SELF-SERVICE DEVICE

• US 20100328867A1
• Filed: 02/18/2009
• Published: 12/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf Systems GmbH (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf International GmbH (Diebold Nixdorf, Incorporated)
• Inventors: Golueke, Peter, Bleck, Frank
• Granted Patent: US 8,561,886 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.01
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/201 Accessories of ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/205 Housing aspects of ATMs

Abstract

A self-service device, particularly an automated cash machine, having an operating unit with an operating panel for entering alphanumeric characters and/or control data, and having a cover surface having a plurality of edges bounding a recess, whereby the operating panel is encompassed, wherein at least one first edge of the cover surface is disposed at a distance from a first edge of the operating panel, forming an intermediate space, wherein a functional strip is disposed, the functional strip being mounted on a mounting frame encompassing the operating panel, said frame being connected to the cover surface by mounting elements.

Claims

1. Self-service device, particularly an automated cash machine, having an operating unit comprising an operating panel for entering alphanumeric characters and/or control data and having a cover surface having a plurality of edges bounding a recess, whereby the operating panel is encompassed, characterized in that at least one first edge of the cover surface is disposed at a distance from a first edge of the operating panel, forming an intermediate space, wherein a functional strip is disposed, and in that the functional strip is mounted on a mounting frame encompassing the operating panel, said frame being connected to the cover surface by mounting elements.

2. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the functional strip has retainers to retain a visual protection element that rises in the manner of a dome from an operating panel plane of the operating plane.

3. Self-service device from claim 2, wherein the retainers are configured as mounts that are disposed on an underside of the functional strip facing away from the plane of the operating panel.

4. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein an upper side of the functional strip is disposed elevated relative to an adjacent upper side of the cover surface and/or an upper side of the operating panel.

5. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the functional strip rises in a bead shape from the plane of the operating panel, where at least one partial area of an edge of the functional strip lies directly against the first edge of the cover surface and/or the first edge of the operating panel.

6. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the functional strip at least partially has a width (B1) that is greater than a width (B2) of the intermediate space such that a section of the functional strip overlaps one edge of the cover surface.

7. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the functional strip contains an angled step on a side facing the cover surface, having a first cover surface that lies flat against the first edge of the cover surface and having a second cover surface that lies flat against the upper side of the cover surface.

8. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the upper side of the functional strip is configured in cross-section as an arcuate shape.

9. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the upper side of the functional strip tapers constantly towards the upper side of the cover surface, where an edge of the upper side of the functional strip comes to rest on the upper side of the cover surface.

10. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein additional edges of the operating panel not facing the functional strip lie directly against edges of the cover surface, where the adjacent upper sides of the operating panel or the cover surface run flush with one another.

11. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the mounting frame is solidly attached to the operating unit.

12. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein the operating panel of the operating unit runs substantially above the mounting frame and a base body adjoins the operating panel, said body running substantially below the mounting frame.

13. Self-service device from claim 1, wherein an electronic module is integrated in the base body of the operating unit to encode the data entered by means of the operating panel.