ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,547, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NIDEC INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Card insertion part and card reader" was invented by Shinya Miyazawa (Nagano, Japan) and Keiji Ohta (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A card insertion part for a card reader includes a flange part, two separated protruding parts and a light-emitting part disposed on the front side with respect to the flange part. The light-emitting part includes light sources and an optical member such as a diffusion member. The optical member is formed with a recessed part in which the light sources are disposed and is formed so as to surround the two protr...