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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2020
Federal Card Services, Llc, Cincinnati, OH (US);
David Finn, Füssen Weissensee, DE;
Federal Card Services, LLC, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
(i) Smartcards (SC) manufactured from a web of metal inlays (MI; FIGS.-) with the coupling frame (CF) forming the metal card body (MCB) supported by metal struts (struts). In the production of smartcards having a coupling frame (CF) with a slit (S), the slit may form part of graphic elements (FIGS.-). (ii) Printing and coating techniques may be used to camouflage the slit (FIGS.A-D). (iii) Surface currents may be collected from one location in a card body (CB) and transported to another location (FIGS.AB). A flexible circuit (FC) may be connected to termination points (TP) across the slit (S), or may couple via a patch antenna (PA) with the slit (S). The flexible circuit may couple, via an antenna structure (AS) with the module antenna (MA) of a transponder chip module (TCM).