Specified Antenna Structure Patents (Class 340/572.7)
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Patent number: 10613047Abstract: A fabric comprising at least one conductive element to define at least one portion of an electric circuit, and a sensor coupled to said conductive element, wherein the sensor comprises a degradable element configured to at least partially degrade in preset conditions to change an electric feature of said sensor. An article comprising the fabric and a process for monitoring the life-cycle of the fabric are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2016Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: Sanko Tekstil Isletmeleri San. Ve Tic. A.S.Inventors: Ozgur Cobanoglu, Jitka Eryilmaz, Ozgur Akdemir, Deniz Iyidogan, Onur Yukselen
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Patent number: 10607460Abstract: A door/window opening detector including an antenna having at least a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency associated therewith, the second resonant frequency being different from the first resonant frequency, the antenna having the first resonant frequency when in proximity to a door/window having a given dielectric constant and the second resonant frequency when not in proximity to a door/window having the given dielectric constant, and an alarm indication generator operable, in response to receiving an indication that a resonant frequency of the antenna has changed from the first resonant frequency to the second resonant frequency, for generating an alarm indication of opening of the door/window.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Roni Shamsian, Max Drankovsky, Alexander Shapira
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Patent number: 10594556Abstract: A modem configured to communicatively connect a terminal device to a field device according to one aspect of the present invention includes a wireless communicator configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to perform short-range wireless communication with the terminal device, a wired communicator configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to perform wired communication with the field device, and a controller configured to operate by power supplied in a noncontact manner from the terminal device and to control data exchanged between the wireless communicator and the wired communicator.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Yokogawa Electric CorporationInventor: Mitsuhiro Washiro
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Patent number: 10579918Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring condition compliance. In some embodiments, an RFID tag comprises a first chip and a second chip, an antenna, a switch, wherein the switch is configured to switchably connect the first chip and the second chip to the antenna based on occurrence of a condition, a memory device, and a control circuit configured to write, in response to a connection between the first chip and the antenna, a first marker and an indication of a first state to the memory device, write, in response to a connection between the second chip and the antenna, a second marker and an indication of a second state to the memory device, determine an amount of time in which compliance was not met, and transmit, to an RFID reader, an indication of the amount of time in which compliance was not met.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Steven J. Lewis, Tom Stiefel, Alvin S. Taulbee, Jeremy R. Tingler, Eugene P. Sunday
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Patent number: 10573411Abstract: An example embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an identification tag associated with a moveable object and in a sleep state, a wake-up signal; waking, responsive to the wake-up signal, the identification tag; listening, while the identification tag is awake and at the identification tag, for a signal from at least one receiver, wherein the signal requests information regarding the identification tag; responsive to not receiving a signal, returning the identification tag to a sleep state after expiration of a back-off timer having a predetermined timer duration; and responsive to receiving a signal from at least one receiver, transmitting, to the least one receiver from an identification tag associated with a moveable object, information related to an environment surrounding the identification tag and information related to a location of the identification tag.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Teletracking Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Stephen S. Jackson
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Patent number: 10572395Abstract: A processing system includes an execution unit comprising a logic circuit to implement an architecturally-protected execution environment associated with a protected region in a memory, in which the execution unit is to execute application code stored in the protected region as a thread running in the architecturally-protected execution environment, determine that an access mode flag is set to a first value, detect an attempt by the thread to access data stored outside the protected region, and responsive to detecting the attempt and determining that the access mode flag is set to the first value, generate an exception.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Volodymyr Pikhur, Atul A. Khare
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Patent number: 10567092Abstract: Embodiments of methods and systems for operating a communications device are described. In one embodiment, a method for operating a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling involves adjusting a phase configuration of the communications device in response to at least one system or environmental parameter, modulating a carrier signal with the adjusted phase configuration using active load modulation (ALM), and transmitting the modulated carrier signal from the communications device for inductive coupling. In some embodiments, the at least one system or environmental parameter is selected from one or more of the following: a distance information, a geometric information, a system code, a technology code, a transmitter current and/or a transmitter power, a detuning condition, a quality factor and a resonant frequency of a resonant system.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Gernot Hueber, Ian Thomas Macnamara, Johannes Bruckbauer
