Method of making RFID devices

• US 20070039687A1
• Filed: 08/22/2006
• Published: 02/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avery Dennison Retail Information Services LLC (Avery Dennison Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Avery Dennison Corporation
• Inventors: Reis, Mischa, Sieloff, Ronald, Hamilton, Kevin
• Granted Patent: US 7,842,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 156/264
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2519/02 RFID tags
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 38/14 Printing or colouring
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• 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 19/07716 the record carrier comprising means for customization, e.g. being arranged for personalization in batch
• 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: G08B 13/244 Tag manufacturing, e.g. continuous manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1011 Overedge bending or overedge folding
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1015 Folding
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1034 Overedge bending of lamina about edges of sheetlike base
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1043 Subsequent to assembly
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1051 by folding
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1075 of plural laminae from single stock and assembling to each other or to additional lamina
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1082 Partial cutting bonded sandwich [e.g., grooving or incising]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1084 of continuous or running length bonded web

Abstract

A method of making RFID tags includes printing individualized information to a printable facestock on which an RFID device is attached. Generic information may be preprinted on the facestock before the RFID device is attached. The facestock may be folded over, putting the generic information and individualized information on different sides of the tag. The individualized information may be a function of information obtained by reading or interrogating the RFID device.

Claims

1. A method of making an RFID tag, the method comprising:

preparing a paper roll material, the preparing including;

printing first information on a first face of the roll material; and

attaching a plurality of RFID devices to an opposite face of the roll material;

after the preparing, printing second information on the first face of the roll material; and

folding portions of the paper roll material around portions of cardstock, with the first and second information on respective opposite faces of the resulting tag.

2. A method of making an RFID tag, the method comprising:

preparing a pair of printable facestocks, one of the facestocks having an RFID device attached thereto; and

adhesively joining the facestocks together.

3. A method of making an RFID tag, the method comprising:

obtaining device information from an RFID device;

printing individualized information on a facestock, wherein the individualized information is at least in part a function of the device information obtained from the RFID device; and

attaching the RFID device to the facestock.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the obtaining includes interrogating the RFID device with a reader.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the attaching occurs after the printing.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the attaching occurs before the printing.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the RFID device is attached to a second facestock prior to the obtaining.

8. A method of making an RFID tag, the method including:

laminating plural layers to a carrier material, the plural layers including a plurality of RFID devices and a printable facestock;

cutting the plural layers to produce plural tags on the carrier material; and

separating the tags from the carrier material.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising printing on the facestock, after the cutting and before the separating.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the printing includes thermal printing.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the separating includes peeling the tags from the carrier material.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the method includes one or more roll-to-roll processes.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the tag is a garment tag.