheral (20), of which a first connector (21) is mounted directly on said front face (31) of the electronic card (30) and a second connector (22) is connected to said display device (20), said first connector (21) and second connector (22) being disconnectable by a translation along a direction substantially orthogonal to said plane of the electronic card (30);a safety system (40) configured to detect an attempt to disconnect said first connector (21) and second connector (22), the safety system (40) comprising a part (41) clamping the second connector (22) and said rear face of the electronic board (32) so as to maintain contact between the first connector (21) and second connector (22); and a detector (42) for the presence of said part (41). Figure 1;

A card reader prevents a magnetic read head of the card reader from being able to read a magnetic strip of a card and forces the card reader to read card data from an embedded chip of the card instead of the magnetic strip. An electromagnetic noise interference signal is generated and is maintained within the card reader. The signal prevents a magnetic read head of the card reader and any skimmer present within the card reader from reading the magnetic strip of the card. In an embodiment, the signal is generated and maintained as long as the card reader is powered on. In an embodiment, the signal is generated when at least one sensor of the card reader detects a presence of the card proximate to a card slot of the card reader, within the card slot, or within the card reader adjacent to the magnetic read head.

The invention relates to a magnetic card (2) reader (1), which comprises: - an electronic card (5) which is intended to receive and process data from a magnetic card; - a magnetic reading head (6) which is intended to read data contained in a magnetic card and to transmit these data to the electronic card; - a zone (7) for passing through a magnetic card, which comprises guide means (8) which are intended to guide the magnetic card as it slides in the passage zone. The reading head is mounted so that it is stationary on the magnetic card reader. The guide means comprise elastic deformation means (10) which are intended to deform the magnetic card when it slides in the passage zone so as to allow the magnetic card to be read. The elastic deformation means are made of a material having a Young's modulus greater than 100,000 MPa.

A connector electrically connecting a module substrate and a main substrate includes: a housing mounted on the main substrate; contacts held on the housing, the contacts including contact parts and connection parts connected to the main substrate; a frame including a flat board part and side board parts, the flat board part fixed to the main substrate, one of a cam groove and a projection formed on the side board parts; a slider attached between the side board parts during the projection's insertion into the cam groove, the other of the cam groove and the projection formed at opposite side portions; a plate contained between the side board parts, the plate forming an insertion space between the plate and the housing, where when the slider slides in the module substrate's insertion direction into the insertion space, the slider presses the module substrate against the contact parts through the plate.

The invention provides a card reader, which includes two USB connectors of two specifications hidden in the body. The two USB connectors are rotatably combined in the body, and a user can choose to use one of the USB connectors to rotate out one side of the body and position it to electrically connect to a main circuit board. A card slot is provided on the opposite side of the body. When one of the USB connectors is rotated out of the body and connected to an electronic device, a chip card inserted into the card slot can communicate with the electronic device. When not in use, the two USB connectors can be rotated into the body and the electrical connection is disconnected for easy storage and portability.

A card reader includes a movable upper surface platform with a lower surface platform including one or more sensors. When there is no card transaction in progress, the upper surface platform moves toward the lower surface platform and locks in place making contact with the lower surface platform. The one or more sensor indicate whether the two surfaces are in contact with one another. When the two surfaces are not in contact with one another, when the card reader is in an idle state, the card reader shuts down / disables since there is foreign object is present in the card reader's transport path, which may indicate a skimmer / shimmer was placed in the card reader.

To provide a card reader and a control method of the card reader.SOLUTION: In a card reader, a control unit executes a first activation trial step of moving an IC contact block to a contactable position 7A to try activation of an IC chip after conveying a card 3 to a predetermined reference position 3A to stop the card in a state of arranging the IC contact block 7 at a retreat position. An apex part of a spring part 6c forming a V-shape contacts the center in a longitudinal direction of an external connection terminal 3b when the card is arranged at the reference position. The reference position is stored in the control unit, and the control unit controls a motor to convey the card 3 to the reference position to stop the card. The control unit continuously communicates data with the card when the activation of the IC chip succeeds in the first activation trial step, and moves the IC contact block to the retreat position to convey the card to a third predetermined position to stop the card when the activation fails.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 7

To provide a system and a method for secure payment processing systems that interface flexibly and intuitively with a variety of mobile computing devices.SOLUTION: A POS device includes a nest portion and a cradle portion. The nest portion includes one or more payment cards or near field communication (NFC) readers. The cradle portion couples to interchangeable frames of different sizes that serve to secure a mobile computing device to the cradle portion of the POS device in turn. The mobile computing device is connected to the rest of the POS device via a connector. Payment card information read by the reader is transported to the mobile computing device via the connector for processing. The POS device may also include tamper detection circuitry.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1A

