Battery built-in wireless ID card unit and ID verification unit

• US 6,011,483 A
• Filed: 01/31/1997
• Issued: 01/04/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Tanaka, Masahiko, Okita, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dalencourt, Yves
• Application Number:
  US08/791,220
• Time in Patent Office: 1,068 Days
• Field of Search: 340/825.31, 340/825.69, 340/825.72, 340/825.34, 340/825.54
• US Class Current: 340/10.33
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0705 the battery being connected to a power saving arrangement
• 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 battery built-in wireless ID card unit including a magnetic field detection section which generates an electromotive force from a received magnetic field to turn on a power switch of a built-in battery, and a control section which transmits an ID code by radio after the power switch is turned on, thereby turning off the power switch.

Claims

1. A battery built-in wireless ID card unit comprising:

a magnetic field detection section which generates an electromotive force from a received purely magnetic field to turn on a power switch of a built-in battery; and

a control section which is capable of sending out an ID code after said power switch is turned on, and thereafter turning off said power switch.

2. A battery built-in wireless ID card unit according to claim 1, further comprising an ID code memory section and a radio transmission section, and wherein, in an ON state of said power switch, said control section reads out the ID code from said ID code memory section, and said radio transmission section transmits the ID code by radio.

3. A battery built-in wireless ID card unit according to claim 2, wherein said control section can also transmit a control signal for stopping generation of the purely magnetic field via said radio transmission section by radio after said power switch is turned on.

4. An ID card verification system, comprising:

a battery built-in wireless ID card unit having a magnetic field detection section which generates an electromotive force from a received verification signal in the form of a purely magnetic field to turn on a power switch of a built-in battery, and a control section which is capable of sending out an ID code and/or stop control code in the form of a radio signal after said power switch is turned on, and thereafter turning off said power switch; and

a wireless ID verification unit having a magnetic field generation section for transmitting said verification signal, an antenna section for receiving said radio signal, and a verification section which detects, from said radio signal, said ID code and/or stop control signal for stopping generation of the verification signal for a predetermined period of time.