Abstract: This disclosure discloses a tag label producing apparatus comprises a feeding device that feeds a tag medium including an RFID circuit element having an IC circuit part configured to store information and a tag antenna configured to transmit/receive information, a communication device that transmits and receives information via a wireless communication to and from the RFID circuit element provided in the tag medium; and a communication facilitation processing portion that executes predetermined facilitation processing related to a communication during the wireless communication based on the communication device.

Abstract: There are provided a cartridge to which a first roll around which a base tape with a plurality of RFID circuit elements arranged is wound can be detachably attached, an antenna for transmission/reception of information with the RFID circuit element, a signal processing circuit and a transmitting portion that generate access information to an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element, transmit the information to the RFID circuit element and carry out information writing in the IC circuit part or information reading from the IC circuit part, a print head for printing on a cover film, and a control circuit provided with a determination portion that determines matching between parameter data provided at the cartridge and instruction data relating to the print input by an operation portion.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses a tag label producing apparatus comprising: a printing device; a transmitting/receiving device that performs information transmission/reception; a feeding device that feeds said tag medium; a coordination control portion; a communication determining portion that determines whether or not information transmission/reception has succeeded; and a decision portion that decides a feeding-stop condition for stopping feeding based on a feeding condition for the transmission/reception, and a feeding-condition for printing to a print area; wherein: said coordination control portion controls in coordination operations of said feeding device, said transmitting/receiving device, and said printing device so as to stop feeding based on said feeding-stop condition decided by said decision portion and to perform retry of said information transmission/reception when said communication determining portion determines that said information transmission/reception has failed.

Abstract: An apparatus for fixing RFID tags fixes a RFID circuit element on a print label to produce a RFID label. At this time, a barcode provided on the print label side is read by a barcode sensor, and information to be written corresponding to barcode information is written into the RFID circuit element through an antenna via wireless communication. The barcode on the print label is associated with the label print, whereby a RFID label with print can be produced in which the label print and the information to be stored in the RFID circuit element are associated with each other.

Abstract: The RFID tag information communicating device is provided with a cartridge constructed in such a manner that a plurality of RFID circuit elements are stored and can be sequentially taken out therefrom, and an antenna for performing transmitting/receiving operations in a radio communicating operation between the own antenna and an antenna of a sequentially derived RFID circuit element, first access information for accessing RFID tag information of an IC circuit part is produced by a signal processing circuit; and the produced first access information is transmitted by a transmitting portion so as to access the RFID tag information of the IC circuit part. After the access operation is carried out, a control circuit judges as to whether or not the access operation can succeed, and controls a magnitude of transmission power from the transmitting portion in response to this judgment result.

Abstract: A projector has an antenna configured to transmit and receives information to and from a RFID circuit element including an IC circuit part configured to store and hold address information of an electronic file and device information about devices capable of executing a processing operation, and a projection control part and a control circuit configured to generate access information, transmit it to the RFID circuit element, acquire device information from its reply signal, and acquire file information based on the acquired device information.

Abstract: A communication system wherein each endpoint device which has received an interrogating signal from an interrogator responds with a reflected signal generated by modulating the interrogating signal with appropriate information, wherein each endpoint device includes a distance detecting portion operable to detect a distance between the interrogator and the endpoint device, a reflecting portion operable to receive and reflect the interrogating signal, an information generating portion operable to generate replying information to be transmitted to the interrogator, a band determining portion operable to determine, on the basis of the detected distance, a frequency band of a modulating signal used to modulate a reflected signal generated by the reflecting portion, and a modulating-signal generating portion operable, according to the replying information, to generate the modulating signal having a frequency within the determined frequency band.

Abstract: A label producing apparatus has a pressure roller drive shaft for feeding a cover film supplied from a cartridge storing a cover film capable of supply, acquires the arrangement information by accessing a database storing and holding arrangement information of the article to be arranged, and has a print head and a cutter for producing an auxiliary label by forming the acquired arrangement information for the cover film fed by the pressure roller drive shaft.