To suppress contacts and electrodes from being worn due to sliding.SOLUTION: A connector for electrical connection between a module substrate with electrodes and a main substrate, comprises: a housing 80 mounted on the main substrate 200; contacts 90 each of which has a contact part 92 and a connection part 91 connected with the main substrate 200, being held by the housing 80; a frame 60 that has a flat plate part 61 fixed to the main substrate 200 and a pair of side plate parts 62, the pair of side plate parts 62 being formed with one of a cam groove and a projection; a slider 70 at whose pair of opposed side portions the other of the cam groove and the projection is formed, the projection being inserted into the cam groove so as to be attached between the pair of side plate parts 62; and a plate 120 accommodated between the pair of side plate parts 62, configuring an insertion space 101 together with the housing 80. The slider 70 presses the module substrate 300 against the contact part 92 via the plate 120 by sliding in the same direction as an insertion direction of the module substrate 300 into the insertion space 101.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6

The magnetic card reader (1) (2) comprises: - an electronic card (5) for receiving and processing data from a magnetic card, - a magnetic reading head (6) for reading data contained in a magnetic card and transmitting this data to the electronic card, and - a magnetic card passage zone (7) comprising guiding means (8) for guiding the magnetic card as it slides through the passage zone. The reading head is fixedly mounted on the magnetic card reader. The guiding means comprise elastic deformation means (10) for deforming the magnetic card as it slides through the passage zone to allow the magnetic card to be read. The elastic deformation means are made of a material having a Young's modulus greater than 100,000 MPa. Figure for the abbreviation: Figure 2

The present invention provides an ICC reader comprising: - a microcontroller configured to exchange data with an insertable ICC while the insertable ICC is inserted and powered, and with an end-user entity, - an ICC connector configured to allow the exchange of data between the microcontroller and the inserted ICC, and - an end-user entity interface connector configured to allow the exchange of data between the microcontroller and an end-user entity, wherein the ICC reader is characterized in that it further comprises an activatable 2-position built-in switch defining two states: i. a first state wherein the exchange of data between the microcontroller and the inserted ICC is allowed, and ii. a second state wherein the exchange of data between the microcontroller and the inserted ICC is interrupted emulating an ICC withdrawal.

An electronic terminal (10) comprising a touchscreen display (11), a smart card reader (12), a protective housing in which the smart card reader is able to occupy a first smart card reader position, and a safety mechanism configured to detect movement of the smart card reader (12) to a second smart card reader position distinct from the first smart card reader position. The safety mechanism comprises: a first safety element (15) provided on the smart card reader (12) and including a conductive portion (15.1), and a second safety element (16) provided on the touchscreen display (11). Figure 2b

A card edge connector with members configured to secure a mating component so as to improve the connector's reliability. The connector housing may have a slot configured to receive the mating component. The slot has a first portion configured to receive a front edge of the mating component, and second portions extending from opposite ends of the first portion and configured to receive side edges of the mating component. Members are disposed in the housing and have beams curving into respective second portions of the slot. The beams of the members are configured to restrain movement of the mating component when the mating component is inserted into the slot. Such a configuration enables more reliable connections and improves the connector's shock resistance while being compatible with mating components having a variety of sizes.

A card reader's motorized transport is controlled by firmware of the reader so as to control a distance that any card can be pulled into the reader during a transaction on a host device. The distance is sufficient enough to allow an embedded chip on the card to be read by a chip read interface but is insufficient to be read by a magnetic read interface. Furthermore, the entire length of the card is prevented from completely passing over the magnetic read interface during the transaction such that any skimmer placed within the reader is physically unable to read the magnetic card information from the magnetic strip of the card. In an embodiment, the firmware is configured to permit only chips from the cards to be read for transactions or configured to turn off chip only reading by permitting both chip reads and magnetic strip reads for each transaction.

Various aspects of the disclosure generally relate to security for a credit card processing reader. Part of security for a reader is protecting sensitive components, for example components that access information from a credit card during a transaction. An alternative security configuration may include integrated circuits replacing portions of electrically active mesh. This may reduce the size and cost of a reader while maintaining its security with respect to published guidelines.

A point of sale (POS) device includes a nest portion and a cradle portion. The nest portion includes one or more payment card or near field communication (NFC) readers. The cradle portion couples to differently-sized interchangeable frames, which in turn help secure a mobile computing device to the cradle portion of the POS device. The mobile computing device is connected via a connector to the rest of the POS device. Payment card information read by the readers is conveyed to the mobile computing device over the connector for processing. The POS device may also include tamper detection circuitry.

An electronic terminal (10) comprising a touch display device (11), a smart card reader (12), a protective housing within which the smart card reader is adapted to occupy a first smart card reader position, a security mechanism configured to detect a displacement of the smart card reader (12) toward a second smart card reader position distinct from the first smart card reader position, the security mechanism comprising: a first security element (15) provided on the smart card reader (12) and comprising a conductive portion (151), a second security element (16) provided on the touch display device (11).

The invention relates to an electronic payment terminal comprising a housing body (24) in which means for reading a payment data medium are housed, the housing body (24) being at least partially covered with a tamper-detection coating, and comprising an opening (50) for draining unwanted liquid to the outside of the housing body. The housing body (24) comprises a security partition (58) internal to the housing body (24), at least partially covered with a tamper-detection coating, the security partition being positioned between the drainage opening (50) and a protected space of the housing body (24), such that the security partition (58) forms an obstacle to the insertion of a tampering tool into the protected space.

