Dual loop magnetic excitation for mail tag

• US 8,558,751 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2006
• Issued: 10/15/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lyngsoe Systems Ltd. (Lyngsoe Systems Holding Nspk ApS)
• Original Assignee: Lyngsoe Systems Ltd. (Lyngsoe Systems Holding Nspk ApS)
• Inventors: Ferguson, Don, Paun, Mircea, Nicolescu, Ioan, Oprea, Alex, Patroi, Tudor
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Hoang V
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCCAIN, KYANA RASHAWN
• Application Number:
  US11/995,155
• Publication Number:
  US 20100277393A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,650 Days
• Field of Search: 343/742, 343/867, 343/866, 343/853, 343/855
• US Class Current: 343/867
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/0095 Testing the sensing arrangement, e.g. testing if a magnetic card reader, bar code reader, RFID interrogator or smart card reader functions properly testing of electrical circuits G01R31/28
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10336 the antenna being of the near field type, inductive coil
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/2225 used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 7/00 Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop

Abstract

Logistical passage measurement systems are provided. A representative system includes: an excitation unit having dual loop antennae, with a first loop and a second loop, the two loops located in and parallel to the same plane, and adjacent to one another, and a control box for exciting said antennae, the control box arranged to drive the currents of the two loops, such that the phase difference between the currents of said two loops alternates with time between 0° and 180°, and wherein the amplitude of the currents for each loop is of a first level when the phase difference is 180° and wherein said amplitude is of a second level, lower than the first level, when the phase difference is 0°.

Claims

1. A logistical passage measurement system comprising:

an excitation unit having dual loop antennae, comprising a first loop and a second loop, said two loops located in and parallel to the same plane; and

a control box for exciting said dual loop antennae, said control box configured to drive a first current into the first loop at a first phase and a second current into the second loop at a second phase, the phase difference between the first and second currents alternating with time between 0° and

180°

, and the amplitude of the first and second currents having a first level when the phase difference is 180° and

a second level, lower than the first level when the phase difference is 0°

.

2. The logistical passage measurement system according to claim 1, wherein the excitation unit comprises a dual low frequency antenna unit and driver.

3. The logistical passage measurement system according to claim 1, wherein the excitation unit generates a low frequency field using the dual loop antennae.

4. The logistical passage measurement system according to claim 3, wherein the low frequency field is generated using a modulated 125 KHz carrier.

5. The logistical passage measurement system according to claim 4, wherein the modulated carrier is amplified by a pair of amplifiers to create an independent carrier for each loop of the dual loop antennae.

6. The logistical passage measurement system according to claim 1, wherein a low frequency field is generated as a result of superposition of fields generated by the two loops driven by carrier signals controlled in phase and amplitude.

7. The logistical passage measurement system according to claim 1, wherein the excitation region is symmetrical.