Machine operable by a card carrying data
US6402024B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 26, 1999 |
| Grant date | Jun 11, 2002 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 26, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG07F19/201
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
This invention relates to an electrically powered machine 10, for example, a card operated self service terminal (SST) and an automated teller machine (ATM). Such machines, in addition to necessary electronic circuitry and computer process controls, include means to receive a card (120), a reader (30) for reading data stored on the card, a display screen (14), a keyboard pad (16) and, in the case of an ATM a cash delivery slot (20). In the event of power failure during a customer transaction, the customer's card, for example, a bank card is captured by the machine when power is subsequently restored. Capture of a card is inconvenient to a customer. In order to overcome such inconvenience, it has been proposed to equip such a machine with a battery back-up system operable on power failure to return the card to the customer. A battery back-up system is expensive and accordingly a machine according to the present invention uses a device for mechanically stored energy during normal operation of the machine and means for using the stored energy in the event of power failure to discharge the card (120) from the machine.
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