Patent ID: 8152392
Filing Date: 2012-04-10
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A label producing apparatus comprising: an RFID tag communicating information creating device configured to create RFID tag communicating information for carrying out communication with an IC circuit part of an RFID circuit element having said IC circuit part for storing information and a tag antenna connected to said IC circuit part to transmit and receive information; a cartridge holder portion configured to detachably mount a cartridge having a tag medium on which said RFID circuit element is disposed, thereon; a feeding device configured to feed said tag medium of said cartridge along a predetermined transport path; and a device antenna configured to transmit said RFID tag communicating information created by said RFID tag communicating information creating device to said tag antenna by wireless communication and carry out communication with said IC circuit part, disposed in the vicinity of said transport path, wherein said device antenna includes an antenna surface disposed in a surface intersecting a tag medium plane defined by a surface direction of said tag medium in said transport path, wherein said cartridge having a tag tape roll around which a tag tape as said tag medium is wound is detachably mounted in said cartridge holder portion, and said device antenna is disposed in the vicinity of a tag tape path in a surface intersecting a tag tape plane defined by a surface of the tag tape in said tag tape path fed out from said tag tape roll, wherein said surface, in which said antenna surface is disposed, is approximately orthogonal to the surface of the tape in said tag tape path, and wherein said device antenna is a patch antenna having a directivity on one side thereof.