RFID activated paperclip tag

• US 7,280,044 B2
• Filed: 04/25/2005
• Issued: 10/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Kubby, Joel A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hofsass; Jeffery
• Assistant Examiner(s): LAI, ANNE VIET NGA
• Application Number:
  US11/113,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20060238344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 897 Days
• Field of Search: 3405727-5729
• US Class Current: 340/572.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/04 characterised by the shape
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag

Abstract

Various document tracking techniques may provide an RFID tag for attaching a document that has obverse and reverse faces with the tag disposed on the obverse face. The tag may include a board and an antenna that may connect to the board and may be disposed on the obverse face of the document. The board may include a transceiver and a transponder. The transponder may include an integrated circuit. The antenna may include at least one extending member that extends from the board. The extending member may include a plurality of end segments that may flex so as to be disposed on the reverse face around an edge of the document. The antenna may include an extending member that extends from the board and may be secured to the document by connecting to a deforming staple member. The staple member may include stapling ends disposed on the reverse face by extending the stapling ends through the document and bending along the reverse face. The staple member may be attached to the document subsequent to and independent of the RFID tag being disposed thereon, with the extending member disposed therebetween. Alternatively, the stapling ends may be end segments of the extending member.

Claims

1. An RFID tag for attaching to at least one document having an obverse face and a reverse face, the RFID tag disposed on the obverse face and comprising:

a board including a transceiver and a transponder including an integrated circuit; and

an antenna connected to the board, the antenna including at least one extending member that extends from the board, the at least one extending member including a plurality of end segments, wherein the end segments flex to be disposed on the reverse face to extend around at least one edge of the at least one document to fasten the RFID tag to the document.

2. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the antenna comprises a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is an electrically conductive material, and the second layer is a mechanically resilient material.

3. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the end segment flexes in one of elastic deformation and plastic deformation.

4. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the integrated circuit further includes a MEMS sensor to receive sensory information therefrom.

5. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the integrated circuit is programmable.

6. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the RFID tag is dispensed from a Xerographic device and attached to the at least one document thereby.

7. A method of attaching an RFID tag to at least one document, the RFID tag including a board and an antenna connected to the board, the board including a transceiver and a transponder with an integrated circuit, the antenna including at least one extending member that extends from the board, the at least one extending member including a plurality of end segments, the at least one document including obverse and reverse faces, the method comprising:

dispensing the RFID tag from a repository; and

disposing the RFID tag on the obverse face of the at least one document, wherein disposing the RFID tag onto the obverse face further includes flexing at least one of the plurality of end segments to be disposed on the reverse face to extend around at least one edge of the at least one document.

8. The method according to claim 7, further including:

programming the integrated circuit of the RFID tag.

9. The method according to claim 7, further including:

connecting a MEMS sensor to the integrated circuit; and

providing sensory information from the MEMS sensor to the integrated circuit.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein flexing at least one of the plurality of end segments includes flexing in one of elastic deformation and plastic deformation.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein disposing the RFID tag form a repository comprises dispensing the RFID tag from a Xerographic device.