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The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Single Chip Holdings, Inc.

Ronald M Ames

Bruce B Roesner

Richard Stephen Pollack

Robert Walter Brown

Ronald Craig Fish

William Frank Dunn

Gene Raymond Starkey

Jonathan Paul Ruppert

John Roux Phelan

Gary T Belski

Thomas Allan Yap

A portable barcode and RF ID tag reader that gathers information about items to be purchased etc by reading barcodes or RF ID tags. A store host computer gathers information about items to be purchased from the portable barcode/ID Tag readers and then the items are bagged by the customer at the checkout stand or by employees of the store at the checkout stand or in a separate warehouse from which the customer picks up the order. The portable barcode/RF ID tag reader can also be used in authenticating articles by accessing a factory computer using a serial number for the article scanned from an RF ID tag on the article. The portable barcode/RF ID tag reader is comprised of a microprocessor coupled to a bar code reader, an RF ID tag reader, a spread spectrum RF transceiver, a communication port, an audible feedback device, a touchscreen or light pen and display, a thermal printer and a magnetic stripe card reader and a smart card reader.

Portable RF ID tag and barcode reader

A method of programming or writing to an RFID tag with a transient pulse at both high and low frequencies, i.e. in the GHz and KHz ranges is described. Programming an RFID tag using transient pulses rather than a long duration regulated signal allows for less control circuitry, less programming time, less energy, less cost and power requirements for the RFID tag.

Apparatus and method of use of radiofrequency identification tags

This invention provides a golf putting and chipping trainer and desk accessory device (10) for improving a golfer's putting and chipping stroke which can also be used as a desk accessory when not being used as a trainer. The device (10) includes a ramp (20) in combination with a base (40). The ramp (20) has a face (22), an under side (24), a first end (26) and a second end (28). The second end (28) substantially defines an apex (30). The base (40) is rectangular and includes a first side (42), a bottom side (44), and a top side (46) having an aperture (48) contained therein which simulates a golf cup. The first side (42) of the base (40) and the first end (26) of the ramp (20) have a first thickness (58) and are cooperatively engaged. When used as a desk accessory, one or more novelties (56) are mountable to the top side (46) of the base (40). The novelties (56) may be of any of a variety of ornamental or utilitarian articles. The face (22) of the ramp (20) may include a laser engraved-logo. The ramp (20) has an upward slope such that a golf ball (70) which is propelled toward the ramp (20) in line with the aperture (48) at a predetermined rate of speed would cease rolling at a point approximately 17 inches beyond the center of the aperture (48) if the trainer was not present.

Golf putting and chipping trainer and desk accessory device

A pneumatic tire has an integrated circuit transponder which, upon interrogation by an external RF signal, transmits tire identification and/or other data in digitally-coded form. The transponder has a coil antenna of small enclosed area as compared to the area enclosed by an annular tensile member comprising a bead of the tire. The annular tensile member, during transponder interrogation, acts as the primary winding of a transformer. The coil antenna is loosely coupled to the primary winding and is the secondary winding of the transformer. The coil antenna is substantially planar in shape, and, when positioned between the innerliner of the tire and its carcass ply, the transponder may include a pressure sensor responsive to tire inflation pressure.

Integrated circuit transponder with coil antenna in a pneumatic tire for

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Aurora, CO, United States of America

Ronald M Ames