Patent ID: 7244332

Claim:
A method for the manufacture of a smart label web which comprises smart labels one after another, the smart labels comprising a circuitry pattern and an integrated circuit on a chip attached to the circuitry pattern, the method comprising: providing a thermoplastic anisotropic conductive film; providing a base web which has at least one side with a conductive coating for electrical contact; laminating the thermoplastic anisotropic conductive film to the conductive coating on the base web to provide a multilayered film; affixing the chip with the integrated circuit on the thermoplastic anisotropic conductive film by heating the film and pressing the chip onto the heated film to provide a structural part web; cutting the structural part web into individual structural parts; providing a label web which comprises labels one after the other, the labels including at least one circuitry pattern; placing a structural part which has been cut from the structural part web onto a label on the label web so that the thermoplastic film overlies the chip and the chip lies between the thermoplastic film and the label to provide a laminate; and heating the laminate to affix the structural part to the label and to provide an electrical connection between the chip and the circuitry pattern and to provide a smart label web.