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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014
Filed:
May. 31, 2011
Thomas Craig Weakley, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Dale R. Masslon, Tolland, CT (US);
Andrew F. Geib, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Kevin Donahue, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
Thomas Craig Weakley, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Dale R. Masslon, Tolland, CT (US);
Andrew F. Geib, Glastonbury, CT (US);
Kevin Donahue, Cherry Hill, NJ (US);
United Technologies Corporation, Hartford, CT (US);
Abstract
An RFID tag system includes a housing that includes an enclosed sidewall and forms a recess with a housing base surface, where the housing is configured and arranged to be mounted to a mounting surface. An RFID tag is located within the housing, and the RFID tag comprises an integrated circuit, an antenna and a metal backplane, where the housing base surface separates the antenna and the metal backplane. A metal surface is secured to a top surface of the sidewall to cover the recess, where the metal surface and a transmission path from the integrated circuit to the antenna are electromagnetically coupled and tuned to operate across a wide band frequency range. The metal surface may include a name plate of a data plate for a gas turbine engine, or a component thereof.