Label body and label body producing apparatus

• US 20080031672A1
• Filed: 06/05/2007
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Nishikawa, Osamu, Yamaguchi, Koshiro, Ito, Akira
• Application Number:
  US11/810,242
• Publication Number:
  US 20080031672A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 400/76
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4075 Tape printers; Label printers
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/50 Mechanisms producing characters by printing and also producing a record by other means , e.g. printer combined with RFID writer
• 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: G09F 3/0297 including a machine-readable marking, e.g. a bar code digitally marked record carriers in general G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer

Abstract

A label body is configured to be integrally provided with a plurality of RFID labels each including a label main body with print to be affixed to an adhesion target and each having an RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part that stores information and a loop antenna connected to the IC circuit part.

Claims

1. A label body with a plurality of labels formed integrally with each other, each of said plurality of labels including label main body with print to be affixed to an adhesion target, comprising:

said plurality of labels respectively including at least one RFID label of RFID labels and ordinary labels,

each of said RFID labels having an RFID circuit element including an IC circuit part that stores information and a tag antenna connected to said IC circuit part,

each of said ordinary labels not having said RFID circuit element.

2. The label body according to claim 1 wherein:

said plurality of labels include plurality of RFID labels and at least one ordinary label.

3. The label body according to claim 1 wherein:

said plurality of RFID labels are included, and

said plurality of RFID circuit elements provided at said plurality of RFID labels are arranged in the longitudinal direction of said label body with substantially an equal interval.

4. The label body according to claim 1 wherein:

each of said plurality of labels comprises a base layer, an affixing adhesive layer that affixes said base layer to an adhesion target, and a separation material layer that covers said affixing adhesive layer, and

each of said labels is connected by said separation material layer at a first half-cut portion where the layers other than said separation material layer are cut in the width direction.

5. The label body according to claim 4 wherein:

each of said plurality of labels comprises a print-receiving tape layer on which predetermined pattern print is carried out, and an bonding adhesive layer that bonds said print-receiving tape layer to said base layer.

6. The label body according to claim 4 wherein:

at least one of said RFID label includes a blank portion without print,

in the RFID label, said label main body with print and said blank portion are connected via said separation material layer at a second half-cut portion where the layers other than said separation material layer are cut in the width direction.

7. The label body according to claim 4 wherein:

an identifier for position detection is provided at each portion corresponding to said plurality of RFID circuit elements in said separation material layer.

8. The label body according to claim 1 wherein:

said RFID label includes a print corresponding to information stored in said IC circuit part in a predetermined print area of said label main body with print.

9. The label body according to claim 8 wherein:

substantially the same information as each other is stored respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and

substantially the same information as each other is printed respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.

10. The label body according to claim 8 wherein:

information substantially different from each other is stored respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and

substantially the same information as each other is printed respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.

11. The label body according to claim 8 wherein:

substantially the same information as each other is stored respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and

information substantially different from each other is printed respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.

12. The label body according to claim 8 wherein:

information substantially different from each other is stored respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and

information substantially different from each other is printed respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.

13. A label body producing apparatus comprising:

a feeding device that feeds a tag tape on which an RFID circuit element having an IC circuit part that stores information and tag antenna connected to said IC circuit part is arranged;

a printing device that applies print on a print area provided at said tag tape or a print-receiving tape to be bonded to said tag tape;

a transmitting/receiving device that transmits/receives information by wireless communication with said RFID circuit element; and

a cutter that cuts said tag tape,

said label body producing apparatus producing a label body with a plurality of labels formed integrally with each other, each of said plurality of labels including label main body with print to be affixed to an adhesion target, said label body comprising said plurality of labels respectively including at least one RFID label of RFID labels and ordinary labels, each of said RFID labels having an RFID circuit element including an IC circuit part that stores information and a tag antenna connected to said IC circuit part, each of said ordinary labels not having said RFID circuit element.

14. The label body producing apparatus according to claim 13 wherein:

said feeding device feeds said tag tape having a base layer that attaches said RFID circuit element, an affixing adhesive layer that affixes said base layer to an adhesion target, and a separation material layer that covers said affixing adhesive layer,

said label body producing apparatus further comprises a half-cutter that cuts the layers other than said separation material layer in said tag tape so as to form a half-cut portion, and produces a label body with each of said plurality of labels connected at said half-cut portion via said separation material layer.

15. The label body producing apparatus according to claim 13 wherein:

said printing device carries out print corresponding to information written by said transmitting/receiving device in said IC circuit part in a predetermined print area of said label main body with print of said RFID label.

16. The label body producing apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising a first coordination control unit that coordinates control of said transmitting/receiving device and said printing device in the manner that said transmitting/receiving device writes substantially the same information as each other respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and said printing device prints substantially the same information as each other respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.

17. The label body producing apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising a second coordination control unit that coordinate control of said transmitting/receiving device and said printing device in the manner that said transmitting/receiving device writes information substantially different from each other respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and said printing device prints substantially the same information as each other respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.

18. The label body producing apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising a third coordination control unit that coordinates control of said transmitting/receiving device and said printing device in the manner that said transmitting/receiving device writes substantially the same information as each other respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and said printing device prints information substantially different from each other respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.

19. The label body producing apparatus according to claim 15, further comprising a fourth coordination control unit that coordinates control of said transmitting/receiving device and said printing device in the manner that said transmitting/receiving device writes information substantially different from each other respectively in said IC circuit parts of said plurality of RFID circuit elements respectively provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels, and said printing device prints information substantially different from each other respectively on said print areas provided at each of said plurality of RFID labels.