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Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2007

Filed:

Aug. 28, 2003
Applicants:

Hiraku Akiho, Miyagi, JP;

Yutaka Okazaki, Tokyo, JP;

Akihiro Kikuchi, Chiba, JP;

Kazuo Goto, Kanagawa, JP;

Kazuhiko Urayama, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Hiraku Akiho, Miyagi, JP;

Yutaka Okazaki, Tokyo, JP;

Akihiro Kikuchi, Chiba, JP;

Kazuo Goto, Kanagawa, JP;

Kazuhiko Urayama, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 19/06 (2006.01); H01Q 11/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An antenna device () is provided that is used in a recorder and/or writer destined for writing and reading data to and from a contactless IC card (). The antenna device () includes a loop coil () that radiates a magnetic field, magnetically couples with a loop coil () provided in the IC card (), and sends and receives data to and from the IC card (). The loop coil () is formed asymmetric for the winding sections thereof opposite to each other across the center of the loop coil () to be different in interval from each other.


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