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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2003
Hiroshi Morito, Tokyo, JP;
Shunji Masuda, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The disclosed merchandise tag is a non-contact wireless tag, has a color change layer on its surface, and the price data stored therein can be read out and rewritten. It can be easily attached and removed, reduces the amount of attachment implements used, and allows the display thereon to be easily changed by means of a heat treatment, magnetic treatment, or the like. The merchandise tag has an attachment hole and a slit that is formed to extend from the attachment hole up to the circumference of the merchandise tag, and contains a semiconductor integrated circuit, and one or more price data entries can be stored in the semiconductor integrated circuit. It preferably includes a rounded portion at the intersection between the slit and the circumference such that the angle formed between the slit and the circumference is between 20 and 70 degrees.