US Patent Issued to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS on Sept. 8 for "Card reader and card pulling-out detection method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,998, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Card reader and card pulling-out detection method" was invented by Munemasa Momose (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card reader is provided, in which a gate sensor detects that a card has been inserted into an insertion slot, and being conveyed along a conveyance path; a conveyance part has a drive part that conveys the card in an inside of the conveyance path; a conveyance detection sensor detects the card conveyed along the conveyance path; when the conveyance detection sensor is turned from "OFF" to "ON" and then to "OFF" in a state th...