Magnetic

A bit stream encoded in the Aiken or similar selfclocking code is converted into binary waveform with clocking by a sensor including two sensor elements spaced apart a critical distance. The elements read the bit stream independently. A logic circuit responsive to the outputs of the elements determines...     

An apparatus is provided in which a card, such as a credit card, carrying a magnetic strip of one or more tracks of coded data is inserted. Manual operation of an external crank or lever causes the card to be drawn into the apparatus. At the end of the stroke, the carrier in which the card rides is freed...     

A demodulation system for digital information, recorded by an FM or PM system, which provides a clock output pulse whose pulse width is proportional to the time length of the preceding bit frame and said clock output signal is utilized for demodulating the recorded data. Said pulse width can be controlled...     

A redundant character recognition system which minimizes both read failures and ambiguities caused by conflicting read signals by merging character recognition signals from MICR, OCR and Bar-Code read heads to produce a single data stream for automatic sorting of a constant velocity train of documents....     

Magnetic identification apparatus is disclosed in which a magnetically coded instrument such as a key or card is inserted into a reader which reads the recorded code. The code is recorded by disposition of discrete magnets in the instrument as the instrument is inserted into the reader, the movement...     

Data characters having a given number of bits are encoded in individual linear arrays transverse to a scanning path and spaced apart along said path for successive readout by a reading head scanning said path. Index bits, all having logical 1, i.e., mark, significance, are disposed in separate linear...     

An improved magnetic image character reading system which produces high signal levels, eliminates dead spots between sample tracks for full resolution. Two sets of read heads are positioned in a spaced apart, staggered arrangement such that one set is adjacent the other with elements of the first set...     

A credit verification system is disclosed including remote terminals and a central unit, for use with identification cards carrying a changeable recording medium. On presentation, cards are sensed to provide signals indicative of identification with (1) an aggregate amount of all value transactions supported...     

A printing machine for partially magnetized price tickets, labels, etc. which incorporates therein a single magnetic head or a pair of such heads for recording and reading of the magnetized faces of tickets. The magnetic head or heads can be movable horizontally and also be located right under a horizontally...     

An optical and magnetic data transducer is provided comprising a magnetic reluctance aperture which is split into two sections with an optical reading aperture disposed generally therebetween. This reduces timing errors between the optical and magnetic output signals indicative of the spacial relation...     

A system for accurately controlling the position of documents as they are throughputted along a straight line path for purposes of MICR writing and reading thereon. Accurate control of document position along a linear path is obtained by minimizing speed variations of a throughputted document, by maintaining...     

Apparatus for validating a card having positioned thereon a plurality of redundant encoded blocks of data readable by moving the card past a reader and for controlling the movement of such a card whose validity is to be determined. A card transporter moves a card along a predetermined path. A reader...     

A method of recording machine-readable security data on a record medium, such as a cash dispenser card, is described in which the security data is deposited on the record medium as a sequence of magnetic characters. The characters may include a first magnetic character which when scanned in a given direction...     

A wear compensating transducer is provided for reading optical and magnetic data from documents comprising a magnetic read head with a group of optical fibers passing through the reluctance gap and with the fiber ends disposed for wiping engagement with documents as they are read. The fiber ends define...     

A reader for a magnetically coded card with a magnetodiode as the magnetic field sensor. A circuit for compensating for changes in magnetodiode resistance due to ambient temperature change. First and second amplifiers connected in a self balancing nulling system and having the magnetodiode signal as...     

A magnetic ink character reading system is provided in which multi-element read heads are positioned in a spaced apart and staggered arrangement. Data signals occurring in the analog responses of the read heads are detected, and converted to discrete logic level signals under the control of a dynamically...     

Apparatus is provided for producing an output signal upon sensing the proximity of a source of magnetic field. The apparatus includes a magnetoresistive element which is comprised of an insulating substrate upon which first and second ferromagnetic strips are provided. The ferromagnetic strips define...     

A system for accurately merging data signals generated by two spaced apart multi-element MICR read heads is provided. Digital data signals are sampled near the signal peaks, converted to NRZ (non-return-to-zero) data and synchronized to a common fixed frequency. The digital data signals then are serialized...     

A tray acceptor apparatus contains a housing with a tray mounted on the housing. A top plate is mounted on the housing parallel to the tray and a bottom plate is also mounted in the housing parallel to the tray with the alignment of the top and bottom plates being very accurate. Additionally, a unique...     

