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US 9,070,070 B2Granted
Radio frequency antenna carried on a smart card
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorPhuc H. Nguyen
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Abstract
A smart card apparatus and related systems are presented here. The smart card apparatus includes a dielectric substrate forming a card body, a card circuit module carried by the dielectric substrate, and a radio frequency (RF) antenna arrangement carried by the dielectric substrate. The RF antenna arrangement is physically and electrically isolated from the card circuit module, and RF signals communicated by the RF antenna arrangement are unrelated to native functionality of the card circuit module.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a smart card interface configured to receive smart cards;
- a radio frequency (RF) transceiver module;
- a smart card compatible with the smart card interface, the smart card comprising:
- a dielectric substrate forming a card body;
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- an RF antenna arrangement carried by the dielectric substrate;
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- an RF transmission line having a first end configured to connect with the RF antenna arrangement, and having a second end configured to connect with the RF transceiver module.
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An apparatus comprising:
- a smart card interface configured to read data stored on smart cards;
- a radio frequency (RF) transceiver module;
- a smart card physically and electrically coupled to the smart card interface, the smart card comprising:
- a dielectric substrate forming a card body;
- a card circuit module carried by the dielectric substrate, wherein the smart card interface reads data stored in the card circuit module;
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- an RF antenna arrangement carried by the dielectric substrate, wherein the RF antenna arrangement is functionally divorced from the card circuit module, and wherein operation of the card circuit module is unaffected by RF signals communicated by the RF antenna arrangement;
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- an RF transmission line having a first end physically and electrically connected to the RF antenna arrangement, and having a second end electrically coupled to the RF transceiver module.
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A smart card apparatus comprising:
- a dielectric substrate forming a card body;
- a card circuit module carried by the dielectric substrate;
- a radio frequency (RF) antenna arrangement carried by the dielectric substrate, wherein the RF antenna arrangement is physically and electrically isolated from the card circuit module, and wherein RF signals communicated by the RF antenna arrangement are unrelated to native functionality of the card circuit module;
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- an RF transmission line having a first end physically and electrically coupled to the RF antenna arrangement and having a second end to electrically couple to an off-card transceiver module that is remotely located relative to the smart card apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.