Contactless credit card: flex to activate
AssigneeCapital One Services, LLC
InventorsJeffrey Rule, Kevin Osborn
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Abstract
A method creates a banking card that may be a wireless banking card. The banking card has an antenna with an open circuit that prevents the banking card from functioning correctly until it is received by a banking customer the card is to belong to. A cavity is formed within the banking card near the open circuit and a thin wall is created between the cavity and the open circuit. The cavity is filled with a flowable electrical conductor that may be a liquid metal such as mercury or galinstan. Instruction indications are provided on the banking card indicating to a banking customer how to manipulate the banking card to cause the liquid conductor to flow and remove the open circuit and allow the banking card to function correctly.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- creating a transaction card with an antenna with an open circuit in the antenna that prevents the transaction card from functioning correctly;
- creating a first cavity within the transaction card near a second cavity corresponding to the open circuit of the antenna;
- creating a thin wall within the transaction card between the first cavity and the second cavity corresponding to the open circuit of the antenna;
- filling the first cavity within the transaction card with a flowable conductor, such that the flowable conductor is configured to fill the second cavity corresponding to the open circuit of the antenna;
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- providing instruction indications to a user how to manipulate the transaction card to cause the flowable conductor (i) to flow from the first cavity into the second cavity and (ii) remove the open circuit of the antenna to allow the transaction card to function correctly.
A wireless card comprising:
- an antenna with an open circuit that prevents the wireless card from functioning correctly;
- a first cavity within the wireless card adjacent a second cavity associated with the open circuit;
- a thin wall between the first cavity and the second cavity associated with the open circuit, wherein the first cavity is filled with a liquid metal;
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- instruction indications on the wireless card instructing a user how to manipulate the wireless card to cause the liquid metal to flow from the first cavity into the second cavity, wherein the liquid metal (i) flows onto the open circuit and (ii) removes the open circuit to allow the wireless card to function correctly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.