Identification-Medium-Equipped Article, True-False Decision on Such Article, and Commodity Distribution Control Method

• US 20080252461A1
• Filed: 01/29/2004
• Published: 10/16/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Original Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Inventors: Sugata, Tomonari, Sato, Yoshiaki
• Application Number:
  US10/586,794
• Publication Number:
  US 20080252461A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.7
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 1/002 adapted to accommodate electronic equipment patients' garments for medical monitoring A41D13/1281; luminous ornaments A41D27/085
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/262 Pull members; Ornamental attachments for sliders
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/36 Means for permanently uniting the stringers at the end; Means for stopping movement of slider at the end
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/027 the material being suitable for use as a textile, e.g. woven-based RFID-like labels designed for attachment to laundry items markings attached to laundry items in general D06F93/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/04 characterised by the shape
• 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: G06K 19/0775 arrangements for connecting the integrated circuit to the antenna
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10178 including auxiliary means for focusing, repeating or boosting the electromagnetic interrogation field comparable booster antennas integrated on the record carrier itself G06K19/07794

Abstract

A short-range communication RFID which is a first identification medium 50 is incorporated in a top stop 5 of a slide fastener, and a hole 3c of a first pull tab 1 in a first pull-tab member 3a of a slider 2 has a second pull-tab member 3b removably attached thereto. The second pull-tab member 3b is provided with a long-range communication RFID which is a second identification medium 52. The second identification medium 52 is removably mounted an unillustrated article.

Consequently, an identification medium for true-false decision on an article and a fastening product, and an identification medium for commodity distribution control on the article can be respectively mounted on the article. Furthermore, secrecy in the identification medium for commodity distribution control can be secured by removing the identification medium for commodity distribution control from the article. Further, the removed identification medium for commodity distribution control can be reused by mounting it on another new article.

Claims

1. An article equipped with a first identification medium for short-range communication or short-range recognition, wherein the article is further equipped with a second identification medium removably.

2. The article according to claim 1, wherein the first identification medium is disposed in a fastening product to be attached to the article.

3. The article according to claim 1, wherein the second identification medium is removably attached to the fastening product.

4. The article according to claim 3, wherein the fastening product is a slide fastener, and the second identification medium is removably attached to a pull tab of the slide fastener.

5. The article according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the second identification medium is arranged in a tag to be attached to the article.

6. The article according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the first identification medium is an identification medium for true-false decision.

7. The article according to claim 1 or 3, wherein the second identification medium is an identification medium for commodity distribution control.

8. The article according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the first identification medium is an identification medium for short-range recognition, and the second identification medium is a short-range communication RFID.

9. The article according to any one of claims 1-3, wherein the first identification medium is a short-range communication RFID, and the second identification medium is a short-range communication RFID that is actuated with a frequency different from that of the short-range communication RFID.

10. The article according to claim 1 or 3, wherein the second identification medium is a long-range communication RFID.

11. The article according to claim 10, wherein a first identification medium is a short-range communication RFID, and is capable of transmitting and receiving a signal between the short-range communication RFID and the long-range communication RFID.

12. An article having a first identification medium for short-range communication, wherein

the first identification medium is a short-range communication RFID,

the short-range communication RFID has an antenna connecting terminal for long-range communication, and

an antenna for long-range communication is removably connected to the antenna connecting terminal.

13. The article according to claim 12, wherein the antenna connecting terminal is arranged at a portion of the article to which the antenna for long-range communication is removably attached.

14. The article according to claim 12 or 13, wherein the first identification medium is disposed in a fastening product to be attached to the article.

15. The article according to claim 12, wherein a battery is removably connected to the short-range communication RFID.

16. A true-false decision and commodity distribution control method for an article wherein the article has a first identification medium for short-range communication or short-range recognition and is removably equipped with a second identification medium for long-range communication, wherein commodity distribution control on the article is carried out based on data directly or indirectly read out from a memory of the second identification medium and/or data written into the memory.

17. The true-false decision and commodity distribution control method according to claim 16, wherein true-false decision on the article is carried out by comparing data directly or indirectly read from a memory of the first identification medium with preliminarily set reference data.

18. The true-false decision and commodity distribution control method according to claim 16, wherein true-false decision on the article is carried out by comparing data directly or indirectly read from a memory of the first identification medium through short-range communication with preliminarily set reference data after the second identification medium is removed from the article.

19. The true-false decision and commodity distribution control method according to any one of claims 16 to 18, wherein, after the second identification medium is removed from the article, the removed second identification medium is used as a second identification medium for another new article.

20. A true-false decision and commodity distribution control method for an article, wherein the article has a short-range communication RFID as a first identification medium, an antenna for long-range communication being removably connected to an antenna connecting terminal for long-range communication connected to the short-range communication RFID, wherein commodity distribution control on the article is carried out based on data directly or indirectly read from a memory of the first identification medium and/or data written into the memory through long-range communication via the antenna connected to the RFID.

21. The true-false decision and commodity distribution control method according to claim 20, wherein true-false decision on the article is carried out by comparing data directly or indirectly read from a memory of the first identification medium through short-range communication with preliminarily set reference data after the antenna for long-range communication is removed from the antenna connecting terminal of the RFID.

22. The true-false decision and commodity distribution control method according to claim 20 or 21, wherein, after the antenna is removed from the article, the removed antenna is used as an antenna for long-range communication for another new article.