POWER SUPPLY BASE FOR ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TERMINAL AND ELECTRONIC PAYMENT TERMINAL

• US 20140321047A1
• Filed: 12/07/2011
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Banks And Acquirers International Holding
• Original Assignee: Ingenico (Ingenico Group SA)
• Inventors: Lacroix, Pierre, Barneron, Sylvain, Yernaux, Olivier, Bonnet, Eric, Fleury, Fabrice
• Granted Patent: US 9,213,369 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.41
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

A power supply base for a payment terminal is provided with a housing having an opening for receiving a memory card. The power supply base includes a guide for guiding the payment terminal towards a position wherein it can receive the power supply, the guide including at least one guiding part shaped in such a way as to enable the insertion thereof into the opening of the payment terminal.

Claims

1. A power supply base for a payment terminal having a case which has an aperture designed to receive a memory card, said power supply base comprising:

a guide configured to guide said payment terminal to a power supply position of said payment terminal, said guide comprising at least one guiding portion, the shape of which enables its insertion into said aperture of said payment terminal.

2. A power supply base according to claim 1, wherein said guiding portion comprises a protrusion extending from said power supply base having a shape similar to that of a memory card.

3. A power supply base according to claim 1, wherein said guide comprises a power supply placed so as to cooperate with contacts of said payment terminal, which are not flush with an exterior of said payment terminal, in said power supply position.

4. A power supply base according to claim 3, wherein said power supply comprises at least one metal part positioned on each side of said guide, each metal part cooperating with a respective one of the contacts of said payment terminal.

5. A payment terminal comprising:

a case;

contacts for connection to an electrical power supply positioned inside the case of said terminal in a way that is not flush with an exterior of said terminal.

6. The payment terminal according to claim 5, wherein said contacts for connection to a power supply are placed on either side of an aperture of the case of the terminal, and wherein the aperture is configured to receive a memory card.

7. The payment terminal according to claim 5, wherein the contacts for connection to a power supply are placed so as to be sufficiently distant from the exterior and from an edge of said aperture so as to be out of reach of a user of said payment terminal in normal mode of use, so as to ensure said user'"'"'s safety with respect to a static electricity of said terminal.