Patent ID: 8068032

Claim:
An apparatus for communicating with an RFID tag comprising: a housing constituting an outer profile of an apparatus main body; an apparatus antenna device provided with communicable regions both on an inside and an outside of said housing and configured for information transmission/reception with respect to an RFID circuit element provided with an IC circuit part storing information and a tag antenna for information transmission/reception; a feeding device provided inside said housing and configured to feed a feeding medium; a carry-out exit configured to discharge said feeding medium to an outside of said housing, disposed in a wall of said housing other than a bottom wall; a container holder that detachably installs a container for including at least an RFID tag containing said feeding medium configured for continuous supply on which a plurality of said RFID circuit elements are arranged; and a mode control portion including a scan mode configured to perform information transmission/reception with said RFID circuit element located outside said housing through said apparatus antenna device and a tag-label production mode configured to perform information reading/writing in the communicable region on the inside of said housing with said RFID circuit element through said apparatus antenna device and then to carry out said RFID circuit element from said carry-out exit, the RFID circuit element provided at said feeding medium supplied from said container and fed by said feeding device, said mode control portion configured to control said apparatus antenna device corresponding to either one of said scan mode or said tag-label production mode.