US 7,066,667 B2 · RFID tag and printer system

Abstract

An RFID label with embedded tag is passed through an RFID antenna in a printer system, where the RFID antenna allows a roll of such labels to pass in close proximity to the antenna and still allow each individual RFID tag to be read and/or programmed. The RFID antenna has a rectangular RF field spreader in contact with a triangular divergent RF conductor with an RF source point at the point. Ground planes are located on either side of the antenna. In another embodiment, the printer system extracts or parses bar code commands from a data stream and passes the commands to both a printer and an RFID reader to print the image and program the tag with the bar code information.

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Dependent claims

A printing system, comprising:

a host computer, wherein the host computer is capable of transmitting a data stream using a first programming language;
and
a printer system, comprising:
an extractor coupled to receive the data stream, wherein the extractor extracts a first portion of the data stream and generates RFID commands from the first portion;
a parser coupled to the extractor, wherein the parser parses image portions from RFID portions of the first portion of the data stream;
an image formatter coupled to receive the image portions from the parser;
an RFID data formatter coupled to receive the RFID portions from the parser;
a print sub-system coupled to the image formatter for printing an image on a label;
and
an RFID system coupled to the RFID data formatter for programming data on an RFID tag in the label.

7 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/206,420Filed 18 Aug 2005 · division

Priority

12 Sep 2003

Published

US 2005/0058483 A115 Dec 2005

Granted

27 Jun 2006

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06K 7/10346
Using at least one antenna particularly designed for interrogating the wireless record carriers: the antenna being of the far field type, e.g. HF…
B41J 3/4075
For marking on special material: tape printers; Label printers
B41J 3/44
Typewriters or selective printing or marking mechanisms characterised by the purpose for which they are constructed: typewriters or selective…
B41J 11/0095
Devices or arrangements of selective printing mechanisms, e.g. ink-jet printers or thermal printers, for supporting or handling copy material in…:…

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