Method for the manufacture of a smart label inlet web, and a smart label inlet web

• US 20030029540A1
• Filed: 07/09/2002
• Published: 02/13/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rafsec Oy
• Original Assignee: Rafsec Oy
• Inventors: Stromberg, Samuli
• Application Number:
  US10/191,968
• Publication Number:
  US 20030029540A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 156/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/041 Constructional details G06K19/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07718 the record carrier being manufactured in a continuous process, e.g. using endless rolls
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/10 Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49117 Conductor or circuit manufacturing

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a smart label inlet web, in which method a smart label is protected from external effects by means of a surface film coated with an adhesive, the adhesive being in contact with the smart label. The adhesive is cured by radiation. The invention also relates to a smart label inlet web comprising a surface film, a smart label and a back web attached to each other. The surface film is attached to the smart label with an adhesive cured by radiation.

Claims

1. A method for the manufacture of a smart label inlet web, the method comprising protecting a smart label from external effects by means of a surface film coated with an adhesive, the adhesive being in contact with the smart label, wherein adhesive is cured by radiation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the adhesive is cured by means of ultraviolet (UV) radiation or electron beam (EB) curing.

3. The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the adhesive is applied onto a surface web by transfer lamination.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the surface web is a polyolefin film.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the surface web is a polyolefin film.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein at least one of two contact surfaces forming the nip has a resilient surface.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein before attachment of the surface web, smart label web, and back web, release webs are released from a reverse side of the surface web and from a reverse side of the back web.

8. The method according to claim 5, wherein after radiation of the adhesive, the smart label and the surface film on a surface of the back web are punched off the attached surface web and the smart label web, and excess material is removed.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the ready smart label inlet web is reeled up on a roll.

10. The method according to claim 5, wherein after radiation of the adhesive, the smart label, the surface film and the back film are punched off the attached surface web, smart label web and back web.

11. A smart label inlet web comprising a surface film, a smart label and a back web attached to each other, wherein the surface film is attached to the smart label by an adhesive which is radiation curable.

12. The smart label inlet web according to claim 11, wherein the surface film is attached to the smart label by means of an adhesive effective for being crosslinked by ultraviolet radiation or electron beam curing.

13. A smart label card comprising a surface film, a smart label and a back film made of a back web, attached to each other, wherein the surface film is attached to the smart label by an adhesive which is radiation curable.

14. The smart label card according to claim 13, wherein the surface film is attached to the smart label by means of an adhesive effective for being crosslinked by ultraviolet irradiation or electron beam curing.