Cover for an electronic payment terminal, corresponding electronic payment terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11915564-B2
Application number	US-201816499084-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 29, 2018
Priority date	Mar 31, 2017
Publication date	Feb 27, 2024
Grant date	Feb 27, 2024

Abstract

A cover for an electronic payment terminal having at least one zone to be back-lit. The cover includes at least one part having at least one lower layer and one upper layer assembled during the manufacture of the cover, the lower layer being opaque or semi-opaque and having at least one aperture facing the at least one zone to be back-lit when the cover is mounted on the electronic payment terminal. The upper layer is translucent and covers the at least one aperture in the lower layer.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic payment terminal comprising:
a terminal housing;
a backlighting in the terminal housing;
at least one zone in the terminal housing configured to be illuminated when the backlighting of said zone is activated; and
a housing cover comprising:
at least one part comprising at least one lower layer and one upper layer assembled during manufacture of said housing cover,
said lower layer being opaque or semi-opaque and having at least one aperture facing said at least one zone, and
said upper layer covering said at least one aperture in said lower layer, said upper layer being made of a translucent material configured to mask internal elements in the terminal housing, covered by the upper layer when the backlighting is not activated, and to allow a light emitted by the backlighting to pass through when the backlighting is activated, and wherein:
said upper layer is overmolded on said lower layer; or
said upper layer and said lower layer are bi-injected layers cohered to one another.

2. The electronic payment terminal according to claim 1 , wherein said lower layer comprises polycarbonate or polycarbonate/acrylonitrile butadiene styrene.

3. The electronic payment terminal according to claim 1 , wherein said upper layer comprises thermoplastic elastomer or thermoplastic polyurethane.

4. The electronic payment terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the upper layer overlays the lower layer so as to coat at least part of the lower layer.

5. The electronic payment terminal according to claim 4 , wherein the at least part of the lower layer that is overlaid by the upper layer is substantially parallel and adjacent to the upper layer.

6. The electronic payment terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the lower layer comprises a part not covered by the upper layer for receiving a screen.

7. The electronic payment terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the lower layer and the upper layer comprise an aperture to receive a keypad.

8. A method of manufacturing a terminal housing for an electronic payment terminal, the method comprising:
assembling at least one part of the a housing cover comprising at least one lower layer and one upper layer by:
overmolding of said upper layer on said lower layer; or
bi-injection of said upper and lower layers,
said lower layer being opaque or semi-opaque and having at least one aperture facing a zone in the terminal housing when said housing cover is mounted on said electronic payment terminal, said zone being configured to be illuminated when a backlighting in the terminal housing is activated, and
said upper layer covering said at least one aperture in said lower layer, said upper layer being made of a translucent material configured to mask internal elements in the terminal housing, covered by the upper layer when the backlighting is not activated, and to allow a light emitted by the backlighting to pass through when the backlighting is activated.

9. The method according to claim 8 , wherein the assembling comprises overlaying the lower layer with the upper layer so as to coat at least part of the lower layer.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the at least part of the lower layer that is overlaid by the upper layer is substantially parallel and adjacent to the upper layer.

Assignees

• Ingenico Group

Inventors

• Mabille Gaetan
• Coquelet Didier
• Neveu Ludovic
• Balasse Johann

Classifications

• G07G1/12 Primary

  electronically operated · CPC title

• G06Q20/20

  Point-of-sale [POS] network systems · CPC title

• G07F7/0886

  the card reader being portable for interacting with a POS or ECR in realizing a payment transaction · CPC title

• H04M1/0202 Primary

  Portable telephone sets, e.g. cordless phones, mobile phones or bar type handsets (constructional features of telephone transmitters or receivers, e.g. of speakers or microphones H04M1/03) · CPC title

• B29C45/16

  Making multilayered or multicoloured articles {(B29C45/0062 takes precedence; feeding colouring materials into the injection unit B29C45/1816)} · CPC title