1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to wireless IC devices. More particularly, the present invention relates to a wireless IC device capable of detecting an environmental state based on a state of a communication characteristic between the wireless IC device and an external reader apparatus. In addition, the present invention relates to a method of detecting an environmental state using the wireless IC device.
2. Description of the Related Art
In recent years, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies have been put into practical use and wireless IC devices having RFID integrated circuit (IC) chips mounted therein have been utilized for various individual identifications including merchandise control and employee ID cards.
Several methods are used for the RFID. For example, in wireless IC devices adopting passive methods, radio waves having certain frequencies transmitted from reader apparatuses (or reader-writer apparatuses) are received with antennas, RFID IC chips are driven by using the radio waves as power sources to extract information from the IC chips, the information is put on reflected waves from the wireless IC device to the reader apparatus, and the reflected waves including the information are transmitted to the reader apparatuses.
In addition, an approach has been made to use the RFID wireless IC devices for transmission of detection results in sensors that detect environmental states in recent years. For example, in a sensor system disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2001-291181, a sensor detecting water leakage from pipes, a sensor detecting the humidity of the soil in a pot, or the like is combined with an RFID wireless IC device, radio waves from a reader apparatus are also used as a driving source for the sensor, the detection result in the sensor is put on reflected waves from the wireless IC device to the reader apparatus, and the reflected waves including the detection result in the sensor are transmitted to the reader apparatus.
However, since a minute change in an electrical characteristic based on a change in the environmental state is digitized and the data is transmitted by using communication components in the sensor system in related art disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2001-291181, there is a problem in that the number of components is increased, which causes increases in cost and manufacturing complexity.
In view of the above problems, preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless IC device including an RFID IC chip; a feed circuit board that has the IC chip mounted therein or thereon and that includes a feed circuit connected to the IC chip; and an antenna coupled to the feed circuit board. The wireless IC device communicates with an external reader apparatus via the antenna. An insulating material that has an electrical characteristic that is varied with a change in an environmental state to vary the coupling state between the feed circuit board and the antenna is provided between the feed circuit board and the antenna to detect the environmental state based on a state of a communication characteristic between the wireless IC device and the reader apparatus.
Since the wireless IC device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention can be configured simply by providing the insulating material that has an electrical characteristic that is varied with a change in an environmental state between the feed circuit board and the antenna of an RFID wireless IC device, it is possible to configure a sensor system capable of detecting the environmental state in a non-contact manner from an external reader apparatus at a low cost without significantly increasing the number of components.
The above and other elements, features, steps, characteristics and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
Preferred embodiments of the present invention will herein be described with reference to the attached drawings.
Referring to
Reference numeral 2 denotes a feed circuit board. The feed circuit board 2 at least includes a feed circuit including electronic components included in the board and/or electronic components mounted on a surface of the board, although not shown in
Reference numeral 4 denotes a covering resin. The covering resin 4 preferably is formed by, for example, arranging thermosetting resin on the feed circuit board 2 on which the IC chip 1 is mounted and hardening the thermosetting resin to protect the IC chip 1.
Reference numerals 5a and 5b denote antennas. The antennas 5a and 5b are made of a conductive material and have a certain pattern. The antennas 5a and 5b are preferably located on a surface of an insulating base 6 formed of, for example, a resin film. The antennas 5a and 5b are coupled to the feed circuit board 2 and are electromagnetically coupled to the feed circuit board 2 in the first preferred embodiment.
Reference numeral 7 denotes an insulating material featured in various preferred embodiments of the present invention. The insulating material 7 is preferably provided between the feed circuit board 2 and the antennas 5a and 5b. A material that has an electrical characteristic that is varied depending on a state of an environmental condition (including but not limited to humidity, temperature, pressure, for example) is preferably used as the insulating material 7.
In this wireless IC device, a radio wave having a certain frequency (for example, 900 MHz) transmitted from an external reader apparatus (or reader-writer apparatus) (not shown) is received with the antennas 5a and 5b, induced electromotive force is produced on the basis of the received radio wave in the feed circuit of the feed circuit board 2 electromagnetically coupled to the antennas 5a and 5b, the RFID IC chip 1 is driven with the electromotive force, and information is extracted from the IC chip 1. The extracted information is put on a reflected wave from the wireless IC device to the reader apparatus in the feed circuit and the reflected wave bearing the information is transmitted to the reader apparatus via the antennas 5a and 5b.
In the wireless IC device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, since the insulating material 7 that has an electrical characteristic that varies depending on a state of an environmental characteristic (including but not limited to humidity, temperature, pressure, etc., for example) is preferably provided between the feed circuit board 2 and the antennas 5a and 5b, the coupling state (the electromagnetic coupling state in the first preferred embodiment) between the feed circuit board 2 and the antennas 5a and 5b is varied depending on the environmental state. The variation in the coupling state between the feed circuit board 2 and the antennas 5a and 5b varies the communication characteristic between the wireless IC device and the reader apparatus. The environment around the wireless IC device is detected from the state of the communication characteristic between the wireless IC device and the reader apparatus in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
In the first preferred embodiment, a material that has an electrostatic capacitance that is increased in response to an increase in the ambient humidity to vary the electromagnetic coupling between the feed circuit board 2 and the antennas 5a and 5b and to shift the communicable distance between the wireless IC device and the reader apparatus is preferably used as the insulating material 7. For example, epoxy resin in which cellulose is dispersed or epoxy resin in which polyvinyl alcohol is dispersed can be used as the insulating material 7.
