System and method for packaging frequency identification device and RFID device formed thereof

• US 10,611,067 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2018
• Issued: 04/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Securitag Assembly Group Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Securitag Assembly Group Company Limited
• Inventors: Chen, Way Yu
• Primary Examiner(s): Mikels, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US16/119,925
• Publication Number:
  US 20190111594A1
• Time in Patent Office: 585 Days
• Field of Search: 235435, 235439, 235454, 235487, 235492, 340 10, 340572
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/38 characterised by the material or the manufacturing process B29C33/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 39/10 incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. casting around inserts or for coating articles coating a surface by casting in general B05D1/30, B29C39/126 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/0001 characterised by the choice of material
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/14819 the inserts being completely encapsulated
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 45/7207 of the moulded articles
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2101/10 Thermosetting resins
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2883/00 Use of polymers having silicon, with or without sulfur, nitrogen, oxygen, or carbon only, in the main chain, as mould material
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2031/3456 Antennas, e.g. radomes
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07724 the record carrier being at least partially made by a molding process molding in general B29C45/14

Abstract

The present invention provides a system and method for packaging RFID device, in which a flexible mold with low surface energy having a mold cavity formed on a surface thereof is provided, an RFID device having RFID chip and antenna coupled thereto is then arranged in the mold cavity, a thermosetting material is filled in the mold cavity under a first atmospheric pressure produced by a pressure controlling device whereby the RFID device is completely covered by the thermosetting material, after that, the pressure controlling device provides a second atmospheric pressure higher than the first atmospheric pressure under a temperature lower than the curing temperature of the thermosetting material, and finally, the temperature is increased to the curing temperature under the second atmospheric pressure for curing the thermosetting material thereby forming an RFID package having the RFID device and the thermosetting material covered the RFID device.

Claims

1. A method for packaging a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, comprising steps of:

providing a flexible mold in an atmospheric environment, the flexible mold having a top surface, and a mold cavity formed on the top surface, wherein the flexible mold has no top mold to cover the flexible mold;

arranging the RFID device in the mold cavity, wherein the RFID device comprises an antenna coil, and an RFID chip coupled to antenna coil;

filling a thermosetting material into the mold cavity under a first atmospheric pressure whereby the RFID device is covered by the thermosetting material, wherein during the filling process that the thermosetting material is filled into the mold cavity, the top surface of the mold and the thermosetting material contact with air in the atmospheric environment;

while the top surface of the thermosetting material contacts with air, providing a second atmospheric pressure on the flexible mold having the RFID device and the thermosetting material under a temperature that is smaller than a curing temperature of the thermosetting material, wherein the second atmospheric pressure is larger than the first atmospheric pressure; and

heating the thermosetting material to reach the curing temperature so as to cure the thermosetting material under the second atmospheric pressure so as to form the RFID device having a thermosetting material package.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in the step of filling the thermosetting material further comprises utilizing a filling nozzle to fill the thermosetting material into the mold cavity along a profile of the mold cavity.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the flexible mold is made of polymerized siloxanes, and the thermosetting material is polymerized siloxanes, polyurethane, or epoxy resin.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first atmospheric pressure is 1 atm, and the second atmospheric pressure is 3˜

5 atms.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein during the step of curing the thermosetting material, the thermosetting material and the top surface contacts with the atmospheric environment.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the curing temperature is between 80-150°

C.

7. A packaging system for a radio frequency identification (RFID) device, comprising:

a flexible mold, arranged in an atmospheric environment, the flexible mode having a top surface, and a mold cavity formed on the top surface, wherein the flexible mold has no top mold to cover the flexible mold, wherein an RFID device having an antenna coil and an RFID chip coupled to the RFID antenna coil is arranged inside the mold cavity;

a filling device, configured to fill a thermosetting material into the mold cavity under a first atmospheric pressure while keeping the top surface of the flexible mold and the thermosetting material in contact with air in the atmospheric environment;

a pressure controlling device, configured to control an atmospheric pressure of the atmospheric environment where the flexible mold is surrounded;

a controlling device, coupled to the pressure controlling device, the controlling device controlling the filling device to fill the thermosetting material into the mold cavity whereby the RFID device is covered by the thermosetting material under the first atmospheric pressure, and controlling the pressure controlling device to provide, while the top surface of the thermosetting material is kept in contact with the air, a second atmospheric pressure on the flexible mold having the RFID device and the thermosetting material under a temperature that is smaller than a curing temperature of the thermosetting material; and

a heating device, coupled to the controlling device, the heating device heating the thermosetting material to reach the curing temperature under second atmospheric pressure so as to cure the thermosetting material covered the RFID device thereby forming the RFID device having a thermosetting material package.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the filling device further comprises a filling nozzle which is utilized to fill the thermosetting material into the mold cavity along a profile of the mold cavity.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the flexible mold is made of polymerized siloxanes, and the thermosetting material is polymerized siloxanes, polyurethane, or epoxy resin.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the first atmospheric pressure is 1 atm, and the second atmospheric pressure is 3-5 atms.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the curing temperature is between 80-150°

C.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein during the step of curing the thermosetting material, the thermosetting material and the top surface contacts with the atmospheric environment.