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US 9,478,850 B2Granted
Omni-directional antenna for a cylindrical body
AssigneeDuracell U.S. Operations, Inc.
InventorsJordan Todorov Bourilkov, Sergio Coronado Hortal, William Fitler Morris, Steven Jeffrey Specht, Calvin Giles, Konstantin Stefanov
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Abstract
An antenna for a cylindrical body may include a flexible substrate with the antenna on it with a first terminal and a second terminal electrically connected to an integrated circuit, the flexible substrate coupled to the cylindrical body.
Claims3
A folded antenna for a cylindrical battery, comprising:
- a flexible substrate coupled to the cylindrical battery comprising an aperture disposed within the flexible substrate and configured to allow the cylindrical battery to pass within the aperture and wrap the flexible substrate around the cylindrical battery;
- an antenna with a first terminal and a second terminal coupled to the flexible substrate;
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- an integrated circuit coupled to the first terminal and the second terminal,
- wherein the integrated circuit is a radio frequency identification chip or near field communication chip that comprises an analog to digital converter and a communication circuit, and,
- wherein the integrated circuit is configured to sense and signally communicate a condition of the battery with a first lead electrically coupled to an anode of the battery and a second lead electrically coupled to a cathode of the battery.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.