Patent Application
20060139173
The present invention is related to an anti-counterfeiting apparatus, and more particularly to an anti-counterfeiting apparatus capable of remote identifying for not only distinguishing real or counterfeited products, but also quickly identifying products and easily managing.
Accordingly, in a process of controlling the transmission of products, identifying and anti-counterfeiting products is always what various makers paid a lot of attention to. A prior art method of controlling products, such as identifying barcodes, has much benefit to identifying and controlling products. Coordinate with applying computer databases and identifying barcodes, an ability of warehousing managing and dynamically tracing a large amount of products can be comparatively raised.
However, technology progress and society advance makes the prior art product controlling technology not meet the application of industries nowadays; for example, since the product categories extremely increased, such that the coding numbers of barcodes are not enough. Besides, the identifying barcodes needs to pass through the optical scan equipments and an optical scan path with obstacles to proceed short-distance scanning to become useful data to be used. It is not convenient in use and cannot be suitable in managing the access of the big amount of products.
In connection with the previous mentioned problems of controlling products, another product data reading and controlling technology is developed. As shown in
Although such a wireless label 11 can achieve an object of controlling products, however, the wireless label 11 is directly set on the outer package 105 of the product 10 in this way. Thus, after the consumer bought or used the product 10, the wireless label 11 was not disabled immediately such that the product data stored in the wireless label 11 still can be read by an outer apparatus and cannot avoid from minded people using dishonest means to ascertain the product category bought or owned by the consumer. It not only hurts the privacy of the consumer but also has potential danger on the safety of the consumer.
Further, after using the product, if the wireless label 11 of the product 10 was not destructed, it still has an ability of being read or identified such that unworthy people has an opportunity to repack the product outer package or bottle 105 after using but with good apparent. They can collect, refill with counterfeited objects, and sale the counterfeited products in market as an apology by the way of passing off fish eyes for pearls. Not only the consumer will be deceived to buy counterfeited product, even the safety of the consumer will be damaged, but also the reputation of the makers of original real products 10 is destructed. It is the reason why expensive liquor, cosmetics, accessories, or pharmaceuticals are easy to be counterfeited.
Accordingly, how to design an anti-counterfeiting apparatus in connection with previous mentioned shortcomings of the prior art technology, and more particularly an anti-counterfeiting apparatus capable of remote identifying which not only can distinguish real or counterfeiting of products but also has an effect of quickly identifying product and conveniently managing is an inventive point of the present invention. Therefore,
It is a primary object of the present invention to provide an anti-counterfeiting apparatus capable of remote identifying. It mainly fixes a wireless label at a seal of a product such that after the product is used and unsealed, the wireless label can be directly destructed or removed at the same time in order to let it lose an ability of being read or identified the product data and cannot be reused improperly to be a counterfeited product. This way, an object of anti-counterfeiting products can be achieved.
It is a secondary object of the present invention to provide an anti-counterfeiting apparatus capable of remote identifying which uses the radio frequency technology of its wireless label to not only examine data of the products remote and quickly to easy manage the products, but also identify real or counterfeited products quickly to protect the reputation of the makers of the real products and the safety of the consumers.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an anti-counterfeiting apparatus capable of remote identifying which removes the ability of being read or identified improperly of the products with an easy way after the users buy the products. It not only is benefit to maintain the personal privacy but also helps to maintain their safety.
To achieve the previous mentioned objects, a structure of a preferred embodiment of the present invention mainly comprises: a membrane, an identifying module set therein, and capable of being fixed on a product; and a destructive structure fixed on part of a surface of the membrane for naturally destructing the identifying module when the destructive structure is open.
The structural features and the effects to be achieved may further be understood and appreciated by reference to the presently preferred embodiments together with the detailed description.
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The identifying module 25 comprises an identifying chip 251 and an antenna 253. The identifying chip 251 can be electrically connected to the antenna 253. Therefore, the identifying chip 251 can receive or transmit a radio frequency signal by the antenna 253. The identifying chip 251 can store bigger amount of data than the prior art identifying barcodes, and thus an independent product digital number can be pre-given to each product 21 and stored in the identifying chip 251. An outer apparatus (not shown) can use suitable radio frequency signals to sense the antenna 253 such that the outer apparatus can remote read the product number stored in the identifying chip 251. Thereby, no matter in either one of the situations of warehouse, transporting distribution, or transaction vend, the product data stored in the identifying chip 251 quickly and accurately without an optical scanning path or short-distance scanning path such that each product can proceed quickly in a distribution or transaction process.
Further, when the user wants to use the object filled in the product 21 and the package, an unsealing process is needed first. In the unsealing process, the membrane 23 wrapping the opening and the seal is removed first, meanwhile, the destructive structure 231 is used to produce a crack 235 on the membrane 23. At the same time, the identifying module 25 attached on the membrane 23 is destructed to make the identifying module 25 lose the original ability of being read or identified such that the identifying module 25 cannot read the product data stored therein through an outer apparatus again to achieve an capability of anti-counterfeiting.
For example, in the embodiment, by opening the destructive structure 231 or producing the crack 235, the identifying chip 251 on the identifying module 25 is directly destructed, the antenna 253 and the identifying chip 251 are disengaged, or the antenna 253 forms an abruption and radio frequency signals cannot be transmitted again. Thereby, the object of destructing the identifying module 25 and making it unable to be used again is achieved.
This way, it not only prevents from minded people knowing the object data bought by the consumers through an outer apparatus and therefore knowing the privacy of life mode or product category owned by the consumers, but also prevents from dishonest industrialists collecting these exhausted product package 21, refilling them to be counterfeit products, and selling them. The object of anti-counterfeiting products and protecting personal privacy can be further achieved.
Of course, in another embodiment of the present invention, the membrane 23 can be the surface of the package 215, and the antenna 253 and the identifying chip 25 are directly fixed to the package 215, or the product seal, the surface, the outer package, or the outer package surface. The object of the present invention can also be achieved.
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In summary, it is appreciated that the present invention relates to an anti-counterfeiting apparatus, and more particularly to an anti-counterfeiting apparatus capable of remote identifying. It not only can distinguish the real or counterfeited products but also has an effect of quickly identifying products and easily managing.
The foregoing description is merely one embodiment of present invention and not considered as restrictive. All equivalent variations and modifications in process, method, feature, and spirit in accordance with the appended claims may be made without in any way from the scope of the invention.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 093139016 | Dec 2004 | TW | national |