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Patent number: 10547994Abstract: A storage element for a warehouse rack may be provided. The storage element is adapted for housing goods and can be positioned compact in at least two dimensions. The storage element comprises a computing device comprising a memory storing at least a unique identifier and data about the goods housed by the storage element, a plurality of antennas external to the computing device mounted at outer sides of the storage element. The antennas are adapted for a communication to antennas of neighboring storage elements. The antennas are electrically connectable to the computing device. The storage element also comprises a switch controller adapted for switchable connecting one of the plurality of antennas to the computing device at a time.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Marcus Breuer, Bernd Freitag, Frank Krick, Tim Oswald
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Patent number: 10506889Abstract: Disclosed is a double walled vessel for use in an AR system. The AR system includes AR software and an AR display device having a camera and a video screen. The double walled vessel includes an inner vessel disposed within an outer vessel to form an isolated space between the inner and outer vessels. An AR target is located in the isolated space so that it is protected, but visible through the walls of the vessel. The AR display device is configured to take an image of the AR target by its camera, whereupon the AR system's software processes that image to produce an augmented reality image which is provided on the AR display device's screen for viewing by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Tervis Tumbler CompanyInventors: Brock Wilkinson, Daniel Childs
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Patent number: 10509177Abstract: A connection module includes a module body and a module circuit board arrangement. The module body defines a first port and an open first end providing access to the first port. The module circuit board arrangement extends across the open first end within a peripheral boundary defined by the module body. The module circuit board arrangement includes at least a first contact set that extends into the first port of the module body; an electronic controller that is electrically connected to the first contact set; and a circuit board connector facing outwardly from the module board arrangement. Example connection modules include optical adapters and electrical jacks.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLCInventors: Paul John Pepe, Joseph Coffey
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Patent number: 10484050Abstract: A near field communication ring configured to be worn by a user is provided. The NFC ring may include at least one metal ring having a gap, a chip, and an antenna, wherein the chip and the antenna may be fixed to the at least one metal ring having a gap, and wherein the chip, using the antenna, is configured to provide a near field communication with an external device.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AGInventors: Walther Pachler, Josef Gruber, Juergen Hoelzl, Stephan Rampetzreiter
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Patent number: 10467517Abstract: A method for producing a foil which serves as a carrier of at least one electronic device and at least one contactless and/or contact-type interface, involves using a transparent foil as a foil and electrical conducting paths on the foil are printed by means of a transparent, electrically conductive material in order to electroconductively connect the electronic device with the interface. Further, the foil can be used for producing a portable data carrier.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBHInventors: Thomas Tarantino, Robert Griesmeier
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Patent number: 10461398Abstract: An antenna for generating an electromagnetic field. The antenna has a substrate and a contiguous core disposed on the substrate. A continuous winding encircles the core and the substrate extending in a longitudinal direction; a first gap is defined between adjacent turns of the winding. The turns segregated into a plurality of winding segments, each winding segment comprising a plurality of turns. A second gap is defined between adjacent winding segments, wherein the second gap is larger than the first gap. Numerical values for the various parameters of the antenna (e.g., number of turns, number of winding segments, length of the first gap, length of the second gap) are selected to create and propagate a signal having desired parameters.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Fit Pay, Inc.Inventors: David Tunnell, Brian Keen
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Patent number: 10452968Abstract: A radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag with improved sensitivity includes an antenna that receives a radio-frequency (RF) signal and wireless power from an RFID reader. The RFID tag further includes a circuit that varies a reflection coefficient of the antenna to transmit a reflected signal to the reader, the reflected signal having periods of high reflectance when a relatively high amount of the RF signal is reflected, and low reflectance periods when a relatively low amount of the RF signal is reflected. The reflectance of the antenna is sufficiently low during the high reflectance periods to enable wireless power reception during the high reflectance periods.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: INTERMEC, INC.Inventors: Pavel Nikitin, Stephen J. Kelly, Rene Martinez
