RFID tag

• US 9,269,039 B2
• Filed: 08/16/2012
• Issued: 02/23/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Provident Corporation
• Original Assignee: Provident Corporation
• Inventors: Sakanashi, Koichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Michael G
• Assistant Examiner(s): ELLIS, SUEZU Y
• Application Number:
  US13/697,037
• Publication Number:
  US 20140332596A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,286 Days
• Field of Search: 235/492, 340/572.1, 340/572.8, 340/572.9, 340/568.1, 340/568.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/077 Constructional details, e.g. mounting of circuits in the carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/0772 Physical layout of the record carrier
• 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 19/0776 the adhering arrangement being a layer of adhesive, so that the record carrier can function as a sticker
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2434 Tag housing and attachment details
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/10 by an adhesive layer

Abstract

The present invention provides an RFID tag that can be stably attached to objects of various shapes and sizes including, for example, narrow side surfaces of plate-like objects. An RFID tag 100 has a container 10, RFID inlet 30, spacer 50, and protruding part 70. The container has at least one rectangular flat surface 11. The RFID inlet is stored in the container. The spacer is embedded in the container. The protruding part is provided so as to protrude outwardly from the flat surface over the length of one of long sides of the flat surface. The protruding part is also provided so as to be foldable along the long side.

Claims

1. A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, comprising:

a container having at least one rectangular flat surface;

an RFID inlet stored in the container;

a spacer embedded in the container;

a protruding part that is provided in a manner as to protrude from the flat surface to an outside over a length of one long side of the flat surface and is foldable along the long side; and

an attaching member in the form of a sheet having as an adhesive surface at least one of a pair of main surfaces being opposite each other,

wherein the protruding part has a protruding-part attachment surface extending from the flat surface, wherein the protruding-part attachment surface and the flat surface are configured as an attachment surface, and

wherein one of the main surfaces of the attaching member is attached to both the flat surface and the protruding-part attachment surface.

2. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the protruding-part attachment surface has an area same as or greater than that of the flat surface.

3. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the attaching member has the other one of the main surfaces as an adhesive surface.

4. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the attaching member has one of the pair of main surfaces as an adhesive surface, and wherein a magnet is provided on the other one of the main surfaces or inside the attaching member.

5. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein the flat surface includes an opening into the container, and further comprising a lid that closes the opening in the flat surface,

wherein the attaching member is attached across the lid and a periphery part defining the opening of the flat surface.

6. The RFID tag according to claim 5, wherein the spacer and the lid are integrally configured.

7. The RFID tag according to claim 1, wherein a surface of the container that is on an opposite side of the flat surface is a curved surface that is convexed away from the flat surface.

8. The RFID tag according to claim 1, further comprising a pair of sub protruding parts that is provided so as to protrude outwardly from the flat surface at a pair of short sides of the flat surface that face each other.

9. The RFID tag according to claim 1, further comprising a sub protruding part, which is provided so as to protrude to a long side of the flat surface that is provided on a side opposite to a side having a protruding part, and/or from an end of the protruding part on a side opposite to the container.