ID TAG PACKAGE AND RFID SYSTEM

• US 20090066518A1
• Filed: 05/23/2006
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Hidekazu, Fukuda, Kaoru, Takenoshita, Hiroyuki
• Application Number:
  US11/913,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20090066518A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.800
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/04 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/047 the record carrier being shaped as a coin or a gambling token
• 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 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07771 the record carrier comprising means for minimising adverse effects on the data communication capability of the record carrier, e.g. minimising Eddy currents induced in a proximate metal or otherwise electromagnetically interfering object

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide an ID tag package including a structure covering an ID tag therein. The structure has a thickness necessary for reducing attenuation of electromagnetic wave caused by existence of metal or water external to the ID tag, and includes at least an elastic layer enabling reduction of external stresses. An RFID system using the package is also provided.

Claims

1. An identification (ID) tag package comprising:

an ID tag including an IC chip and an antenna adapted for radio communication; and

a structure enclosing said ID tag, wherein said structure has a thickness measured from a surface thereof to said ID tag, said thickness being sufficient in reducing influence caused by adjacent metal or water to an electromagnetic wave communicating with said ID tag, and contains an elastic layer enabling reduction of external stresses to said ID tag.

2. The ID tag package according to claim 1, wherein the surface of said structure has a substantially constant distance from a surface of said ID tag.

3. The ID tag package according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of said structure is adapted such that an energy of the electromagnetic wave communicating with said ID tag is at least greater than an energy necessary for waking up said ID tag.

4. The ID tag package according to claim 1, wherein said structure has a shape selected from the group consisting of an oval spherical shape, a spherical shape, and a polyhedral shape.

5. The ID tag package according to claim 1, wherein said structure comprises a plurality of layers and includes a layer of material having high relative permittivity.

6. The ID tag package according to claim 5, wherein said layer of high relative permittivity comprises ceramics.

7. The ID tag package according to claim 5, wherein one of said plurality of layers is an air layer.

8. The ID tag package according to claim 1, wherein said elastic layer is selected from a group consisting of rubber, plastic, polymeric material, fiber of animal or plant, synthetic fiber, and foamed resin.

9. The ID tag package according to claim 1, wherein the surface of said structure is covered with a layer of heat-resistant material.

10. The ID tag package according to claim 1, wherein said structure has a fitting for attachment of a cable from an object to be identified by said ID tag.

11. A Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system comprising:

an ID tag package;

a reader/writer adapted to communicate by radio with the ID tag package; and

a host computer adapted to communicate with the reader/writer,

wherein said ID tag package comprising;

an ID tag including an IC chip and an antenna for radio communication; and

a structure covering said ID tag, said structure having a thickness necessary for reducing attenuation, caused by existence of metal or water external to said ID tag, of an electromagnetic wave communicating with said ID tag and containing an elastic layer enabling reduction of external stresses to said ID tag.