SELF-SERVICE DEVICE

• US 20100001060A1
• Filed: 02/15/2008
• Published: 01/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf Internation GmbH
• Inventors: Kruse, Bernd
• Application Number:
  US12/525,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20100001060A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/379
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/205 Housing aspects of ATMs

Abstract

The invention relates to a self-service device, specifically an automated teller machine, having a display unit to display alphanumeric and/or graphic information, having an operating unit containing a control panel located spaced apart from the display unit to input numeric characters and/or control data and having a plurality of control keys extending in the area of one edge of the display unit and assigned in each case to a display panel of the display unit, wherein the control keys are integrated in a control bar, wherein adjacent control keys are located directly next to each other and wherein the control keys have a length greater than the individual display panels such that the control keys can be assigned in each instance to display panels of several differently configured display units.

Claims

1. Self-service device, specifically automated teller machine,

having a display unit to display alphanumeric and/or graphic information,

having an operating unit containing a control panel located spaced apart from the display unit to enter numeric characters and/or control data and

having a plurality of control keys extending in the area of one edge of the display unit and assigned in each case to a display panel of the display unit,

characterized in that the control keys are integrated in a control bar, whereby adjacent control keys are disposed immediately adjacent each other and whereby the control keys have a length greater than the specific display panels such that the control keys can be assigned to specific display panels of several differently configured display units.

2. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the adjacent display panels have a distance from each other that diverges by a specified maximum deviation from the length of the control keys.

3. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the length of the control keys and/or the maximum deviation of the distance between centers of the display panels from the length of the control keys is selected such that adjacent display panels in a row of display panels located at a same distance between centers from each other are located solely at the height of the control keys assigned to them in each case.

4. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the length of the control keys lies in an area that is defined by the minimum distance between centers of a first small screen and a maximum distance between centers of a second large screen.

5. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the length of the control keys is defined as the mean of the minimum distance between centers of the first small screen and a maximum distance between centers of the second large screen.

6. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the control bar is configured as a separate structural unit that is attached to a surround of the display unit bounding the screen of said display unit.

7. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the control bar is attached on an upper side of the surround, wherein the control bar extends at least flush to a lateral edge of the surround running on a side facing the screen.

8. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the control bar is bonded to the surround of the display unit.

9. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the control keys of the control bar have a first key leg running essentially parallel to the surface of the screen and a second key leg running essentially perpendicular to the surface of the screen, wherein the second key leg extends as far as the vicinity of the lateral edge of the surround.

10. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the first key leg and the second key leg have an included interior angle in the range of 60°

to 120°

, preferably 90°

.

11. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein a cover of the first key leg and a cover of the second key leg are joined in one piece.

12. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein a dividing seam is formed between the adjacent control keys on the control bar that is a different color from the top surfaces of the control keys.