Cash dispensing automated banking machine with improved resistance to fraud

US6983879B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Diebold Self-Service Systems, Division of Diebold, Incorporated · US

Inventors

• Natarajan Ramachandran · Uniontown, US
• Jeffery M. Enright · Akron, US
• Dale H. Blackson · Highland Heights, US
• Zachary Utz · North Canton, US
• Kenneth Turocy · Wadsworth, US
• Jim Booth · Kimbolton, US
• Paul D. Magee · North Canton, US
• Dave Barker · North Canton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 24, 2003
• Grant date: Jan 10, 2006
• Expiry date: Nov 24, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F19/207
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated banking machine (10) includes a controller (72) in the machine operative to selectively illuminate light emitting devices (118, 126) for purposes of facilitating user operation of the machine. Sensing devices (128) adjacent a card reader slot (28) on the machine enables the controller to detect the presence of unauthorized card reading devices. Structural features adjacent to a card reader slot (242) further reduce the risk of the undetected installation of unauthorized card reading devices.