Abstract: A security element intended to be electrically connected to an electronic card. The security element includes: a metal portion, called a dome; a conductive assembly including conductive tracks which are not connected to each other including an outer track and a central track, each having a conductive tab intended to connect them to the electronic card; and a non-conductive support having lumens via which the conductive tabs extend from the conductive tracks to the electronic card. The ends of the conductive tabs are intended to be in contact with the electronic card and do not extend beyond the non-conductive assembly such that the connections between the tracks and the electronic card are located under a lower face of the non-conductive assembly.

Abstract: A data input device intended to be affixed to a capacitive touch screen of a terminal includes: a substantially parallelepipedal plate including a lower surface, which is substantially planar, for affixing the device to the touch screen, and an upper surface including an array of input zones that form a keyboard and are configured to enable a finger of a user to be detected by the touch screen when the device is affixed thereto; and at least two contact pads, which are electrically conductive and arranged on the lower surface, and each electrically connected to means for discharging, towards the outside of the touch screen, electric charges concentrated at the contact pads when the device is affixed to and held on the touch screen.

Abstract: A magnetic card reader comprising a groove for shifting of a magnetic card and a magnetic read head mounted on a first printed-circuit board so as to enable reading of a magnetic stripe of the magnetic card. The magnetic read head has a tunnel magnetoresistance sensor called a TMR magnetic sensor positioned in a recess of a side wall of the groove.

Abstract: A method for validating at least one datum entered on a terminal. Such a method includes: detecting at least one contact on a touch entry element of the terminal, the at least one contact defining: the at least one datum entered on said terminal; and a contact area on the touch entry element; detecting, after the detection of at least one contact, at least one displacement movement of another contact on the touch entry element, the at least one displacement movement defining an erasure area on the touch entry element; and validating the at least one entered datum when the erasure area at least partially covers the contact area.

Abstract: A memory card reader body includes proposed, on an internal face, a receiving recess to receive a memory card connector. The receiving recess has electrically conductive tracks forming a protective mesh for the memory card connector. The conductive tracks are such that they also extend on an external face of the memory card reader body through vias passing through the internal and external faces.

Abstract: A method for assisting the use of an electronic transaction device. The method includes activating an assisted mode, the activation of the assisted mode being triggered by a detection of a placement of a data entry assistance accessory on a touch screen of the electronic transaction device.

Abstract: A security element intended to be electrically connected to an electronic card. The security element includes: a metal portion, called a dome; a conductive assembly including conductive tracks which are not connected to each other including an outer track and a central track, each having a conductive tab intended to connect them to the electronic card; and a non-conductive support having lumens via which the conductive tabs extend from the conductive tracks to the electronic card. The ends of the conductive tabs are intended to be in contact with the electronic card and do not extend beyond the non-conductive assembly such that the connections between the tracks and the electronic card are located under a lower face of the non-conductive assembly.

Abstract: A method for processing transactions of the type including transmission, to a communications terminal, of a receipt relating to a payment transaction during the implementation of this payment transaction by a payment terminal. The method includes, in the payment terminal: obtaining a piece of data representing an end of a transaction; building a data structure according a piece of data of the transaction, the data structure representing a receipt; transmitting a signal including at least the data structure; subsequently to the step of transmission, finalizing the transaction, including the transmission of a piece of finalizing data to be transmitted to a user.

Abstract: A device for entering data, which is configured to be laid down on a touchpad of a terminal. The device for entering data includes an appreciably parallelepiped-shaped plate. The plate includes an upper face, at least one part of which includes a keypad-forming matrix of entry zones, and a lower face. The lower face includes, for each key of the keypad on the upper face, at least one contact zone electrically connected to a corresponding key on the upper face.

Abstract: A system of data entry includes a touch panel of a terminal and a data-entry device to be placed on the touch panel. The touch panel includes a matrix of electrodes having nodes and is managed by a control unit configured carrying out cycles of capacitive scanning and measurement of variance of capacitance of the nodes relative to reference values, detecting meaningful touches on the touch panel and recalibrating reference values. The device includes a plate having a lower face for placing the device on the touch panel; and an upper face with a matrix of entry zones having a thickness enabling a detection of a finger by the touch panel; a flat contact pad electrically conductive and fixedly attached to the lower face; and a network of conductive tracks stretching over at least a part of the upper face and being electrically connected to the contact pad.