A document processing device for performing separate operations on at least two different kinds of documents, such as bills and associated vouchers, or orders for payment such as checks, provided with transport means for moving documents of a first kind, the bills, in a continuous movement along at least...     

An apparatus and method are provided for transducing information with respect to record cards such as oblong cards containing magnetic recording material. In one form, a magnetic record card is made to conform or extend parallel to the cylindrical surface of a drum supporting a magnetic transducer which...     

A data storage and retrieval system facilitates interface between a human operator and a digital processing system or computer, by first manually selecting visual human word(s) in an identification table overlaid on a display board and next automatically retrieving information by its corresponding address...     

A magnetic card reader for providing an output to a utilization device. A plurality of reed switches are arranged in coplanar relationship in a manner to optimize the number of data sensors in a given area. In addition, a magnetic card is disclosed for providing completely different and independent magnetic...     

In a magnetic ink character recognition (MICR) system, a document bearing magnetizable ink characters is transported past a write station for magnetization preparatory to reading the characters. Each of the ink characters is divided into a plurality of discrete vertical segments; each segment being individually...     

An amplifying device operative to sense changes in the speed of an encoded card as it is being read so as to be able to adjust the reading rate to compensateably follow said changes. The amplifying device is also able to differentially peak sense pulses read thereby disallowing noise transients.

A note discriminating apparatus includes first and second detectors for detecting the characteristics of a note, a reference level generating section for generating a reference level signal by utilizing the output of the first detector, and a level detecting section for comparing the reference level...     

Magnetic ink characters on a document 1A are sensed by a single gap magnetic reading head which employs a segmented linear array having adjoining magnetic sensing elements. Each sensing element is a C-shaped laminated core with the reading head comprising an array of contiguously aligned cores where...     

Recording apparatus for "dubbing" (recording from one to the other) onto a customer's magnetic tape cartridge, selected audio and/or video recordings stored in the apparatus. The apparatus includes means for activating the apparatus, means for selecting the desired recordings, means for identifying and...     

Access control system in which a magnetically coded key or card is inserted into a reader which reads the recorded code. The key is coded by small permanent magnets embedded in non-magnetic body of the key at positions on a 4 .times. 4 regular grid of possible positions. The reader includes 16 Hall Effect...     

Magnetic recording media including permanent structures of aligned acicular particles have been proposed as a means of identifying and authenticating a medium. A structure of such a media by which information can be recorded and read-out without interference from the structural remanence difference is...     

Access control system in which a magnetically coded key or card is inserted into a reader which reads the recorded code. The key is coded by small permanent magnets embedded in non-magnetic body of key at positions on a 4 .times. 4 regular grid of possible positions. The reader includes row of 4 Hall...     

This specification discloses a card processing apparatus which is constructed such that a card having information recorded thereon and a paper leaf are superposedly placed on card tray movably disposed in an opening formed within the housing of the apparatus and the following card processing is carried...     

A tracking mount assembly is provided for use with an electronic typewriter magnetic card support platform having a top surface and a card guide surface thereon. The tracking mount assembly includes a bridge frame with a lead screw and a guide shaft mounted in the frame. A pair of lugs extend from the...     

A magnetic card drive assembly for use with an electronic typewriter is provided for driving a magnetic card supported on a platform with a top surface and a card guide surface thereon. The magnetic card drive assembly includes a drive wheel supported for rotation on a frame. The frame has an alignment...     

A system for reading binary digital data, represented by two possible spacings between abrupt flux reversals appearing on a magnetic track of a credit card, as the credit card is transported by hand by and in engagement with a magnetic head of the system. A read head having an unusually large read aperture...     

A character recognition system such as employed for determining characters formed with magnetically impregnated ink on a check wherein a plurality of sequential pulses are generated for each of a plurality of successive regions along a said character responsive to the movement through the system of the...     

A magnetic character recognition system is disclosed for reading magnetized characters printed on a document such as a check, which system determines the magnitude and position of each of the peaks of an analog waveform representing each character read by a single gap magnetic read head. Means are provided...     

A magnetic information card encoding apparatus wherein the train of clock pulses used to synchronize the release of binary data from a storage register to a recorder head is generated by the motion of the card itself. Structural means forms a card receiving slot into which the card is manually inserted...     

A laminate blank suitable for use in making a credit or identification card is disclosed. It consists essentially of, in order, a surface carrier film, a magnetic coating and a card substrate. The surface carrier and magnetic coating comprose a unitary transfer tape. The card substrate is bonded to the...     