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Patent number: 10455537Abstract: The invention relates to method for calculating a position of a transponder within an area of interest, by means of a local positioning system comprising a set of directive antennae located in the vicinity of the area of interest, each antenna having a coverage area, the method comprising the following steps: assessing an approximate position of the transponder selecting at least one antenna of the set of antennae that is such that the transponder is within range but not in the effective coverage area of said antenna, according to the approximated position of the transponder and the positions and orientations of the antennae redirecting the focus of the selected antenna so that the transponder is in the effective coverage area of said antenna, according to the approximated position of the transponder performing time-of-arrival or time-difference-of-arrival measurements with respect to the transponder, by the set of antennae calculating the effective position of the transponder by using said timing measuremType: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignees: Swiss Timing Ltd, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-NuernbergInventor: Thomas Kautz
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Patent number: 10445636Abstract: A layer arrangement is provided for manufacturing an interference-optimized, metal and card-shaped data carrier and to a layer laminate comprising the layer arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Giesecke+Devrient Mobile Security GmbHInventors: Eric Virostek, Thomas Tarantino, Nick Pisarev, Stefan Kluge
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Patent number: 10435869Abstract: Spatial-temporal compression of sensing data from a plurality of sensors involves using a plurality of sensors to obtain measured physical data associated with a plurality of sensed elements. At each of a plurality of sampling times a set of N sampled data is acquired from the N sensed elements corresponding to the measured physical data. The sets of sampled data are analyzed to obtain statistical characteristic information. Thereafter, one or more frames of compressed data is generated using the statistical characteristic information to facilitate temporal and spatial data compression.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Navilas Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Inseop Lee, Minkyu Lee, Jaesik Lee, Andrew M. Chon
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Patent number: 10425769Abstract: In one example of the disclosure, navigation data indicative of sequencing and spatial relationship among a plurality of media hotspots is accessed. Each of the hotspots is included within a medium and includes a spatial address. Data indicative of a mobile device's detection of a target hotspot and the mobile device's provision of a display of the target hotspot is received via a network. A recommendation for navigation to an associated hotspot is determined based on the navigation data. The associated hotspot is an immediate predecessor or successor relative to the target hotspot. The recommendation is provided to the device for display.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2014Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Sriganesh Madhvanath, Sandeep Matti Prabhu
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Patent number: 10418711Abstract: An RFID tag device with an RFID antenna assembly that increases transmission range of the RFID tag device when adhesively coupled to a mobile device. The RFID tag device includes a RF interface that operates at a first RF frequency, a controller coupled to the RF interfaces, and the RFID antenna assembly. The RFID antenna assembly includes a first and a second dipole elements, each shaped as a half rectangle with an additional segment joining the respective element to a tuning element. The RFID antenna also includes a tuning element, which is a loop antenna, connecting the RF interface to the controller and a ferrite dielectric on the back of one of the dipole elements. A structure of the RF antennal assembly, when the RFID tag device is coupled to a mobile device, causes the mobile device to function as a reflector to increase gain of the RFID antenna assembly thereby improving transmission range.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: GEOTOLL, Inc.Inventors: Wyatt Drake Geist, Jaime Andres Borras
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Patent number: 10417549Abstract: This invention provides an insulated plug with an RFID tag including a main body and the RFID tag. The main body includes a conductive rod. The RFID tag includes a tag antenna and a tag chip connected at a feeding part of the tag antenna. The tag antenna includes a substrate and an antenna structure. The substrate has an installation hole, and the conductive rod passes through the installation hole and is fixed with the installation hole. The antenna structure is disposed at the substrate and includes a radiation part, a reflection part and a connection part. The radiation part is formed at one end of the substrate and has a feeding part. The reflection part is formed at the other end of the substrate and is closed. The connection part is disposed at the substrate and is electrically connected with the radiation part and the reflection part.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Zhejiang Johar Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Honghong Ji
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Patent number: 10395077Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for a near-field communication (NFC) system for use with mobile computing device. In an embodiment, an RFID reader device is configured for operation with a smart phone using the audio (headphone) port, and which is entirely powered and controlled by the mobile computing device through the audio port. A specially tuned charge pump ladder is used for powering the RFID reader device over a TRRS connection with the mobile computing device, without requiring an internal power source, such as a battery, in the RFID reader device. In an embodiment, an app running on the mobile computing device includes functionality for providing power and data channels over the TRRS port to the RFID reader device.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Hallmark Cards, IncorporatedInventors: Max J. Younger, Christian Cochran
