| US 7,506,814 B2 | ||
| Card reader | ||
| Akinobu Nakabo, Nagoya (Japan); Naoyuki Wakabayashi, Osaka (Japan); and Kenichi Masada, Nagoya (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Hitachi-Omron Terminal Solutions, Corp., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 28, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/646,607. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2006-056363 (JP), filed on Mar. 02, 2006. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0205282 A1, Sep. 06, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06K 7/08 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 235—451 | 6 Claims |
| 1. A card reader which conducts reading and writing on a non-contact IC card having a radio communication function, by means
of radio communication with the non-contact IC card, the card reader comprising:
a frame member having an insertion path to guide the non-contact IC card inserted into a main body to a card data reading
position; and
an antenna substrate having a coil-shaped circuit pattern formed thereon to function as an antenna, the antenna substrate
being attached to the frame member so as to cause the coil-shaped circuit pattern to be opposed to the non-contact IC card
when set in the card data reading position,
wherein the antenna substrate has an opening inside the coil-shaped circuit pattern, and
wherein the antenna substrate is located or disposed underneath the non-contact IC card inserted into the card reading position;
and
a card data reader-writer disposed so as to be opposed to the antenna substrate,
wherein the non-contact IC card or a contact IC card fits in the card data reading position between the data card reader-writer
and the antenna substrate, and
wherein the card reader-writer is disposed so as to be connected to contact terminals formed on a surface of the contact IC
card.
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