RFID Antenna
a technology of rfid antenna and condition-responsive indicating system, which is applied in the direction of resonant antenna, radiating element structure, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of limiting the effective operating range of a passive rfid tag with respect to the given, simple inefficiency and inability to increase the power level of an interrogation signal to ensure successful interrogator-tag communication is not always possible, etc., to achieve small siz
Inactive Publication Date: 2009-02-05
TRANSPACIFIC TECH
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[0017]An advantage of the present invention is that it is particularly suitable for use in passive-type RFID tags by virtue of its high efficiency. Although, the present invention is also quite suitable and beneficial for use in many active-type RFID tag designs.
[0018]Another advantage of the invention is that it can be implemented as a simple structure having a small size, thus making it suitable to serve in applications where a size is a limitation and making its manufacture and materials requirements quite economical.
[0019]Another advantage of the invention is that it permits a more omni directional antenna pattern than many existing designs, facilitating consistent and reliable transponder detection.
[0020]And another advantage of the invention is that it matches well with the rectifier of the RFID device it is used in without employing additional, discrete circuit elements.
[0021]These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will become clear to those skilled in the art in view of the description of the best presently known mode of carrying out the invention and the industrial applicability of the preferred embodiment as described herein and as illustrated in the figures of the drawings.
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The lack of a built-in energy source, however, also limits the effective operating range of a passive RFID tag with respect to the given energy in an interrogation signal.
Unfortunately, simply increasing the power level of an interrogation signal to insure successful interrogator-tag communications is not always possible.
For instance, simple inefficiency can exacerbate problems such as battery life and heat dissipation in the interrogator.
Of more serious concern, RF energy radiation intended for one system can interfere with other electronic systems and, in extreme cases, can be unsafe for biological systems, e.g., humans, animals, plants, etc.
Unfortunately, these approaches are often undesirable because they increase the cost, complexity, and size of the RFID tag and decrease its efficiency.
Unfortunately, this has until now not been possible without accepting other undesirable consequences.
However, due to its use of diodes and capacitors, the rectifier at the front end of the transponder chip has an input impedance that is a complex value in nearly all cases, comprising both a positive real component and a negative imaginary component.
This normally requires an increase in antenna size, in comparison with a resonant dipole, and that especially conflicts with the usual design goals of reducing overall transponder size and cost.
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[0029]A preferred embodiment of the present invention is an antenna for use in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) transponders. As illustrated in the various drawings herein, and particularly in the views of FIG. 2-5, preferred embodiments of the invention are depicted by the general reference characters 10, 30, 50, and 70.
[0030]FIG. 2 depicts an antenna 10 in accord with the present invention that consists of two sections 12, 14. The first section 12 consists of the mainly radiating components, here straight conductive traces 16, while the second section 14 consists of substantially reactive components, here spiral conductive traces 18. The spirals shown in the figures herein are typical, and might have an arbitrary number of turns, lengths, widths, etc.
[0031]In the characteristic manner of dipole-type antennas, the antenna 10 here has a left dipole half 20 mirrored by a right dipole half 22. These halfs of the antenna 10 do not correspond with and should not be confused with th...
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An antenna particularly suitable for use in radio frequency identification (RFID) transponders. First and second half portions each include nominally straight conductive sections primarily defining a radiating characteristic and nominally spiral conductive sections creating a positive reactive characteristic of the antenna. The straight conductive sections have feed points for connecting the antenna into the RFID transponder, and further connect with the respective spiral conductive sections. The first and said second half portions characterize the antenna as being a dipole type, and adding an optional loop section connecting the straight conductive sections can further characterize it as being of a folded dipole type.
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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates generally to electrical communications, more particularly to condition-responsive indicating systems, yet more particularly to detectable devices or tags, and still more particularly to where a detectable device or tag has a particular aerial wave collector structure for sending or receiving signals.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are in wide and growing use today. FIG. 1 (prior art) is a schematic diagram depicting an example RFID system including an interrogator and a transponder. In some RFID systems the “identifying” information is written into the transponder during manufacture and never changed, making the interrogator merely a reader. In other systems, however, the identifying information in the transponder can be changed and the interrogator used can then be both a reader and a writer. In view of this, the term “interrogator” is used herein to generically mean a reader, a writer, or both. Th...
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IPC IPC(8): H01Q9/26H01Q1/36
CPCG06K19/07749H01Q1/22H01Q9/285H01Q1/248H01Q9/26H01Q1/2225
InventorHOZOURI, BEHZAD TAVASSOLI
OwnerTRANSPACIFIC TECH