3m Innovative Properties Company

Robin E Gorrell

John D Geissinger

Howard M Kaplan

Donald George Peterson

Andrew John Ouderkirk

Ronald David Jesme

Nicholas T Gabriel

Andrew P Bonifas

Ravi Palaniswamy

Robert M Jennings

Alejandro Aldrin A Narag, Ii

Richard Yufeng Liu

Shujun J Wang

Roger A Grisle

Yaoyao Chen

An article includes a substrate having a circuit forming surface and a non-circuit forming surface opposite the circuit forming surface. The article further includes a protective tape borne on the circuit forming surface. The protective tape includes a support layer and a curable adhesive layer borne on a major surface of the support layer. The curable adhesive layer includes a rubber elastomer and a thermal curing agent.

Protective tapes, articles therefrom, and methods of making and using same

Electrical conductors are disclosed. More particularly, undulating electrical conductors are disclosed. Certain disclosed electrical conductors may be suitable to be disposed on flexible or stretchable substrates.

Electrical conductors

A multilayer stack includes a first stretchable layer having a first length, a first adhesive layer disposed on a top surface of the first stretchable layer and having the first length, a second stretchable layer disposed on a top surface of the first adhesive layer and having a second length smaller than the first length, a radio frequency identification tag including an antenna having a spiral form and disposed on a top surface of the second stretchable layer or on a bottom surface of the second stretchable layer, a second adhesive layer disposed on the second stretchable layer and having a third length less than the first length and greater than the second length where the second adhesive layer encapsulates the second stretchable layer, and a third stretchable layer disposed on a top surface of the second adhesive layer and having the third length.

Multilayer stack including RFID tag

A film assembly or a multilayer stack can include an antenna having a spiral form disposed on a stretchable layer. The film assembly includes a stretchable substrate having opposite major top and bottom surfaces, and a first material disposed on the major top surface of the stretchable substrate in the form of a plurality of intersecting rows and columns making the film assembly less stretchable than the stretchable substrate. The rows and columns define a plurality of closed cells. An antenna for use in a radio frequency identification tag is disposed on the stretchable substrate in each closed cell and is isolated from the first material. The antenna includes an elongated electrically conductive electrode having a spiral form.

Film assembly and multilayer stack including antenna

A radio frequency identification tag including a stretchable substrate folded along a fold line to form top and bottom stretchable fold portions is described. Each fold portion has major top and bottom surfaces with the major top surface of the bottom fold portion facing the major bottom surface of the top fold portion. An antenna having a spiral form is disposed on the major top surface of the top fold portion. First and second terminals are disposed on the major top surface of the top fold portion and are in electrical communication with respective first and second ends of the antenna. A meandering electrode is disposed on the major bottom surface of the bottom fold portion and has first and second electrode ends making crimp connections with the respective first and second terminals.

RFID tag on stretchable substrate

A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that includes an antenna having a spiral form disposed on a major surface of a flexible substrate is described. The RFID tag includes a first terminal disposed at a first end of the antenna and a second terminal disposed at the second end of the antenna. The RFID tag may include a pad portion along the length of the antenna between the first and second ends for mounting an integrated circuit. Except for the pad portion, a radius of curvature of the antenna along at least 90 percent of a length of the antenna between the first and second ends is greater than about 0.1 mm and less than about 10 mm.

RFID tag on flexible substrate

A radio frequency identification tag including a stretchable substrate () and an antenna () having a plurality of substantially concentric loops () disposed on the substrate is described. A radius of curvature of the antenna along at least 90% of each loop of the antenna may be greater than about 0.1 mm and less than about 5 mm. The antenna includes a first terminal () disposed within an innermost loop () of the antenna and a second terminal () disposed outside an outermost loop () of the antenna (). The first terminal () is in electrical communication with a first end () of the antenna and the second terminal () is in electrical communication with a second end () of the antenna. The radio frequency identification tag may include an electrode making electrical connections with the first and second terminals.

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Round Rock, TX, United States of America

Robin E Gorrell