US 11,900,186 B2
Card reader
Mamoru Mizawa, Nagano (JP); Keiji Ohta, Nagano (JP); and Hiroshige Takeda, Nagano (JP)
Assigned to NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION, Nagano (JP)
Filed by NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATION, Nagano (JP)
Filed on Jul. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/870,839.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-126163 (JP), filed on Jul. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0035982 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G06K 13/08 (2006.01); G06K 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06K 13/0862 (2013.01) [G06K 7/0069 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A card reader comprising:
a card lock mechanism structured to prevent pulling-out of a card jammed in a card conveyance passage from a card insertion port; and
an operation part structured to manually release lock of the card caused by the card lock mechanism;
wherein the card lock mechanism comprises:
a motor; and
a lock member, provided with a blocking pawl contacted with the card to prevent pulling-out of the card, the lock member being moved between a contact position where the blocking pawl is contacted with the card and a retreated position where the blocking pawl is retreated from the card conveyance passage by power transmitted from the motor;
wherein the operation part comprises:
a rotation member, having a tube shape and having an inner circumference wall surrounding an output shaft of the motor; and
an engaging member, provided on the inner circumference wall, extended along a circumferential direction of the output shaft and capable of engaging with an outer peripheral face of the output shaft; and
wherein the engaging member is structured so as to be elastically deformable in a direction perpendicular to the output shaft.