Flexible pouch with near field communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9302820-B2
Application number	US-201414303757-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 13, 2014
Priority date	Jun 13, 2013
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

A flexible pouch having a printed wireless information tag thereon. The flexible pouch has a panel with at least one side seam, at least one inseam and a wireless information tag printed on the panel. The panel can have a foil layer included therewithin and an insulator layer between the panel and the wireless information tag. Also, the wireless information tag is printed with conductive ink.

First claim

I claim:

1. A process for manufacturing a flexible pouch comprising:
providing a flexible pouch manufacturing machine;
providing a flexible pouch sheet material;
forming a flexible pouch having a flexible pouch panel from the flexible pouch sheet material using the flexible manufacturing machine; and
printing an NFC tag onto the flexible pouch panel while the flexible pouch is still on the flexible pouch manufacturing machine.

2. The process of claim 1 , wherein the NFC tag is printed onto the flexible pouch panel after manufacture of the flexible pouch is completed.

3. The process of claim 1 , wherein the NFC tag is printed onto the flexible pouch panel before manufacture of the flexible pouch is completed.

4. The process of claim 1 , wherein the NFC tag is printed onto the flexible pouch panel during manufacture of the flexible pouch.

5. The process of claim 1 , further comprising placing an insulator layer between the flexible pouch panel and the NFC tag.

6. The process of claim 5 , wherein the flexible pouch panel has a foil layer and the insulator layer is an insulator pad.

7. The process of claim 1 , wherein the NFC tag has an antenna and the antenna is printed with conductive ink.

8. The process of claim 7 , wherein the NFC tag has a microchip and the microchip is printed with the conductive ink.

9. The process of claim 8 , wherein the conductive ink contains nanoparticles selected from the group consisting of carbon nanoparticles and metal nanoparticles.

10. The process of claim 9 , further including programming the microchip during printing.

11. The process of claim 9 , further including programming the microchip after printing.

Assignees

• Pouch Pac Innovations Llc

Inventors

• Murray R Charles

Classifications

• B31B2219/90

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• G06K19/07749

  the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card · CPC title

• B65D33/00

  Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags · CPC title

• B31B2219/88

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B65D75/566 Primary

  Hand holes or suspension apertures · CPC title