Patents Assigned to Smartrac IP B.V.
  • Patent number: 9773201
    Abstract: A method for manufacture of an electronic interface card including defining a pair of apertures in a substrate layer, associating an antenna with the substrate layer such that opposite ends of the antenna terminate at the apertures, placing a metal element in each of the apertures, connecting the ends of the antenna to the metal elements, laminating the substrate layer together with a top layer and a bottom layer, forming a recess in the top layer and the substrate layer, attaching ends of connection wires to the metal elements, attaching opposite ends of the connection wires to a chip module and sealing the chip module in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventors: Guy Shafran, Oded Bashan
  • Patent number: 9582690
    Abstract: A method provides and manages information linked to RFID data storage media in a network with data transmission between an RFID data storage medium and an RFID reading unit, integrated in a mobile radio device, for reading the data stored on the RFID data storage medium. A data link is set up to a network server in a network via a radio interface of the mobile radio device. A data memory area on the network server is associated with the RFID data storage medium. An arrangement provides and manages information linked to RFID data storage media in a network. The arrangement includes an RFID data storage medium, a mobile radio device with an integrated RFID reading unit for reading RFID data records, and a network with a network server. The network server has a data memory area which is associated with the RFID data storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventor: Manfred Rietzler
  • Patent number: 9325053
    Abstract: A method for producing an RFID transponder. An RFID chip is attached onto a conductive sheet. A portion of an antenna element is cut from the conductive sheet using a laser beam after the RFID chip has been attached to the conductive sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventors: Juhani Virtanen, Matti Tavilampi
  • Patent number: 9281552
    Abstract: A method for producing a radio frequency identification transponder includes forming a first groove in a conductive sheet such that a portion of said conductive sheet surrounds the first groove, attaching an RFID chip to the conductive sheet after the first groove has been formed such that the first groove is located between a first connecting element of the chip and a second connecting element of the chip, and forming a second groove in the conductive sheet after the chip has been attached so as to form an antenna element of said transponder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2016
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventor: Juhani Virtanen
  • Patent number: 9224086
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for contacting a chip with a conductor arrangement and also to a conductor arrangement, particularly a transponder antenna, an intermediate carrier or the like, with a carrier substrate (55) for accommodating the chip and with a chip having chip terminal faces formed thereon, wherein a conductor material layer (66) is formed on the carrier substrate, wherein the conductor material layer forms a conductor arrangement (64) having at least two conductors (56, 57) which are connected to each other in a chip contact area (58), wherein an insulating gap (59) is formed in the chip contact area, such that mutually electrically insulated conductor terminal faces (60, 61) of the conductors are formed, wherein the chip terminal faces are contacted with the conductor terminal faces, and wherein the insulating gap is formed by removal of the conductor material layer by means of a laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventors: Manfred Rietzler, Ulrich Lang
  • Patent number: 9202093
    Abstract: A method for determining a value of an environment variable using raw data from an energetically essentially passive remote-access apparatus. A value of a first measurable quantity indicative of the environment variable is obtained from the raw data. The value of the environment variable is determined using calibration data and the value of the first measurable quantity. The accuracy is enhanced by measuring the value of the measurable quantity with a measuring signal of which strength is regulated or by obtaining a value of a second measurable quantity. The second measurable quantity is indicative of the environment variable or measurement conditions of the first measurable quantity. A method for forming calibration data for the measurements. RFID reader devices arranged to carry out the methods and energetically essentially passive remote-access apparatuses for the methods. A database that may be used with the method and a computer product including the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventors: Kaj Nummila, Kaarle Jaakkola, Miika Huusko, Heikki Seppä, Juhani Virtanen, Juha Vattulainen
  • Patent number: 9135476