The environmental threshold can be arbitrarily set. For example, when a humidity of about 70% is set as the environmental threshold, it can be detected whether the humidity is lower than about 70% based on whether the communication is enabled at a communicable distance that is actually measured in advance at a humidity of about 70%. For example, as shown in
the humidity is lower than about 70% if the communicable distance was higher than about 80%;
the humidity is equal to about 70% (the environmental threshold) if the communicable distance was equal to about 80%; and
the humidity is higher than about 70% if the communicable distance was lower than about 80%.
The humidity environment was designed in this example so that the electromagnetic coupling is optimized on the basis of the electrostatic capacitance at a humidity lower than about 55%, for example, at a humidity of about 40% and, when the humidity is increased to about 60% or more, the electrostatic capacitance is increased to increase the electromagnetic coupling, the electromagnetic coupling level is shifted from the optimal value, and the communicable distance is decreased. However, the method of setting the humidity environment is not limited to that described above. For example, the humidity environment may be designed so that the electromagnetic coupling is optimized on the basis of the electrostatic capacitance at a humidity of about 70% and, when the humidity is increased to be close to about 70%, the electrostatic capacitance is increased to increase the electromagnetic coupling and the electromagnetic coupling is optimized to increase the communicable distance.
Although the communicable distance is used as the communication characteristic in the present preferred embodiment, it may be detected whether the environmental state reaches the environmental threshold on the basis of another communication characteristic, for example, the amount of shift of a center frequency. When the environmental state preferably is detected on the basis of the amount of shift of the center frequency, it is desirable to perform the measurement for the wireless IC device in various aspects in order to increase the precision and accuracy of the measurement.
As described above, with the wireless IC device according to the first preferred embodiment, it is possible to detect the ambient humidity of the wireless IC device in a non-contact manner from an external reader apparatus at a low cost without largely increasing the amount of components.
In a wireless IC device in a second preferred embodiment, the insulating material 7 in the first preferred embodiment is replaced with a material that has an electrostatic capacitance that is increased in response to an increase in temperature. For example, a material produced from mixing a resin material (epoxy, etc.) with filler (barium titanate system, etc.) that has a dielectric constant that is varied with temperature may be preferably used. In other words, an increase in the ambient temperature increases the electrostatic capacitance to increase the electromagnetic coupling between the feed circuit board 2 and the antennas 5a and 5b, thereby varying the communicable distance between the wireless IC device and a reader apparatus.
If a predetermined temperature is set as the environmental threshold and the communicable distance at the predetermined temperature is actually measured, it can be detected whether the temperature is higher than or equal to the environmental threshold on the basis of whether the communication is enabled at the measured communicable distance. For example, if the environmental threshold was set to about 100° C. when the communication was disabled at room temperature, the electromagnetic coupling was optimized and the communicable distance was near 100% at temperatures of about 100° C. to about 120° C., and the electromagnetic coupling was reduced to decrease the communicable distance at a temperature of about 120° C. or more, as shown in
In a wireless IC device in a third preferred embodiment, the feed circuit board 2 is not electromagnetically coupled to the antennas 5a and 5b but is directly coupled to the antennas 5a and 5b. In addition, the insulating material 7 in the first preferred embodiment is replaced with a material that electrically conducts in response to application of a pressure higher than or equal to an environmental threshold and that does not electrically conduct in response to application of a pressure lower than the environmental threshold. For example, “Inastomer” (a product name) manufactured by INABA RUBBER CO., LTD. may be used as such a material. It can be detected that the pressure is higher than or equal to the environmental threshold that is set if the communication is enabled between the wireless IC device and a reader apparatus and the pressure is lower than the environmental threshold that is set if the communication is disabled therebetween.
Although the first to third preferred embodiments of the present invention are described above, the present invention is not limited to the above preferred embodiments and various modifications and applications can be made.
For example, if data indicating, for example, the location where the wireless IC device is installed and the type of a sensor (a humidity sensor in the first preferred embodiment, a temperature sensor in the second preferred embodiment, and a pressure sensor in the third preferred embodiment) is stored in advance in an RFID IC chip that is mounted and the data is read out by the reader apparatus concurrently with detection of the environmental state, it is possible to facilitate subsequent data processing without incorrect or inaccurate recognition of the detection result.
In addition, adjacently providing multiple kinds of wireless IC devices including the humidity sensor and the temperature sensor allows various environmental states to be easily detected with the same measurement system.
While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, it is to be understood that variations and modifications will be apparent to those skilled in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the present invention. The scope of the present invention, therefore, is to be determined solely by the following claims.
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