Loop antenna compensator

• US 6,567,050 B1
• Filed: 12/17/2001
• Issued: 05/20/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sensitnow LLC
• Original Assignee: James B. Briggs
• Inventors: Briggs, James B.
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, HOANG V
• Application Number:
  US10/022,763
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 343/741, 343/742, 343/866, 343/867
• US Class Current: 343/741
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2216 used in interrogator/reader equipment
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 19/005 Patch antenna using one or more coplanar parasitic elements
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop

Abstract

Compensating electrical circuits are incorporated into loop antenna configurations for improved energy efficiency and extension of the magnetic fields for improved magnetic field coupling and reading of the tag by a reader. The tuning and compensating circuits provide a reader magnetic response having maxima at the center carrier frequency and at the low sideband frequency for improved reception of return signals from the tag to the reader.

Claims

1. A compensator antenna tuning circuit for generating a magnetic field at a carrier frequency from a transceiver for coupling energy to a tag loop antenna and for reading signals from the tag loop antenna, comprising

an outer antenna loop lying in an antenna plane,

an inner compensating loop lying in the antenna plane,

a tuning circuit connected within the inner compensating loop, the tuning circuit and the inner compensating loop providing a double maxima frequency response having a first maxima at the carrier frequency and a second maxima at a low sideband frequency for more efficient transmitting and receiving of energy from the tag loop antenna at the carrier frequency and at the low sideband frequency.

2. The compensator antenna circuit of claim 1 wherein,

the outer loop antenna is a single loop antenna.

3. The compensator reader antenna circuit of claim 1 wherein,

the outer loop antenna is a single antenna loop comprising a tuning circuit and a matching circuit.

4. The compensator antenna circuit of claim 1 wherein,

the outer loop antenna is a single loop antenna comprising conductive foil, and

the inner compensating loop is a single loop comprising conductive foil connected to and surrounding the compensating circuit.

5. The compensator antenna circuit of claim 1 wherein the outer antenna loop is a double loop antenna comprising,

a square conductive foil,

a center conductive foil connected to the transceiver,

a tuning circuit connected between center conductive foil and the square conductive foil, and

a matching circuit connected between center conductive foil and the square conductive foil and connected in parallel to the transceiver.

6. The compensator reader antenna circuit of claim 1 wherein,

the outer loop antenna is a dual double antenna loop.

7. The compensator reader antenna circuit of claim 1 wherein,

the outer antenna loop is a biaxial double antenna loop.