Composite Type Multi-Mode Electronic Seal

• US 20140183266A1
• Filed: 12/31/2012
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Customs Administration, Ministry of Finance, R.O.C., National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology
• Original Assignee: Customs Administration Minstry of Finance R O C, Chung-Shan Institute of Science & Technology Armaments Bureau MND (Government of The Republic of China)
• Inventors: LEE, MING-TOWN, CHANG, FENG-YU, HSU, TUNG-JUNG, TSENG, WEI-YI
• Granted Patent: US 8,905,318 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2211/00 Anti-theft means
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 90/00 Component parts, details or accessories for large containers B65D88/34 - B65D88/78 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 90/22 Safety features floating covers B65D88/34; arrangements of indicating or measuring devices B65D90/48; fire-fighting A62C
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 39/005 Locks with means for tracking the location of locked items, e.g. freight containers
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 45/06 Electric alarm locks E05B45/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

A composite type multi-mode electronic seal includes the bolt, the bolt male pedestal and the communication control part, and the advantage of the composite type multi-mode electronic seal containing the passive electronic seal containing the bolt and the bolt male pedestal and the active electronic seal containing bolt, the bolt male pedestal and the communication control part. Thereby, the present invention has the advantages and preferred result of the active and passive electronic seal, and can help the container cars, bonded cars, trucks and the like to perform the goods transmission, and it still perform the data read and data report according to the different RFID identification equipments built by every country'"'"'s custom so to achieve the purpose of effectively recording the broken elements, instantly reporting and preventing smuggling.

Claims

1. A composite type multi-mode electronic seal, comprising:

a bolt, having a plurality of connection pins, and the plurality of connection pins electrically combined with a transmission line, and the transmission line electrically combined with a wireless RFID module and a wireless RFID transmission antenna;

a bolt male pedestal, for inserting the bolt, the bolt male pedestal having a C-shaped retaining ring, and the bolt is tightly locked by the C-shaped retaining ring to form a passive electronic seal; and

a communication control part, having an insulation plastic shell and a bolt female pedestal used for combining the bolt male pedestal with the bolt female pedestal, and the bolt female pedestal having a bolt connection pin matching and combining to the plurality of connection pins, and one side of the communication control part clasped to one terminal of a clasp module, and another terminal of the clasp module electrically combined with a control and communication module, and the control and communication module electrically combined with a power module to combine the bolt and the bolt male pedestal with the bolt female pedestal of the communication control part to form the composite type multi-mode electronic pedestal.

2. The composite type multi-mode electronic seal of claim 1, wherein material of the bolt is metal, and outside of the metal is covered by the plastic shell, and a first annular groove mounted in end terminal of the bolt is used for inserting the bolt, and the bolt is combined with the first annular groove by the C-shaped retaining ring for tightly locking the bolt.

3. The composite type multi-mode electronic seal of claim 1, wherein a second annular groove is mounted outside of the bolt male pedestal, and after the bolt is combined with the bolt male pedestal, the bolt male pedestal is combined with the bolt female pedestal of the communication control part, and one terminal of the clasp module is clasped to the second annular groove.

4. The composite type multi-mode electronic seal of claim 1, wherein the bolt is combined with the bolt male pedestal to form a passive electronic pedestal, and a bolt male pedestal is combined with the communication control part to form an active electronic seal, and the passive electronic pedestal is combined with the active electronic pedestal to respectively provide safety identification signals and perform the seal by the passive electronic seal.

5. The composite type multi-mode electronic seal of claim 1, wherein the clasp module comprises a crescent rail, a clasp pedestal and a motor, and one terminal of the crescent rail is clasped to the second annular groove, and another terminal of the second annular groove is combined with one side of the clasp pedestal, and central portion of the clasp pedestal is combined with the rotation shaft.

6. The composite type multi-mode electronic seal of claim 1, wherein the control and communication module comprises a voltage converting unit, a remote communication unit and a satellite positioning unit, and the voltage converting unit is combined with the power module, and the voltage converting unit converts power from the power module, and the power converted is provide to every element in the composite type multi-mode electronic seal.

7. The composite type multi-mode electronic seal of claim 1, wherein the communication control part further comprises a display and warning module, which is electrically combined with the control and communication module for providing data display and warning.

8. The composite type multi-mode electronic seal of claim 1, wherein the communication control part further comprises a safety switch module, which is electrically combined with the control and communication module for receiving a encryption command signal to decode the composite multi-mode electronic seal.

9. A composite type multi-mode electronic seal, the composite multi-mode electronic seal comprising a passive electronic seal, an active electronic seal, wherein the passive and the active electronic seals respectively has a electrical loop signal to detect and safety decode each other, and a bolt connection pin of a communication control part is match and combined with a plurality of connection pins of a bolt to form a safe decoded confirmed electrical loop signal, and when the safe decode confirmed electrical loop signal is broken, the communication control part automatically transmits a warning information, and when a bolt and a bolt male pedestal are separated from a bolt female pedestal, a clasp module of the active electronic seal instantly detecting a separated signal to confirm whether the active electronic seal is clasped.