An identification system comprising a plurality of differently frequency coded markings including mechanical vibrating means, and a detector device for detecting the frequency or combination of frequencies of the vibrating means. The vibrating means of the various markings are preferably made from identical...     

An improved assembly is disclosed for adjustably mounting a read-write head in a card reader apparatus so as to compensate for warped and inaccurate cards without yielding erroneous data. The subject assembly includes a head carrying frame member, an intermediate frame member, and a pivot block assembly,...     

Apparatus for processing bits of information magnetically recorded on a credit card or similar article. The apparatus includes a slot for receiving the credit card as well as a transducer for reading the bits of information when the card is manually moved thereunder. Circuitry connected to the transducer...     

A contactless digital key switch is provided which comprises a plurality of printed circuit substrates each having a predetermined number of magnetic sensor chips longitudinally arranged thereon in spaced relation, the printed circuit substrates disposed in the form of polygon prism with the magnetic...     

A magnetic ticket encoding transport for carrying tickets having a centered magnetic portion, in which tickets are sandwiched between pairs of movable belts that are pinched together for exact positioning at the point of contact with magnetic heads, including positive acting alignment plates that align...     

A device for reading printed characters formed of elements separated by spaces of first and second kinds in accordance with a character code. The device includes a read head arranged for relative motion with respect to the elements of a character, and is characterized by being insensitive to the speed...     

A document processing system including a video camera and raster scan television monitors. The apparatus comprises a document transport that sequentially passes documents by both a machine readable data reader and a video camera. The data reader reads and stores in a digital memory the machine readable...     

A dynamic card reader adapted for use in reading information magnetically recorded on a card in two rows or tracks parallel to the longer dimension of the card. The information is read as the card is being inserted into the slot by two Hall effect sensors disposed in side-by-side relation at the entrance...     

A circuit is disclosed for monitoring the output voltage of a magnetic pickup and for producing output signals representing the valid detection of bars of magnetized ink moved past the pickup. The circuit is capable of detecting and providing correct output data from input signals ranging from relatively...     

A magnetizable anisotropic material layer having a pattern of regions of differently aligned material has an initial pattern of remanent magnetization, when manufactured by applying directional magnetic fields. This pattern is not easily restored, and is generally impossible to restore, after demagnetization...     

A conventional electric utility meter is equipped with special circuitry and components which work in conjunction with an inserted magnetic card to regulate the supply of electricity to the structure to which the unit is attached. In addition to including the conventional dials which indicate overall...     

A system for reading coded characters, in particular characters coded in the CMC7 code, includes at least one reading head, two threshold switching circuits which receive output signal from the reading head, two recognition channels which receive signals from the two threshold switching circuits, a multiplexer...     

An identification card, comprising several laminated layers, one of which is of material capable of being magnetized, has 350 spots on it, each of which is capable of having one portion of the spot magnetized north and the other portion magnetized south. The 350 spots are divided into groups of randomly...     

A system for reading binary digital data, represented by two possible spacings between abrupt flux reversals appearing on a magnetic track of a credit card, as the credit card is transported by hand by and in engagement with a magnetic head of the system. A read head having an unusually large read aperture...     

Code identification apparatus in which a magnetically coded key or like instrument is inserted into a reader which reads the code on the key. The reader has a guideway to receive the key and, adjacent the guideway, a row of code sensors disposed such that as the key is inserted into the guideway, rows...     

The present invention relates generally to the field of data-sensing systems for identification and/or security purposes (data input), and more particularly relates to a new and novel cartridge assembly for use with data sensing systems of the type as may be applied to credit cards, security badges or...     

A power driven belt provides back-up pressure for a check or similar document bearing magnetic information as the document moves past a reading transducer. The belt is resiliently urged against cylindrical bearing surfaces adjacent the transducer to provide a non-critical geometry.

A magnetic recording reproducing apparatus is made ready to operation by insertion thereto of a pack housing an endless recording medium. When a magnetic card is inserted into the apparatus with the pack inserted thereto, the contents, informations or data recorded on the magnetic card are read out and...     

An inexpensive apparatus is provided for printing and dispensing a series of special individualized pressure sensitive labels. The dispenser apparatus includes replaceable storage, such as a cassette or a small floppy disc for storing a series of related addresses, for example, and a full keyboard for...     

A cash replacement system using consumable transaction cards, each card comprising a body portion bearing multi-digit magnetically recorded validation and identification codes and a transaction portion divided into a plurality of transaction segments bearing the identification code and a denomination...     

