ATTACHMENT TAG AND TAG SYSTEM

• US 20190050701A1
• Filed: 07/23/2018
• Published: 02/14/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nippon Mektron Limited (NOK Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nippon Mektron Limited (NOK Corporation)
• Inventors: YOSHIDA, Akio, SASAKI, Mitsunori
• Granted Patent: US 10,410,106 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0702 the arrangement including a battery
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0776 the adhering arrangement being a layer of adhesive, so that the record carrier can function as a sticker
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/00 Printed circuits

Abstract

An attachment tag includes a stretchable circuit board having stretchability, a stretchable wiring line provided on a first main surface of the stretchable circuit board and having stretchability, an identification signal generator connected to the stretchable wiring line and configured to generate an identification signal containing identification information, a transmitter configured to transmit the identification signal generated by the identification signal generator, and an adhesive layer provided on a second main surface, different from the first main surface, of the stretchable circuit board and exhibiting adhesiveness.

Claims

1. An attachment tag comprising:

a stretchable circuit board having stretchability;

a stretchable wiring line provided on a first main surface of the stretchable circuit board and having stretchability;

an identification signal generator connected to the stretchable wiring line and configured to generate an identification signal containing identification information;

a transmitter configured to transmit the identification signal generated by the identification signal generator; and

an adhesive layer provided on a second main surface, different from the first main surface, of the stretchable circuit board and exhibiting adhesiveness.

2. The attachment tag according to claim 1, further comprising:

a battery configured to supply power to the identification signal generator, wherein

the transmitter uses the power supplied from the battery to transmit the identification signal.

3. The attachment tag according to claim 1, wherein

the transmitter receives a power supply signal as a signal transmitted from an outside, and transmits the identification signal by use of power obtained by the power supply signal.

4. The attachment tag according to claim 1, further comprising:

on a side of the attachment tag opposite to the adhesive layer, a printing target layer to which ink is applied and which exhibits lower visible light permeability than that of the stretchable circuit board.

5. The attachment tag according to claim 4, wherein

the ink is, as a droplet, applied to the printing target layer.

6. The attachment tag according to claim 1, wherein

the transmitter includes, on the stretchable circuit board, a portion along a shape considered to be substantially same as that of the stretchable circuit board.

7. A tag system comprising:

the attachment tag according to claim 1; and

a transmission device fixed at a predetermined location and configured to transmit a radio wave signal to the transmitter.