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Patent number: 10395071Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling an RFID emission within an environment including a sensitive object whose operation may be affected by RFID emissions above a particular strength. An RFID reader of the system is configured to emit a reader signal, while a host is associated with the RFID reader and configured to define the strength of the reader signal. A guard tag is configured to receive the reader signal and, upon receiving the reader signal, emit a return signal to be received by the RFID reader. The host is further configured to, upon the RFID reader receiving the return signal, decrease the strength of the reader signal and/or change the direction in which the reader signal is emitted, preferably until no further reader signal is received by the RFID reader.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: AVERY DENNISON RETAIL INFORMATION SERVICES, LLCInventor: Ian J. Forster
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Patent number: 10374662Abstract: A mobile terminal comprises: a band connected to a body so as to be worn on a user's wrist; and an antenna having at least one winding such that an NFC signal for acquiring product information from a product proceeds toward a user's hand, and passing through the body and arranged along the circumference of the band.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Jaehyun Choi, Sanghyun Jeong, Hyengcheul Choi, Sujin Kim, Sunghye Yoon, Chisang You
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Patent number: 10375094Abstract: In some examples, a computing device may receive sensed data of a first sensor sent in a first transmission. The computing device may associate a first timestamp with the sensed data. Further, the computing device may receive, from other sensors, first signal strength information including first signal strength data and a first signal property related to the first transmission, and a second timestamp corresponding to detection of the first transmission. The computing device may receive, from other sensors, second signal strength information including second signal strength data and a second signal property related to a second transmission, and a third timestamp corresponding to detection of the second transmission. When the third timestamp is later than the first timestamp and the first signal property matches the second signal property, the computing device may indicate that a sensor that sent the second transmission is associated with an anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Shibata, Sudhanshu Gaur
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Patent number: 10360488Abstract: In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring condition compliance. In some embodiments, an RFID tag comprises a first chip and a second chip, an antenna, a switch, wherein the switch is configured to switchably connect the first chip and the second chip to the antenna based on occurrence of a condition, a memory device, and a control circuit configured to write, in response to a connection between the first chip and the antenna, a first marker and an indication of a first state to the memory device, write, in response to a connection between the second chip and the antenna, a second marker and an indication of a second state to the memory device, determine an amount of time in which compliance was not met, and transmit, to an RFID reader, an indication of the amount of time in which compliance was not met.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventors: Steven J. Lewis, Tom Stiefel, Alvin S. Taulbee, Jeremy R. Tingler, Eugene P. Sunday
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Patent number: 10336322Abstract: A miniature autonomous vehicle for operation on the public roads is disclosed. The small size allows efficiency for small payloads, but produces a danger of being overlooked by other vehicles. The size of the vehicle is less than driver operated vehicles and may be restricted to less than 200 pounds. Sensors determine the vehicles speed and the presence of environmental vehicles and use a processor to calculate the need for additional visibility. A visibility structure and support structure with lights or markers is controlled by the processor. The markers are controlled in their operation or position by the processor on the basis of the sensor data. Extending or raising and retracting or lowering the structure affects the air resistance and stability of the vehicle. The structure can be raised when the vehicle stops or is in traffic and lowered at road speeds in light or absent traffic.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Inventor: Thomas Danaher Harvey
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Patent number: 10320081Abstract: A container having a slot antenna is provided. In particular, a shipping container is provided, the shipping container comprising: a chassis; a door moveably mounted to the chassis, the door having an external surface and an internal surface; at least one slot antenna located at the external surface of the door; a tracking device having a radio transceiver, the tracking device located on the internal surface of the door; and, an antenna feed coupling the radio transceiver to the slot antenna through the internal surface of the door.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventor: Ying Tong Man
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Patent number: 10318858Abstract: A wearable article, system, and method includes a structure configured to enclose a body part, a first antenna, in a first position on or within the structure, tuned to communicate according to a wireless communication modality through air, a second antenna, in a second position on or within the structure, tuned to communicate according to the wireless communication modality through the body part, the first antenna being tuned differently than the second antenna, and a transceiver, operatively coupled to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna, configured to communicate with an external antenna via the at least one of the first and second antennas according to the wireless communication modality.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventor: Holli Pheil