A unitary, demountable, insertable modular magnetic transducer transport assembly for use with accounting records such as magnetically encoded bank account passbooks, magnetic striped ledger sheets and credit cards including self contained magnetic transducer transport for timing track and data pick-up...     

Apparatus for accepting a U.S. bill or other paper currency having a portrait area printed with magnetic ink with spaced parallel lines in the background portions thereof. A pair of zones of predetermined length normally containing said portions and disposed a predetermined distance from an edge of the...     

A magnetic card handling apparatus has a rotatable capstan and a magnetic head spaced apart a distance exceeding the thickness of a magnetic card on appropriate sides of a card running groove until the presence of a magnetic card therebetween is detected. The distance between the capstan and the magnetic...     

This invention relates to a mechanison to read and process a prepaid, flexible, magnetically coded card bearing marked sections adapted be cut off representing value used. Upon insertion into the mechanison a forward/reverse drive means takes control of the card. The card is read and a decoder processes...     

Method and apparatus for registering selected new magnetic data on magnetic stripe cards for use in a vending machine account control system, such as is employed with a photocopy machine. Specifically, card author is provided which consists of a keyboard with data entry and operation control keys, keyboard...     

A sensor observes a timing track along a magnetic stripe on a magnetic card and detects change in the sliding speed of the magnetic card relative to the magnetic head as a timing signal, by which reading or writing of a data signal by the magnetic head is controlled. A corner of the timing track is removable...     

An apparatus for reading data printed on a flexible document in which the document is orientated in a vertical direction during the reading operation. The document is initially positioned on a movable support member located in the path of movement of a scanning head. Movement of the document against...     

An automatic code reading device, which is adaptable to use in object storage and retrieval apparatus, can read out the code mark affixed on an axial end surface of an object having a circular section. The device includes a housing defining a chamber in which the object should be loaded. In the housing,...     

A closed coupled identification system for verifying the identity of an animal, object or other thing, has a probe including a circuit adapted to be connected to a source of alternating current and a separate, preferably miniature, circuit adapted to be implanted within or attached to the animal, object...     

A badge reading system is provided which includes a badge having embedded therein bistable magnetic wires arranged in BCD encoded logic patterns, and a badge reader for reading the bistable magnetic wire patterns to form an information stream. As the badge is inserted within the badge reader housing,...     

An electronic identification system for reading a pre-defined identifier code. A preferred application provides a credit card sized "identifier" which includes an array of electrical inductors, some of which are electrically connected in a selected pattern to define the identifier code. The identifier...     

An array of individually controllable conductors presents variable data as a magnetic flux pattern that can be scanned by equipment presently used to scan prerecorded magnetic strips.

This invention provides a reference member for supporting and giving reference positions to principal components, i.e. a feed roller for transporting magnetic cards, a driver for driving said feed roller and a member for pressing magnetic cards against the feed roller. Further the reference member supports...     

System for determining whether magnetic ink is present on specific areas of a document bearing magnetic ink characters. Signals are produced as a magnetic read head passes over the area in question on the face of the document. These signals are routed to apparatus which operates in response to the signals...     

A reading device which uses both optical character recognition techniques and magnetic reading are combined in a reader wherein the magnetic reading head stays at a fixed position while the optical reading aperture may be varied to accomodate different documents. The slot through which checks, credit...     

Apparatus and method of verification of credit cards, including sensing information thereon and comparing said information with information on a specially designed pre-printed carrier, followed by insertion of one or more cards in the matching carrier as required, folding and stacking card-inserted carriers...     

A module for applying a magnetic stripe character to a plastic card. A tiltable carriage moves the card along a transfer path past magnetic code applying apparatus when tilted in a first position. When the carriage is tilted into a second position, it returns along the transfer path to engage a further...     

This invention relates to a plastic identification card. A magnetic encoding panel is printed, preferably by screen printing. This enables the magnetic encoding panel to be applied more economically than with conventional magnetic tapes. The printing of the magnetic encoding panel is applied to a drop...     

An optical card is oscillated in an X direction along a curved path by a voice coil driver, and an optical read/write module is translated in the Y direction to read recorded information on the card.

A method and system of matching first and second waveforms, each having identifiable features, for identification purposes. The method includes the steps of obtaining from the first waveforms significant said identifiable features having values and locations with respect to a starting point of the associated...     

A system for the verification of a magnetically printed material as to whether it is genuine or counterfeit is disclosed having magnetic and photo sensors arranged on the same scan line relative to the magnetically printed material for reading magnetic and optical patterns on the same scan line, and...     

