Tag assembly
AssigneeMylaps B.V.
InventorsBas Jan Emile VAN RENS, Adriaan Klaas VERWOERD, Reinerus Mathijs Willie GERRITSEN
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Abstract
A tag assembly is described wherein the tag assembly is affixable to clothing and/or a body and wherein the assembly includes a support sheet; a tag disposed on the support sheet, the tag being configured to transmit a signal to a receiver; and, an expandable spacer structure disposed the support sheet, the expandable spacer structure providing a predetermined spacing between the tag and the body, the expandable spacer being configured to expand from a thin non-expanded state to a expanded state of a predetermined spacer thickness.
Claims11
A tag assembly to be worn by a participant of a sports event during the sports event, the tag assembly comprising:
- a support sheet;
- a tag disposed on the support sheet, the tag comprising an antenna structure and the tag being configured to transmit a signal to a receiver that detects a passage of the participant;
- and
- an expandable spacer structure disposed on the support sheet spaced away from or partly or fully on top of the antenna structure, the expandable spacer structure providing a predetermined spacing between the tag and a body of a participant of the sports event, the expandable spacer structure being configured to expand from a non-expanded state to an expanded state of a predetermined spacer thickness, wherein the expandable spacer structure in the expanded state has a thickness in a range between 5 and 15 mm and in the non-expanded state has a thickness smaller than 5 mm, and wherein
- the expandable spacer structure comprises one or more pieces of moisture absorbing material configured to expand at least in one dimension during the sports event in response to absorbing sweat from the participant.
A sports bib comprising:
- a thin flexible sheet configured to be affixed to articles of clothing or a body of a participant of a sports event, the thin flexible sheet comprising a printed identifier on a front side;
- a tag structure comprising a processor connected to a metallic thin-film antenna structure, disposed on the back side of the thin flexible sheet, the tag structure being configured to transmit a signal to a receiver that detects a passage of the participant;
- and
- an expandable spacer structure disposed on the back side of the thin flexible sheet spaced away from or partly or fully on top of the antenna structure, the expandable spacer structure providing a predetermined spacing between the tag structure and the body, the expandable spacer structure being configured to expand from a non-expanded state to an expanded state of a predetermined spacer thickness, wherein the expandable spacer structure in the expanded state has a thickness in a range between 5 and 15 mm and in the non-expanded state has a thickness smaller than 5 mm, and wherein the expandable spacer structure comprises one or more pieces of moisture absorbing material configured to expand at least in one dimension during the sports event in response to absorbing sweat from the participant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.