To provide a music video playback device having hardware-based anti-piracy means.SOLUTION: A music video playback device comprises: a music video album card 20 having a memory in which music video files are stored; and a music video player for receiving and reproducing the music video files provided from the music video album card. The music video album card includes a specific contact pad array card pattern for transmitting files. The music video player includes a display, a speaker, video file reproducing means, audio file reproducing means, a battery, and means for connecting the music video album card. The music video album card connecting means 6 includes a specific contact pad connector pattern. The music video playback device can be supplied at a low price and it can be new video media capable of issuing specific music video albums for specific singers or limited editions of portable movie films.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

A system for detecting installation of a skimmer at an automated teller machine receives detection data from a sensor. The system converts the detection data from a time domain to a frequency domain using a wavelet transform to generate a wavelet matrix of coefficients. The system includes a first machine learning model to identify features in the wavelet matrix. The system generates a rain alert signal based on the identified features. The system includes a long short-term memory recurrent neural network model to determine a sequence from the detection data, the sequence including (i) an idle state, (ii) a hand proximity state, and (iii) a skimmer installation state. The system determines to generate a tamper alert signal based on the sequence.

To provide a card processing device capable of efficiently reading the necessary information, and a covering member which is attached to the same and used.SOLUTION: Disclosed is a card issuing device 1 which processes a card 2 including a plurality of information recording parts (bar code 2a, bar code 2b, bar code 2c) capable of reading the information optically. This issuing device includes: a scanner 32 which can read the information from an information recording part provided in the upper part of the mounting surface (upper surface 60u) on which the card 2 is placed; and a mounting part 75 for detachably attaching a covering member 51 covering the remaining information recording part except one of the plurality of information recording parts in the card 2 placed on the placing surface.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

A point of sale (POS) device includes a nest portion and a cradle portion. The nest portion includes one or more payment card or near field communication (NFC) readers. The cradle portion couples to differently-sized interchangeable frames, which in turn help secure a mobile computing device to the cradle portion of the POS device. The mobile computing device is connected via a connector to the rest of the POS device. Payment card information read by the readers is conveyed to the mobile computing device over the connector for processing. The POS device may also include tamper detection circuitry.

In a card reader, in a card moving step performed when activation of an IC chip fails in a first activation attempt step, a card is transported and stopped within a range where IC contact springs in contact with external connection terminals do not come off the external connection terminals, with an IC contact block positioned in a contactable position where the IC contact springs are allowed to contact the external connection terminals of the card. In such a card reader, in a second activation attempt step after the card moving step, the card is stopped within a range where the card is moved in the card moving step, then to attempt to activate the IC chip.

A card reader's motorized transport is controlled by firmware of the reader so as to control a distance that any card can be pulled into the reader during a transaction on a host device. The distance is sufficient enough to allow an embedded chip on the card to be read by a chip read interface but is insufficient to be read by a magnetic read interface. Furthermore, the entire length of the card is prevented from completely passing over the magnetic read interface during the transaction such that any skimmer placed within the reader is physically unable to read the magnetic card information from the magnetic strip of the card. In an embodiment, the firmware is configured to permit only chips from the cards to be read for transactions or configured to turn off chip only reading by permitting both chip reads and magnetic strip reads for each transaction.

Various aspects of the disclosure generally relate to security for a credit card processing reader. Part of security for a reader is a secure cover having a trace mesh to discourage drilling through the cover. The mesh may be connected to one or more landing areas on the cover. The landing area has electrical pads with trace routing that provides tamper protection for the landing area.

The invention relates to an electronic terminal (10) comprising: - a peripheral (20); - an electronic board (30) extending in a given plane and comprising an electronic board front face (31) and an electronic board rear face (32); - two board-to-board connectors (21, 22) for electrically connecting the electronic board (30) to the peripheral (20), and including a first connector (21) mounted directly on the front face (31) of the electronic board (30) and a second connector (22) connected to the peripheral (20), which first connector (21) and which second connector (22) can be disconnected by translation in a direction substantially orthogonal to the plane of the electronic board (30); - a security system (40) configured to detect an attempt to disconnect the first connector (21) and the second connector (22), the security system (40) comprising a part (41) enclosing the second connector (22) and the rear face (32) of the electronic board so as to keep the first connector (21) and the second connector (22) in contact with one another; and a detector (42) for detecting the presence of the part (41).

A dual antiphase read-head arranged card reader is provided. The card reader includes a first read-head arrangement and a second read-head arrangement. Electromagnetic noise is applied to both the first and second arrangements. Waves associated with the electromagnetic noise on the second arrangement is transformed and applied to the first arrangement canceling the noise on a first read head of the first arrangement. The first read head reads magnetically encoded information on a magnetic strip of a card inserted into a card slot of the card reader free of noise. However, the noise remains present such that any skimmer read head of a skimmer inserted into the card slot is unable to read the magnetically encoded information off the magnetic strip of the card.