Payment terminal

The payment terminal integrates contact IC and contactless payment methods with distinct slot placements and a separated contactless area to address miniaturization, misrecognition, and user-friendliness, enhancing security and operational efficiency.

JP2026034794APending Publication Date: 2026-02-27PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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Patent Information

Application Number
JP2025280510
Authority / Receiving Office
JP · JP
Patent Type
Applications
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2025-12-24
Publication Date
2026-02-27

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Technical Problem

Existing payment terminals face challenges in achieving miniaturization, avoiding misrecognition of payment methods, and ensuring user-friendly operation, particularly when integrating contactless and other payment functions.

Method used

The payment terminal is designed with a contact IC card slot on the front, a contactless payment touch area diagonally upward, and a display screen within the contactless payment area, with the contact IC card slot positioned closer to the surface and the contactless payment area separated from other slots, preventing misrecognition and allowing easy user understanding.

Benefits of technology

The design achieves a compact, user-friendly payment terminal that avoids misrecognition, ensuring smooth operations and meets security standards by eliminating unnecessary space for potential fraudulent activities.

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Abstract

To provide a settlement terminal for simultaneously achieving miniaturization of the settlement terminal, avoidance of erroneous recognition, understandability for a user, and smoothness of settlement operation.SOLUTION: In the settlement terminal, a magnetic card settlement slot, a contact IC card settlement slot, and a surface having a touch area for non-contact settlement are arranged in order from the vicinity of a placement surface in a height direction from the placement surface. When the user faces the front, the direction of the touch area for non-contact type settlement is obliquely upward toward the user, and the card insertion direction to the slot for contact type IC card settlement and the swipe direction of the magnetic card to the slot for magnetic card settlement are arranged so as to be substantially perpendicular to each other. When the user swipes the magnetic card into the magnetic card reader slot, the magnetic head of the magnetic card is located closer to the placement surface than a position where the user holds the magnetic card.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
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