US 11,935,026 B2
Payment terminal
Kenya Yasutomi, Kanagawa (JP); Bunzo Goto, Kanagawa (JP); Takeshi Goto, Kanagawa (JP); Tadayuki Takanashi, Kanagawa (JP); Akihito Shimode, Kanagawa (JP); and Ryota Minami, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed by PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/481,911.
Application 17/481,911 is a continuation of application No. 16/723,081, filed on Dec. 20, 2019, granted, now 11,176,530.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-083216 (JP), filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0012705 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07F 7/08 (2006.01); G06Q 20/20 (2012.01); G06Q 20/34 (2012.01); G07G 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 20/204 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/352 (2013.01); G07G 1/0018 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A payment terminal comprising:
an IC card reader slot in front of a user; and
a first board with a touch area for a contactless payment arranged diagonally upward toward the user, wherein
an open space is arranged between the IC card reader slot and the first board and is provided outside a housing of the payment terminal,
the IC card reader slot and the first board are arranged in order from the plane in a height direction,
an antenna used for the contactless payment is arranged in the first board,
the touch area is the area that a user touches in an operation of the contactless payment, and
the open space is arranged across the surface with the IC card reader slot and two side surfaces next to the surface with the IC card reader slot.