RFID tag

• US 8,009,047 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2008
• Issued: 08/30/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Oroku, Noriyuki, Kanda, Naoya
• Primary Examiner(s): Mullen; Thomas J
• Application Number:
  US12/211,150
• Publication Number:
  US 20090096583A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,078 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.1, 340/572.7
• US Class Current: 340/572.1
• 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 19/07775 the antenna being on-chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07779 the inductive antenna being a coil
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07798 part of the antenna or the integrated circuit being adapted for rupturing or breaking, e.g. record carriers functioning as sealing devices for detecting not-authenticated opening of containers electronic seals G09F3/03

Abstract

For protecting information stored in an RFID chip and ensuring its authenticity, radio communication between the RFID chip and an external terminal is positively interrupted when a seal type RFID tag including the RFID chip is peeled from an adherend, while ensuring solidity integrity when the RFID tag is put on the adherend. In the seal type RFID tag which includes the RFID chip fixed on a mounting surface of a base member having an adhesive layer applied thereto and which is put on the adherend by using the adhesive layer, an antenna formed on a main surface of the RFID chip is embedded in adhesive layers together with the RFID chip and an adhesive bonding strength between the antenna and the adhesive layer is made greater than a joining strength between the antenna and the RFID chip.

Claims

1. An RFID tag comprising:

a chip having an antenna disposed on a side of a first main surface of the chip and a circuit electrically connected to the antenna; and

a base member having a mounting surface to which an adhesive layer is applied, the chip being fixed by the adhesive layer with a second main surface of the chip being directed toward the mounting surface,

wherein

the antenna has a first part electrically connected to the circuit and a second part kept apart from the first main surface of the chip,

the chip is embedded in the adhesive layer so as to cause the antenna extending on and over the first main surface to be covered by the adhesive layer,

an insulation film having an opening for connecting the circuit to the first part of the antenna is formed on the first main surface of the chip,

the second part of the antenna is formed so as to extend from the opening onto the insulation film, and

a conductor film which forms the antenna exhibits a stronger bonding force to the adhesive layer than to the insulation film.

2. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein

the antenna is formed of a second conductor film obtained by plating a pattern of a first conductor film formed on the first main surface of the chip,

the first conductor film is removed from the first main surface of the chip except a part in contact with the first part of the antenna, and

the second part of the antenna and the first main surface of the chip are separated from each other by the adhesive layer.

3. The RFID tag according to claim 2, wherein

the first conductor film and the second conductor film forming the antenna are joined to each other via a sticking layer,

a joining strength between the first conductor film and the second conductor film via the sticking layer is higher than that between the second conductor film and the adhesive layer, and

the joining strength between the second conductor film and the adhesive layer is higher than that between the adhesive layer and the first main surface of the chip.

4. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the adhesive layer is formed by laminating a plurality of layers of adhesive members which are different from each other in kind, on the mounting surface of the base member.

5. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein

an external antenna which is different from the antenna provided in the chip is formed on the mounting surface of the base member, and

the external antenna is embedded in the adhesive layer and electromagnetically coupled to the antenna provided in the chip.

6. The RFID tag according to claim 5, wherein

the antenna provided in the chip is formed to take a shape of a loop, and

the external antenna is a rod-shaped antenna having a first part which extends along a periphery of the antenna provided in the chip and second parts which respectively extend from both ends of the first part.