Wireless IC tag

• US 9,016,588 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2012
• Issued: 04/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitomo Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitomo Corporation
• Inventors: Kaga, Kikuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Thien M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brown, Claude J
• Application Number:
  US13/705,465
• Publication Number:
  US 20130221111A1
• Time in Patent Office: 874 Days
• Field of Search: 235/487, 235/492, 343/787, 343/788, 340/10.1, 340/572.7
• US Class Current: 235/492
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/041 Constructional details G06K19/06 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07758 arrangements for adhering the record carrier to further objects or living beings, functioning as an identification tag
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07773 Antenna details antennas for wireless devices, e.g. RFID tags, in general H01Q1/22
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07794 the record carrier comprising a booster or auxiliary antenna in addition to the antenna connected directly to the integrated circuit

Abstract

A wireless IC tag, to which data can be written by using an IC tag introducing machine, the wireless IC tag can ensure the communication distance required for writing and reading data in the wireless IC tag formed in a dimension that does not intensively affect the strength of the material for building a construction and is provided with antennas with performance of excellent directionality, is provided. The wireless IC tag including an RFID tag module, a plate-shaped ferrite core to which the] RFID tag module is mounted, a primary antenna wound around a circumferential surface of the plate-shaped ferrite core, the primary antenna being connected with the RFID tag module, and a pair of secondary antennas, each of the pair of secondary antennas being wound around a circumferential surface of the plate-shaped ferrite core and being connected with the RFID tag module.

Claims

1. A wireless IC tag comprising:

an RFID tag module;

a plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core to which the RFID tag module is mounted;

a primary antenna wound around a circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core, the primary antenna being connected with the RFID tag module;

a pair of secondary antennas, each of the pair of secondary antennas being wound around a circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core and being connected with the RFID tag module,

wherein the wireless IC tag is formed by molding the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core in substantially the center of a columnar outer shell body such that a central axis line in a signal transmission/reception direction of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core fits together with a central axis line of the columnar outer shell body so that a signal transmission/reception surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core is opposite to an end surface of the columnar outer shell body, and

wherein the primary antenna is wound around a substantially middle position on the circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core, and the pair of secondary antennas are wound separately around the circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core at both lateral positions of the primary antenna.

2. The wireless IC tag according to claim 1, wherein the primary antenna and the pair of secondary antennas are formed by printing technique.

3. The wireless IC tag according to claim 1, wherein circumferential protrusions are formed on peripheries of both end portions of the columnar outer shell body.

4. The wireless IC tag according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of concave grooves are formed in a surface of the columnar outer shell body.

5. The wireless IC tag according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of concave grooves extending in an axial direction are formed in a body section of the columnar outer shell body.

6. A wireless IC tag comprising:

an RFID tag module;

a plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core to which the RFID tag module is mounted;

a primary antenna wound around a circumferential surface of the plate-shaped ferrite rectangular core, the primary antenna being connected with the RFID tag module;

a pair of secondary antennas, each of the pair of secondary antennas being wound around a circumferential surface of the plate-shaped ferrite rectangular core and being connected with the RFID tag module,

wherein the primary antenna includes (i) a first primary antenna wound around the circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core in a first direction and (ii) a second primary antenna wound around the circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction,

wherein the pair of secondary primary antennas includes (i) a first pair of secondary primary antennas wound separately around the circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core at both lateral positions of the first primary antenna and (ii) a second pair of secondary primary antennas wound separately around the circumferential surface of the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core at both lateral positions of the second primary antenna, and

wherein the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core is enclosed by an columnar outer shell body, the plate-shaped rectangular ferrite core including the first primary antenna, the second primary antenna, the first pair of secondary primary antennas, and the second pair of secondary primary antennas.

7. The wireless IC tag according to claim 6, wherein the first primary antenna, the second primary antenna, the first pair of secondary antennas, and the second pair of secondary antennas are formed by printing technique.

8. The wireless IC tag according to claim 6, wherein circumferential protrusions are formed on peripheries of both end portions of the columnar outer shell body.

9. The wireless IC tag according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of concave grooves are formed in a surface of the columnar outer shell body.

10. The wireless IC tag according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of concave grooves extending in an axial direction are formed in a body section of the columnar outer shell body.

11. A wireless IC tag comprising:

a plate-shaped ferrite core having a upside and an underside opposite the upside;

a first RFID tag module mounted on the upside of the plate-shaped ferrite core;

a first spiral antenna formed on the upside of the plate-shaped ferrite core, the first spiral antenna being connected to the first RFID tag module;

a second RFID tag module mounted on the underside of the plate-shaped ferrite core; and

a second spiral antenna formed on the underside of the plate-shaped ferrite core, the second spiral antenna being connected to the second RFID tag module.

12. The wireless IC tag according to claim 11, wherein the wireless IC tag is formed by molding the wireless IC tag with a protective enclosure.