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Transponder scanner

Assignee: Bio Medic Data Systems Inc
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Filing: 1990-11-21
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Granted: 1993-11-16
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Expires: 2010-11-21
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Abstract

Abstract A transponder scanner for scanning a passive transponder within a high noise environment has a housing. A ferrite rod is positioned within the housing. A high gauge thin wire is wound about the ferrite rod to form a magnetic coil so that adjacent coils of the magnetic coil are separated by a distance much greater than the diameter of the magnetic wire. A CPU receives the scanned signal corresponding to a preprogrammed code and an in house generated code and maps the preprogrammed code to the in house generated code.

Inventors

  • 👤 Donald J. Urbas
  • 👤 Cornelia A. O'Neill

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01Q; H01Q7/00; H01Q7/06; H01Q7/08; G; G01; G01S; G01S13/00; G01S13/74; G01S13/75; G01S13/751; H01Q1/00; H01Q1/12; H01Q1/22; H01Q1/24

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 8
Claim 1
Independent Claim 142 words
A scanner for use in scanning passive transponders utilizing an LC circuit comprising a housing; antenna means for transmitting and receiving a signal including a ferrite rod supported within said housing, a magnetic coil defined by a wire wound about said ferrite rod to form a plurality of coils, the antenna means receiving a preprogrammed ID number from said scanned transponder; input means for generating a user selected in house ID number; mapping means for generating an in house ID number in response to said input means and for mapping said preprogrammed ID number to said in house ID number to form a mapped pair; display means for receiving said in house generated ID number and displaying said in house ID number; and processing means for processing said in house ID number when data representative of said preprogrammed ID number is received.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 142 words
A scanner for use in scanning passive transponders utilizing an LC circuit comprising a housing; antenna means for transmitting and receiving a signal including a ferrite rod supported within said housing, a magnetic coil defined by a wire wound about said ferrite rod to form a plurality of coils, the antenna means receiving a preprogrammed ID number from said scanned transponder; input means for generating a user selected in house ID number; mapping means for generating an in house ID number in response to said input means and for mapping said preprogrammed ID number to said in house ID number to form a mapped pair; display means for receiving said in house generated ID number and displaying said in house ID number; and processing means for processing said in house ID number when data representative of said preprogrammed ID number is received.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 31 words
The scanner of claim 1, further comprising memory means for storing a map table corresponding to the mapping of said in house generated ID number and the corresponding preprogrammed ID number.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 29 words
The scanner of claim 2, further comprising a housing wherein said mapping means and memory means are mounted within said housing, said memory means being removable from said housing.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 13 words
The scanner of claim 3, wherein said memory means includes an RAM card.
Claim 6
Independent Claim 100 words
An apparatus for scanning a passive transponder comprising antenna means for transmitting a signal and receiving a signal from said transponder corresponding to a preprogrammed ID number of said transponder; input means for generating a user selected in house ID number; mapping means for mapping said preprogrammed ID number to said in house generated ID number in response to said input means; display means for receiving said in house generated ID number and displaying said in house generated ID number; and memory means for storing said in house generated ID number and corresponding transponder ID number as a mapped pair.
Claim 7
Independent Claim 100 words
An apparatus for scanning a passive transponder comprising antenna means for transmitting a signal and receiving a signal from said transponder corresponding to a preprogrammed ID number of said transponder; input means for generating a user selected in house ID number; mapping means for mapping said preprogrammed ID number to said in house generated ID number in response to said input means; display means for receiving said in house generated ID number and displaying said in house generated ID number; and memory means for storing said in house generated ID number and corresponding transponder ID number as a mapped pair.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 17 words
The apparatus for scanning of claim 5, wherein said memory means may be removed from said apparatus.

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