Identification card

• US 4,506,148 A
• Filed: 11/04/1982
• Issued: 03/19/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hera Rotterdam B.V.
• Original Assignee: Brown Boveri & CIE AG (ABB Limited)
• Inventors: Strietzel, Rainer, Berthold, Rainer
• Primary Examiner(s): Pitts, Harold I.
• Application Number:
  US06/439,298
• Time in Patent Office: 866 Days
• Field of Search: 235/380, 235/382
• US Class Current: 235/380
• 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: G06K 19/07786 the antenna being of the HF type, such as a dipole
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/341 Active cards, i.e. cards including their own processing means, e.g. including an IC or chip
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/4097 using mutual authentication between devices and transaction partners
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/28 the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 7/1008 Active credit-cards provided with means to personalise their use, e.g. with PIN-introduction/comparison system

Abstract

Identification card, including a card body, an integrated semiconductor circuit being mechanically inserted and protected in the card body for storing data to be read-out and read-in in changed form, a receiving antenna device, a rectifier circuit connected to the receiving antenna device, a filter circuit connected between the rectifier circuit and the integrated semiconductor circuit. The rectifier and filter circuits generate a supply voltage for the integrated semiconductor circuit from an energy field, a microwave transmitting antenna connected to the integrated semiconductor circuit, and a transmitter connected to the transmitting antenna.

Claims

1. Identification card, comprising a card body, an integrated semiconductor circuit being mechanically inserted and protected in said card body for storing data to be read-out and read-in in changed form, receiving antenna means, a rectifier circuit connected to said receiving antenna means, a filter circuit connected between said rectifier circuit and said integrated semiconductor circuit, said rectifier and filter circuits generating a supply voltage for said integrated semiconductor circuit from an energy field, a microwave transmitting antenna connected to said integrated semiconductor circuit, and a transmitter connected to said transmitting antenna.

2. Identification card according to claim 1, wherein said receiving and transmitting antennae and said filter circuit are constructed in stripline technology.

3. Identification card according to claim 1, wherein said receiving and transmitting antennae and said filter circuit are constructed in microstrip technology.

4. Identification card according to claim 1, wherein said receiving and transmitting antennae and said filter circuit are constructed in microslot technology.

5. Identification card according to claim 1, wherein said rectifier circuit is in the form of a voltage doubler circuit.

6. Identification card according to claim 1, including a coupling device connected between said rectifier circuit and said integrated semiconductor circuit, for picking up modulation energy received with energy of the energy field from said rectifier circuit and passing it on as an information signal to said integrated semiconductor circuit.

7. Identification card according to claim 1, wherein said receiving antenna and said transmitting antenna are combined into one structure.