Portable object with self switching device

• US 9,070,059 B2
• Filed: 01/26/2009
• Issued: 06/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thales DIS France SA
• Original Assignee: Gemalto SA (Thales SA)
• Inventors: Caruana, Jean-Paul, Capomaggio, Gregory
• Primary Examiner(s): Barnie, Rexford
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mourad, Rasem
• Application Number:
  US12/866,059
• Publication Number:
  US 20100327945A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,346 Days
• Field of Search: 307/112, 307/113, 307/26, 307/130, 307/131, 340/572.1, 340/572.7
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0701 at least one of the integrated circuit chips comprising an arrangement for power management
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0705 the battery being connected to a power saving arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0723 the record carrier comprising an arrangement for non-contact communication, e.g. wireless communication circuits on transponder cards, non-contact smart cards or RFIDs

Abstract

A portable electronic device 1 comprising a battery 14 coupled with an electronic circuit 10-12 through a switching circuit 15 for switching on or off the supply voltage Vcc to the electronic circuit using the battery. The portable device comprises at least one electromagnetic field detection circuit 13 coupled with the switching circuit 15 to start the power supply to the electronic circuit 10-12 if an electromagnetic field is detected.

Claims

1. A portable electronic device comprising:

an electronic circuit;

a switching circuit, comprising;

a first diode, a second diode, and a transistor;

at least one electromagnetic field detection circuit; and

a battery coupled with the electronic circuit through the switching circuit that makes it possible to switch on and off a power supply voltage to the electronic circuit using the battery, the transistor establishing a cutting on and off the power voltage to the electronic circuit by the battery,

wherein the at least one electromagnetic field detection circuit is coupled with the switching circuit to start the supply of power to the electronic circuit if an electromagnetic field is detected, and

wherein the switching circuit is powered through the first diode by the battery when the transistor is on and the switching circuit is powered through the second diode by the electromagnetic field when the transistor is off.

2. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electromagnetic field detection circuit is self powered by the electromagnetic field.

3. The portable electronic device of claim 2, wherein the electromagnetic field detection circuit powers the switching circuit at least during the power supply starting stage.

4. The portable electronic device of claim 2, wherein the electromagnetic field detection circuit comprises:

a resonant circuit associated with a frequency range, at the terminals of which an alternating voltage is created in the presence of the electromagnetic field whose frequency is situated within the frequency range,

a rectification and a regulation circuit configured to transform an alternating current into direct current.

5. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the switching circuit has a pushbutton (BP) to start the power supply to the electronic circuit from the battery.

6. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the switching circuit comprises an input connected to the electronic circuit to trigger the cutting off of the power to the electronic circuit.

7. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the switching circuit is an electronic relay.

8. The portable electronic device of claim 1, wherein the switching circuit further comprises

a latch of the bistable type to control the transistor.