Wheeled vehicle mounted with RFID tag, RFID tag, speed measurement system, and speed measurement method

• US 8,120,491 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2010
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Endo, Yuta, Uto, Noriaki, Okamoto, Satohiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Trieu, Van T.
• Application Number:
  US12/787,921
• Publication Number:
  US 20100231374A1
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• Field of Search: 340/572.1, 340/572.4, 340/572.7, 340/572.8, 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/539.22, 340/539.26, 340/636.12, 340/636.19, 340/636.2, 340/10.42, 340/500, 235/375, 235/381, 455/41.2
• US Class Current: 340/572.4
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/0022 arrangements or provisious for transferring data to distant stations, e.g. from a sensing device "transfer between computer elements G06F13/00 "; data-transmission H04L
• 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: G08G 1/017 identifying vehicles G08G1/015, G08G1/054 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/052 with provision for determining speed or overspeed speed measuring in general G01P
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation

Abstract

An RFID tag having a memory portion for holding information on a wheeled vehicle is mounted on the wheeled vehicle, and an external interrogator and the RFID tag exchange information with each other. Further, an RFID tag having a memory portion for holding information on a wheeled vehicle and a communication device for exchanging information with the RFID tag are set on the wheeled vehicle. When the external interrogator and the RFID tag exchange information with each other, the communication device holds information of a situation, for example, speed information, information on date and time, and the like in the memory portion in the RFID tag.

Claims

1. A wheeled vehicle comprising:

an RFID tag comprising a memory portion, a battery, a rectifier circuit, a voltage control circuit, a processing circuit, and a charge control circuit,

wherein the memory portion is configured to hold identification information,

wherein the processing circuit includes a demodulation circuit,

wherein the RFID tag is configured to send the identification information in a case of receiving a signal,

wherein, in the case of receiving the signal, the charge control circuit is configured to examine whether a voltage of the battery reaches a given value, and to charge the battery in a case where the voltage of the battery does not reach the given value, and

wherein the rectifier circuit is electrically connected to the demodulation circuit through the voltage control circuit and the battery.

2. The wheeled vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the RFID tag comprises a thin film integrated circuit sealed with a first base and a second base, and

wherein each of the first base and the second base is an antistatic film.

3. The wheeled vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the RFID tag is attached to or embedded in any of a mirror portion, a light portion, or a window portion of the wheeled vehicle.

4. The wheeled vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the identification information includes any of speed information, information on date and time, information on theft, information on accident history, information on restoration history, information on tax payment, and information on penalty payment.

5. The wheeled vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the RFID tag is attached to a curved surface portion of the wheeled vehicle.

6. The wheeled vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a communication device set on the wheeled vehicle,

wherein the communication device is configured to communicate with the RFID tag, and

wherein the memory portion is configured to hold the speed information that is measured by the wheeled vehicle.

7. The wheeled vehicle according to claim 6,

wherein communication of the RFID tag and the communication device is performed by wired communication.

8. The wheeled vehicle according to claim 1,

wherein the RFID tag is configured to send a signal of completion of the charge in a case where the battery reaches the given value.

9. A vehicle information system comprising:

a first interrogator configured to detect first identification information on an RFID tag set on a wheeled vehicle;

a second interrogator configured to detect second identification information on the RFID tag set on the wheeled vehicle; and

a computer that is operationally connected to the first interrogator and the second interrogator,

wherein the second interrogator is placed to have a given distance from the first interrogator,

wherein the second interrogator is configured to detect the second identification information, after the first interrogator detects first identification information,

wherein the computer is configured to hold first timing information on date and time and examine whether or not the first identification information is a vehicle identification information of a desired wheeled vehicle in detecting the first identification information,

wherein the computer is configured to hold second timing information on date and time and examine whether or not the second identification information is the vehicle identification information of a desired vehicle in detecting the second identification information,

wherein the computer is configured to examine a direction of the driven desired wheeled vehicle by detecting the first and second identification information;

wherein the RFID tag comprises a memory portion, a charge control circuit, a processing circuit, a rectifier circuit, a voltage control circuit, and a battery,

wherein, when the RFID tag receives a signal from at least one of the first interrogator and the second interrogator, the charge control circuit is configured to examine whether or not a voltage of the battery reaches a given value and to charge the battery in a case where the voltage of the battery does not reach the given value,

wherein the processing circuit includes a demodulation circuit, and

wherein the rectifier circuit is electrically connected to the demodulation circuit through the battery.

