Patents by Inventor Shinya Miyazawa
Shinya Miyazawa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20170293778Abstract: A card reader may include card insertion port; a plurality of types of pulling-out detection mechanisms; and a pulling-out prevention mechanism. The pulling-out prevention mechanism may include a lock member having a prevention part configured to contact with the card and prevent pulling-out of the card; and a moving mechanism structured to move the lock member between a contact position and a retreated position. The plurality of types of the pulling-out detection mechanisms may the abnormal pulling-out of the card by methods different from each other. The lock member is moved to the contact position from the retreated position to prevent pulling-out of the card when the abnormal pulling-out of the card from the card insertion port is detected by the plurality of types of the pulling-out detection mechanisms.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: October 12, 2017Applicant: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventor: Shinya Miyazawa
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Patent number: 9659240Abstract: A card reader may include a card insertion port; a card conveying passage; and a card lock mechanism. The card lock mechanism may include a motor; a lock member comprising a prevention pawl; and a power transmission mechanism structured to transmit power of the motor to the lock member. The power transmission mechanism may include a worm gear having a screw gear and a helical gear engaged with the screw gear. The screw gear may be disposed on a motor side relative to the helical gear in a transmitting direction of power from the motor to the lock member. The lock member may further include a teeth part in a fan shape. The teeth part may be driven through engagement of gears including the worm gear to move the prevention pawl.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Shinya Miyazawa
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Patent number: 9576161Abstract: A card reader for use with a card incorporated with an IC chip may include an insertion port into which the card is inserted; a metal detection mechanism structured to detect an external connection terminal of the IC chip provided in the card; and a tip end detection mechanism structured to detect a tip end in an inserting direction of the card inserted into the insertion port. The metal detection mechanism and the tip end detection mechanism may be disposed so that, when the tip end detection mechanism detects the tip end in the inserting direction of the card inserted into the insertion port in a correct posture, the metal detection mechanism detects the external connection terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Jo Tanaka, Shinya Miyazawa, Akihiro Negishi, Yohei Shimizu, Kazuto Saeki
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Patent number: 9563791Abstract: A card reader for use with a card may include a card insertion part formed with an insertion port into which the card is inserted; and a magnetic head provided in the card insertion part and structured to contact with the card. A magnetic gap in a straight shape may be formed at a tip end of the magnetic head where the card is to be contacted. When a forming direction of the magnetic gap formed in the straight shape is a gap direction, the gap direction may be inclined with respect to a first direction perpendicular to an inserting direction of the card when viewed in a thickness direction of the card inserted into the insertion port.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2015Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Yukihiko Takita, Shinya Miyazawa, Jo Tanaka, Yohei Shimizu
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Publication number: 20160358044Abstract: A card reader may include a card insertion port; a card conveying passage; and a card lock mechanism structured to prevent drawing of the card from the card insertion port. The card lock mechanism may include a motor; a lock member comprising a prevention pawl structured to move between a contact position and a retreated position; and a power transmission mechanism structured to transmit power of the motor to the lock member. The power transmission mechanism may include a final gear which is disposed on a most lock member side in a transmitting direction of power from the motor to the lock member. The lock member may include a sector gear which is engaged with the final gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Hirofumi KUWAKI, Hiroshige TAKEDA, Shinya MIYAZAWA
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Publication number: 20160314381Abstract: A card reader may include a card insertion port; a card conveying passage; and a card lock mechanism. The card lock mechanism may include a motor; a lock member comprising a prevention pawl; and a power transmission mechanism structured to transmit power of the motor to the lock member. The power transmission mechanism may include a worm gear having a screw gear and a helical gear engaged with the screw gear. The screw gear may be disposed on a motor side relative to the helical gear in a transmitting direction of power from the motor to the lock member. The lock member may further include a teeth part in a fan shape. The teeth part may be driven through engagement of gears including the worm gear to move the prevention pawl.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2014Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventor: Shinya MIYAZAWA
