Method for reactivation of magnetic detection tag and machine for reactivation of magnetic detection tag

• US 20060139171A1
• Filed: 12/12/2005
• Published: 06/29/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: CDN Corporation, Lintec Corporation
• Original Assignee: CDN Corporation, Lintec Corporation
• Inventors: Matsui, Kunihiko, Iwakata, Yuichi, Moroya, Tetsuo
• Application Number:
  US11/299,540
• Publication Number:
  US 20060139171A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.300
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2411 Tag deactivation

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for reactivating a magnetic detection tag, which comprises exposing a magnetic detection tag having a soft magnetic substance layer and a hard magnetic substance layer, to an alternating magnetic field generated by applying an AC power to a coil, moving, in this state, either or both of the magnetic detection tag and the alternating magnetic field, thereby sweeping the magnetic detection tag in the alternating magnetic field to demagnetize the magnetized hard magnetic substance layer of the magnetic detection tag; and a machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag.

Claims

1. A method for reactivating a magnetic detection tag, which comprises exposing a magnetic detection tag having a soft magnetic substance layer and a hard magnetic substance layer, to an alternating magnetic field generated by applying an AC power to a coil, moving, in this state, either or both of the magnetic detection tag and the alternating magnetic field, thereby sweeping the magnetic detection tag in the alternating magnetic field to demagnetize the magnetized hard magnetic substance layer of the magnetic detection tag.

2. The method for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 1, wherein the AC power has a frequency of 100 to 10,000 Hz.

3. The method for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 1, wherein the alternating magnetic field has an intensity of 0.01 T or more.

4. The method for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 1, wherein the magnetic detection tag is swept in the alternating magnetic field at a speed of 5 m/s or less.

5. A machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag having a soft magnetic substance layer and a hard magnetic substance layer, which comprises an AC power source and a coil which is connected to the AC power source and generates an alternating magnetic field when an AC power is supplied from the AC power source.

6. The machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 5, wherein the coil comprises a core made of a cylindrical dielectric, having at least one gap parallel to the axial direction of core and a conductor wound on the core surface along the section of core parallel to the axial direction of core.

7. The machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 5, wherein the coil comprises

a core formed by folding a dielectric at its middle portion of lengthwise direction so that the two ends of dielectric face each other, forming, at the two ends, projections apart from each other by a given distance and projecting in a direction opposite from the middle portion, thereby forming a gap between the projections, and

a conductor wound on the core surface in the width direction of core.

8. The machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 6, wherein the gap has a width of 0.1 to 20 mm.

9. The machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 6, wherein the AC power has a frequency of 100 to 10,000 Hz.

10. The machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 7, wherein the gap has a width of 0.1 to 20 mm.

11. The machine for reactivating a magnetic detection tag according to claim 7, wherein the AC power has a frequency of 100 to 10,000 Hz.