Radiofrequency identification tag devices
AssigneeAllflex UK Group Ltd
InventorsIan Graydon SPOOR, Keith Daniel James HEALD
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Abstract
A combined RFID tag and label device for attaching an elongate object such as a cable, cable bundle, or pipe. The device comprises a plastic flag having a display surface to carry a visible identification code or label for the device and includes an encapsulated RFID tag configured to provide remote-readable RFID data to an RFID reader. The device includes a device tie and a tie mount which are configured such that, after fastening, the flag has a central longitudinal axis which lies above, and is aligned parallel to, a longitudinal axis of the elongate object where the device is fastened.
Claims20
A combined RFID tag and label device for attaching to an elongate object, the device comprising:
- a plastic flag having a display surface to carry a visible identification code or label for the device and a reverse surface opposite the display surface,
- wherein the flag includes an encapsulated RFID tag configured to provide remote-readable RFID data to an RFID reader;
- a device tie to fasten around the elongate object to attach the device;
- a tie mount on the flag wherein the tie mount is located on the reverse surface of the flag and provides a tie mount attachment for a first end of the tie such that the tie extends from the tie mount across and generally parallel to the reverse surface,
- wherein the tie mount has an aperture to receive a second, opposite end of the tie after the tie has been passed around the elongate object, and wherein the flag has a corresponding aperture so that the second end of the tie can extend through the flag during fastening;
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- configured such that, after fastening, the flag has a central longitudinal axis which lies above, and is aligned parallel to, a longitudinal axis of the elongate object where the device is fastened.
An RFID tag device fastenable with a cable tie, the RFID tag device comprising:
- a first surface, and a second surface disposed to a rear of the first surface;
- a cable tie mount, arranged to receive a cable tie, and disposed on a mounting area of the RFID tag device, wherein the mounting area is on a surface other than the first surface;
- wherein, when the RFID tag device is in a fastened configuration around an object to which the RFID tag device is attached, a long axis of the RFID tag device lies substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the object and the first surface faces away from the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.