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Publication number: 20160314326Abstract: A card reader for use with a card may include a card insertion part formed with an insertion port into which the card is inserted; and a magnetic head provided in the card insertion part and structured to contact with the card. A magnetic gap in a straight shape may be formed at a tip end of the magnetic head where the card is to be contacted. When a forming direction of the magnetic gap formed in the straight shape is a gap direction, the gap direction may be inclined with respect to a first direction perpendicular to an inserting direction of the card when viewed in a thickness direction of the card inserted into the insertion port.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2015Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Yukihiko TAKITA, Shinya MIYAZAWA, Jo TANAKA, Yohei SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20160140366Abstract: Provided is a card reader that accepts and processes the short side of a substantially rectangular IC card conforming to international and JIS standards, said card reader being capable of easily determining whether or not the orientation of the inserted IC card is correct. This card reader comprises: an insertion port wherein a card having a built-in IC chip is inserted; a metal detection mechanism for detecting an external connection terminal of the IC chip formed in the card; and a tip detection mechanism for detecting the tip, in the insertion direction, of the card inserted from the insertion port. In this card reader, the metal detection mechanism and the tip detection mechanism are provided such that, when the tip detection mechanism detects the tip, in the insertion direction, of the card inserted in the correct orientation from the insertion port, the metal detection mechanism is arranged at a position that detects the external connection terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2014Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Jo TANAKA, Shinya MIYAZAWA, Akihiro NEGISHI, Yohei SHIMIZU, Kazuto SAEKI
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Patent number: 8985450Abstract: Provided is a card insertion unit for a card reader which, without weakening a magnetic field generated by a magnetic field generating device in order to prevent reading of magnetic data by a magnetic head for skimming, is capable of reducing the effect of the magnetic field upon the reading of the magnetic data by way of the magnetic head for data reading. This card insertion unit may be provided with a notch formed at a point at which a magnetic stripe passes at insertion time of the card a projecting portion which projects toward the upstream side of the insertion direction of the card and a magnetic field generating device disposed in the interior of the projecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Kazutoshi Ishikawa, Yukihiko Takita, Shinya Miyazawa
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Publication number: 20140332591Abstract: Provided is a card insertion unit for a card reader which, without weakening a magnetic field generated by a magnetic field generating device in order to prevent reading of magnetic data by a magnetic head for skimming, is capable of reducing the effect of the magnetic field upon the reading of the magnetic data by way of the magnetic head for data reading. This card insertion unit (4) is provided with a notch (4c) formed at a point at which a magnetic stripe (2a) passes at insertion time of the card (2), a projecting portion (4b) which projects toward the upstream side of the insertion direction of the card (2), and a magnetic field generating device (14) disposed in the interior of the projecting portion (4b).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2012Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Kazutoshi Ishikawa, Yukihiko Takita, Shinya Miyazawa
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Patent number: 8844709Abstract: A card-shaped medium processing device may include an insertion port to which a card-shaped medium is inserted, a medium feeder capable of abutting with a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port to carry the card-shaped medium, and a motor for driving the medium feeder. A taking-in maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of a taking-in operation of a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port is set to be smaller than an ejecting maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of an ejecting operation of the card-shaped medium toward the insertion port. A control method for a card-shaped medium processing device may include the same relationship, i.e., the taking-in maximum value is set to be smaller than the ejecting maximum value.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Mamoru Mizawa, Keiji Hoson, Shinya Miyazawa
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Patent number: 8783569Abstract: A card processing device has a card insertion section into which a card is inserted, a card receiving section in which the card is received with a rear end section of the inserted card exposed from the card insertion section, a reader that reads information recorded in the card received in the card receiving section, a holding member that holds a front end section of the card and, in response to a card-pulling operation by an operator, releases the front end section of the card, and a detector that detects that the card is at a position held by the holding member.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventor: Shinya Miyazawa
