Electronic entity having an RFID transponder

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9852369-B2
Application number	US-201515326327-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 13, 2015
Priority date	Jul 16, 2014
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed is an electronic entity having a transponder which includes a body provided with a recess and, inside the recess, a transponder including a mounting supporting an antenna formed by at least one turn running along the contour of the module and a microcircuit, the antenna and microcircuit being connected to one another, plates of conductive material being formed on each of the surfaces facing one another, covering 60-90% of the surface defined by the one or more turns of the antenna, forming a capacitor connected in parallel on the antenna, and the body including an annular metal area, the inner contour of which projects into the plane of the mounting surrounds the mounting and is suitable for concentrating the field lines toward the inside of the turn, the capacitor defining, with the antenna and the microcircuit, a given resonance frequency substantially equal to the frequency of an external reader.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic entity comprising a transponder, which entity is intended to communicate with an external reader at a first determined frequency and comprises a body ( 11 ) provided with a cavity and, in this cavity, a transponder comprising a carrier having a plane and ( 12 A) bearing, connected to one another, an antenna ( 13 ) formed from at least one turn following the contour of the carrier and a microcircuit ( 14 ), plates made of a conductive material ( 15 A, 15 B) being formed on each of these sides facing one another so as to form a capacitor connected in parallel with the antenna, and the body comprising, at least approximately at the level of this cavity, an annular metal zone ( 16 ) having an inner contour, the projection of which into the plane of the carrier surrounds said carrier and which is capable of concentrating field lines toward the interior of the turn, the capacitor defining, with the antenna and the microcircuit, a resonant circuit resonating at a second frequency that is substantially equal to the first frequency, the plates of the capacitor ( 15 A, 15 B) covering 60% to 90% of the surface delimited by the one or more turns of the antenna.

2. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , in which the area of the metal zone ( 16 ) is at least equal to three times that of the carrier ( 12 A).

3. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 2 , in which the metal zone ( 16 ) surrounding the antenna is apertured.

4. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 2 , in which the antenna ( 13 ) comprises at least one turn on each of the sides of the carrier.

5. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 2 , in which the transponder comprises at least two turns spaced apart by a spacing and the plates of the capacitor have an edge adjacent to the innermost turn, this edge being distanced from the innermost turn by a distance that is greater than the spacing between the turns.

6. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 2 , the capacitor plates of which are rectangular or circular.

7. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , in which the metal zone ( 16 ) surrounding the antenna is apertured.

8. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 7 , in which the antenna ( 13 ) comprises at least one turn on each of the sides of the carrier.

9. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 7 , in which the transponder comprises at least two turns spaced apart by a spacing and the plates of the capacitor have an edge adjacent to the innermost turn, this edge being distanced from the innermost turn by a distance that is greater than the spacing between the turns.

10. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 7 , the capacitor plates of which are rectangular or circular.

11. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , in which the antenna ( 13 ) comprises at least one turn on each of the sides of the carrier.

12. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 11 , the antenna of which comprises between two and five turns per side.

13. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 12 , in which the transponder comprises at least two turns spaced apart by a spacing and the plates of the capacitor have an edge adjacent to the innermost turn, this edge being distanced from the innermost turn by a distance that is greater than the spacing between the turns.

14. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 11 , in which the transponder comprises at least two turns spaced apart by a spacing and the plates of the capacitor have an edge adjacent to the innermost turn, this edge being distanced from the innermost turn by a distance that is greater than the spacing between the turns.

15. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 11 , the capacitor plates of which are rectangular or circular.

16. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , in which the transponder comprises at least two turns spaced apart by a spacing and the plates of the capacitor have an edge adjacent to the innermost turn, this edge being distanced from the innermost turn by a distance that is greater than the spacing between the turns.

17. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , the capacitor plates of which are rectangular or circular.

18. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , the transponder of which has a format that is at most equal to quarter of the standardized format ID-1.

19. The electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , the body and the module of which form a data storage card or a form of identification.

20. A passport comprising at least one cover page, one flyleaf, one page made of plastic and one page made of bank book paper, characterized in that it additionally comprises an electronic entity as claimed in claim 1 , the body of which has at most the dimensions of a page of said passport, the body being assembled with said page among a cover page, the flyleaf and the page made of plastic.

Assignees

• Oberthur Technologies

Inventors

• Ali Ahmed

Classifications

• G06K19/0726 Primary

  the arrangement including a circuit for tuning the resonance frequency of an antenna on the record carrier · CPC title

• H01Q7/04

  Screened antennas (H01Q7/02, H01Q7/06 take precedence) · CPC title

• G06K19/07784

  the inductive antenna consisting of a plurality of coils stacked on top of one another · CPC title

• H01Q1/2225

  used in active tags, i.e. provided with its own power source or in passive tags, i.e. deriving power from RF signal · CPC title

• H01Q1/38

  formed by a conductive layer on an insulating support {(patch antennas H01Q9/0407; microstrip dipole antennas H01Q9/065; microstrip slot antennas H01Q13/106; transmission line microstrip antennas H01Q13/206; manufacturing reflecting surfaces using insulating material for supporting the reflecting surface  H01Q15/142)} · CPC title