Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Tsuyoshi Ohashi

Takuya Nagai

Kazunari Taki

Kunihiro Yasui

Koshiro Yamaguchi

Toshio Takahashi

Shinichi Hirahata

Tsuyoshi Nagae

Yasunori Nakamura

Shiro Yamada

Kiyoichi Ohta

Hideo Ueno

Akira Ito

Kentaro Ushiyama

Nobuhiko Funato

Tomoyasu Fukui

Akihiko Niwa

Tatsuhiro Ikedo

Hironori Hirata

Yasuhisa Ichikawa

Mitsuo Hirota

Hitomi Hioki

Shougo Sato

Mitsugi Tanaka

Yasuhiro Hattori

Mark Anthony Darty

Tsugio Okamoto

Yoshitsugu Tomomatsu

Takeshi Asano

Ryohei Komiya

Satoru Moriyama

Takashi Kawaguchi

Nobumasa Tanaka

Yuji Shinkai

Kazutaka Yamamoto

Hiroyuki Kashima

Yuji Hori

Mika Matsushima

Yoshito Toyoda

Yoshiyuki Kondo

Kazuhito Misumi

Yoshiaki Komatsu

Katsumi Toda

Michihiro Takeda

Katsuyuki Kuramoto

Wataru Fujishiro

Etsuteru Inoue

Yoshinori Maeda

Hironobu Wakayama

Katsuo Saito

Mitsuaki Koketsu

Osamu Nishikawa

Katsuo Minakata

Fumika Miyazaki

Yumiko Mori

Douglas J Fletcher

An image processing apparatus including a wireless communication unit, an image processing unit, and a controller configured to establish a wireless connection to perform wireless signal communication between the wireless communication unit and an external device, acquire a reception intensity of a wireless signal received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, determine whether the reception intensity is more than a threshold value, when determining that the reception intensity is more than the threshold value, control the image processing unit to execute an image processing instruction received from the external device via the wireless communication unit, and when determining that the reception intensity is not more than the threshold value, transmit an instruction to display a warning on the external device, to the external device via the wireless communication unit, without controlling the image processing unit to execute the image processing instruction.

Image processing apparatus and method for the same

This disclosure discloses an RFID tag supplying apparatus that supplies a substantially sheet-like antenna base on which an RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part that stores information and an antenna that transmits and receives information is disposed between a first tape and a second tape that are fed to a predetermined bonding position to be mutually bonded, comprising: a tape processing device that makes a tape orderly on said antenna base to prevent the generation of parts out of order in a tag tape including said first tape and said second tape.

RFID tag supplying apparatus and tag tape roll

The RFID circuit element cartridge stores multiple RFID circuit elements for producing RFID labels. Each of the elements includes an IC circuit part configured to store information and an antenna connected to the IC circuit part. The RFID circuit element cartridge is detachably mounted to an apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag. The apparatus includes an antenna configured to carry out wireless communication with each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label. The RFID circuit element cartridge includes a RFID circuit element Tc for cartridge identifying configured to store identification information for identifying the cartridge. The identification information serves as a communication factor that determines a performance of communication between the antenna and each RFID circuit element for producing a RFID label.

Container for including at least a RFID tag, apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, management server for managing production information of a RFID tag, and management system for managing production information of a RFID tag

A first roll is provided, which is formed by winding a base tape having a tape-state base film in which a plurality of RFID circuit elements are disposed with a predetermined interval in the lengthwise direction, an adhesive layer with a predetermined width for affixing the RFID circuit element to a target to be affixed, disposed on one face of the base film, and a separation sheet with a width larger than that of the adhesive layer and disposed so as to extend in the lengthwise direction of the adhesive layer around a reel axis approximately perpendicular to the lengthwise direction.

Roll of tape with RFID tag, tag tape, and cartridge for including at least a RFID tag

There is provided a radio communication system capable of distinguishing objects from one another while taking advantage of the low power consumption and distance measurement ability of the radio communication of the UWB method. A radio tag TGn includes: a characteristic impedance unit () for generating a response signal by using a pulse signal received from a broad-band antenna (); a transmission path () having a predetermined length, transmitting the pulse signal received by the broad-band antenna () from the broad-band antenna () to the characteristic impedance unit (), and transmitting the generated response signal from the characteristic impedance unit () to the broad-band antenna (); and the broad-band antenna () for receiving the pulse signal and transmitting the response signal. The aforementioned pulse wave is transmitted to the radio tag TGn by the UWB method. The response signal from the radio tag TGn is received and the radio tag TGn is identified from the reception waveform.

Position detecting system, responder and interrogator, wireless communication system, position detecting method, position detecting program, and information recording medium

An apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag comprises an antenna for communicating with a RFID circuit element by wireless communication, a signal processing circuit and a radio frequency circuit for accessing an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element through the antenna based on an access instruction to information in a RFID tag, a storage device for storing at least correlation information of identification information of an object which is to bear a RFID tag containing the RFID circuit element to identification of the RFID circuit element corresponding thereto in a database, a control circuit for accessing the database based on an access instruction to a storage device, a tape feeding roller drive shaft for feeding out a cover film associated with the RFID circuit element, and a print head for printing a print based on a printing instruction.