Abstract: A magnetic card reader comprising a groove for shifting of a magnetic card and a magnetic read head mounted on a first printed-circuit board so as to enable reading of a magnetic stripe of the magnetic card. The magnetic read head has a tunnel magnetoresistance sensor called a TMR magnetic sensor positioned in a recess of a side wall of the groove.

Abstract: There is proposed an antenna configured to conform to a transparent surface. Such an antenna includes at least one electrically conductive strand extending along the surface, a cross-section of the at least one electrically conductive strand has a height, in a direction orthogonal to the surface, that is greater than a width in a direction parallel to the surface.

Abstract: A method for validating at least one datum entered on a terminal. Such a method includes: detecting at least one contact on a touch entry element of the terminal, the at least one contact defining: the at least one datum entered on said terminal; and a contact area on the touch entry element; detecting, after the detection of at least one contact, at least one displacement movement of another contact on the touch entry element, the at least one displacement movement defining an erasure area on the touch entry element; and validating the at least one entered datum when the erasure area at least partially covers the contact area.

Abstract: A keypad for an electronic data-entry device. The keypad includes: a plurality of keys defining a layer of keys; a connection printed-circuit board having a key-press detection portion having an external face oriented towards the layer of keys and an internal face opposite the external face; for each key of the layer of keys, an interconnection element and at least one pair of contacts on the connection printed-circuit board, the interconnection element being intended for making the electrical connection of the contacts of the pair of contacts when the associated key is pressed. The connection printed-circuit board is a flexible printed-circuit board further including a connecting portion forming a fold beneath the internal face of the key-press detection portion, and the pair of contacts is disposed on the internal face.

Abstract: There is proposed an antenna configured to conform to a transparent surface. Such an antenna includes at least one electrically conductive strand extending along the surface, a cross-section of the at least one electrically conductive strand has a height, in a direction orthogonal to the surface, that is greater than a width in a direction parallel to the surface.

Abstract: A system of data entry includes a touch panel of a terminal and a data-entry device to be placed on the touch panel. The touch panel includes a matrix of electrodes having nodes and is managed by a control unit configured carrying out cycles of capacitive scanning and measurement of variance of capacitance of the nodes relative to reference values, detecting meaningful touches on the touch panel and recalibrating reference values. The device includes a plate having a lower face for placing the device on the touch panel; and an upper face with a matrix of entry zones having a thickness enabling a detection of a finger by the touch panel; a flat contact pad electrically conductive and fixedly attached to the lower face; and a network of conductive tracks stretching over at least a part of the upper face and being electrically connected to the contact pad.

Abstract: A memory card reader body of a generally parallelepiped shape has a slot for insertion of a memory card and a housing to receive a memory card connector. The reader body has an upper cover and a lower base. The upper cover is made out of metal and the reader body further includes a printed-circuit board affixed to an upper face of the upper cover. The printed-circuit board includes at least one protection element.

Abstract: A system for detecting an intrusion in an electronic device. The system includes at least one optical sensor connected to at least one security module of the electronic device. The optical sensor and the security module are configured to detect a variation in light intensity measured by the optical sensor as compared with a reference light intensity associated with at least one pre-determined light source inside the electronic device. The variation in light intensity represents a risk of intrusion into the electronic device.

Abstract: A device for entering data, which is configured to be laid down on a touchpad of a terminal. The device for entering data includes an appreciably parallelepiped-shaped plate. The plate includes an upper face, at least one part of which includes a keypad-forming matrix of entry zones, and a lower face. The lower face includes, for each key of the keypad on the upper face, at least one contact zone electrically connected to a corresponding key on the upper face.

Abstract: A memory card reader body includes proposed, on an internal face, a receiving recess to receive a memory card connector. The receiving recess has electrically conductive tracks forming a protective mesh for the memory card connector. The conductive tracks are such that they also extend on an external face of the memory card reader body through vias passing through the internal and external faces.