Card reading arrangement involving robotic card handling responsive to card sensing at a drive-up automated banking machine

US7392937B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• DIEBOLD, INC. · US

Inventors

• Patrick C. Green · North Canton, US
• Mark D. Smith · Panama City, US
• Natarajan Ramachandran · Uniontown, US
• Daniel J. Delaney · Pinckney, US
• David A. Barker · Walnut Creek, US
• Franklin M. Theriault · Canton, US
• Elizabeth Herrera · North Canton, US
• Jeffrey A. Hill · Canton, US
• Mark Douglas · North Canton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 9, 2007
• Grant date: Jul 1, 2008
• Expiry date: Feb 9, 2027

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G07F19/206
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An automated banking machine is located adjacent a vehicle drive-up lane. The machine includes a card reader device, a cash dispenser device, and a robotic item handling device having a gripper. An item transfer area is accessible to both a machine user and the robotic item handling device. The item transfer area includes a card slot. A card sensing device is located adjacent the card slot. A machine controller can cause the robotic handling device to grip a card inserted in the slot and move it to the card reader device, responsive to the card sensing device sensing the inserted card. The machine controller can also cause the robotic handling device to grip cash dispensed by the cash dispenser and move it to the item transfer area.