Radio tag issuing apparatus

• US 20060001526A1
• Filed: 08/25/2005
• Published: 01/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Tec Corporation (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Matsumoto, Yasuo, Sano, Kouichi, Kiji, Yasuhito, Murofushi, Nobuo
• Granted Patent: US 7,439,865 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.100
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 29/38 Drives, motors, controls or automatic cut-off devices for the entire printing mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0025 the arrangement consisting of a wireless interrogation device in combination with a device for optically marking the record carrier
• 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 7/0095 Testing the sensing arrangement, e.g. testing if a magnetic card reader, bar code reader, RFID interrogator or smart card reader functions properly testing of electrical circuits G01R31/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10079 the collision being resolved in the spatial domain, e.g. temporary shields for blindfolding the interrogator in specific directions

Abstract

A mount sheet having a plurality of radio tags attached at an interval to it is run over a radio communicating section. The radio communicating section has a metal member providing a conveying surface with a slit formed therein. A dielectric member is arranged on a lower surface of the metal member with a projecting section inserted into the slit and, by doing so, the top surface of the projecting section is set flush with the top surface of the metal member. An antenna of the radio communicating section is located beneath the projecting section of the dielectric member and this antenna is held within the metal case. When any radio tag being an object of a radio communication is located over the slit, the radio communicating section positively makes radio communication with the radio tag through the antenna.

Claims

1. A radio tag issuing apparatus comprising:

conveying means configured to convey a mount sheet having a plurality of radio tags attached at an interval thereto to allow information to be read from, and written into, the radio tag in a noncontacting fashion, the radio tag having an electronic circuit with an antenna and storage section set thereon;

radio communicating means configured to have an antenna and make radio communication through said antenna to allow the information to be read from, and written into, the storage section of the radio tag;

a first material configured to be located to a position where the radio communicating means makes the radio communication with the radio tag; and

a second material located adjacent to a radio tag with which the radio communicating means makes the radio communication, the second material being different from the first material.

2. A radio tag issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first material is made of a dielectric material and the second material is made of a metal.

3. A radio tag issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first and second materials provide a conveying surface of the mount sheet.

4. A radio tag issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the antenna of the radio communicating means is located opposite the radio tag with which the radio communicating means makes the radio communication through the first material.

5. A radio tag issuing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the directivity of the antenna of the radio communicating means is reinforced in a direction of the first material.

6. A radio tag issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an enclosing metal member is provided with an antenna of the radio communicating means opened only toward a direction of the radio tag.

7. A radio tag issuing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a metal member encloses the radio tag only with a direction of the antenna of the radio communicating means opened.

8. A radio tag issuing apparatus according to claim 7, wherein a dielectric material is provided within the metal member enclosing the radio tag only with a direction of the antenna of the radio communicating means opened.

9. A radio tag issuing apparatus comprising:

conveying means configured to convey a mount sheet having a plurality of radio tags attached at an interval thereto to allow information to be read from, and written into, the radio tag in a noncontacting fashion, the radio tag having an electronic circuit with an antenna and a storage section set thereon;

radio communicating means configured to have an antenna and make radio communication to allow the information to be read from, and written into, the storage section of the radio tag; and

a metal enclosing member enclosing the antenna of the radio communicating means and radiation tag therewith, the radio tag being an object with which the radio communication is made.