EP0725372B1 - Dispositif de protection thermique pour machine à affranchir - Google Patents
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- EP0725372B1 EP0725372B1 EP19960400174 EP96400174A EP0725372B1 EP 0725372 B1 EP0725372 B1 EP 0725372B1 EP 19960400174 EP19960400174 EP 19960400174 EP 96400174 A EP96400174 A EP 96400174A EP 0725372 B1 EP0725372 B1 EP 0725372B1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
- G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
- G07B17/00193—Constructional details of apparatus in a franking system
- G07B2017/00233—Housing, e.g. lock or hardened casing
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- the invention relates to thermal protection circuits of an electronic device, particularly the circuits of a secure franking machine.
- the electronic circuits of a postage meter are generally installed inside an enclosure protected against unauthorized access, for example to using a leaded hatch. They are used in particular for accounting of postal values.
- Some users of such a postage meter electronics do not hesitate to place their machine in a freezer for example, to damage the circuits of the machine in order to avoid paying the Postal Administration the sum of the postal values recorded by these circuits.
- a thermal protection device is known from document WO 92/20085 (SECAP). he relates in particular to the protection of a franking machine against attempts to fraud by heating or cooling outside a temperature range of data operation.
- SECAP thermal protector power line comprising two bithermosensitive members of the bimetallic disc type blister.
- the object of the invention is to propose such a device that is easy to industrialize from low-cost trade components that either precise and reliable.
- the invention relates to a device comprising, inside a protected enclosure, a thermostatic switch with double trip threshold suitable for opening when the ambient temperature is below a low threshold and stay open as long as the ambient temperature is below a high threshold above the low threshold.
- the device also includes a thermal fuse opening when the ambient temperature located above a rupture threshold between the threshold low and the high threshold.
- the assembly consisting of the switch and the fuse is mounted in such a way as to cut a path electrically non-reversible when the temperature outside of a temperature range of device operation defined between the low threshold and the breaking point.
- the invention is in particular based on the idea of make it irreversible, by breaking a thermal fuse, an attempted cold fraud.
- FIG 1 shows schematically the device according the invention.
- FIGS 2 and 3 illustrate the operation of the device according to the invention.
- the protected enclosure 1 of a postage contains a circuit electronics 2 as a microprocessor and the device thermal protection according to the invention.
- This circuit 2 can be part of value accounting circuits machine postal.
- the thermal protection device comprises a thermostatic switch 3 with double threshold trip and a single threshold thermal fuse 4 trigger.
- Thermostatic switch 3 is a switch which has a relatively wide hysteresis range comprised by example between -20 ° C and 80 ° C. In particular, it is the component called “VIGITHERME”, model “M16”, sold by the HEITO company. Thermal fuse 4 is chosen to break at about 75 ° C. The component “D076-002” sold by the company “ELMWOOD SENSORS Inc” works well here.
- Switch 3 and fuse 4 are mounted in such a way way to cut an electrical path in a non- reversible when the ambient temperature inside enclosure 1 is outside of a temperature range of operation of the device defined between the low threshold SB of the switch (here -20 ° C) and the breaking threshold ST of the fuse (here 75 ° C).
- the switch 3 is mounted on a first electrical path 5 between a first terminal A and a second terminal B of circuit 2.
- Fuse 4 is mounted on a second electrical path 6, partly common with the path 5, between the first terminal A and a third terminal C of circuit 2.
- switch 3 closes the path 5.
- the switch 3 opens the path 5
- this switch remains open as long as the ambient temperature is located below the high threshold SH which is greater than low threshold SB.
- switch 3 closes path 5.
- fuse 4 closes path 6.
- fuse 4 opens the path 6 non-reversibly.
- switch 3 opens path 5 and signal Vcc will be received on terminal B of circuit 2. This corresponds to a unauthorized use of the machine. If we try to restore the closed state of switch 3 by increasing the ambient temperature above the high threshold SH, we cross necessarily the ST rupture threshold, which causes the irreversible rupture of fuse 4 and opening of the path 6, so that the signal Vcc will be received on terminal C of the circuit 2. This also corresponds to non-use machine.
