Wireless data storage medium with flexible image recording section

• US 6,290,138 B1
• Filed: 09/14/1998
• Issued: 09/18/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Takagi, Toshio, Ohno, Tadayoshi, Yokota, Tsuneshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Frech, Karl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): St. Cyr, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US09/152,275
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: 235/492, 235/379, 235/380, 235/382, 235/472.02, 235/487, 235/462.46
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/18 Constructional details

Abstract

A wireless data storage medium comprising an image recording section for rewritably recording and displaying a visible image, and wireless data storage means less in flexibility produced by bonding the wireless data storage section with the image recording section in such a manner that only part of a whole structure of the wireless data storage section is superposed on part of a whole structure of the image recording section, for storing and reading data on a memory for storing data by performing communication with an external system by use of the memory and an antenna.

Claims

1. A wireless data storage medium which stores data and supplies data externally, comprising:

an image recording section for rewritably recording and displaying a visible image having a connecting section and a non-connecting section, the non-connecting section being larger in size than the connecting section;

a wireless data storage section having a connecting portion and a non-connecting portion, the non-connecting portion being larger in size than the connecting portion, the connecting portion being bonded with the connecting section of the image recording section, and

a LSI chip provided within the non-connecting portion of the wireless data storage section, the LSI chip adapted to store and read data obtained by performing communication with an external system.

2. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, further comprising an antenna portion connected to the LSI chip, and molded within the non-connecting portion of the wireless data storage section.

3. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the image recording section is larger in size that the wireless data storage section.

4. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the image recording section has a lower rigidity than the wireless data storage section and the image recording section has a higher flexibility than the wireless data storage section.

5. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the image recording section comprises plural display sections respectively developing different colors.

6. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the image recording section comprises:

a first display section, in which is stacked on the first display section, and in which a red color image can repeatedly be recorded or erased.

7. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the wireless data storage section is formed of base material having rigidity in such a manner as to be molded into a single body, and comprises a through-port.

8. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the image recording section comprises a first rewritable recording portion in which a black image is rewritably recorded or erased and a second rewritable recording portion in which a colored image other than black is rewritably recorded or erased.

9. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the image recording section comprises a first rewritable recording portion in which a black image is rewritably recorded, and a second rewritable recording portion which is stacked on the first rewritable recording portion, and in which a colored image other than black is rewritable recorded.

10. A wireless data storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the wireless data storage section is shaped to a card structure parallel with a sheet structure of the image recording section.