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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2005
Theodore A. Chapman, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Richard E. Schumaker, Orange, CA (US);
Andrew W. Edwards, Irvine, CA (US);
Stephen S. Morris, Anaheim, CA (US);
James P. Harkins, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Bradley S. Jarvis, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Theodore A. Chapman, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US);
Richard E. Schumaker, Orange, CA (US);
Andrew W. Edwards, Irvine, CA (US);
Stephen S. Morris, Anaheim, CA (US);
James P. Harkins, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Bradley S. Jarvis, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Printronix, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
An RFID label with embedded tag is passed through an RFID antenna in a printer system, where the RFID antenna allows a roll of such labels to pass in close proximity to the antenna and still allow each individual RFID tag to be read and/or programmed. The RFID antenna has a rectangular RF field spreader in contact with a triangular divergent RF conductor with an RF source point at the point. Ground planes are located on either side of the antenna. In another embodiment, the printer system extracts or parses bar code commands from a data stream and passes the commands to both a printer and an RFID reader to print the image and program the tag with the bar code information.