- the machine can only operate if circuit 2 does not detect the presence of the signal Vcc on one of terminals B or C. If by mistake, fuse 4 or switch 3 is not mounted in the machine, the circuit 2 will detect the presence of the Vcc signal at the terminal corresponding to the missing element and will prevent the machine operation. Also note that the switch and the fuse can just as easily be connected in series on a single electrical path to detect the exceeding the low temperature threshold SB.
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Claims (3)
- Dispositif pour détecter le franchissement d'un seuil prédéterminé de température par les circuits d'un appareil électronique sécurisé, notamment ceux d'une machine à affranchir, en vue d'interdire l'utilisation ultérieure de cet appareil après un tel franchissement, ce dispositif comprenant, à l'intérieur d'une enceinte protégée (1), un interrupteur thermostatique (3) à double seuil de déclenchement apte à ouvrir quand la température ambiante se situe en dessous d'un seuil bas (SB) et à rester ouvert tant que la température ambiante se situe en dessous d'un seuil haut (SH) supérieur au seuil bas, caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend un fusible thermique (4) ouvrant quand la température ambiante se situe au dessus d'un seuil de rupture (ST) compris entre le seuil bas et le seuil haut, l'interrupteur et le fusible étant montés de telle manière à couper un trajet électrique de façon non réversible quand la température ambiante se situe en dehors d'une plage de températures de fonctionnement de l'appareil définie entre le seuil bas (SB) et le seuil de rupture (ST).
- Dispositif selon la revendication 1, dans lequel le trajet électrique relie l'interrupteur thermostatique et le fusible à au moins deux bornes (B, C) d'un circuit de contrôle (2) qui détecte un franchissement de seuil de température s'il reçoit sur l'une des ces deux bornes un signal de contrôle (Vcc) injecté sur le trajet électrique.
- Dispositif selon la revendication 2, dans lequel le circuit de contrôle (2) fait partie des circuits de l'appareil à l'intérieur de l'enceinte protégée.
Applications Claiming Priority (2)
| Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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| FR9501107A FR2730102B1 (fr) | 1995-01-31 | 1995-01-31 | Dispositif de protection thermique pour machine a affranchir |
| FR9501107 | 1995-01-31 |
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| Publication Number | Publication Date |
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| EP0725372A1 EP0725372A1 (fr) | 1996-08-07 |
| EP0725372B1 true EP0725372B1 (fr) | 2004-12-01 |
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| Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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| EP19960400174 Expired - Lifetime EP0725372B1 (fr) | 1995-01-31 | 1996-01-25 | Dispositif de protection thermique pour machine à affranchir |
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| EP (1) | EP0725372B1 (fr) |
| DE (1) | DE69633956T2 (fr) |
| FR (1) | FR2730102B1 (fr) |
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| CN116228174B (zh) * | 2023-05-09 | 2023-08-01 | 北京惠朗时代科技有限公司 | 一种具有智能识别功能的印控仪管理方法 |
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| Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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| US4035756A (en) * | 1976-01-26 | 1977-07-12 | Therm-O-Disc Incorporated | Two temperature thermostat |
| US4285050A (en) * | 1979-10-30 | 1981-08-18 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Electronic postage meter operating voltage variation sensing system |
| US4301507A (en) * | 1979-10-30 | 1981-11-17 | Pitney Bowes Inc. | Electronic postage meter having plural computing systems |
| FR2675965B1 (fr) * | 1991-04-26 | 1993-08-06 | Secap | Dispositif de protection thermique dans un domaine limite de temperatures, notamment pour appareil a enregistrement de donnees entretenues par piles et en particulier machine a affranchir. |
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- 1995-01-31 FR FR9501107A patent/FR2730102B1/fr not_active Expired - Fee Related
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- 1996-01-25 DE DE69633956T patent/DE69633956T2/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1996-01-25 EP EP19960400174 patent/EP0725372B1/fr not_active Expired - Lifetime
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| Publication number | Publication date |
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| FR2730102B1 (fr) | 1997-04-18 |
| EP0725372A1 (fr) | 1996-08-07 |
| DE69633956D1 (de) | 2005-01-05 |
| DE69633956T2 (de) | 2005-12-01 |
| FR2730102A1 (fr) | 1996-08-02 |
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