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Patent number: 10320072Abstract: According to one embodiment, a movable antenna includes a holder, an antenna radiating element attached to the holder, a first feed element that is attached to the holder and electromagnetically coupled to the antenna radiating element, a base plate in a facing arrangement with the holder, a second feed element on the base plate and configured to face and overlap at least a portion of the first feed element, and a mechanism that moves the holder in a longitudinal direction of the second feed element while maintaining an interval between the first and second feed element permitting energy to be transferred between the first and second feed elements.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Sadatoshi Oishi
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Patent number: 10305186Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing at least partially comprising a metal-material portion, a slit formed in the housing to traverse the metal-material portion along a first direction, and a radiating member, at least a portion is positioned on the slit. The radiating member includes a substrate, a first loop coil pattern formed on a first surface of the substrate, a second loop coil pattern formed on a second surface of the substrate that is opposite the first surface, a connection pattern formed on the first surface of the substrate and connected to each of the first loop coil pattern and the second loop coil pattern, and a bridge pattern formed on the second surface of the substrate and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The bridge pattern bypasses the connection pattern, and is combined with the first loop coil pattern to form a loop coil antenna.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventor: Young-Kon Lim
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Patent number: 10276071Abstract: A safety lock (100) comprising a transponder (1) and a shackle (2). The transponder (1) comprises an inlay (10) including an IC (13) and antenna coupling elements (14). The inlay (10) is arranged in a base member (8). The safety lock (100) further comprises a housing (6), wherein the base member (8) comprises a reduction zone (9) the mechanical strength of which is reduced compared to portions of the base member (8) next to said reduction zone (9). The reduction zone (9) is arranged under the IC (13) and/or the antenna coupling elements (14) of the inlay (10). The force striving the shackle (2) from the locked state to the open state is arranged to being transmitted to the reduction zone (9).Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Confidex OYInventors: Matti Ritamäki, Heikki Ahokas
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Patent number: 10256540Abstract: Disclosed is an antenna assembly including a substrate, and a wireless charge antenna pattern on the substrate. The wireless charge antenna pattern has a sectional surface including a plurality of inner angles in which two inner angles are different from each other. The antenna assembly includes a wireless communication antenna pattern formed on the substrate and provided at an outside of the wireless charge antenna pattern. The wireless communication antenna pattern has a plurality of inner angles at a sectional surface thereof, and a plurality of angle values of the inner angles provided at the sectional surface of the wireless communication antenna pattern correspond to a plurality of angle values of the inner angles provided at the sectional surface of the wireless charge antenna pattern, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.Inventors: Jeong Wook An, Jung Oh Lee, Yang Hyun Kim, Ki Min Lee, Hye Min Lee, Sung Hyun Leem, Ki Chul Chang
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Patent number: 10252489Abstract: A remote frequency communication device is embedded into a physical product build from carbon fiber materials whereby the communication device can interact with an interrogation device such as a mobile phone or tablet. The present invention specifies a method to layer the communication device in a way that prevents the conductive carbon fiber material from short-circuiting the electro-magnetic field of the interrogating device by integrating insulating and protective layers around the communication device.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2019Assignee: Verifir, Inc.Inventor: Jurgen Schmerler
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Patent number: 10231135Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for adaptive beamforming scanning. A method is performed by a network device having a non-uniform directional network coverage. The method comprises obtaining a beam pattern indicating spatial directions in which reception of identification signals is to be scanned, wherein the beam pattern is defined by the non-uniform directional network coverage. The method comprises scanning with directional beams in the spatial directions according to the beam pattern for reception of the identification signals from wireless devices.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)Inventors: Zhan Zhang, Jinhua Liu, Jianfeng Wang
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Patent number: 10224601Abstract: A small antenna device having good communications performance and a wide communications area even when a metal plate is present in the antenna communications direction, even when the antenna is arranged, for example, inside a box-shaped metal case, and even when a through hole is used that has a smaller area than the antenna. This device comprises: the antenna (8); a rear surface cover (3) overlapping with the antenna (8) and being a conductor that faces the winding of the antenna (8); two first insulating areas (10a) provided in the rear surface cover (3) and extending in a direction that intersects the winding axis of the antenna (8); and a second insulating area (10b) that connects between the first insulating areas (10a). At least part of the area sandwiched by the first insulating areas (10a) faces the antenna (8).Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2013Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Panasonic Intelletual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuichiro Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Sakai
