RFID TAG INCLUDING MULTI-VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140145832A1
• Filed: 07/16/2013
• Published: 05/29/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: KIM, Hyunseok, Lee, Heyung Sub, Park, Chan-Won
• Application Number:
  US13/943,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20140145832A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.5
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07766 comprising at least a second communication arrangement in addition to a first non-contact communication arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07786 the antenna being of the HF type, such as a dipole

Abstract

There is provided an RFID tag having multi-voltage multipliers including two or more antennas configured to receive electromagnetic waves emitted from a reader, a first voltage multiplier configured to be connected to one of the antennas and change the received AC electromagnetic waves to DC voltage signals, a modulator configured to transmit backscattering communication signals by changing impedance through the antenna connected to the first voltage multiplier, and a second voltage multiplier configured to be connected to another antenna among the antennas and change AC electromagnetic waves received from the other antenna to DC voltage signals.

Claims

1. An RFID tag having multi-voltage multipliers comprising:

two or more antennas configured to receive electromagnetic waves emitted from a reader;

a first voltage multiplier configured to be connected to one of the antennas and change the received AC electromagnetic waves to DC voltage signals;

a modulator configured to transmit backscattering communication signals by changing impedance through the antenna connected to the first voltage multiplier; and

a second voltage multiplier configured to be connected to another antenna among the antennas and change AC electromagnetic waves received from the other antenna to DC voltage signals.

2. The RFID tag having multi-voltage multipliers according to claim 1, wherein the number of other antennas is two or more.

3. The RFID tag having multi-voltage multipliers according to claim 1, wherein the number of second voltage multipliers is two or more.

4. A method of transmitting and receiving using multi-voltage multipliers in an RFID tag comprising:

determining whether modulated signals are transmitted;

transmitting backscattering communication signals to a reader through an antenna connected to a voltage multiplier by modulating signals when the modulated signals are transmitted; and

changing AC signals received from the reader through each of one or more other antennas to DC voltage signals through each of one or more other voltage multipliers.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising changing AC signals received from the reader through each of the antennas to DC voltage signals through each of the voltage multipliers when the determination result is that the modulated signals are not transmitted.