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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2005
Applicants:
Keisuke Saito, Kyoto, JP;
Shinichiro Okamura, Kyoto, JP;
Takehiro Kawai, Kyoto, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Omron Corporation, Kyoto-shi, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 13/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An RFID reader/writer performs a radio communication with an RFID tag. An antenna for tag communication used in the RFID reader/writer is a beam scanning antenna that can perform scanning with the beam of a transmitted radio wave. The beam has a high directivity in a certain scanning direction. The scanning with the beam is performed so that a plane including the certain scanning direction intersects with a floor surface as a reflecting surface on which the strongest reflected wave is generated.