Contactless IC media and system applying the same

• US 20040245348A1
• Filed: 06/02/2004
• Published: 12/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: WINX Corporation
• Original Assignee: WINX Corporation
• Inventors: Nagaoka, Jiro, Nakajima, Satoki
• Application Number:
  US10/859,584
• Publication Number:
  US 20040245348A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 13/00 Conveying record carriers from one station to another, e.g. from stack to punching mechanism conveying record carriers combined with another operation, e.g. with reading G06K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/005 the record carrier comprising an arrangement to facilitate insertion into a holding device, e.g. an arrangement that makes the record carrier fit into an etui or a casing ticket holders A45C11/18
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/04 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/047 the record carrier being shaped as a coin or a gambling token
• 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: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10128 the step consisting of detection of the presence of one or more record carriers in the vicinity of the interrogation device
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10237 the reader and the record carrier being capable of selectively switching between reader and record carrier appearance, e.g. in near field communication [NFC] devices where the NFC device may function as an RFID reader or as an RFID tag
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 27/00 Combined visual and audible advertising or displaying, e.g. for public address
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/40 using two or more transmitting or receiving devices H02J50/50 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0042 characterised by the mechanical construction
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/14 including a card reading device

Abstract

There is provided a cellular phone radio that is capable of utilizing a contactless IC media. A contactless IC media 20b is molded in the form of a coin and interchangeably born by a cellular phone radio 110. The cellular phone radio 110 includes a media holder 111, a radio transceiver circuit having an antenna 112, and a control circuit that conducts the read control and the write control of digital information with respect to both recording regions of a contactless IC media 20b within the media holder 111 and an external contactless IC media 20a, ICC, and also includes a processor that conducts information processing on the basis of the read digital information as occasion demands.

Claims

1-30. -30 (cancelled).

31. A contactless IC media, characterized in that a contactless IC module having a recording area for recording computer readable digital information therein is embedded in a sheet-shaped medium of a given configuration, and a sticking member which is not separable after being adhered exists on at least one surface portion of the sheet-shaped medium.

32. A contactless IC media, characterized in that a contactless IC module having a recording area for recording computer readable digital information therein is embedded in a sheet-shaped medium of a given configuration, and a sticking member which can be again adhered after being separated exists on at least one surface portion of the sheet-shaped medium.

34. A contactless IC media where a contactless IC module having a recoding region is embedded in a sheet-shaped medium of a given configuration, characterized in that:

information visible by a human is described on a surface portion of said sheet-shaped medium;

mechanically readable digital information including the contents corresponding to said information is recorded on said recording region; and

a sticking member for sticking the sheet-shaped medium on a position where a given digital information reading device can read said digital information is fixed onto a rear surface of said sheet-shaped medium.

35. A contactless IC media, characterized in that a contactless IC module having a recording region for recording at least digital information thereon is embedded in a stick-shaped medium having a structure which can be installed in a stick-shaped housing.

36. A contactless IC media of a solid type born by a media bearing member, characterized by comprising a solid-type module medium having a given configuration in which a contactless IC module having a recording region is embedded, and in that an engagement mechanism that allows the engagement and disengagement of said solid-type module medium with respect to said media bearing member by only displacing said engagement mechanism is integral with said solid-type module medium.

38. The contactless IC media as claimed in clam 6, further comprising a radio transceiver circuit and an antenna.