Method, apparatus, assembly and kit for identification token

• US 8,167,198 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2010
• Issued: 05/01/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated (MasterCard Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Mastercard International Incorporated (MasterCard Incorporated)
• Inventors: Phillips, Simon, Mosteller, Barry Roy
• Primary Examiner(s): Walsh, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US12/982,114
• Publication Number:
  US 20110101112A1
• Time in Patent Office: 488 Days
• Field of Search: 235/492, 235/493, 235/487, 235/379, 235/380, 235/449, 235/451, 235/472.02, 340/572.1, 340/13.25
• US Class Current: 235/379
• 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 19/07769 the further communication means being a galvanic interface, e.g. hybrid or mixed smart cards having a contact and a non-contact interface

Abstract

An identification token assembly includes a card-shaped plastic body having a generally rectangular card-shaped plastic body; a radio frequency identification (RFID) integrated circuit (IC) embedded in the subcard body; and an antenna embedded in the subcard body and coupled to the RFID IC to transmit a signal generated by the RFID IC.

Claims

1. An identification token assembly, comprising:

a card-shaped plastic body having a generally rectangular card-shaped plastic body a first edge, a second edge, a right edge and a left edge parallel to the right edge, said first edge comprising a top edge, said second edge comprising a bottom edge parallel to said top edge, said top and bottom edges oriented generally perpendicular to said left and right edges, said top edge and said left edge are joined by a top left rounded corner, said bottom edge and said left edge are joined by a bottom left rounded corner, said top edge and said right edge are joined by a top right rounded corner, said bottom edge and said right edge are joined by a bottom right rounded corner, the plastic body has a first notch formed in the top edge at a locus of a scored line and wherein the plastic body has a second notch, said second notch formed in the bottom edge at the locus of the scored line, the first notch is defined between two convex quarter-circle radii, the second notch is defined between two convex quarter-circle radii, said plastic body having a scored line formed therein, the plastic body including a subcard body extending from the first edge of the plastic body to the second edge of the plastic body, the scored line adapted to allow the subcard body to be manually snapped off from the plastic body;

a radio frequency identification (RFID) integrated circuit (IC embedded in the subcard body; and

an antenna embedded in the subcard body and coupled to the RFID IC to transmit a signal generated by the RFID IC;

wherein said scored line is a first scored line, and said plastic body has a second scored line, said second scored line being formed in said subcard body, said second scored line adjacent said lower right corner to define a detachable corner portion of said subcard body, said second scored line adapted to allow the detachable corner portion to be manually snapped off from the subcard body, the plastic body having a third notch, the third notch formed in the right edge at the locus of the second scored line, the third notch defined between two convex radii that are different in angular extent from each other, the plastic body having a fourth notch, the fourth notch formed in said bottom edge between said second notch and said bottom right corner of said plastic body, the fourth notch defined between two convex radii that are different in angular extent from each other;

the third and fourth notches both being voids in the right and bottom edges, respectively;

the second scored line extending to reach from the third notch to the fourth notch.

2. The identification token assembly of claim 1, wherein the plastic body comprises a length dimension and a height dimension, the height dimension of the plastic body is substantially 54 mm and the length dimension of the plastic body is substantially 85.6 mm.

3. The identification token assembly of claim 2, wherein the scored line is substantially 18 mm from said right edge, such that said subcard body has dimensions of substantially 54 mm by 18 mm.