Patent Issued for Transaction card with luminous display (USPTO 11755871): Chuang Lien Hao

2023 OCT 03 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent by the inventor Liu, Jen-Hsiang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), filed on June 22, 2022, was published online on September 12, 2023, according to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents.

Patent number 11755871 is assigned to Chuang Lien Hao (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors:

“1. Field of the Invention

“The present disclosure provides a transaction card, and in particular to a transaction card with a luminous display.

“2. Description of the Related Art

“General traditional portable cards, such as: bank cards, credit cards, deposit cards, easy cards, health insurance cards or citizen digital certificates, which are divided into a contact type or non-contact type according to the method of use, the contact type is that the chip is exposed on the surface of the card to electrically contact with an external card reader, so that the card reader reads the required information in the chip for transaction; and the non-contact type is that an induction coil and an RFID tag thereof are embedded in the card, when the card is close to a reading module, an antenna of the reading module and the induction coil of the card are mutually induced to produce power, in order to provide the information of the RFID tag read by the reading module for the required transaction.

“However, in the case of the traditional contact type card or the non-contact type card, since the card itself fails to have any mechanism to prompt a consumer, when the transaction is carried out, the consumer can usually only be informed from the store whether the card has completed the transaction, and cannot judge whether the card is in the transaction state by himself, resulting in the personal information in the RFID tag of the card being appropriated by the unscrupulous store with the relevant machine after the transaction or during the transaction.

“Thus, it is desirable to create a transaction card with a luminous display, when a card body is used to carry out transactions, in addition to achieving the effect of the transaction prompt, it also has an aesthetic visual effect, thereby effectively improving the shortcoming of prior art that are to be actively disclosed by the disclosure.”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventor’s summary information for this patent: “In view of the shortcomings of the above-mentioned prior art, the inventor felt that it was not perfect, and exhausted his mind to research carefully into a way for overcoming the problems, and then developed a transaction card with a luminous display, with a view to achieving the purpose of not only having the effect of transaction prompts, but also having an aesthetic visual effect at transaction.

“To achieve the above objective and other objectives, the present disclosure provides a transaction card with a luminous display, comprising: a card body, an electronic control module, a light emitting module and a light guide module. The card body is provided with a light-transparent frame part around; the electronic control module is provided in the card body; the light emitting module is provided in the card body and electrically connected to the electronic control module; the light guide module is provided in the card body and corresponds to the light emitting module, the light guide module guides a light source of the light emitting module to the light-transparent frame part of the card body.

“In the above-mentioned transaction card with a luminous display, the card body comprises a first light-transparent panel, a first shading part, a second light-transparent panel and a second shading part, the first light-transparent panel is combined with the second light-transparent panel, the first shading part is disposed on the first light-transparent panel, the second shading part is disposed on the second light-transparent panel, and the electronic control module, the light emitting module and the light guide module are provided between the first light-transparent panel and the second light-transparent panel.

“In the above-mentioned transaction card with a luminous display, the first shading part is smaller than the first light-transparent panel, the second shading part is smaller than the second light-transparent panel, so that the card body forms the light-transparent frame part around.

“In the above-mentioned transaction card with a luminous display, the light guide module is located between the first shading part and the second shading part, and the light guide module is a transparent PVC, PET, PC or PMMA material.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A transaction card with a luminous display, comprising: a card body, provided with a light-transparent frame part around; an electronic control module, provided in the card body; a light emitting module, provided in the card body and electrically connected to the electronic control module; and a light guide module, provided in the card body and corresponds to the light emitting module, the light guide module guides a light source of the light emitting module to the light-transparent frame part of the card body; wherein the card body comprises a first light-transparent panel, a first shading part, a second light-transparent panel and a second shading part, the first light-transparent panel is combined with the second light-transparent panel, the first shading part is disposed on the first light-transparent panel, the second shading part is disposed on the second light-transparent panel, and the electronic control module, the light emitting module and the light guide module are provided between the first light-transparent panel and the second light-transparent panel; wherein the first shading part is smaller than the first light-transparent panel, the second shading part is smaller than the second light-transparent panel, so that the card body forms the light-transparent frame part around.

“2. The transaction card with a luminous display according to claim 1, wherein the electronic control module includes a circuit control carrier board, a non-contact radio frequency antenna and a contact communication chip, the light emitting module and the contact communication chip are disposed on the circuit control carrier board, and the non-contact radio frequency antenna is disposed in the circuit control carrier board.

“3. The transaction card with a luminous display according to claim 1, wherein the light emitting module has a light emitter, the light guide module has a perforation for accommodating the light emitter.

“4. The transaction card with a luminous display according to claim 1, wherein the light emitting module has a plurality of light emitters, the light guide module has a plurality of perforations, each the perforation accommodates each the light emitter.

“5. The transaction card with a luminous display according to claim 1, wherein the card body further comprises a surface light-transparent part, the light guide module has at least one refractive part, the refractive part corresponds to the surface light-transparent part, the light guide module goes with the refraction part to guide the light source of the light emitting module to the surface light-transparent part.

“6. A transaction card with a luminous display, comprising: a card body, provided with a light-transparent frame part around; an electronic control module, provided in the card body; a light emitting module, provided in the card body and electrically connected to the electronic control module; and a light guide module, provided in the card body and corresponds to the light emitting module, the light guide module guides a light source of the light emitting module to the light-transparent frame part of the card body; wherein the card body comprises a first light-transparent panel, a first shading part, a second light-transparent panel and a second shading part, the first light-transparent panel is combined with the second light-transparent panel, the first shading part is disposed on the first light-transparent panel, the second shading part is disposed on the second light-transparent panel, and the electronic control module, the light emitting module and the light guide module are provided between the first light-transparent panel and the second light-transparent panel; wherein the light guide module is located between the first shading part and the second shading part, and the light guide module is a transparent PVC, PET, PC or PMMA material.

“7. A transaction card with a luminous display, comprising: a card body, provided with a light-transparent frame part around; an electronic control module, provided in the card body; a light emitting module, provided in the card body and electrically connected to the electronic control module; and a light guide module, provided in the card body and corresponds to the light emitting module, the light guide module guides a light source of the light emitting module to the light-transparent frame part of the card body; wherein the card body comprises a first light-transparent panel, a first shading part, a second light-transparent panel and a second shading part, the first light-transparent panel is combined with the second light-transparent panel, the first shading part is disposed on the first light-transparent panel, the second shading part is disposed on the second light-transparent panel, and the electronic control module, the light emitting module and the light guide module are provided between the first light-transparent panel and the second light-transparent panel; wherein the first light-transparent panel and the second light-transparent panel are combined by a light-transparent combination part, and the light-transparent combination part corresponds to the light-transparent frame part and connects to a circumference of the light guide module.”

URL and more information on this patent, see: Liu, Jen-Hsiang. Transaction card with luminous display. U.S. Patent Number 11755871, filed June 22, 2022, and published online on September 12, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(11755871)&db=USPAT&type=ids

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