发明申请
- 专利标题: COMMUNICATING WITH RFID TAGS ON MASKED CONTAINERS
- 专利标题(中): 与标签上的RFID标签通信
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申请号: US13549615申请日: 2012-07-16
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公开(公告)号: US20140015642A1公开(公告)日: 2014-01-16
- 发明人: Christopher J. White
- 申请人: Christopher J. White
- 主分类号: G06K7/01
- IPC分类号: G06K7/01
摘要:
An RFID reader communicates with an RFID tag of a masked container in a container group. A power-supply antenna and a link antenna of the RFID reader are spaced apart from the container group, the antennas oriented to transmit signals to a power-supply subset and a data subset, respectively, of the plurality of containers. The RFID reader transmits a power-supply RF signal via the power-supply antenna to the power-supply subset and, while doing so, transmits a data RF signal via the link antenna to the data subset. The containers relay power-supply RF energy in a downstream power-supply direction and relay the data RF signal in upstream and downstream data directions different from the power-supply direction. The data RF signal is relayed by a repeater, which is powered by relayed power-supply RF energy, on each container. The RFID tag responds to the relayed data signal.