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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2007
Mohammad Soleimani, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Martin Strzelczyk, New Market, MD (US);
Son Ngo, Frederick, MD (US);
Ian Chamberlin, Burtonsville, MD (US);
Albert Owens, Rockville, MD (US);
Mohammad Soleimani, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Martin Strzelczyk, New Market, MD (US);
Son Ngo, Frederick, MD (US);
Ian Chamberlin, Burtonsville, MD (US);
Albert Owens, Rockville, MD (US);
Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtsville, NY (US);
Abstract
A thermal management system and method to control temperature in an RFID reader is described herein. In particular, by inserting variable periods of inactivity (or latency) at the beginning or at the end of each read cycle, proportional to an instantaneous temperature value of the RFID reader, over-heating and damage of RFID reader electronics is prevented. The RFID reader includes a thermal sensor and determines when the high power RF electronics is enabled. If the RFID reader is in an over-heated condition, it can be turned OFF and during this period any requests received on an interface to the RFID reader to perform a read of tag(s) are not processed.