Tire Built in RFID Tag

• US 20100090013A1
• Filed: 03/04/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Asiana IDT Inc. (Kumho Asiana Group)
• Original Assignee: Asiana IDT Inc. (Kumho Asiana Group)
• Inventors: Jung, Hong Chae, Kim, Nam Hoon, Kim, Sung Chul, Seo, Jeong Geol, Yoon, Jong Hwan, Moon, Sang Kug, Lim, Dong Uk, Yun, Jong Sup, Ko, Ho Jeong
• Granted Patent: US 8,025,238 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/492
• 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 19/07764 the adhering arrangement making the record carrier attachable to a tire tire temperature or pressur control arrangements, see B60C23/00

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a built-in RFID tire tag. The built-in RFID tire tag includes an antenna and a circuit unit. The antenna is mounted in a tire, and is configured to be operated by resonating with radio waves, which are transmitted from an RFID reader and to have a repetitive corrugated shape. The circuit unit is configured to be operated by being supplied with power using the radio waves. The antenna includes a pair of tag radiators. Each of the tag radiators is divided into a first region and a second region. The corrugation density of the second regions, which are close to the circuit unit, is greater than that of the first regions, which are not close to the circuit unit. The first regions, which depend on rotational motion of the tire, adapt flexibly to bending and torsion of the tire by the difference between the corrugation densities.

Claims

1. A built-in RFID tire tag, comprising:

an antenna mounted in a tire, and configured to be operated by resonating with radio waves, which are transmitted from an RFID reader and to have a repetitive corrugated shape; and

a circuit unit configured to be operated by being supplied with power using the radio waves;

wherein the antenna comprises a pair of tag radiators, which are arranged on a basis of the circuit unit, each of the tag radiators being divided into a first region and a second region,

a corrugation density of the second regions, which are close to the circuit unit, is greater than that of the first regions, which are not close to the circuit unit, and

the first regions, which depend on rotational motion of the tire, adapt flexibly to bending and torsion of the tire by a difference between the corrugation densities.

2. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 1, wherein each of the tag radiators is any of a triangular wave-shaped leaf spring tag, a triangular wave-shaped wire spring tag, circular wave-shaped leaf spring tag, and a circular wave-shaped wire spring tag.

3. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 2, wherein the tag radiators are formed through any of a plate etching process, a press molding process, and an extrusion molding process.

4. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 2, wherein the triangular wave-shaped wire spring tag and the circular wave-shaped wire spring tag have a length of less than 60 mm and a wire diameter of 0.1 mm˜

0.5 mm, and operate in a frequency band of more than 13 MHz.

5. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 2, wherein the triangular wave-shaped leaf spring tag and the circular wave-shaped leaf spring tag have a length of less than 60 mm and have a board thickness of 0.1 mm˜

0.45 mm, and operate in a frequency band of more than 13 MHz.

6. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 2, wherein each of the triangular wave-shaped leaf spring tag and the circular wave-shaped leaf spring tag comprises one or more holes, and the holes enable material, which is used to form the tire, to be inserted thereinto and coupled thereto when a forming process or a vulcanization process is performed on the tire.

7. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 1, wherein the corrugated shape generates inductive reactance using the corrugation densities, the inductive reactance realizing impedance matching between the antenna and the circuit unit by decreasing capacitive reactance of the circuit unit.

8. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 2, wherein the triangular wave-shaped leaf spring tags, the triangular wave-shaped wire spring tags, the circular wave-shaped leaf spring tags, and the circular wave-shaped wire spring tags are configured such that the ends of the respective tag radiators, which are arranged on a basis of the circuit unit, are connected to form a closed loop.

9. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 1, wherein:

the circuit unit comprises insertion holes, which are formed in respective ends of the circuit unit; and

ends of the second regions are inserted into the respective holes and are bent inwards to be soldered to a rear surface of the circuit unit.

10. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 1, wherein the RFID tire tag is mounted in any of a shoulder and apex of the tire, or between a sidewall and inner liner of the tire.

11. The built-in RFID tire tag according to claim 1, wherein the corrugation density of the first regions and the corrugation density of the second regions are identical to each other.