Data carrier

• US 5,274,220 A
• Filed: 09/25/1991
• Issued: 12/28/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Fukuoka, Shinichiro, Miyake, Ryoichi, Kanda, Yoshimi
• Primary Examiner(s): Dzierzynski, Paul M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WONG, DON KITSUN
• Application Number:
  US07/768,439
• Time in Patent Office: 825 Days
• Field of Search: 235/487, 235/449, 340/680, 340/573, 340/825.23, 340/825.52, 340/825.72, 340/825.57
• US Class Current: 235/487
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0008 General problems related to the reading of electronic memory record carriers, independent of its reading method, e.g. power transfer

Abstract

A data carrier according to the present invention writes a signal of a duty ratio corresponding to write data from a resonance circuit at the time of writing data using a shift register as a memory, causes the shift register to store the data, and then holds the data as a circulation mode. Then, the data held in the shift register is externally read out based on identification codes. In this way, a data carrier of a small storage capacity is made with a relatively simple structure.

Claims

1. A data carrier comprising:

a resonance circuit for receiving a PWM signal having different duty ratios corresponding to write data containing identification codes in a transmission mode and having a fixed duty ratio in a reception mode,

a waveform shaping circuit for smoothing and waveform shaping a received output obtained at said resonance circuit,

a shift register for circulating and holding data, to which a signal obtained from said waveform shaping circuit is supplied as a shift pulse,

signal switching means for switching an input supplied to said shift register by an output of said shift register from the output of said shaping circuit to the output of the shift register, and

a vibration absorbing circuit for controlling reverberations of said resonance circuit based on a signal read from said shift register when a signal of a fixed duty ratio is supplied in the reception mode.

2. The data carrier according to claim 1, comprising:

a battery for supplying power to each portion of the data carrier,

a voltage detection circuit for detecting a voltage drop of said battery,

a signal inversion circuit for inverting a signal read from said shift register when the drop of the voltage is detected by said voltage detection circuit, and

a vibration absorbing circuit for controlling the reverberations of said resonance circuit based on the signal read from said shift register when a signal of a fixed duty ratio is supplied in the reception mode.

3. The data carrier according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said identification codes are recorded, being broken up into the first and last plurality of bits of the bit length of said shift register.

4. The data carrier according to claim 3, wherein the first bit of said identification codes is at a logic level for converting the shift register from a write mode to a circulation mode based on the output when data is written into said shift register and the data is read out.

5. A data carrier comprising:

a resonance circuit for receiving a PWM signal having different duty ratios corresponding to write data containing a start bit in a transmission mode and having a fixed duty ratio in a reception mode,

a waveform shaping circuit for smoothing and waveform shaping a received output obtained at said resonance circuit,

a shift register for circulating and holding write data obtained from said waveform shaping circuit, to which a signal obtained from said waveform shaping circuit is supplied as a shift pulse,

signal switching means for switching an input applied to said shift register by an output of said shift register from an output of said waveform shaping circuit to the output of shift register,

a counter for counting the number of shift pulses to said shift register,

read data selecting means for selecting a shaping pulse obtained from said waveform shaping circuit and the output of said shift register by the output of said counter, and

a vibration absorbing circuit for controlling the reverberations of said resonance circuit based on a signal read out by said read data selecting means when a signal of a fixed duty ratio is supplied in the reception mode.

6. The data carrier according to claim 5, wherein said counter inverts the output when it counts the same number of bits as that of said shift register.

7. A data carrier comprising:

a resonance circuit for receiving a PWM signal having different duty ratios corresponding to write data containing a start bit or a clear command in a transmission mode and having a fixed duty ratio in a reception mode,

a waveform shaping circuit for smoothing and waveform shaping a received output obtained at said resonance circuit,

a shift register for circulating and holding write data obtained by said waveform shaping circuit, to which a signal obtained from said waveform shaping circuit is supplied as a shift pulse,

signal switching means for switching an input supplied to said shift register by an output of said shift register from an output of said waveform shaping circuit to the output of the shift register,

a clear signal detecting portion for detecting a clear command obtained by said waveform shaping circuit and resetting said shift register at the time of detection, and

a vibration absorbing circuit for controlling the reverberations of said resonance circuit based on a signal read out from said shift register when a signal of a fixed duty ratio is supplied in the reception mode.

8. The data carrier according to claim 7, wherein said clear signal detecting portion includes a shift register to which the output of said waveform shaping circuit is applied, and a comparator for comparing a parallel output of said shift register and a data string of the clear command.

9. The data carrier according to claim 7, comprising:

a first monostable multivibrator to which the output of said waveform shaping circuit is supplied, for generating a signal of a duty ratio different from those in the reception mode and the transmission mode and supplying the same to said shift register as a shift pulse, and

a second monostable multivibrator to which the output of said waveform shaping circuit is applied, for generating a clock signal of a duty ratio equal to that in said reception mode and supplying the clock signal to said vibration absorbing circuit.