Patent ID: 8708235

Claim:
A card reader for use with a card configured to record magnetic data, the card reader comprising: a magnetic head configured to read magnetic data recorded on the card or record magnetic data to the card; a card insertion part comprising an insertion port into which the card is inserted; a metal sensor configured to detect attachment of a foreign matter including metal material to a front face side of the card insertion part; a card passage where the card is passed; and a protruded part which is formed in the card insertion part so that an opposite side to a side where the magnetic head is disposed with respect to the card passage is protruded to a front side from a front face of the card insertion part; wherein, when viewed in an inserting direction of the card, the protruded part and the magnetic head are disposed so as to interpose the card passage therebetween; wherein the metal sensor is disposed at substantially a same position as an arrangement position of the magnetic head in a widthwise direction of the card which is substantially perpendicular to an inserting direction of the card; and wherein the metal sensor is disposed in an inside of the protruded part which is protruded to the front side from the front face of the card insertion part on the side where the magnetic head is disposed.