System and apparatus for managing information and communicating with a RFID tag

Since signal transmittance adjustment devices that can suppress transmittance of a receiving signal to a DSP as a receiving processing device from an antenna for reception and a signal transmittance control device configured to control the signal transmittance adjustment devices so that the transmittance of the receiving signal to the DSP from the antenna for reception is suppressed at least when a transmission signal including a modulation signal is transmitted from an antenna for transmission are provided, occurrence of a trouble in which a head portion of a reply signal is crushed by a wrap around signal from a transmission side can be suitably prevented, and particularly, favorable communication can be realized at start of a response from a RFID tag. That is, an apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag that can suitably suppress an influence of a transient response can be provided.

Signal processing unit

There is provided a radio-frequency communication device that can sufficiently eliminate a leakage signal from a transmission side included in a received signal. The communication device includes a cancel amplitude controlling unitselectively suppressing supply of a cancel signal to a cancel signal synthesizing unit, a received-signal terminating unitselectively terminating a received-signal input terminal, a signal strength detecting unitdetecting a signal strength, a memory unitstoring a signal strength detected by the signal strength detecting unit, a signal strength comparing unitcomparing a plurality kinds of signal strengths read out from the memory unit, and a cancel signal controlling unitcontrolling an amplitude and/or a phase of the cancel signal based on a result of the comparison by the signal strength comparing unit. Thus, suppressing the cancel signal by the cancel amplitude controlling unitenables accurate detection of a strength of the received signal, as well as terminating the received signal by the received-signal terminating unitenables accurate detection of a strength of the cancel signal.

Radio-frequency communication device

A radio-frequency device includes a PAA processing portion configured to control a directivity of reception of a receiver antenna device, a received-signal-strength detecting portion configured to detect a strength of the received signal received by the receiver antenna device, and a direction detecting portion configured to detect the direction toward the communication object, on the basis of a direction in which a higher one of two strength values of the received signal respectively detected in first and second maximum-reception-directivity directions of a predetermined angular difference established by the PAA processing portion is minimal. Accordingly, the direction toward the radio-frequency tag can be suitably detected.

Radio-frequency device, and radio-frequency tag communication device

Data is transferred from an operating device to a printer for printing with a simple operation. It is determined whether or not a printer ID received by a RFID tag for a printer of a printer via radio communication from a mobile terminal matches a printer ID of the printer of itself, and when the printer ID matches, printing data received by the RFID tag for a printer via radio communication from the mobile terminal is stored in a memory part of the RFID tag for a printer and then, the printing data is transmitted to a printer main body through a reader from the RFID tag for a printer and printed by a print head of the printer main body.

RFID tag printer and printer

A method for producing a RFID label comprises conveying a first label base material which is transparent from a first holding portion holding the first label base material, forming an image on a surface of the first label base material, conveying a second label base material including at least one of a RFID antenna conductor and an IC chip from a second holding portion holding the second label base material and joining the second label base material and the first label base material on which an image has been formed together, wherein, when an image is formed on the first label base material, the image is formed on a surface of the first label base material, the surface being joined to the second label base material.

RFID label, method for producing the RFID label, device for producing the RFID label, sheet member (tag sheet) used for the RFID label, and cartridge attached to the device for producing the RFID label

An RFID tag information system comprises a transmission/reception antenna configured to carry out information transmission/reception via radio communication with a RFID circuit element. An access information processing device configured to carry out predetermined processing relating to information for access that accesses the RFID circuit element or access acquisition information. And a selection processing portion for select and process one transmission path among a plurality of transmission paths that transmit the information for access from the access information processing device or that transmit the access acquisition information to the access information processing device.

RFID tag information system

There are included an antenna transmitting and receiving information through a radio communication with a RFID circuit element, a signal processing circuit and a transmission portion of a radio frequency circuit configured to execute write or read of information with respect to an IC circuit part of the RFID circuit element, a tape-feeding-roller drive shaft for feeding out a base tape from a first roll, a cutter configured to cut the base tape fed out by this tape-feeding-roller drive shaft to a predetermined length to produce a RFID label, a print head making a print in a predetermined print region of the base tape, and a control circuit configured to control this print head so as to be capable of being switched between the print in a forward direction and the print in a rotation direction inverting this forward direction with respect to a predetermined print region.

Apparatus for communicating with a RFID tag, tape cartridge and tag tape

An RFID tag reader/writer having a high degree of stability of communication with only a desired RFID tag. The frequency of a carrier wave to be transmitted from the RFID tag reader/writer is set on the basis of a resonance frequency of an antenna of the RFID tag located within a predetermined nearby communication area, which resonance frequency changes due to mutual coupling between the antenna of the RFID tag and an antenna of the RFID tag reader/writer. According to this setting, the RFID tag located within the nearby communication area has a high degree of sensitivity, and the RFID tag located outside the nearby communication area has a low degree of sensitivity, so that it is possible to effectively prevent an interference between the communication of the RFID tag reader/writer with the selected RFID tag and the communication of the reader/writer with the other or non-selected RFID tag.

RFID tag reader/writer

This disclosure discloses a tag label producing apparatus comprising: a printing device; a transmitting/receiving device that performs information transmission/reception; a feeding device that feeds said tag medium; a coordination control portion; a communication determining portion that determines whether or not information transmission/reception has succeeded; and a decision portion that decides a feeding-stop condition for stopping feeding based on a feeding condition for the transmission/reception, and a feeding-condition for printing to a print area; wherein: said coordination control portion controls in coordination operations of said feeding device, said transmitting/receiving device, and said printing device so as to stop feeding based on said feeding-stop condition decided by said decision portion and to perform retry of said information transmission/reception when said communication determining portion determines that said information transmission/reception has failed.

Tag tape, tag tape roll, and RFID label

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Hashima, Japan

Tsuyoshi Ohashi