Detector, system for the identification of articles and method for the production of said detector

• US 20060103585A1
• Filed: 01/16/2004
• Published: 05/18/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tagsys RFID Group Incorporated (Mojix Inc)
• Original Assignee: Tagsys RFID Group Incorporated (Mojix Inc)
• Inventors: Martin, Philippe
• Application Number:
  US10/542,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20060103585A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 343/895
• 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 7/10178 including auxiliary means for focusing, repeating or boosting the electromagnetic interrogation field comparable booster antennas integrated on the record carrier itself G06K19/07794
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10316 using at least one antenna particularly designed for interrogating the wireless record carriers antennas in general H01Q1/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10346 the antenna being of the far field type, e.g. HF types or dipoles

Abstract

A detector of articles comprising a contactless RF-ID type label comprises at least one antenna formed by N loops and M turns, together being greater than or equal to 1, characterized in that at least one of the turns is made up of at least two complementary segments, the two segments not being coplanar. The present invention also relates to an identification system comprising the detector and to a method for the production of the detector.

Claims

1-16. -16. (canceled)

17. A detector of articles comprising a contactless label of the RFID type, said detector comprising at least one antenna formed of N loops and M turns, M and N being integers greater than or equal to 1, wherein at least one of the turns consists of at least two complementary segments, the two complementary segments not being coplanar, and being arranged so that an addition of one of said complementary segments starting from an end thereof to another of said complementary segments constitutes a turn, and each segment is present on one of two different substrate layers.

18. The detector as claimed in claim 17, wherein at least one of the turns of the antenna is constituted by at least two segments extending in different planes.

19. The detector as claimed in claim 18, wherein the planes in which the at least two segments extend are parallel with each other.

20. The detector as claimed in claim 18, wherein the ends of each of two consecutive segments are connected to each other by a bridge.

21. The detector as claimed in claim 20, wherein the connection between the ends of the segments is such that the antenna exhibits N loops with one turn.

22. The detector as claimed in claim 20, wherein the connection between the ends of the segments is such that the antenna exhibits one loop with N turns.

23. The detector as claimed in claim 20, wherein the bridge extends perpendicular to the planes of the segments of turn.

32. A method of manufacture of a detector as claimed in claim 17, comprising the following steps:

producing at least one electrical conductor segment on a plurality of substrates respectively, and

assembling multiple layers of said substrates.

33. The method as claimed in claim 32, further comprising a step of producing a connection between different segments of each of the substrates.

24. A system for the identification of articles comprising contactless labels of the RFID type, comprising an intermediate element and an antenna formed from several turns, at least one of the turns being constituted by at least two complementary segments, the at least two segments not being coplanar, and said intermediate element comprising a thin casing comprising an electrical circuit.

25. The system as claimed in claim 24, wherein said antenna is contained in a substantially parallelepipedic card having two large parallel faces.

26. The system as claimed in claim 25, wherein said electrical circuit extends in a plane substantially perpendicular to planes of said large parallel faces of the card.

27. The system as claimed in claim 24, wherein said electrical circuit extends parallel with the contactless label of the RFID type of an article.

28. The system as claimed in claim 24, wherein articles are disposed substantially parallel with respect to each other.

29. The system as claimed in claim 24, wherein articles are disposed close to each other, at a distance of less than 40 millimeters (mm).

30. The system as claimed in claim 29, wherein said distance is less than 15 mm.

31. The system as claimed in claim 24, wherein said antenna is tuned, with an impedance of 50 Ω

(Ohms) and with zero phase shift, to the frequency of 13.56 MHZ (Megahertz).