Docking device, transaction processing system, and notification method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9721439-B2
Application number	US-201615183965-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 16, 2016
Priority date	Aug 31, 2015
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

There is provided a transaction terminal device including: a housing; a frame panel that is attached to the housing; a plurality of electrodes that is provided on a board disposed within the housing; a switch member that is inserted into a penetrating hole formed in the housing, and includes a conductor which electrically connects the plurality of electrodes and an elastic deformer which maintains an electrically connected state in which the conductor is in contact with the electrodes by urging force due to elastic deformation in a state in which the frame panel is attached to the housing; and a tamper detector that detects tampering through the releasing of the electrically connected state of the plurality of electrodes due to the detachment of the frame panel from the housing. A waterproof portion that prevents water from infiltrating into the penetrating hole is provided at the switch member.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A transaction terminal device, comprising:
a housing having a penetrating hole that penetrates completely through the housing;
an exterior member that is attached to the housing;
a plurality of electrodes that is provided on a board disposed within the housing;
a switch member that includes a conductor that electrically connects the plurality of electrodes and an elastic deformer, which maintains an electrically connected state in which the conductor is in contact with the electrodes by urging force based on elastic deformation, and
a tamper detector that detects tampering through a releasing of the electrically connected state of the plurality of electrodes when the exterior member is detached from the housing,
wherein a waterproof portion is provided at the switch member, the waterproof portion forming a waterproof seal that prevents water from infiltrating into the penetrating hole.

2. The transaction terminal device of claim 1 , further comprising:
a display input panel,
wherein the exterior member is a frame panel that covers a periphery of the display input panel, and
the switch member is inserted into a penetrating hole formed in the periphery of the display input panel and the penetrating hole formed in the housing.

3. The transaction terminal device of claim 1 ,
wherein the elastic deformer includes
a column,
a ring that is provided near the column, and
a rib that serves as the waterproof portion provided in a periphery of the ring,

wherein the column, the ring and the rib are integrally formed using an elastic material,
the column is sandwiched between the exterior member and the board, and
the ring and the rib are sandwiched between the exterior member and the housing, in the attached state of the exterior member.

4. The transaction terminal device of claim 1 ,
wherein the switch member further includes a rib positioned at an opposite end of the conductor, the rib having a diameter larger than a diameter of the penetrating hole.

5. An information input device comprising:
a housing having a penetrating hole that penetrates completely through the housing;
a display input panel that is disposed at the housing:
a frame panel that covers a periphery of the display input panel;
a plurality of electrodes that is provided on a board disposed within the housing;
a switch member that includes a conductor that electrically connects the plurality of electrodes, and an elastic deformer which maintains an electrically connected state in which the conductor is in contact with the electrodes by urging force based on elastic deformation, and
a tamper detector that detects tampering through a releasing of the electrically connected state of the plurality of electrodes due to a detachment of the frame panel from the housing,
wherein a waterproof portion is provided at the switch member, the waterproof portion forming a waterproof seal that prevents water from infiltrating into the penetrating hole.

6. A transaction terminal device, comprising:
a first housing having a hole that penetrates completely through the housing;
a second housing disposed on the first housing;
an electrode that is disposed on a circuit board within the first housing; and
a switch member that is positioned between the second housing and the circuit board, and includes an elastic member and a conductor connected to the electrode on the circuit board,
wherein the elastic member further includes a first portion of which at least part is inserted into the hole and of which a first end is attached to the conductor, and a second portion extended around from a second end of the first portion,
wherein in a state where the elastic member is not compressed, the switch member is longer than a distance between the second housing and the circuit board, and
wherein in a state where the elastic member is compressed by the second housing and the circuit board, the second portion blocks an opening of the hole.

7. The transaction terminal device of claim 6 ,
wherein in a state where the elastic member is not compressed, the switch member is longer than a depth of the hole.

8. The transaction terminal device of claim 6 ,
wherein an outer periphery of the second portion is greater than an outer periphery of the opening of the hole.

9. The transaction terminal device of claim 6 , further comprising:
a frame having a hole that penetrates completely through the frame; and
a display input panel that is positioned within the frame,
wherein both the frame and the display input panel are positioned between the first housing and the second housing, and
wherein the first portion of the switch member is inserted into both the hole of the first housing and the hole of the frame.

10. The transaction terminal device of claim 9 ,
wherein the second portion of the switch member is positioned between the second housing and the frame.

11. The transaction terminal device of claim 9 ,
wherein an opening of the hole of the frame is larger than the opening of the hole of the first housing, and an outer periphery of the second portion is greater than an outer periphery of the opening of the hole of the frame.

12. The transaction terminal device of claim 9 ,
wherein a depth of the hole of the first housing is greater than a depth of the hole of the first housing.

13. The transaction terminal device of claim 6 , further comprising:
a tamper detector that detects a state where the conductor of the switch member is not connected to the electrode.

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd
• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tanaka Yasuyuki

Classifications

• G06K7/0004

  Hybrid readers · CPC title

• G06F1/1632

  External expansion units, e.g. docking stations · CPC title

• G06K7/10009

  sensing by radiation using wavelengths larger than 0.1 mm, e.g. radio-waves or microwaves · CPC title

• G06K7/0021

  for reading/sensing record carriers having surface contacts · CPC title

• G07F7/0886

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