Method of manufacturing a resonant tag

• US 5,201,988 A
• Filed: 11/21/1991
• Issued: 04/13/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/1989
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Checkpoint Manufacturing Japan Co., Ltd. (CCL Industries Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Tokai Metals Company Limited
• Inventors: Suzuki, Yuji, Matsumoto, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Powell, William A.
• Application Number:
  US07/795,677
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 156/631, 156/634, 156/645, 156/656, 156/659.1, 156/661.1, 156/901, 156/902
• US Class Current: 216/41
• CPC Class Codes: B32B 2519/02 RFID tags
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0672 with resonating marks
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2417 having a radio frequency identification chip
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/242 Tag deactivation
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2437 Tag layered structure, processes for making layered tags
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/244 Tag manufacturing, e.g. continuous manufacturing processes
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2442 Tag materials and material properties thereof, e.g. magnetic material details
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 27/01 comprising only passive thin-film or thick-film elements formed on a common insulating substrate passive two-terminal components without a potential-jump or surface barrier for integrated circuits, details thereof and multistep manufacturing processes therefor H01L28/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/16 incorporating printed electric components, e.g. printed resistor, capacitor, inductor
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 3/4084 by deforming at least one of the conductive layers

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a resonant tag on which at least two resonant circuits having different resonant frequencies are formed so as to enable the tag to be identified, the method including coating a conductive thin film on two surfaces of an insulating thin film, printing a plurality of first conductive patterns on a surface of one of the conductive thin films and a corresponding plurality of second conductive patterns on a surface of the other conductive thin film using an anti-etching ink, each of the first conductive patterns and an opposite one of the second conductive patterns defining a separate and distinct resonant circuit, each of the first and second conductive patterns respectively containing one element of a capacitor which corresponds to a distinct resonant frequency of a separate resonant circuit and another element of the capacitor which corresponds to the distinct resonant frequency of the separate resonant circuit, etching the conductive thin films to remove non-printed portion of the conductive films, and forming LC resonant circuits by selectively electrically connecting the one and the other capacitor elements of at least two of the first conductive and second conductive patterns.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a resonant tag on which at least two resonant circuits having different resonant frequencies are formed so as to enable said tag to be identified, comprising the steps of:

coating a conductive thin film having a predetermined thickness on two surfaces of an insulating thin film;

printing a plurality of first conductive patterns on a surface of one of said conductive thin films and a corresponding plurality of second conductive patterns on a surface of the other conductive thin film using an anti-etching ink, each of said first conductive patterns and a corresponding one of said second conductive patterns defining separate and distinct resonant circuit, each of said first conductive patterns containing at least an inductor element and one element of a capacitor which corresponds to a distinct resonant frequency of a separate resonant circuit, each of said second conductive patterns containing at least another element of the capacitor which corresponds to the distinct resonant frequency of the separate resonant circuit, each said capacitor element of said second conductive patterns being disposed at a position where it faces said capacitor element of a corresponding one of said first conductive patterns;

etching said conductive thin films to remove non-printed portion of said conductive films; and

forming LC resonant circuits by selectively electrically connecting the one and the other capacitor elements of at least two of said first conductive and second conductive patterns.

2. A method of manufacturing a resonant tag according to claim 1, further comprising a step of detachably adhering the insulating thin film, on which said conductive patterns are formed and which has been subjected to the etching step or the circuit forming step, to a flexible thin film having a predetermined thickness.

3. A method of manufacturing a resonant tag according to claim 2, wherein said flexible thin film is an elongated rolled thin film having a predetermined width, and wherein the insulating thin film is detachably adhered to said rolled thin film.