Membrane Tab Integrating RFID Data Carrier for Environmental Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing membranes lack efficient methods for assigning and protecting data related to the membrane's parameters, customer information, and delivery details, particularly in environments exposed to oils or dirt, which can affect data readability.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating an electronic data carrier, such as an RFID chip, within a protruding tab of the membrane, where it is protected by the membrane's layers and aligned parallel to the membrane surface for enhanced readability, and using a method of vulcanizing the data carrier with the membrane layers during manufacturing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If data is stored on the membrane surface, then data assignment is simple, but data readability is affected by oils or dirt
Solution Approach 1:
The data carrier is nested within a pocket formed by the membrane layers, specifically in a tab region. This nesting protects the data carrier from environmental contaminants like oils and dirt while maintaining data accessibility through the tab protrusion.
Solution Approach 2:
The tab acts as an intermediary structure that protrudes beyond the membrane surface, providing a protected yet accessible interface for data carriers. This mediator allows data to be shielded from harmful environmental factors while remaining readable by external devices.
2Reliability
If the data carrier is enclosed by membrane layers, then protection from environmental influences is achieved, but data reading becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The membrane is segmented into a main body and a protruding tab region. The data carrier is specifically placed in the tab, separating the protected storage function (in the pocket) from the reading function (at the protruding tab surface), thus resolving the contradiction between protection and accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The tab protrudes in the third dimension beyond the membrane surface, creating a spatial extension that allows data carriers to be both enclosed for protection and accessible for reading. This dimensional extension resolves the contradiction by adding spatial depth to the system.
3Strength
If housing parts are present between the membrane and reading device, then structural support is provided, but data reading is interfered with
Solution Approach 1:
The data carrier is extracted from the planar membrane surface and placed in a protruding tab that extends beyond the housing interface. This extraction removes the data reading function from the interference zone of housing parts, allowing reading devices to access data without structural interference while housing parts continue to provide support.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution allows for indefinite data assignment and protection from environmental influences, ensuring data readability even in the presence of oils or dirt, with improved placement and reading of data without interference from housing parts.
Implementation Method 1
An RFID chip (RFID=radio frequency identification) is present as the data carrier
Implementation Method 2
vulcanized together with the layers of the membrane built up one on top of the other
Data Source
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AI summary
A membrane (10) which is provided with a membrane surface that represents the functional region of the membrane (10) and which is provided with a tab (12) that projects beyond the membrane surface is described. The membrane (10) and the tab (12) are constructed from a number of layers, wherein at least one of the layers consists of an elastomer. Arranged in the tab (12) is an electronic data carrier (16). The tab (12) has an upper and a lower layer (18, 19). The data carrier (16) is enclosed by the layers of the tab (12) and the upper and the lower layer (18, 19).