Patent ID: 8960543
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06K,H01Q

Abstract:
1. An RFID reader having at least one RFID antenna and at least one tuning circuit, such that the RFID reader is situated in a recess of a housing of an apparatus, such that the apparatus housing of the apparatus is constituted of an electrically conductive material, characterized in that the at least one RFID antenna is situated in a location selected from the group consisting of a plane constituted by the apparatus housing; inside the apparatus housing; and bordering on the plane constituted by the apparatus housing; that the RFID reader is configured as an RFID reader operating according to the “EMV® Contactless Specifications for Payment Systems, Book D, Communication Protocol Specification, Version 2.1, March 2011;” that the RFID reader has a transmitting power of more than 400 milliwatts; and, that a quality factor for the RFID antenna is in a range between 12 and 20.