Radio Frequency Identification Objects and Systems Employing the Same

• US 20080218356A1
• Filed: 02/15/2008
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Xterprise Incorporated (SML Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xterprise Incorporated (SML Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Frew, Dean L., Abraham, Thomas C.
• Application Number:
  US12/032,305
• Publication Number:
  US 20080218356A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.8
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/10 Transponders
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 90/00 Component parts, details or accessories for large containers B65D88/34 - B65D88/78 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

A radio frequency identification (“RFID”) reader, system and object, and methods of operating and manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the RFID object includes a container having an interior wall, an exterior wall and a cavity therebetween. The RFID object also includes an RFID tag located within the cavity. In another embodiment, the RFID object includes a container having an interior wall and an exterior wall. The RFID object also includes a first RFID tag attached to the interior wall, and a second RFID tag attached to the exterior wall.

Claims

1. A radio frequency identification (RFID) object, comprising:

a container having an interior wall, an exterior wall and a cavity therebetween; and

an RFID tag located within said cavity.

2. The RFID object as recited in claim 1 further comprising a cap configured to cover said cavity.

3. The RFID object as recited in claim 1 wherein said interior wall and said exterior wall are transparent.

4. The RFID object as recited in claim 1 further comprising another RFID tag located on said exterior wall or said interior wall.

5. The RFID object as recited in claim 1 wherein said RFID tag is attached to an interior wall of said cavity.

6. The RFID object as recited in claim 1 wherein said RFID tag is attached with screws to an interior wall of said cavity.

7. The RFID object as recited in claim 1 wherein said RFID tag includes an integrated circuit located in a carrier coupled to an antenna.

8. A radio frequency identification (RFID) object, comprising:

a container having an interior wall and an exterior wall;

a first RFID tag attached to said interior wall; and

a second RFID tag attached to said exterior wall.

9. The RFID object as recited in claim 8 wherein one of said first RFID tag and said second RFID tag is attached with screws to said interior wall and said exterior wall, respectively.

10. The RFID object as recited in claim 8 wherein one of said first RFID tag and said second RFID tag is attached with an adhesive to said interior wall and said exterior wall, respectively.

11. The RFID object as recited in claim 8 wherein said container includes a cavity between said interior wall and said exterior wall and a third RFID tag is located within said cavity.

12. The RFID object as recited in claim 11 further comprising a cap configured to cover said cavity.

13. The RFID object as recited in claim 11 wherein said third RFID tag is attached to an interior wall of said cavity.

14. The RFID object as recited in claim 8 wherein said first and second RFID tags include an integrated circuit located in a carrier coupled to an antenna.

15. A radio frequency identification (RFID) system, comprising:

an RFID object, including;

a container having an interior wall and an exterior wall, and a cavity therebetween,

a first RFID tag attached to one of said interior wall and said exterior wall, and

a second RFID tag located within said cavity; and

a reader configured to read at least one of said first RFID tag and said second RFID tag.

16. The RFID system as recited in claim 15 wherein said first RFID tag is attached to said interior wall and a third RFID tag is attached to said exterior wall.

17. The RFID system as recited in claim 15 wherein said RFID object includes a cap configured to cover said cavity.

18. The RFID system as recited in claim 15 wherein said interior wall and said exterior wall are transparent.

19. The RFID system as recited in claim 15 wherein said first RFID tag is attached with an adhesive to one of said interior wall and said exterior wall.

20. The RFID system as recited in claim 15 wherein said reader is configured to read at least one of said first RFID tag and said second RFID tag to determine when said RFID object is moving.