Abstract: A printer selection system to select a printer for performing output from a plurality of printers includes: a mobile station moved along with a computer; a plurality of base stations fixedly disposed at known positions; and a server connected to the computer that enables data communication, the server including a positioning portion that determines a position of the computer based on a reception result of a radio wave for position detection transmitted from one of the base stations and the mobile station and received by the other, a printer position database portion storing information about positions of the printers, a distance determining portion that determines a distance between each of the printers and the computer, and a printer setting portion that sets a printer having the shortest distance as a printer that performs the output from the computer based on the distances between each of the printers and the computer.

Abstract: An apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag comprises: a container holder configured to detachably attach a container for including at least a RFID tag which contains a tag medium on which a RFID circuit element is arranged; and an apparatus magnetic-path forming portion configured to form a magnetic path for a communication magnetic flux in a feeding path of said tag medium in said container for including at least a RFID tag when said container for including at least a RFID tag is attached to said container holder.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus has a polishing table having a polishing surface and a top ring for pressing a substrate against the polishing surface while independently controlling pressing forces applied to a plurality of areas on the substrate. The polishing apparatus has a sensor for monitoring substrate conditions of a plurality of measurement points on the substrate, a monitor unit for performing a predetermined arithmetic process on a signal from the sensor to generate a monitor signal, and a controller for comparing the monitor signal of the measurement points with the reference signal and controlling the pressing forces of the top ring so that the monitor signal of the measurement point converges on the reference signal.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus has a polishing table (18) having a polishing surface (40) and a top ring (20) for pressing a substrate against the polishing surface (40) while independently controlling pressing forces applied to a plurality of areas (C1-C4) on the substrate. The polishing apparatus has a sensor (52) for monitoring substrate conditions of a plurality of measurement points on the substrate, a monitor unit (53) for performing a predetermined arithmetic process on a signal from the sensor (52) to generate a monitor signal, and a controller (54) for comparing the monitor signal of the measurement points with the reference signal and controlling the pressing forces of the top ring (20) so that the monitor signal of the measurement point converges on the reference signal.

Abstract: A record apparatus includes a media writing unit to record on a disc media information to be recorded stored in a predetermined storage location; a control circuit to record storage-location information of the media information to be recorded on the disc with the media writing unit in a RFID circuit element being attached to the disc and having an IC circuit part to store information and an antenna to transmit and receive information; a radio frequency circuit; and an antenna.

Abstract: A communication system including: (a) a plurality of interrogators; and (b) at least one transponder operable, upon reception of an interrogating wave transmitted from each of the interrogators, to respond to the interrogator with a reflected wave which is generated by modulating the interrogating wave. Each of the interrogators is operable to communicate with the other of the interrogators in a wireless manner. A frequency band of the reflected wave transmitted from the transponder to each of the interrogators is preferably separated from a frequency band of a communication wave transmitted from the interrogator to the other of the interrogators, and is preferably closer to a frequency of the interrogating wave transmitted from the interrogator to the transponder, than the frequency band of the communication wave.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing RFID labels includes a feeding-roller driving shaft configured to feed a base tape on which a RFID circuit element provided with a tag antenna having directivity with sensitivity to one side higher than that to the other side is arranged, a sensor configured to acquire information relating to directivity of the tag antenna, a lower apparatus antenna for radio communication with the RFID circuit element, and a print head configured to make a print on a cover film to be bonded to the base tape and controls the print head according to the directivity information acquired using the sensor.

Abstract: In an antenna formed by a substantially thin-plate state conductive member on a base material, a surface area expanding portion is provided at least substantially at a center part in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which an electric current flows. The surface area expanding portion is a projection portion provided in a projecting state with respect to a peripheral portion (or a concave portion arranged concaved than the peripheral portion). A width dimension of the projection portion (or the concave portion) in a cross-sectional face is twice or more of a skin depth of the electric current in the cross sectional face.

Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.

Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.

Abstract: A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.

Abstract: This disclosure discloses an RFID tag supplying apparatus that supplies a substantially sheet-like antenna base on which an RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information is disposed between a first tape and a second tape that are fed to a predetermined bonding position to be mutually bonded, comprising: a tape processing device that makes a tape orderly on said antenna base to prevent the generation of parts out of order in a tag tape including said first tape and said second tape.