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.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- affixing at least a portion of a substrate to a transaction card;
- and
- forming, after affixing the at least the portion of the substrate to the transaction card, an antenna layer on or in the substrate.
A device, comprising:
- a body;
- and
- a substrate having at least a portion affixed to the body;
- and
- an antenna layer on or in the substrate.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions comprising:
- one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a device, cause the device to:
- affix at least a portion of a substrate to a transaction card;
- and
- form, after affixing the at least the portion of the substrate to the transaction card, an antenna layer on or in the substrate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.