    Abstract: A method for producing a radio frequency identification transponder includes providing a conductive sheet covered by a mask layer, processing the mask layer by a laser beam so as to form an exposed portion of the conductive sheet, wherein the processing is carried out after a radio frequency identification chip has been attached to the conductive sheet, and etching the exposed portion so as to form a groove in the conductive sheet, wherein the groove defines an edge of an antenna element of the transponder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventor: Juhani Virtanen
  • Patent number: 9058554
    Abstract: The invention relates to sewable tamper detection elements for radio frequency identification devices, and to radio frequency identification devices with such tamper detection elements. The devices can be sewn into a seam of a garment so that the tamper detection element is partially inside the garment, e.g. as part of a care label. This makes removing the device difficult without breaking the tamper detection element, and thereby shoplifting attempts can be more reliably noticed. For this purpose, the tamper detection element is formed so that sewing through it does not break the element. The radio frequency identification device may be formed asymmetric so that the tamper detection element is on a different side from the antenna elements with respect to the chip. In this manner, the disturbance from the tamper detection element to the antenna can be minimized. The tamper detection element may be formed so that it contains a transparent opening on which text can be printed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventors: Kirsi Kervinen, Tero Koivisto, Tuomas Koskelainen
  • Patent number: 9044925
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (14) for laminating a film-tape-like multilayer thermoplastic film arrangement (1), according to the invention comprising heatable press plates (8.1, 8.2) and cooling surfaces (10), wherein a width of said press plates (8.1, 8.2) and cooling surfaces (10) is greater than or equal to a width of the film arrangement (1), wherein the film arrangement (1) is arranged in the position thereof relative to the press plates (8.1, 8.2) such that press plate edges (20) lie at the grid center (5.1) and the cooling surfaces (10) are arranged with a distance up to 3 mm next to a press plate edge (20) and beginning in the same grid (5), wherein a length of the cooling surfaces (10) is greater than or equal to a length of the press plates (8.1, 8.2), wherein one press plate (8.1, 8.2) and one cooling surface (10) are respectively arranged on both sides of the film arrangement (1), wherein the press plates (8.1, 8.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventor: Manfred Michalk
  • Patent number: 9038913
    Abstract: A method for manufacture of an electronic interface card (100) including defining a pair of apertures in a substrate layer (116), associating an antenna (112) with the substrate layer (116) such that opposite ends of the antenna (112) terminate at the apertures, placing a metal element in each of the apertures, connecting the ends of the antenna to the metal elements, laminating the substrate layer together with a top layer (114) and a bottom layer (118), forming a recess (122) in the top layer and the substrate layer, attaching end of connection wires (130) to the metal elements, attaching opposite ends of the connection wires (130) to a chip module (120) and sealing the chip module in the recess (122).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventors: Guy Shafran, Oded Bashan
  • Publication number: 20150115038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transponder layer (10), in particular for producing a chip card, having an antenna substrate (12), which, on an antenna side (11), is equipped with an antenna (14) formed from a wire conductor (13), and has a chip accommodation which is formed by a recess in the antenna substrate and in which a chip (21) is accommodated, wherein wire conductor ends, which serve to form terminal ends (15) of the antenna, are formed at a bottom (20) of the chip accommodation which is recessed with respect to the rear side (26) of the antenna substrate (12), and the chip is accommodated in the chip accommodation in such a manner that terminal contacts (22) arranged on a contact side (36) of the chip are contacted with flat contact portions (19) of the terminal ends (15), and the chip is arranged with the rear side (27) of its semiconductor body (28) facing the terminal contacts substantially flush with the rear side of the antenna substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2013
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Applicant: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventors: Martin Kuschewski, Manfred Rietzler
  • Patent number: 8998097
    Abstract: An RFID tag including a body part and a fixing part for attaching the body part to an object to be identified. The RFID tag includes at least one transponder. The body part and the fixing part include a single integrated piece. The fixing part is formed of a part with a ring-like or loop-like shape that can be fitted around at least a part of the object to be identified. A method for manufacturing an RFID tag and a package including several products separate from each other, including RFID tags for identifying the products separately from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventor: Anu Launiainen
  • Patent number: 9000305
