IC tag

• US 7,540,427 B2
• Filed: 05/14/2003
• Issued: 06/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Lintec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lintec Corporation
• Inventors: Hasegawa, Tomoyuki, Taguchi, Katsuhisa, Yamakage, Masateru, Takahara, Toru
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Seung H
• Application Number:
  US10/514,495
• Publication Number:
  US 20060273179A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,211 Days
• Field of Search: 235/492, 235/439, 235/449, 235/451, 235/487, 235/488, 428/1.61, 428/40.1
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0739 the incapacitated circuit being part of an antenna
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card

Abstract

The present invention provides an IC tag which has a structure comprising a first adhesive layer formed on a surface of a substrate sheet, an electronic circuit and an IC chip connecting both ends of the electronic circuit, both formed on the surface of the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer covering the electronic circuit and the IC chip. The IC tag further includes a release agent layer formed at positions corresponding to the both ends of the electronic circuit and located at the interface between the substrate sheet and the first adhesive layer. When the IC tag attached to an article is peeled off, the built-in electronic circuit is surely broken.

Claims

1. An IC tag which has a structure comprising a first adhesive layer laminated on a surface of a substrate sheet, an electronic circuit and an IC chip connecting both ends of a line of the electronic circuit, both the electronic circuit and the IC chip being formed on a surface of the first adhesive layer, and a second adhesive layer laminated for covering the electronic circuit and the IC chip, wherein a release agent layer is further formed at positions corresponding to both separated end sections of the electronic circuit and located at the interface between the substrate sheet and the first adhesive layer, but is not formed at positions corresponding to the center section of the electronic circuit,

wherein the release agent layer is formed to cover a range of 20 to 90 percent of an area surrounded by an outside circumference of the electronic circuit throughout the first adhesive layer such that the electronic circuit is rendered electrically inoperable when the substrate is peeled off from the IC tag.

2. The IC tag as claimed in claim 1, wherein a release liner is formed on a surface of the second adhesive layer.

3. The IC tag as claimed in claim 1, wherein the release agent layer is formed of a silicone resin, a long chain alkyl group-containing resin, or a fluororesin.

4. An IC tag comprising:

a first adhesive layer laminated on a surface of a substrate sheet;

an electronic circuit;

an IC chip connecting both ends of a line of the electronic circuit, both the electronic circuit and the IC chip being formed on a surface of the first adhesive layer;

a second adhesive layer laminated for covering the electronic circuit and the IC chip; and

a means for rendering the electronic circuit electrically inoperable when the substrate sheet is peeled off from the IC tag adhered to an adherend, said means including a release agent layer formed at positions corresponding to both separated end sections of the electronic circuit and located at the interface between the substrate sheet and the first adhesive layer, but not formed at positions corresponding to the center section of the electronic circuit.