Transponder inlay for a document for personal identification and a method for producing a transponder inlay

• US 9,202,161 B2
• Filed: 08/14/2009
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Meller-Hipper, Andreas, Peschner, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G
• Assistant Examiner(s): TARDIF, DAVID P
• Application Number:
  US12/541,326
• Publication Number:
  US 20100038432A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,300 Days
• Field of Search: 235/379
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 2033/46 with electrical circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/00 Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof printing processes to produce identification or security features B41M3/14
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/45 Associating two or more layers
• CPC Class Codes: B42D 25/47 using adhesives
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/025 the material being flexible or adapted for folding, e.g. paper or paper-like materials used in luggage labels, identification tags, forms or identification documents carrying RFIDs methods for testing the genuineness of valuable papers, e.g. banknotes or passports G07D7/00; constructional features of booklets and the like B42D
• 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: Y10T 29/49018 with other electrical component

Abstract

A transponder inlay for a document for personal identification having a transponder substrate, for arrangement of a transponder unit comprising a chip and an antenna, a covering layer, an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer is arranged between the transponder substrate and the covering layer, wherein the transponder substrate has a cutout and the adhesive layer extends at least partly into the cutout.

Claims

1. A transponder inlay for a document for personal identification, comprising:

a transponder substrate having a thickness and having a first surface extending in first and second lateral directions,

a transponder unit comprising a transponder chip and an antenna mounted on the transponder substrate, wherein at least the transponder chip is mounted on the first surface of the transponder substrate,

a covering layer,

an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer is arranged between the first surface of the transponder substrate and the covering layer and secures the covering layer to the transponder substrate,

wherein

the transponder substrate has at least one cutout spaced laterally apart from the transponder chip and antenna along the first surface and extending through the transponder substrate, and the adhesive layer extends at least partly into the at least one cutout.

2. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the adhesive layer completely fills the cutout of the transponder substrate.

3. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transponder substrate is embedded into the adhesive layer.

4. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transponder unit has a leadframe arranged on a surface of the transponder substrate and the transponder chip is arranged on the leadframe.

5. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the antenna is a coil having at least one turn and at least one cutout in the transponder substrate is formed in a region of the innermost coil turn.

6. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the antenna is a coil having at least one turn and at least one cutout in the transponder substrate is formed outside a region of the outermost coil turn.

7. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the adhesive layer comprises epoxy resin.

8. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the covering layer comprises multiple layers.

9. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the covering layer has a window opening for at least partly receiving the transponder chip.

10. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 9, wherein a top side of the covering layer is aerially flush with a top side of the transponder chip.

11. The transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1, wherein the covering layer is formed from a foamed plastic and the transponder substrate is formed from a thermoplastic.

12. A document for personal identification, having a transponder inlay as claimed in claim 1.

13. The document for personal identification as claimed in claim 12, having a cover, wherein the cover is connected to the transponder inlay by the adhesive layer.

14. The document for personal identification as claimed in claim 12, having an identity page, wherein the identity page is connected to the transponder inlay by the adhesive layer.

15. The document for personal identification as claimed in claim 12, wherein the transponder inlay is formed as an identity page.

16. A method for producing a transponder inlay, comprising:

providing a transponder substrate having a thickness and having a first surface extending in first and second lateral directions, wherein the transponder substrate has at least one cutout extending through the transponder substrate,

arranging a transponder unit, comprising a transponder chip and an antenna, on the transponder substrate, such that the transponder chip is mounted on the first surface of the transponder substrate and is spaced laterally apart from the at least one cutout along the first surface,

connecting the transponder substrate to a covering layer by means of an adhesive layer between the first surface of the transponder substrate and the covering layer, wherein the adhesive layer at least partly fills the cutout in the transponder substrate.

17. The method for producing a transponder inlay as claimed in claim 16, wherein the adhesive layer is applied in such a way that the cutout of the transponder substrate is completely filled.

18. The method for producing a transponder inlay as claimed in claim 16, wherein the transponder substrate is embedded into the adhesive layer.