Arrangement for Increasing the Reading and Writing Integrity of RFID Labels

• US 20090289777A1
• Filed: 05/22/2009
• Published: 11/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Goll, Wilfried, Tanz, Torsten
• Application Number:
  US12/470,835
• Publication Number:
  US 20090289777A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.510
• 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

Abstract

An arrangement is provided for increasing the reading and writing integrity of RFID labels which are fastened, in particular, to piece goods of the type which lie on a flat support by way of at least one preferably flat supporting side which forms a possible fastening plane for the RFID labels, such as a parallelepiped-shaped piece good or the like. In order to ensure inexpensively and simply the predominantly automatic reading and writing of the RFID label irrespective of the position and orientation of the piece good on its support, it is proposed that the RFID label is arranged in at least two adjacent planes of the piece good which differ from one another, to which end the label is bent out of a first fastening plane about at least one edge of the piece good, which edge delimits the possible supporting side, into at least one second fastening plane.

Claims

1-5. -5. (canceled)

6. An arrangement for increasing the reading and writing integrity of RFID labels which are fastened to a piece good of the type which lie on a flat support, comprising:

an RFID label arranged in a plurality of different fastening planes of the piece good, the plurality of different fastening planes comprising a first fastening plane and a second fastening plane, the RFID label arranged such that a first end of the RFID label is attached to the first fastening plane and is bent about at least one edge of the piece good and a second end of the RFID label is attached to the second fastening plane, the at least one edge is between the first and second fastening planes.

7. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the edge delimits the supporting side.

8. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the RFID label is equipped with a flexible antenna which is deflected into the first and second fastening planes.

9. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the RFID label is equipped with a flexible antenna which is deflected into the plurality of fastening planes.

10. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the RFID label is equipped with a plurality of antennas such that at least one antenna is arranged on each of the plurality of fastening planes.

11. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein the RFID label is equipped with at least two antennas such that at least one of the antennas is in the first fastening plane and that at least one of the antennas is in the second fastening plane.

12. The arrangement as claimed in claim 6, wherein a part of the RFID label which is sufficient for reading and/or writing is situated in the first or second fastening planes.

13. The arrangement as claimed in claim 12, wherein the part of the RFID label which is sufficient for reading and/or writing includes 50% of the label surface which is equipped with the antenna.

14. The arrangement as claimed in claim 9, wherein when the piece good is a parallelepiped-shaped piece good, the RFID label is arranged with the antenna in three converging fastening planes.

15. The arrangement as claimed in claim 10, wherein when the piece good is a parallelepiped-shaped piece good, the RFID label is arranged with the antenna or the antennas in three converging fastening planes.

16. The arrangement as claimed in claim 11, wherein when the piece good is a parallelepiped-shaped piece good, the RFID label is arranged with the antenna or the antennas in three converging fastening planes.