Patent ID: 8207857

Claim:
Detection device for piece goods comprising an antenna device for inductive coupling of an operating voltage into at least one electronic marking which are in each case captively connected to the piece goods to be counted, and a reading unit for acquiring the signals sent by the electronic markings, as well as a counter connected downstream of the reader for determining the respective number of piece goods by evaluation of the signals of the electronic markings received by means of the reader, wherein the antenna device for generating two respective electromagnetic fields of different orientations comprises at least two separate antennas which are arranged at a defined angle to each other, wherein the antenna device assigned to said detection device comprises four diagonal antennas, each having two diagonal sections, two intersecting diagonal sections are assigned to each side wall of a counting cage, and the opposite diagonal sections of opposite side walls are aligned in parallel to one another and combined to form one diagonal antenna, the diagonal sections of the diagonal antenna being connected by two transverse members.