PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15738262
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["235", "454000"]

Abstract:
A card reader use in a higher-level device may include a card transfer path; a card insertion detecting mechanism; a transfer roller; a turn detecting mechanism structured to detect a turn of the transfer roller; a card detecting mechanism; and a control unit. The control unit structured such that, if the card detecting mechanism switches from the OFF situation to the ON situation after the card insertion detecting mechanism switches from the OFF situation to the ON situation, even though no turn of the transfer roller is detected by the turn detecting mechanism, the control unit of the card reader sends a control unit of the higher-level device an alarm signal for notifying that a skimming device has been inserted through the insertion slot.

Claim (Index 1):
A card reader to be installed for use in a higher-level device, where a side with an insertion slot configured for a card is represented as a near side, and an opposite side to the near side is represented as a deep side, the card reader comprising:\n a card transfer path where the card inserted through the insertion slot is transferred; a card insertion detecting mechanism, placed at a deep side of the insertion slot, structured to detect the card by way of switching from an OFF situation to an ON situation; a transfer roller, placed at a deeper side position than the card insertion detecting mechanism is, structured to transfer the card through the card transfer path; a turn detecting mechanism structured to detect a turn of the transfer roller; and a card detecting mechanism, placed at a deeper side position than the transfer roller is, structured to detect the card by way of switching from an OFF situation to an ON situation; and a control unit; wherein, the control unit structured such that, if the card detecting mechanism switches from the OFF situation to the ON situation after the card insertion detecting mechanism switches from the OFF situation to the ON situation, even though no turn of the transfer roller is detected by the turn detecting mechanism, the control unit of the card reader sends a control unit of the higher-level device an alarm signal for notifying that a skimming device has been inserted through the insertion slot.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39286
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13577628', '15080954', '13934595', '14960856', '14122957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.541351750773425
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4869449244521373
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5359110681412962
- Mean Citation Score: 220.98726800000003
- Max Citation Score: 252.18599
- Similarity Product: 199.1509985938376

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test