Abstract:
Methods for manufacturing a smart card inlay. In a first embodiment, the method includes initially connecting a first end (106) of a wire antenna (108) to a chip module (104) mounted in an aperture (102) on a substrate (100), thereafter fixing the wire antenna (108) onto the substrate (100) and thereafter connecting a second end (112) of the wire antenna (108) to the chip module (104). In a second embodiment, the method includes providing a wire antenna having a first end (200) and a second end (202), wherein the first end (200) and the second end (202) are connected to a chip module (206) and do not extend past the chip module (206) and fixing the wire antenna (204) to a substrate (208).
Abstract:
A method for manufacture of an electronic interface card including defining a pair of apertures in a substrate layer, associating an antenna with the substrate layer such that opposite ends of the antenna terminate at the apertures, placing a metal element in each of the apertures, connecting the ends of the antenna to the metal elements, laminating the substrate layer together with a top layer and a bottom layer, forming a recess in the top layer and the substrate layer, attaching ends of connection wires to the metal elements, attaching opposite ends of the connection wires to a chip module and sealing the chip module in the recess.
Abstract:
A method of manufacture of wire-embedded inlays, the method including providing a substrate, applying a coating to the substrate, which coating melts at an elevated temperature characteristic of wire-embedding, thereby producing an inlay substrate and when the coating is solid, employing wire embedding techniques for embedding a wire into the inlay substrate.
Abstract:
A mobile communicator including a housing including a main portion and a removable portion, cellular telephone circuitry located within the main portion of the housing, a SIM card mounted in the main portion of the housing, a battery mounted between the removable portion of the housing and the SIM card and a contactless functionality antenna mounted intermediate the removable portion and the battery and communicating with the SIM card.
Abstract:
An authentication seal suitable for affixing to physical objects sought to be notarized, legalized or otherwise authenticated, the authentication seal including an object interface layer including an adhesive surface for fixed engagement with a surface of an object sought to be authenticated, an inlay layer, fixed to the object interface layer, the inlay layer including a substrate having embedded thereon a wireless communication antenna coupled to an electronic chip device containing authentication information which is wirelessly readable via the wireless communication antenna and an outer layer, fixed to the inlay layer and having visually sensible authentication indicia thereon.
Abstract:
An electronic inlay structure including first and second sheets of an inlay substrate arranged in generally side to side, spaced parallel arrangement, having a gap therebetween, a flexible web material arranged to overlie the gap and edges of the first and second sheets of the inlay structure adjacent the gap, third and fourth sheets arranged in registration with the first and second sheets respectively, over the first and second sheets of the inlay substrate and partially over the flexible web material and bonded thereto, electronic circuitry associated with at least one of the first, second, third and fourth sheets and lamination enclosing the first, second, third and fourth sheets, the electronic circuitry and the web material together to create the inlay structure. 1
Abstract:
A method for manufacture of an electronic interface card including defining a pair of apertures in a substrate layer, associating an antenna with the substrate layer such that opposite ends of the antenna terminate at the apertures, placing a conductor in each of the apertures, connecting the antenna to the conductor, forming a recess in the substrate layer, attaching continuous connection wires to a plurality of chip modules, attaching the continuous connection wires to a plurality of conductors on a corresponding plurality of the substrate layers, cutting the continuous connection wires so as to retain portions thereof which connect each chip module to a corresponding pair of conductors and sealing the chip module in the recess.
Abstract:
A method for manufacture of an electronic interface card including forming at least one antenna coil, having loose end portions, on a first substrate; placing a second substrate onto the first substrate over the antenna coil, the second substrate having an aperture through which at least parts of the loose end portions of the at least one antenna coil are exposed, extracting at least parts of the loose end portions through the aperture such that free ends of the loose end portions are positioned at a location remote from the substrate, forming an electric connection between a chip module and the loose end portions at the location remote from the substrate; and thereafter mounting the chip module onto the first substrate. A system for carrying out the method and a card produced thereby are also described and claimed.