RFID label with increased readability of printed images

• US 7,782,211 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2007
• Issued: 08/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yamaguchi, Koshiro, Ito, Akira, Taki, Kazunari
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Tai T
• Application Number:
  US11/725,332
• Publication Number:
  US 20070222615A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,254 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.7, 340/572.4, 340/572.8, 340/568.1, 343/872, 343/873, 156/264, 156/299, 156/302
• US Class Current: 340/572.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07718 the record carrier being manufactured in a continuous process, e.g. using endless rolls
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0776 the adhering arrangement being a layer of adhesive, so that the record carrier can function as a sticker
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1075 of plural laminae from single stock and assembling to each other or to additional lamina
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1092 All laminae planar and face to face
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 156/1097 Lamina is running length web

Abstract

A RFID label has a multilayer structure including a sheet-like antenna base material, a RFID circuit element embedded in the antenna base material, a cover film having a printing region in which prescribed printing is performed, an adhesive layer for that bonds the antenna base material to the cover film, an adhesive layer for fixing the antenna base materials to a desired object, and a release layer for covering the adhesive layer. The length of the antenna base material in the longitudinal direction of the RFID label is no less than the length of the printing region.

Claims

1. A tag tape roll comprising:

a shaft extending in a first direction; and

a tag tape wound about the shaft, the tag tape extending in a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction and including;

a plurality of sheet-like antenna base materials arranged at prescribed intervals along the second direction, each antenna base material having a RFID circuit element that includes an IC chip and an antenna;

an affixing adhesive layer that is disposed on the antenna base materials and that enables to fix each of the antenna base materials to an object;

a release layer that covers the affixing adhesive layer and that is peeled off when fixing any of the antenna base materials to the object; and

a bonding adhesive layer that enables the antenna base materials to be bonded to a printable tape layer having a plurality of printing regions in correspondence with the RFID circuit elements, each of the printing regions being sandwiched between a pair of non-printing regions, wherein an image is to be printed within each of the printing regions;

wherein a length of each antenna base material is equal to or greater than a length of a corresponding printing region with respect to the second direction, and is shorter than a length of a region including the corresponding printing region and the pair of non-printing regions sandwiching the corresponding printing region with respect to the second direction of the tag tape.

2. The tag tape roll according to claim 1, wherein the tag tape further includes the printable tape layer.

3. RFID circuit element cartridge that is detachably mountable on a tag label maker, the RFID circuit element cartridge comprising:

a tag tape roll that includes a roll of tag tape having;

a plurality of sheet-like antenna base materials arranged at prescribed intervals along a longitudinal direction of the tag tape, each antenna base material having a RFID circuit element that includes an IC chip and an antenna;

an affixing adhesive layer that is disposed on the antenna base materials and that enables to fix each of the antenna base materials to an object;

a release layer that covers the affixing adhesive layer and that is peeled off when fixing any of the antenna base materials to the object; and

a bonding adhesive layer that enables the antenna base materials to be bonded to a printable tape layer having a plurality of printing regions in correspondence with the RFID circuit elements, each of the printing regions being sandwiched between a pair of non-printing regions, wherein an image is to be printed within each of the printing regions;

wherein a length of each antenna base material is equal to or greater than a length of a corresponding printing region with respect to the longitudinal direction of the tag tape, and is shorter than a length of a region including the corresponding printing region and the pair of non-printing regions sandwiching the corresponding printing region with respect to the longitudinal direction of the tag tape.

4. The RFID circuit element cartridge according to claim 3, further comprising a printable tape roll that includes a roll of the printable tape layer.

5. The RFID circuit element cartridge according to claim 3, wherein the tag tape further has the printable tape layer that is bonded to the antenna base materials by the bonding adhesive layer.