Foam-based rfid label
AssigneeFineline Technologies
InventorsMichael E. Borgna, Glenn M. Cassidy, Jos Uijlenbroek
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Abstract
A foam based RFID label and a method of installing the same. The method includes of forming a recess having a predetermined shape on an outermost or innermost surface of the tire; providing the foam-based RFID label configured to identify the tire and/or to sense conditions of the tire and communicate the same to an RFID reader; and affixing the foam-based RFID label within the recess of the tire by contacting and adhering an adhesive surface of the foam-based RFID label to a surface of the recess to identify the tire and/or sense conditions of the tire.
Claims20
A method of installing a foam-based RFID label in or on a vulcanized tire comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming either during vulcanization or post-vulcanization a recess having a predetermined shape on an outermost or innermost surface of the tire;
- (b) providing the foam-based RFID label configured to identify the tire and/or to sense conditions of the tire and communicate the same to an RFID reader when within a predetermined proximity of the RFID reader;
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- (c) affixing the foam-based RFID label within the recess of the vulcantized tire by contacting and adhering an adhesive surface of the foam-based RFID label to a surface of the recess to identify the tire and/or sense conditions of the tire, wherein:
- an RFID device is positioned within the RFID label and disposed between a foam layer and a face layer that are adhered to one another.
A foam-based RFID label comprising:
- an RFID device positioned within the foam-based RFID label and disposed between a foam layer and a face layer that are adhered to one another, the RFID device configured to identify and/or sense conditions of a vulcanized tire and further communicate the same to an RFID reader when within a predetermined proximity of the RFID reader.
A vulcanized tire comprising a foam-based RFID label affixed within a recess of the vulcanized tire, wherein the foam-based RFID label comprises:
- an RFID device positioned within the foam-based RFID label and disposed between a foam layer and a face layer that are adhered to one another, the RFID device configured to identify and/or sense conditions of a vulcanized tire and further communicate the same to an RFID reader when within a predetermined proximity of the RFID reader.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.