Multiple information carrier

• US 9,715,652 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2011
• Issued: 07/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Touchcode Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Touchpac Holdings LLC
• Inventors: Foerster, Matthias, Kreutzer, Andr
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Claude J
• Application Number:
  US13/825,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20130256419A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,134 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07766 comprising at least a second communication arrangement in addition to a first non-contact communication arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07769 the further communication means being a galvanic interface, e.g. hybrid or mixed smart cards having a contact and a non-contact interface
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07786 the antenna being of the HF type, such as a dipole
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/083 Constructional details
• 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 9/285 Planar dipole H01Q9/065 takes precedence; patch antenna H01Q9/0407

Abstract

The invention describes a multiple information carrier having at least one electrically conductive layer and an electorally non-conductive substrate, wherein at least one first electrically conductive layer in the form of a touch structure, and second electrically conductive layer in the form of an antenna, are present in places on the substrate.

Claims

1. A multiple information carrier, comprising:

at least one electrically conductive layer, and

a non-conductive substrate, wherein;

the at least one electrically conductive layer comprises a first electrically conductive layer present in at least one first area on the substrate, the first electrically conductive layer being configured as a touch structure comprising at least one coupling area for coupling an external electrical capacitance to the touch structure,

the at least one electrically conductive layer further comprises a second electrically conductive layer present in at least one second area on the substrate, the second electrically conductive layer being configured as an antenna, and

wherein the touch structure is readable with a capacitive touchscreen.

2. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the at least one first area in which the touch structure is present is spatially separated from the at least one second area in which the antenna is present.

3. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the first and second layers are present on the substrate in a structured manner, and wherein the first or second layer comprises one or more elements selected from a group consisting of a point, a straight line, a curve, and an area.

4. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein at least one optically readable layer is applied onto the substrate, the optically readable layer comprising a code.

5. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein an inductively, acoustically, magnetically, electromagnetically, and/or optically readable structure is applied onto the substrate.

6. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the touch structure further comprises a touch point and/or a conductor path.

7. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the substrate comprises one or more materials selected from a group consisting of plastics, paper, cardboard, wooden material, composite material, glass, ceramics, textiles, and leather.

8. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the information carrier has at least one cover layer that completely or partially covers the substrate and/or the electrically conductive layers.

9. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the information carrier is disposed on an article.

10. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the first and second layers are layers generated on the substrate via one or more methods selected from a group consisting of an additive method, a semi-additive method, and/or a subtractive method.

11. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the antenna is in a spatial vicinity of 0-3 cm of an impedance-adjusting coil and at least one microchip electrically connected to the coil.

12. The multiple information carrier according to claim 11, wherein the coil and/or the microchip are arranged on a separate intermediate carrier, and the intermediate carrier is self-adhesive.

13. The multiple information carrier according to 12, wherein the antenna is arranged on a first article, and the coil and the at least one microchip electrically connected to the coil are arranged on a second article, and wherein the first and second articles are at most 3 cm apart.

14. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, wherein the information carrier is connected to at least one further electrical component comprising a galvanic element, a capacitor arrangement, and/or a chip.

15. The multiple information carrier according to claim 1, further comprising at least one RFID transponder arranged on the substrate, where the antenna is configured to operate at a first frequency range and the at least one RFID transponder is configured to operate at a second frequency range.