Patent ID: 6137447
Filing Date: 2000-10-24
Classification: G06K,H01Q,H04B

Abstract:
An antenna for a reader/writer of an interrogator in a non-contact data carrier system comprising the interrogator and transponder, said antenna for the reader/writer of the interrogator comprising a transmitting antenna for transmitting a signal to the transponder and a receiving antenna for receiving a signal from the transponder, wherein said receiving antenna comprises a loop coil located at a position where magnetic fields of opposite polarities to each other are induced in the receiving antenna by magnetic coupling between the receiving antenna and the transmitting antenna and where said magnetic fields of the opposite polarities cancel out each other, wherein said transmitting antenna comprises at least two loop coils for generating magnetic fields of opposite polarities to each other and the receiving antenna is located so that magnetic fields induced in the receiving antenna by the magnetic fields of the opposite polarities to each other generated from said loop coils cancel out each other and wherein said transmitting antenna is made of a line of antenna conductor so as to form the loop coils of the transmitting antenna, adjacent to each other, for generating the magnetic fields of the opposite polarities to each other and so as to wind the adjacent loop coils in mutually opposite directions and wherein said receiving antenna comprises an auxiliary coil for adjusting a mutual inductance between said receiving antenna and said transmitting antenna.