10. The vehicle information system according to claim 9,

wherein the RFID tag comprises a thin film integrated circuit sealed with a first base and a second base, and

wherein each of the first base and the second base is an antistatic film.

11. The vehicle information system according to claim 9,

wherein the RFID tag is attached to or embedded in any of a mirror portion, a light portion, or a window portion of the wheeled vehicle.

12. The vehicle information system according to claim 9,

wherein the first identification information includes any of speed information, information on date and time, information on theft, information on accident history, information on restoration history, information on tax payment, and information on penalty payment.

13. The vehicle information system according to claim 9,

wherein the RFID tag is attached to a curved surface portion of the wheeled vehicle.

14. The vehicle information system according to claim 9, further comprising:

a communication device set on the wheeled vehicle,

wherein the communication device is configured to communicate with the RFID tag, and

wherein the memory portion is configured to hold the speed information that is measured by the wheeled vehicle.

15. The vehicle information system according to claim 14,

wherein communication of the RFID tag and the communication device is performed by wired communication.

16. The vehicle information system according to claim 9,

wherein the RFID tag is configured to send a signal of completion of the charge in a case where the battery reaches the given value.

17. A vehicle information system comprising:

a first interrogator configured to detect first identification information on an RFID tag set on a wheeled vehicle;

a second interrogator configured to detect second identification information on the RFID tag set on the wheeled vehicle;

a third interrogator configured to detect third identification information on the RFID tag set on the wheeled vehicle; and

a computer that is operationally connected to the first interrogator and the second interrogator,

wherein the second interrogator is placed to have a given distance from the first interrogator,

wherein the second interrogator is configured to detect the second identification information, after the first interrogator detects first identification information,

wherein the computer is configured to hold first timing information on date and time and examine whether or not the first identification information is a vehicle identification information of a desired wheeled vehicle in detecting the first identification information,

wherein the computer is configured to hold second timing information on date and time and examine whether or not the second identification information is the vehicle identification information of a desired wheeled vehicle in detecting the second identification information,

wherein the computer is configured to examine a direction of the driven desired wheeled vehicle by detecting the first and second identification information,

wherein the third interrogator is a portable interrogator and is configured to examine whether or not the third identification information is the vehicle identification information of a desired wheeled vehicle in detecting the third identification information,

wherein the RFID tag comprises a memory portion, a charge control circuit, a processing circuit, a rectifier circuit, a voltage control circuit, and a battery,

wherein, when the RFID tag receives a signal from at least one of the first interrogator and the second interrogator, the charge control circuit is configured to examine whether or not a voltage of the battery reaches a given value and to charge the battery in a case where the voltage of the battery does not reach the given value,

wherein the processing circuit includes a demodulation circuit, and

wherein the rectifier circuit is electrically connected to the demodulation circuit through the voltage control circuit and the battery.

18. The vehicle information system according to claim 17,

wherein the RFID tag comprises a thin film integrated circuit sealed with a first base and a second base, and

wherein each of the first base and the second base is an antistatic film.

19. The vehicle information system according to claim 17,

wherein the RFID tag is attached to or embedded in any of a mirror portion, a light portion, or a window portion of the wheeled vehicle.

20. The vehicle information system according to claim 17,

wherein the first identification information includes any of speed information, information on date and time, information on theft, information on accident history, information on restoration history, information on tax payment, and information on penalty payment.

21. The vehicle information system according to claim 17,

wherein the RFID tag is attached to a curved surface portion of the wheeled vehicle.

22. The vehicle information system according to claim 17, further comprising:

a communication device set on the wheeled vehicle,

wherein the communication device is configured to communicate with the RFID tag, and

wherein the memory portion is configured to hold the speed information that is measured by the wheeled vehicle.

23. The vehicle information system according to claim 22,

wherein communication of the RFID tag and the communication device is performed by wired communication.

24. The vehicle information system according to claim 17,

wherein the RFID tag is configured to send a signal of completion of the charge in a case where the battery reaches the given value.