RECHARGEABLE BATTERY FOR MOBILE, PERSONAL DEVICES, SUCH AS MOBILE TELEPHONES, SMARTPHONES, PDAS OR E-READERS

• US 20140342778A1
• Filed: 02/22/2012
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Topas AG
• Original Assignee: Swiss Technical Electronics Ste Holding AG
• Inventors: Locher, Johann Kaspar
• Application Number:
  US14/366,206
• Publication Number:
  US 20140342778A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10178 including auxiliary means for focusing, repeating or boosting the electromagnetic interrogation field comparable booster antennas integrated on the record carrier itself G06K19/07794
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2225 used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/243 with built-in antennas
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/44 using equipment having another main function to serve additionally as an antenna , e.g. means for giving an antenna an aesthetic aspectH01Q1/27 - H01Q1/34 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0262 for a battery compartment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Rechargeable battery (4) for mobile, personal devices, such as mobile telephones, smartphones, PDAs or E-readers, which have an internal antenna (1, 9) for electromagnetic near-field communication by means of RFID, NFC or similar standards. The rechargeable battery has an intermediate antenna (2), which communicates contactlessly with the internal antenna (1 or 9), and an external antenna (3), which is connected to the intermediate antenna (2) and communicates towards the outside, wherein the intermediate antenna (2) and the external antenna (3) are applied to two opposite side surfaces of the preferably exchangeable rechargeable battery (4), and the intermediate antenna (2) is arranged in the communication range of the internal antenna (1) when the rechargeable battery has been inserted into the mobile device. The intermediate antenna (2) and the external antenna (3) and the connecting lines (5) thereof are integrated into a label (6) applied to the rechargeable battery (4).

Claims

1-6. -6. (canceled)

7. Mobile, personal device, such as a mobile telephone, smartphone, PDA, or e-reader, that has an internal antenna for electromagnetic near field communication by means of RFID, NFC, or similar standards, and has a rechargeable battery, wherein the rechargeable battery has an intermediate antenna that communicates contactlessly with the internal antenna, and has an external antenna that is connected to the intermediate antenna and communicates towards the outside, wherein the intermediate antenna is applied to one lateral surface and the external antenna is applied to the opposite lateral surface of the preferably replaceable rechargeable battery, and wherein the intermediate antenna is located in the communication range of the internal antenna when the rechargeable battery is installed in the mobile device, wherein the intermediate antenna and the external antenna and their connecting lines are integrated into a label applied to the rechargeable battery, wherein an amplifying case antenna that communicates contactlessly with the external antenna is arranged parallel to the external antenna.

8. Mobile, personal device according to claim 7, wherein the label has an absorption-inhibiting material, for example ferrite.

9. Mobile, personal device according to claim 7, wherein the internal antenna is integrated into a chip card, for example a SIM card, or a memory card, such as an MMC, SD, or micro SD card, that can be inserted into a receptacle of the mobile, personal device.

10. Mobile, personal device according to claim 9, wherein the internal antenna is a component of the contact arrangement of the chip card.

11. Mobile, personal device according to claim 9, wherein the internal antenna is arranged on the surface of the chip card facing the intermediate antenna.