Contactless IC card

• US 20030197598A1
• Filed: 01/02/2003
• Published: 10/23/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hayashi, Jouji
• Application Number:
  US10/334,774
• Publication Number:
  US 20030197598A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0701 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for power management
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs

Abstract

A contactless IC card, to which power is externally supplied in a contactless manner, includes a shunt regulator and a demodulation circuit. The shunt regulator attenuates, in the supplied power, a signal component in a band unwanted for demodulating an RX signal. The demodulation circuit demodulates the RX signal from the power in which the signal component in the unwanted band has been attenuated by the regulator.

Claims

1. A contactless IC card to which power is externally supplied in a contactless manner, comprising:

a regulator for attenuating, in said supplied power, a signal component in a band unwanted for demodulation of an RX signal; and

a demodulation circuit for demodulating said RX signal from said power in which said signal component in said unwanted band has been attenuated by said regulator.

2. A contactless IC card comprising:

an antenna coil; and

a semiconductor integrated circuit,

wherein said semiconductor integrated circuit includes;

a rectifier for generating power by rectifying a signal received by said antenna coil;

a shunt regulator for consuming a component in a low region of said power;

a demodulator for extracting an RX signal from said power in which said component in said low region has been consumed by said shunt regulator; and

a digital signal processor for receiving said power obtained through rectification by said rectifier and processing said RX signal extracted by said demodulator.

3. The contactless IC card of claim 2,

wherein said shunt regulator further consumes a component in a high region of said power.

4. The contactless IC card of claim 2,

wherein said shunt regulator includes:

a low-pass filter for allowing a low frequency component of said power to pass therethrough; and

a transistor, connected between a power node for receiving said power and a ground node for receiving a ground voltage, for receiving an output of said low-pass filter at a gate thereof.

5. The contactless IC card of claim 3,

wherein said shunt regulator includes:

a band rejection filter for allowing low and high frequency components of said power to pass therethrough; and

a transistor, connected between a power node for receiving said power and a ground node for receiving a ground voltage, for receiving an output of said band rejection filter at a gate thereof.

6. The contactless IC card of claim 4,

wherein said transistor is a MOS transistor.

7. The contactless IC card of claim 2,

wherein a frequency of said low region is 10 kHz or less.

8. The contactless IC card of claim 3,

wherein a frequency of said high region is 10 MHz or more.

9. The contactless IC card of claim 2,

wherein said semiconductor integrated circuit further includes a TX modulator, and

said TX modulator modulates impedance between ends of said antenna coil in accordance with a TX signal supplied from said digital signal processor.

10. The contactless IC card of claim 2,

wherein said rectifier is a full-wave rectifying circuit.

11. The contactless IC card of claim 2,

wherein said demodulator demodulates an ASK modulation signal.

12. A contactless IC card comprising:

an antenna coil; and

a semiconductor integrated circuit,

wherein said semiconductor integrated circuit includes an RX demodulator and a signal processor,

said RX demodulator includes;

a first rectifier for generating first power by rectifying a signal received by said antenna coil;

a shunt regulator for consuming a component in a low region of said first power; and

a demodulator for extracting an RX signal from said first power in which said component in said low region has been consumed by said shunt regulator,

said signal processor includes;

a second rectifier for generating second power by rectifying the signal received by said antenna coil; and

a digital signal processor for receiving said second power and processing said RX signal extracted by said demodulator.

13. The contactless IC card of claim 12,

wherein said shunt regulator further consumes a component in a high region of said first power.

14. The contactless IC card of claim 12,

wherein said shunt regulator includes:

a low-pass filter for allowing a low frequency component of said first power to pass therethrough; and

a transistor, connected between a power node for receiving said first power and a ground node for receiving a ground voltage, for receiving an output of said low-pass filter at a gate thereof

15. The contactless IC card of claim 13,

wherein said shunt regulator includes:

a band rejection filter for allowing low and high frequency components of said first power to pass therethrough; and

a transistor, connected between a power node for receiving said first power and a ground node for receiving a ground voltage, for receiving an output of said band rejection filter at a gate thereof.

16. The contactless IC card of claim 14,

wherein said transistor is a MOS transistor.

17. The contactless IC card of claim 12,

wherein a frequency of said low region is 10 kHz or less.

18. The contactless IC card of claim 13,

wherein a frequency of said high region is 10 MHz or more.

19. The contactless IC card of claim 12,

wherein said semiconductor integrated circuit further includes a TX modulator, and

said TX modulator modulates impedance between ends of said antenna coil in accordance with a TX signal supplied from said digital signal processor.

20. The contactless IC card of claim 12,

wherein said rectifier is a full-wave rectifying circuit.

21. The contactless IC card of claim 12,

wherein said demodulator demodulates an ASK modulation signal.