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Patent number: 8261987Abstract: To provide a card processing device that can accurately determine whether or not a normal card is inserted at a card insertion slot. A card processing device is equipped with a width-detecting mechanism that detects the width of a card inserted at a card insertion slot and outputs a width detection signal, a thickness-detecting mechanism that detects the thickness of the card inserted at the card insertion slot and outputs a thickness detection signal, an AND circuit to which the width-detecting mechanism and the thickness-detecting mechanism are connected and which outputs a card detection signal when the width detection signal and the thickness detection signal are input, and a computation circuit that outputs control signals to implement predetermined controls based on the card detection signal input from the AND circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Nidec Sankyo CorporationInventors: Mamoru Mizawa, Shinya Miyazawa, Kazutoshi Ishikawa, Ikuro Kuribayashi, Keiji Hoson
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Publication number: 20110240738Abstract: To provide a card processing device that can accurately determine whether or not a normal card is inserted at a card insertion slot. A card processing device is equipped with a width-detecting mechanism that detects the width of a card inserted at a card insertion slot and outputs a width detection signal, a thickness-detecting mechanism that detects the thickness of the card inserted at the card insertion slot and outputs a thickness detection signal, an AND circuit to which the width-detecting mechanism and the thickness-detecting mechanism are connected and which outputs a card detection signal when the width detection signal and the thickness detection signal are input, and a computation circuit that outputs control signals to implement predetermined controls based on the card detection signal input from the AND circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2011Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Mamoru Mizawa, Shinya Miyazawa, Kazutoshi Ishikawa, Ikuro Kuribayashi, Keiji Hoson
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Publication number: 20110162941Abstract: A card-shaped medium processing device may include an insertion port to which a card-shaped medium is inserted, a medium feeder capable of abutting with a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port to carry the card-shaped medium, and a motor for driving the medium feeder. A taking-in maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of a taking-in operation of a card-shaped medium inserted from the insertion port is set to be smaller than an ejecting maximum value which is the maximum value of an output of the motor at the time of an ejecting operation of the card-shaped medium toward the insertion port. A control method for a card-shaped medium processing device may include the same relationship, i.e., the taking-in maximum value is set to be smaller than the ejecting maximum value.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2010Publication date: July 7, 2011Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventors: Mamoru MIZAWA, Keiji HOSON, Shinya MIYAZAWA
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Publication number: 20100252630Abstract: A card processing device has a card insertion section into which a card is inserted, a card receiving section in which the card is received with a rear end section of the inserted card exposed from the card insertion section, a reader that reads information recorded in the card received in the card receiving section, a holding member that holds a front end section of the card and, in response to a card-pulling operation by an operator, releases the front end section of the card , and a detector that detects that the card is at a position held by the holding member.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: NIDEC SANKYO CORPORATIONInventor: Shinya Miyazawa
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Patent number: 7118038Abstract: A card reader which reads or writes data from or to a card inserted through a card insertion port into a card reader body via a card transport path is described the card reader comprises a shutter provided near the card insertion port to open or close the card transport path. A first detector is provided for detecting the card inserted therein near a first end of the card insertion port. A sensor is provided for detecting a change in the first detector. A locking member of the card reader is capable of switching positions of the shutter between an open-position and a close-and-lock position. A controller is provided for controlling switching positions of the locking member between the open position and the close-and-lock position of the shutter.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2003Date of Patent: October 10, 2006Assignee: NIDEC Sankyo CorporationInventors: Shinya Miyazawa, Kazutoshi Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20040245336Abstract: A card reader which reads or writes data from or to a card inserted through a card insertion port into a card reader body via a card transport path is described the card reader comprises a shutter provided near the card insertion port to open or close the card transport path. A first detector is provided for detecting the card inserted therein near a first end of the card insertion port. A sensor is provided for detecting a change in the first detector. A locking member of the card reader is capable of switching positions of the shutter between an open-position and a close-and-lock position. A controller is provided for controlling switching positions of the locking member between the open position and the close-and-lock position of the shutter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2003Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: Shinya Miyazawa, Kazutoshi Ishikawa