RFID Transponder Integration in Cardboard Packaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for accessing media files are limited in their ability to provide alternative access options to a broader audience, particularly through everyday items like packaging and printed materials.

Innovation Solution

Integration of RFID/NFC transponders into cardboard or cardboard materials, allowing for the embedding and removable use within functional objects such as packaging and books, enabling identification and playback of media files using audio boxes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If RFID/NFC transponders are integrated into cardboard or cardboard material of functional objects, then media access is expanded to a larger audience through everyday items, but the complexity of integrating and removing transponders from functional objects increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia access expansionVSAvoidtransponder integration complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The functional object is divided into separable components: the transponder integrated into cardboard material can be detached from the functional object (e.g., packaging or book). This segmentation allows the transponder to be reused as a standalone identification carrier while maintaining its initial integrated state for media access purposes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The transponder integrated into cardboard material serves multiple functions: it remains part of the functional object for initial media access, can be removed to serve as a portable identification carrier, and maintains compatibility with both integrated and detached usage scenarios, thereby expanding media access versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If transponders are integrated into functional objects like packaging and books, then alternative access options to media files are provided, but the manufacturing process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvealternative access optionsVSAvoidmanufacturing process complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The transponder is pre-integrated into the cardboard material during the manufacturing of the functional object (packaging or book). This preliminary integration ensures the transponder is already in place before the product reaches the consumer, simplifying the manufacturing process while enabling alternative media access options.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The transponder integrated into cardboard material creates a replicable model for media access that can be applied across various functional objects (packaging, books, etc.). This copying approach allows the same transponder technology to be universally implemented across different product types without requiring complex custom manufacturing for each application.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Ease of operation

If transponders are made removable from functional objects, then reusable identification carriers are created, but the reliability of the functional object structure decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransponder removabilityVSAvoidfunctional object structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The functional object is designed with segmented construction that allows the transponder-integrated cardboard portion to be cleanly separated from the main structure. This segmentation enables easy removal of the transponder while maintaining the structural integrity and reliability of the remaining functional object (packaging or book).

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The transponder is designed to be discarded from the functional object after use, but recovered as a reusable identification carrier. This process allows the functional object to maintain its structural reliability while the transponder is systematically removed and reused for subsequent media access operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #34Discarding and recovering

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 provides a simple and economically attractive way to expand media access to a larger audience, enhancing visibility in retail and influencing purchasing decisions by integrating media access into everyday items.

Implementation Method 1

a functional object made of cardboard or cardboard material with an RFID/NFC transponder integrated into the cardboard or cardboard material

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectRFID/NFC electromagnetic communication: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentEP4064129A1Functional item with a transponder

Publication Date: 2022.09.28 TIGER MEDIA INT GMBH

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AI summary

The invention relates to a functional object (1) made of cardboard or paperboard material (1a) with an RFID/NFC transponder (2) integrated into the cardboard or paperboard material (1a). The invention further relates to a system comprising a consumer item (1), such as packaging or a printed product, with an RFID/NFC transponder (2) integrated into the cardboard or paperboard material (1a) and a reader (10c) for reading a memory content of the RFID/NFC transponder (2), in particular an identifier.