Label issuance device and antenna
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSadatoshi OISHI
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Abstract
A label issuance device includes a roller configured to convey a label including an RFID tag along a conveyance path, an antenna board disposed under the conveyance path and having planar surfaces that are perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the label, the antenna board including a substrate, a transmission line formed inwardly of an upper edge of the substrate that faces the conveyed label, and a ground layer formed on each of the planar surfaces of the substrate, and a reader/writer connected to the antenna board to read out and write data from and onto the RFID tag of the conveyed label.
Claims20
A label issuance device comprising:
- a roller configured to convey a label including an RFID tag along a conveyance path;
- an antenna board disposed under the conveyance path and having planar surfaces that are perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the label, the antenna board comprising
- a substrate,
- a transmission line formed inwardly of an upper edge of the substrate that faces the conveyed label, and
- a ground layer formed on each of the planar surfaces of the substrate;
- and
- a reader/writer connected to the antenna board to read out and write data from and onto the RFID tag of the conveyed label.
An antenna for a label issuance device having a roller to convey a label including an RFID tag along a conveyance path and a reader/writer configured to read and write from and to the RFID tag through the antenna, the antenna comprising:
- a substrate disposed under the conveyance path and having planar surfaces that are perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the label;
- a transmission line formed inwardly of an upper edge of the substrate that faces the conveyed label;
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- a ground layer formed on the planar surfaces of the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.