Patent Application
20060181419
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The present invention relates generally to a RFID tag, and more particularly to a RFID tag designed with special antenna for use with metals.
Generally, a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag refers to the components including wireless telecommunication IC and antenna, by which data can be read or written in with the help of specific reader/writer. Thanks to the features of RFID that permit to search for information, such as IC and properties, via telecommunication mode, the business operators can provide cost-effective logistics services according to accurate flow direction of materials. Therefore, this tag is gradually replacing traditional bar codes and magnetic cards.
An operating mode, which combines “individuals”, “goods” with “environment” via RFID-based hyperlink, is currently applied to some commercial fields, such as logistics systems production management and log control, etc. However, the electric wave for RFID generally cannot pass through metals. In the case of metallic packages for household furniture, electronic devices and metal products or others, it is impossible to read the data of RFID. This is because that, once in touch with RFID, the metals receiving electric wave of reader/writer will also generate an electromagnetic field, which will counteract with that at exterior of RFID. To this end, it is difficult for RFID to generate radioactive electromagnetic induction, thus disabling the data exchange between reader/writer and RFID. As a typical solution, RFID is spaced properly with the contact area of metallic product. For this purpose, a spacer block of proper thickness shall be inserted into the back of RFID to minimize the interference of metallic product on RFID tag. Anyhow, this will increase the volume/thickness of RFID, but also lead to a higher manufacturing cost. So, this solution cannot really meet the expectations of the market.
Thus, to overcome the aforementioned problems of the prior art RFID structural design, it would be an advancement in the art to provide an improved structure that can solve the metal-related disadvantages for a higher efficiency.
To this end, the inventors have provided the present invention of practicability after deliberate design and evaluation based on years of experience in the production, development and design of related products.
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The above is a detailed description of the technical features of the present invention based on a typical preferred embodiment. However, it should be appreciated that the present invention is capable of a variety of embodiments and various modifications by those skilled in the art, and all such variations or changes shall be embraced within the scope of the following claims.
The features and the advantages of the present invention will be more readily understood upon a thoughtful deliberation of the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
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a dielectric substrate 10, which is adhered to a conducting antenna 20. And, a wireless telecommunication IC 30 is linked to antenna 20, which is provided with a radiator 201 and a grounding terminal 202. The features lie in: the radiator 201 is mounted onto the surface of dielectric substrate 10, and the grounding terminal 202 onto the back of dielectric substrate 10. The entire antenna unit is available with a resonant mode or radiation mechanism, whereas a wireless telecommunication IC 30 is electrically linked between radiator 201 and grounding terminal 202.