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Patent number: 10218061Abstract: A wireless communications antenna includes a first coil including first conductive patterns disposed on a first layer along a first axis and a second coil including second conductive patterns disposed on a second layer along a second axis having a direction different from a direction of the first axis.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tae Heon Lee, Hyeon Gil Nam, Choon Hee Kim, Hyun Do Park, Dae Seong Jeon, Nam Ki Kim
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Patent number: 10210682Abstract: A system for improving a sensing ability of an interlock switch system may include an interlock switch and a target component. The interlock switch may include a first antenna coil that may receive one or more signals from one or more antenna coils within a sensing range of the first antenna coil. The target component may include an actuator that may interface with the interlock switch. The target component may also include at least two antenna coils. Each of the at least two antenna coils may then include an electronic identification (ID) associated with the target component.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael N. Burdenko, Wayne R. Foster
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Patent number: 10186098Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for access control via a mobile device are described herein. One device includes instructions stored thereon executable by a processor to track a location of a mobile device in a facility based on communications between the mobile device and a plurality of beacons located in the facility, wherein the mobile device is associated with a particular user having access rights associated with the facility, determine that the mobile device is located in a particular area of the facility, determine whether the user is allowed access to the particular area based on the access rights, and provide a notification responsive to a determination that the user is not allowed access to the particular area.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Inventors: Magesh Lingan, Anantha Padmanabha Rahal U, Roshan Valder, Bryan Jones, Sanjay Roy
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Patent number: 10181062Abstract: A reading device includes an antenna having a signal radiating surface and configured to output a linearly polarized wave from the radiating surface, a movable and rotatable stage supporting the antenna and configured to move the antenna along a first direction parallel to the radiating surface of the antenna and rotate the antenna on an axis that is normal to the radiating surface of the antenna, and a tag reader connected to the antenna and configured to supply signals to the antenna for reading information from a wireless tag and to receive signals from the antenna including information read from the wireless tag.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: TOSHIBA TEC KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Nobuo Murofushi
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Patent number: 10177823Abstract: Provided is an antenna control technique for forming the boundary of a communication area at a desired location. An antenna parameter control apparatus 2 calculates an antenna parameter in a case of feeding electric currents with an equal intensity in mutually reverse directions to two antennas 1A, 1B which generate a magnetic field. The antenna parameter control apparatus 2 includes an input parameter acquisition unit 21 that acquires input parameters for calculating the antenna parameter; and a parameter calculation unit 22 that calculates an inter-center distance d between the antennas 1A, 1B as the antenna parameter based on the input parameters.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Ai-ichiro Sasaki, Akihiko Hirata, Fumiharu Morisawa, Souichi Oka, Osamu Kagami
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Patent number: 10130382Abstract: A powered surgical handpiece includes a housing comprising a motor, and a surgical tool removably coupled to the housing and configured to be driven by the motor. The surgical tool includes a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. The handpiece includes an antenna for wirelessly transmitting RF energy, and a coupler that is electrically isolated from the antenna and the RFID tag and that is configured to guide the transmitted RF energy to the RFID tag.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.Inventor: Samuel Gladstone
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Patent number: 10127413Abstract: Provided is a system including, as components: a sensor node that includes a sensor unit including power supply means, an RFID tag, authentication means that performs authentication of a telegram written in the RFID tag, and stop instruction means that sends a stop command to the power supply means when the authentication fails, and that is enclosed in a weather-resistant case; and a user terminal that includes storage means in which the telegram is stored, and an RFID reader/writer.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Inventor: Yoshiro Mizuno
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Patent number: 10115075Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a rapid inventory management system that comprises an RFID reader, an antenna with an antenna shape, a high-conductive material, and RFID tags attached to items. In some embodiments, an inventory management system tracks inventory by interrogating RFID tags with an RF wave of a wavelength generating an RFID field and receiving data from the RFID tags that include information on the item. The high-conductive material may disposed at a distance of a quarter wavelength from the antenna. The antenna may comprise a particular shape of bends and arms, the arms at a distance of a quarter wavelength from each other.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Oleg Kantor