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a circuit arrangement (1) having a prescribed electrical capacitance, comprising a substrate (S) having at least one metallic, electrically conductive conductor (L, Lb, Ls). According to the invention, at least one first conductor strip segment (LA1) is disposed on the substrate (S) and at least some regions of at least one second conductor strip segment (LA2, LA3, LA4) are disposed on the first conductor strip segment (LA1), wherein an electrically insulating layer (iS) is disposed between the conductor strip segments (LA1, LA2, LA3, LA4), forming a dielectric. The invention further relates to a method and a device (2) for producing a circuit arrangement (1) having a prescribed electrical capacitance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventor: Manfred Michalk
  • Publication number: 20150032569
    Abstract: A method and system for providing access to a service. An identification for identifying a tag and information for accessing a service are formed. The service can utilize the identification for accessing the service. A second identification for identifying a person or a group of people is formed for the service to use, and the two identifications are associated with each other for easy access to the service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventor: Samuli Strömberg
  • Publication number: 20150024523
    Abstract: A method for producing a radio frequency identification transponder includes providing a conductive sheet covered by a mask layer, processing the mask layer by a laser beam so as to form an exposed portion of the conductive sheet, wherein the processing is carried out after a radio frequency identification chip has been attached to the conductive sheet, and etching the exposed portion so as to form a groove in the conductive sheet, wherein the groove defines an edge of an antenna element of the transponder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventor: Juhani Virtanen
  • Publication number: 20140263659
    Abstract: The invention relates to sewable tamper detection elements for radio frequency identification devices, and to radio frequency identification devices with such tamper detection elements. The devices can be sewn into a seam of a garment so that the tamper detection element is partially inside the garment, e.g. as part of a care label. This makes removing the device difficult without breaking the tamper detection element, and thereby shoplifting attempts can be more reliably noticed. For this purpose, the tamper detection element is formed so that sewing through it does not break the element. The radio frequency identification device may be formed asymmetric so that the tamper detection element is on a different side from the antenna elements with respect to the chip. In this manner, the disturbance from the tamper detection element to the antenna can be minimized. The tamper detection element may be formed so that it contains a transparent opening on which text can be printed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2011
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SMARTRAC IP B.V.
    Inventors: Kirsi Kervinen, Tero Koivisto, Tuomas Koskelainen
  • Patent number: 8810472
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna module (45) for producing a transponder, wherein the antenna module comprises an antenna conductor arrangement disposed on a substrate surface (46) of a substrate (47) and having an antenna conductor (50) for contacting with a chip (40), wherein the antenna conductor (50) forms a first antenna part (51) having a first terminal end on a first partial area (48) of the substrate surface, and with a second terminal end extends to a second partial area (49) of the substrate surface to form a second antenna part (52), wherein antenna connection contacts (57, 61) are disposed on the respective partial areas, such that the antenna connection contacts can be brought into an overlapping position for producing an electrically conductive connection by swiveling the partial areas with respect to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventors: Jan Wendisch, Egon Konopitzky
  • Patent number: 8689428
    Abstract: A method for manufacture of an electronic interface card including defining a pair of apertures in a substrate layer, associating an antenna with the substrate layer such that opposite ends of the antenna terminate at the apertures, placing a conductor in each of the apertures, connecting the antenna to the conductor, forming a recess in the substrate layer, attaching continuous connection wires to a plurality of chip modules, attaching the continuous connection wires to a plurality of conductors on a corresponding plurality of the substrate layers, cutting the continuous connection wires so as to retain portions thereof which connect each chip module to a corresponding pair of conductors and sealing the chip module in the recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventors: Oded Bashan, Guy Shafran
  • Patent number: D710337
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventor: Tuomas Koskelainen
  • Patent number: D729780
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Smartrac IP B.V.
    Inventors: Tuomas Koskelainen, Antti Manninen