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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 22, 1994
Atsushi Watanabe, Toyokawa, JP;
Hitoshi Kamiya, Hekinan, JP;
Eiji Nakada, Kariya, JP;
Tomoaki Mizuno, Toyoake, JP;
Yoshiyuki Kago, Nishio, JP;
Tokutaro Murase, Obu, JP;
Yoshihiko Inukai, Nagoya, JP;
Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Kariya, JP;
Abstract
An electronic device intended for use as a tag to be attached to identify contents of the container to which it is attached. In particular, the present invention relates to an electronic tag which has a facility for storing delivery information and is equipped with a responding means for transmitting the delivery information stored therein in response to a query signal received from an interrogating apparatus. Codes, including items such as the names and addresses of the destination and the sender, and a sorting code are written into predetermined blanks of a delivery label, and into a memory. The memory responds to a query by transmitting the sorting information to allow automated sorting. The tag may be initiated only when torn, to extend battery shelf life.