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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7401736 | Card reader A card reader for reading magnetic stripe cards which are manually inserted, and withdrawn, by a user. The card is constrained to follow a path which displaces the card laterally while the card is outside the reader, and before the magnetic stripe reaches a magnetic... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7103206 | Method and apparatus for detecting doubled bills in a currency handling device A doubles detection system for detecting doubled documents. The system comprises one or more light sources disposed on a first side of a test document and one or more reflected light sensors disposed along the first side of the test document. The reflected light sen... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6962247 | Currency processing system with fitness detection A currency handling system comprising a fitness detector. The fitness detector comprising a thickness detector, a limpness detector, a soil detector or a combination thereof. The thickness detector comprising an upper roller displaceable in a predetermined arc by a ... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6957197 | Load planning tables for a parcel shipping system A system for managing shipping parcels that includes a specially adapted set of load planning tables, or, from another aspect, a set of load planning tables for use with a system for managing shipping parcels. The system includes: a planning system for providing a r... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6845907 | Cash delivery apparatus for motor fuel dispenser or other self service facility A system for providing cash to users in a self-service environment such as in dispensing motor fuel includes a self-service dispensing machine (12). A user is enabled to dispense merchandise from the self-service dispensing machine and is also enabled to sele... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6726101 | Electronic transaction terminal system A transaction system (104, 144) includes a customer station (116, 146) and a service provider station (112, 148). Items such as medical items, are passed between the service provider and the customer station through item transport devices (11... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6571213 | Router utility for a parcel shipping system A router utility and corresponding method for routing a load of one or more shipments of parcels, for use in a system for managing shipping parcels that includes a shipping database and a planning engine that provides load information for the load indicat... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6517005 | Method for making contactless cards with coiled antenna The invention concerns the production of contactless transmission chip card, and particularly mixed cards operating with or without contact. The method for the reliable and efficient setting of an integrated circuit module (M) and of an inductive transmis... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6439567 | Card guide and card picker A card guide for holding a stack of cards to be separated, and a card picker for separating a single card from a stack of cards at a first location and moving the separated card to a second location, where each card has substantially the same thickness an... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6422458 | Bill deposit/withdrawal machine for depositing/withdrawing bills A bill deposit/withdrawal machine for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills according to a transaction includes a deposit/withdrawal port for performing deposit or withdrawal of bills; a bill discriminating unit for discriminating bills, bill acceptin... | 07/23/2002 |
| 6402034 | Locking device for scanner A locking device is proposed for scanner having an optical module. The optical module has a base and an image scanning means arranged on one side of the base. A locking hole and a mounting portion for the locking device are provided at predetermined locat... | 06/11/2002 |
| 5192859 | Card carrier in card reader A card carrier including pairs of rollers disposed at predetermined spacings along a card conveyer passageway such that the respective pairs of rollers hold both sides of a card therebetween. A driver including a single motor, a power transmission includi... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5191196 | Apparatus for adjustably securing a bar code scanner device using nylon hook and loop type fasteners In an inserter system, an apparatus for bar code scanning includes a scanner, a travel bar attached to a frame of an inserter, and adjustable brackets for slidably fastening said scanner to the travel bar. The travel bar is positioned wherein said scanner... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5126546 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus An information recording and reproducing apparatus comprising a movable shuttle on which an information recording medium is mounted, a movable head for reproducing or recording information from or on the information recording medium mounted on the shuttle... | 06/30/1992 |
| 5036184 | Card reader using linear card conveyer means In a card reader for reading information from a card which may contain the information as optical, magnetic, electronic or physical data, inside a casing is provided a carriage which carries the card and is adapted to be conveyed from an outer position to... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4141044 | Magnetically encoded card read/write/capture apparatus Apparatus for capturing a card and/or reading and/or writing data bits on a record stripe of the card, including a carriage for supporting a card inserted into the apparatus via a slot, the carriage being bidirectionally selectively driven past a transduc... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4023011 | Automatic bank note depositing machine An automatic paper currency depositing machine comprises a supply section into which a unit of paper currencies is deposited, a device for taking out the paper currencies piece by piece from the supply section and transferring it, a sensing section for ju... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3943563 | System and method for recording and reproducing video information on a card An apparatus and method are provided for recording information in the form of video signals on record members such as cards and reproducing selected portions of the information recorded as visually monitorable information on a viewing screen such as an el... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3937928 | Embossed card reader An information reader for optically reading information recorded in the form of an array of aligned embossments on a card, comprising a slit plate positioned over a card transport table having two slits, one for directing incident light toward the embosse... | 02/10/1976 |
