Inspection method of RFID tag

• US 20070057795A1
• Filed: 08/09/2006
• Published: 03/15/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Kawai, Wakahiro, Kudo, Kazuhiro
• Application Number:
  US11/501,052
• Publication Number:
  US 20070057795A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.700
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07786 the antenna being of the HF type, such as a dipole
• 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 7/10079 the collision being resolved in the spatial domain, e.g. temporary shields for blindfolding the interrogator in specific directions
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10316 using at least one antenna particularly designed for interrogating the wireless record carriers antennas in general H01Q1/22

Abstract

A method for inspecting a communication condition of an RFID tag that is readable in a noncontact manner using an electromagnetic wave is provided, in which when a communication condition of the RFID tag is inspected, it can be inspected without needing an electromagnetic-wave shield device for preventing diffusion of the electromagnetic wave. When an RFID tag having an antenna communicating using communication frequency of a UHF band, and a matching circuit adjusting impedance of the antenna, is inspected an antenna coil of a reader-writer is opposed to the matching circuit, and a control circuit of the RFID tag is operated by magnetic flux transmitted from the antenna coil, so that the RFID tag is inspected.

Claims

1. An inspection method of an RFID tag for inspecting an RFID tag having an antenna communicating using communication frequency of a UHF band, and a matching circuit adjusting impedance of the antenna:

wherein an antenna coil of a reader-writer is opposed to the matching circuit, and a control circuit of the RFID tag is operated by magnetic flux transmitted from the antenna coil, so that the RFID tag is inspected.

2. The inspection method of the RFID tag according to claim 1:

wherein size of the antenna coil of the reader-writer is made approximately the same as size of the matching circuit of the RFID tag.

3. The inspection method of the RFID tag according to claim 1 or 2:

wherein a plurality of RFID tags are inspected at the same time in a manner that matching circuits of the plurality of RFID tags arranged with a certain interval are opposed to antenna coils of a plurality of reader-writers arranged with approximately the same arrangement interval as that of the matching circuits respectively.

4. Inspection apparatus of an RFID tag for inspecting an RFID tag having an antenna communicating using communication frequency of a UHF band, and a matching circuit adjusting impedance of the antenna:

wherein an antenna coil is provided, the coil being opposed to the matching circuit and transmitting magnetic flux.

5. The Inspection apparatus of the RFID tag according to claim 4:

wherein the antenna coil of the reader-writer is formed to have approximately the same size as size of the matching circuit of the RFID tag.

6. The Inspection apparatus of the RFID tag according to claim 4 or 5:

wherein a plurality of the antenna coils are provided in line, and a plurality of RFID tags opposed to the antenna coils one by one are inspected at the same time.

7. A communication method of an RFID tag for communication with an RFID tag having an antenna communicating using communication frequency of a UHF band, and a matching circuit adjusting impedance of the antenna:

wherein an antenna coil of a reader-writer is opposed to the matching circuit, and communication with a control circuit of the RFID tag is performed by magnetic flux transmitted from the antenna coil.

8. The communication method of the RFID tag according to claim 7:

wherein the antenna coil of the reader-writer is formed to have approximately the same size as size of the matching circuit of the RFID tag.

9. The communication method of the RFID tag according to claim 7 or 8:

wherein matching circuits of the plurality of RFID tags arranged at a constant interval are opposed to antenna coils of a plurality of reader-writers arranged at approximately the same arrangement interval as that of the matching circuits, so that communication is performed at the same time between the plurality of RFID tags and reader-writers.

13. An RFID tag used in claims 7 to 9, comprising:

a separation position specifying unit in a part of the antenna circuit board, which does not break the matching circuit, but breaks an antenna structure, which communicates using a UHF band, while specifying a separation position.

10. Communication apparatus of an RFID tag for communication with an RFID tag having an antenna communicating using communication frequency of a UHF band, and a matching circuit adjusting impedance of the antenna:

wherein an antenna coil that transmits magnetic flux is provided oppositely to the matching circuit.

11. The communication apparatus of the RFID tag according to claim 10:

wherein the antenna coil of the reader-writer is formed to have approximately the same size as size of the matching circuit of the RFID tag.

12. The communication apparatus of the RFID tag according to claim 10 or 11:

wherein a configuration is made, in which a plurality of the antenna coils are provided in line, and communicate with a plurality of RFID tags at the same time, the tags being opposed

to the antenna coils one by one.