Power supply base for electronic payment terminal and electronic payment terminal

• US 9,213,369 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2011
• Issued: 12/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Banks And Acquirers International Holding
• Original Assignee: Ingenico Group
• Inventors: Lacroix, Pierre, Fleury, Fabrice, Yernaux, Olivier, Bonnet, Eric, Barneron, Sylvain
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Forrest M
• Application Number:
  US13/992,360
• Publication Number:
  US 20140321047A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,469 Days
• Field of Search: 361/679.41
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 a smart card aperture designed to receive a smart 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 insertion of the at least one guiding portion into said smart card aperture of said payment terminal, and comprising a protrusion from said power supply base having a shape similar to that of a smart card.

2. 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.

3. A power supply base according to claim 2, 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.

4. A payment terminal comprising:

a case; and

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, said contacts for connection to a power supply being placed on either side of a memory card aperture of the case of the terminal, and wherein the memory card aperture is configured to receive a memory card.

5. The payment terminal according to claim 4, 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.