Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wireless communication device and method
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Application No.: US16415352Application Date: 2019-05-17
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Publication No.: US10896300B2Publication Date: 2021-01-19
- Inventor: Francesco Antonetti , Christoph Chlestil
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics Austria GmbH
- Applicant Address: AT Graz
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics Austria GmbH
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics Austria GmbH
- Current Assignee Address: AT Graz
- Agency: Slater Matsil, LLP
- Priority: EP18175295 20180531
- Main IPC: G06K7/10
- IPC: G06K7/10 ; H04B5/00 ; H04M1/21

Abstract:
A Near Field Communication (NFC) reader can wirelessly cooperate with a rectangular prism-shaped transponder having an NFC transponder antenna. The NFC reader includes an NFC controller, a matching network coupled to the NFC controller, and a receptacle capable of at least partially holding the transponder. The receptacle has a bottom wall, a lateral wall and a shape designed such that the transponder cannot be placed in the receptacle in a direction where the NFC transponder antenna is parallel to the bottom wall. The receptacle includes first and second NFC reader antennas located in two non-parallel parts of the lateral wall and a connection coupling the first and second reader antennas to the matching network.
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