Apparatus for storing and wirelessly transmitting data

• US 7,911,355 B2
• Filed: 04/04/2007
• Issued: 03/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Janke, Marcus, Lippmann, Bernhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Benjamin C
• Assistant Examiner(s): BEE, ANDREW W.
• Application Number:
  US11/696,535
• Publication Number:
  US 20070290858A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,448 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.8, 340/686.1, 340/687, 340/686.4, 235/492
• US Class Current: 340/686.4
• 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 19/07318 by hindering electromagnetic reading or writing jamming of communication, counter-measures H04K3/00; secret communication H04K1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07345 by activating or deactivating at least a part of the circuit on the record carrier, e.g. ON/OFF switches

Abstract

A data storing apparatus that wirelessly transmits data, wherein the apparatus is deformable so as to block wireless transmission of data when the apparatus is in the deformed state.

Claims

1. A data storage card that wirelessly transmits data, the data storage card comprising:

an envelope section and an internal section which can be displaced relative to the envelope section and is at least partially arranged in the envelope section, the envelope section comprising an antenna and contacts which are connected to the antenna,

wherein when the internal section has been pulled out relative to the envelope section, the contacts of the envelope section connect to contacts of the internal section, and the contacts of the internal section are connected to a transmission device of the data storage card, to thereby enable wireless transmission of data, and

wherein when the internal section has been pushed in relative to the envelope section, wireless transmission of data is blocked.

2. The data storage card as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data storage card comprises an energy receiving antenna for operating the data storage card.

3. The data storage card as claimed in claim 2, wherein the data storage card is supplied solely with energy induced by the energy receiving antenna, and bidirectional data interchange occurs simultaneously.

4. The data storage card as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data storage card is configured to store personal data.

5. The data storage card as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data storage card comprises a contactless cash card function.

6. The data storage card as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data storage card comprises readable information which is covered by the envelope section when the internal section has been pushed into the envelope section during which wireless transmission of data is blocked.

7. The data storage card as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contacts of the envelope section and the contacts of the internal section are fitted such that the contacts of the envelope section act as stoppers for the contacts of the internal section, thereby preventing the internal section from being completely pulled out from the envelope section.