A data reader has a data reading means for reading data from a recording medium and producing an analog signal. The data reader also has a switching circuit having one terminal connected to the output terminal of the reading means. When the potential difference across the two terminals of the switching...     

A magnetic coding arrangement (43) has a holder (11) in which small disk-shaped magnets (14) are mounted in bores (25). The magnets have different polarization (N, S) on their end faces. The diameter (D) of the magnets is slightly less than the diameter of the bores, so that the magnets can swing round...     

A slotless card reader for reading magnetically encoded cards is disclosed having an array of magnetic sensors defining a card plane, a magnetically permeable covering over said array and defining a card touch surface exposed for manually applying a magnetic card downwardly against the touch surface,...     

A magnetic reading head is provided in a tray acceptor for determining the presence of magnetic characteristics in a paper tendered as a valid currency or note. Fundamentally, the invention comprises a spring assembly, receiving a magnetic reading head, which is adjustable to position the reading head...     

A magnetic sensor including a coil for sensing a changing magnetic field developed by paper currency moving past the magnetic sensor. A capacitor forms a tuned circuit with the magnetic sensor coil to pass only those signals lying within a predetermined frequency range. A comparator compares the signals...     

A reader-writer for magnetic cards substantially reduces "jitter" or chattering vibrations which otherwise imperil the accuracy of the read-write functions. The read-write head is itself mounted rigidly for operating while the magnetic card passes along a planar tray surface. A soft rubber anvil roll...     

A locking and unlocking device particularly employable for a double lock system such as a bank lock and a client lock is disclosed. To operate the bank lock, a magnetic card specifically allocated to a client is inserted into a casing or cover through a card insert hole until a plurality of magnetized...     

Tag reading for Kimball-type price tags, where a reader is fed manually with tags and prices are automatically read into a cash register. According to a preferred embodiment, the tag reader may take either hole-code tags or tags provided with printed points instead of code-holes.

A previous ticket is read by a previous ticket reader unit, and the contents of read information are displayed on a CRT display unit, and are modified by departure/destination station information input sections and a condition input section. Thereupon, a new pass is issued by a printer/encoder unit in...     

A magnetic detection circuit in which the sensor signal is integrated over the length of the examined sheet and compared with a pair of reference levels to establish the presence of too much or too little magnetizable material. The integration technique assures proper operation in spite of changes in...     

Card information selecting system capable of accessing a card provided with a plurality of information channels corresponding to different transactions, includes reading means for reading information recorded on the card, selecting means for designating at least one of the information channels, writing...     

A card having an uninterrupted strip of magnetizable material affixed to the surface of a substrate can carry a machine readable code in the form of a magnetized pattern. By removing alternate magnetized segments, in a column of parallel rifts across the strip, the machines readable code becomes non-alterable,...     

A telecard including active devices to provide communications between the active devices and a card reader without the need for electromechanical interconnection. The active devices include logic processing and data storage modules that are accessed by the application of power thereto via electromagnetic...     

A single copy newspaper vending machine in which a telescoping rod assembly is activated via a comparative and memory electronic circuit. Data is read into the circuit by means of a magnetic card and reader. The apparatus and method provide a guaranteed newspaper sale since the magnetic card must be...     

A magnetic card discriminator which is equipped with a card reading part, a registration number memory part, an invalid number memory part, a processing part, and an alarm, and which discriminates whether a card registration number magnetically recorded on a magnetic card is an invalid registration number...     

A proximity data transfer system for transferring data in digital form between a portable data carrying component and a data sensor component. The data carrying component includes a data store and circuitry for producing magnetic field disturbances of a form related to the data stored therein. The data...     

A secured point-of-sale mechanism is disclosed in which there is a closable two compartment housing having an unsecured door portion covering a monetary negotiable instrument section disposed within a secured portion for which a transaction price index is set to the correct sales amount purchased by...     

Contactless inductive power transfer from a stationary "reader" to energize the electronics on a portable data or "smart" card is made practical through a flexible inductor carried on the card. The inductor, which acts as the secondary portion of a power transformer, comprises a flat coil and a flexible...     

A first transparent strip having a series of alternate lines and spaces is mounted in a housing parallel and adjacent to a second transparent strip having a series of lines and spaces. A key inserted through a slot formed in the housing pushes the second transparent strip across the first transparent...     

A transducer apparatus for use with cards bearing a magnetic recording stripe and having an optically sensible anticounterfeit uniqueness characteristic, the apparatus including a sensor for the anticounterfeit characteristic which scans the card by a small discrete window of perception, pixel. The apparatus...