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Patent number: 10107982Abstract: An optical fiber cord management system and method is provided to monitor and manage optical fiber cords weights in telecommunication equipment. The system comprise a weight sensing member arranged with a trough member for converting a force applied to the trough member by an optical fiber cord. The system may include a processor, in communication with the weight sensing member. The processor may receive force signal data from the weight sensing member.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Telect, Inc.Inventor: David Knaggs
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Patent number: 10110267Abstract: An electronic device and method are provided for switching an antenna for SAR reduction. The method includes sequentially switching, based on a predetermined schedule, a plurality of antennas having different main emission directions, when transmitting a wireless signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Seonil Kim, Gyusub Kim, Hongil Kwon, Youngmin Joo, Kyungjung Kim, Seongeun Kim, Jungsik Park
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Patent number: 10102569Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for exchanging value using a smart card in a financial transaction is disclosed. The system includes a smart card having a contact interface and a contactless interface interactive with a closed purse application and an open purse application controlled by a microprocessor. The closed purse application contains application-specific value, while the open purse contains general value. The application-specific value and general value are each compatible within the system of the invention to perform and settle the financial transaction. The financial transaction may include the smart card communicating with a load terminal or a transaction terminal to add or change the amount of value on the smart card. Further, the present invention include auto-load functionality for adding an amount of value to the smart card. Finally, applications such as a transportation application and a loyalty application are described.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Citicorp Credit Services, Inc. (USA)Inventors: Joseph C. Kawan, Ramiro Munoz, Mark Kogen
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Patent number: 10095896Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for performing spatial positioning on an electronic tag, 3D signature and human-computer interaction. The method for performing spatial positioning on an electronic tag includes: arranging at least three sets of three-dimensionally distributed array antennas on an electronic device, each set of array antennas including multiple antenna array elements extending in one dimension; turning on an electronic tag reader to generate a radio frequency electromagnetic field when spatial positioning is performed on an electronic tag; acquiring induced voltage generated on each antenna array element in each set of array antennas when it is sensed that there is an electronic tag in the radio frequency electromagnetic field; and determining spatial position information of the electronic tag according to the induced voltage.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2015Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: ZTE CorporationInventor: Xiangling Yang
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Patent number: 10081894Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for labeling a piece of merchandise with a wireless communication device. In addition to a wireless communication device, the merchandise tag includes an associated label made of a washable fabric material. The wireless communication device is incorporated into the label and includes an RFID chip and a slot-loop hybrid antenna, with the antenna including a conductor sheet that defines a slot. The label is secured to a piece of merchandise at a sew line, with the sew line dividing the label into an upper portion and a lower portion. The RFID chip and the slot of the antenna, along with a relatively high conductance piece or portion of the conductor sheet, are positioned within the upper portion of the label, while a relatively low conductance piece or portion of the conductor sheet is positioned within the lower portion of the label.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2014Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: AVERY DENNISON RETAIL INFORMATION SERVICES, LLCInventor: Ian James Forster
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Patent number: 10083586Abstract: A radio frequency detection device to detect RFID tags. A single double-loop RFID antenna, an RFID reader, connection cables, longitudinal conductive section bars and transverse conductive section bars which form a closed circuit. A transverse branch connecting the longitudinal section bars so as to form a double-loop circuit which is crossed by current and which provides an electromagnetic field able to detect, in three dimensions, RFID tags even on both sides of a single panel of antennas. The possibility of superimposing an RFID antenna, with other antennas with electromagnetic technology allows to obtain a hybrid gate with a simultaneous reading of RFID tags and electromagnetic tags or bars.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: NTL S.R.L.Inventor: Gianluca Parma
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Patent number: 10074621Abstract: Provided is an electronic package, including: a carrier, an electronic component disposed on the carrier, and an antenna structure, wherein the antenna structure has a plurality of spacing members and at least one wire connected among the spacing members. No additional layout area is required to be formed on a surface of the carrier, such that the objective of miniaturization can be achieved.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Siliconware Precision Industries Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chih-Hsien Chiu, Chi-Pin Tsai, Chi-Liang Shih, Ming-Fan Tsai, Chia-Yang Chen