The present invention relates to a structure of a textile, and in particular to a structure of a textile that is formed of a combination of two yarns, a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip, and two antennas.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology is a non-contact automatic identification technique, which enables automatic identification of and retrieval of related data an article through radio frequency signals. Although requiring a higher manufacturing cost than the traditional barcodes, RFID possesses various advantages that the barcodes do not provide, such as water resistance, magnetism resistance, low temperature resistance, extended life span, extended range of access, and ease of modification of data stored in RFID tags. The general technique of RFID is to establish bi-directional non-contact data transmission between a reader and a tag in radio frequency based wireless manner in order to realize the purposes of target identification and data exchange. RFID has been widely used in various diversified fields, such as industry automation, business automation, and control and management of traffic transportation. RFID tags have been widely used in fee charge systems of pubic transportation and subways, fee charging of parking lots, doorway access systems, attendance checking systems, and consumers shopping. A conventional way that applies RFID to clothing business is to inlay or embed a combination of an RFID chip and an antenna in a textile. Such a conventional way of combining the RFID antenna with a textile generally suffers a major disadvantage that the RFID antenna may get broken or split when clothing is washed or stretched. Another disadvantage is that the clothing with the RFID combined therein may cause perception of discomfort of irregularity. These disadvantages simply lead to deviation from the expected functionality and achievement of the inclusion of RFID in clothing. Thus, it is desired to provide an improvement for securely combining RFID in yarns to enable the use thereof in clothing, while ensuring comfortableness of wearing the clothing.
In view of the above, the present invention aims to provide a solution to overcome and address such problems.
An object of the present invention is to provide a structure of a textile, which comprises a combination of two yarns, a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip, and two antennas, wherein the RFID chip is combined with the yarns in a neat and flat manner so that when touching, a user senses no tactile perception of irregularity so as to enhance comfortableness of wearing.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a textile structure, which comprises two yarns; an RFID chip; and two antennas, which are each electrically connected with the RFID chip. The antennas are respectively combined with the yarns.
The textile structure described above further comprises a protection layer, which encloses the RFID chip and is extended to the antennas.
In the textile structure described above, the protection layer is extended to cover the yarns.
In the textile structure described above, the antennas are soldered to the RFID chip.
In the textile structure described above, the antennas are pressed to fix to the RFID chip.
In the textile structure described above, the antennas bonded to the RFID chip.
In the textile structure described above, the antennas are laminated to the RFID chip.
In the textile structure described above, the antennas are respectively twisted with the yarns to form strands.
The present invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art by reading the following description of preferred embodiments thereof with reference to the drawings, in which:
two yarns 10, a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip 11, and two antennas 12, wherein the antennas 12 are each electrically connected to the RFID chip 11 and connections between the antennas 12 and the RFID chip 11 each form a connection point 13 and the antennas 12 are respectively combined with the yarns 10.
In the instant embodiment, the antennas 12 are each twisted with the yarn to form a strand; otherwise an end of each of the antennas 12 is electrically connected to the RFID chip 11, while another end connected to the yarn 10, where the electrical connection between the antennas 12 and the RFID chip 11 can be for example soldering, press-to-fix, bonding, or laminating. However, the description given above is just a preferred embodiment of the present invention and should not be interpreted to constrain the scope of the present invention. In a practical application, other suitable means may be taken to achieve the electrical connection.
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In summary, with the arrangement of the combination of the yarns 10, the RFID chip 11, and the antennas 12, the present invention provides advantages that no tactile perception of irregularity will be caused when a user touches and the comfortableness of wearing can be enhanced so as to improve the convenience and utilization thereof.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments thereof, it is apparent to those skilled in the art that a variety of modifications and changes may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention which is intended to be defined by the appended claims.