Antenna formed using laser plating or print-and-plating for field-powered short range communications
AssigneeCapital One Services, LLC
InventorsAdam KOEPPEL, Tyler LOCKE
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Abstract
A method of fabricating a transaction card for communicating data relating to a transaction may include forming a pattern in a plastic film using a laser plating process or a print-and-plate process; providing a conductive material in the pattern formed in the plastic film, using a plating process, to form a RF antenna layer in the plastic film, wherein the RF antenna layer includes a RF antenna; and affixing the plastic film to a surface of the transaction card to permit the RF antenna to inductively connect to a printed circuit board (PCB) of the transaction card.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A method of fabricating a transaction card, comprising:
- forming an antenna layer on or in a substrate by a laser plating process, a laser etching process, or a print-and-plate process,
- the antenna layer comprising an antenna;
- and
- affixing the substrate to a body of the transaction card such that the antenna is inductively connectable to the body.
A transaction card, comprising:
- a card body;
- a substrate;
- and
- an antenna layer,
- wherein the antenna layer is formed on or in the substrate by a laser plating process, a laser etching process, or a print-and-plate process, and
- wherein the antenna layer includes an antenna that is inductively connectable to the card body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.