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Definitions

• a conformable and intelligent tag is used in a system and method for detecting the unauthorised opening of packages that have a distinct way of opening.
• the intelligent tag being conformable, may be used for the preservation of authenticity of a number of articles for example music records, audio and visual cassettes, compact disks, mini disks, CD-ROM's, VCD's, boxes containing cigars, spirits, perfumes, etc., the tag being glued across the sealing edges and following the contour of these articles.
• the intelligent tag may have embedded an appropriate electronic circuitry that therein may be interrogated by a transmitting and receiving unit either by ensuring ohmic contact with the appropriate pads provided on the surface of the intelligent tag or from a relatively short distance in a wireless manner.
• the electronic circuit is necessary for storing a number of data related to the producer of the goods, the contents of the package and any other information relevant to the nature of the contents. For example, in the case of musical compact disks information is required to be stored related to the so-called "label copy", i.e. catalogue number and ID of producing company, date of release, the most famous composer involved, etc.
• the intelligent tag with its electronic circuitry may be adhered to the appropriate position of the package to be protected so that any attempt to remove it either by cutting or peeling will induce a permanent damage of the embedded electronic circuitry.
• a transmitting and receiving unit may detect the operating condition of the circuitry and subsequently the information stored in its memory by providing an appropriate interrogation protocol after the external powering of the embedded circuitry either by electrical contact or by a radio frequency emission.
• the present invention relates to a system and method for sealing packages and securing the authenticity of the contents of the package. More particularly the present invention relates to a system and method for electronically and visually detecting the opening of the package and thus preventing the frauding of the contents by sticking a conformable intelligent tag on the appropriate sealing edge(s) of the packages so that to have a permanent damage induced to the incorporated electronic circuit upon removal of the tag.
• Frauding detection technology as it has been applied to the sealing of such items, has usually included an indicator tag in the form of printed paper and/or laminated structure containing a hologram, attached to the package by glue. Such systems may be easily defeated. The disadvantage of such systems, despite their relatively low cost, lies in the ease with which can be removed and substituted by fraud ones.
• the deformation is either detected using strain gauges (resistors which change their resistance value when they are stretched) or it induces a high voltage spike, that damages the integrated circuits, from a piezoelectric material incorporated in the encapsulation.
• strain gauges resistors which change their resistance value when they are stretched
• high voltage spike that damages the integrated circuits, from a piezoelectric material incorporated in the encapsulation.
• the published devices refer to the protection against access to secure information and they have the disadvantage that require the use of rigid encapsulation materials in order to function successfully.
• the present invention refers to a conformable intelligent tag which incorporates an electronic circuitry which may be activated by a transmitting and receiving unit.
• the electronic circuitry consists of two parts: 10 and 20.
• Part 10 is an interconnection circuit consisting of a thin conducting metal path of copper or aluminium laminated between two appropriate polymer sheets so that the laminated structure is highly conformable.
• the information carrying means 20 are provided on an integrated circuit carrier 21 , as shown in FIG. 3, and they are coupled via the conducting spacers 25 onto the conducting path 10.
• FIG. 2 shows a pictorial view of the architecture of the conformable intelligent tag of the present invention. It consists of one polymer layer 30 that carries the conducting path 10 which is electrically connected to the information carrying means 20. Layer 30, carrying the conducting path 10, is laminated with an appropriate adhesive 40 to another pol ⁇ meric layer 50, in a way that secures both conducting path 10 and the information carrying means 20 between the two aforementioned la ⁇ ers 30 and 50. In the wireless version of communication the conducting metal path 10 may play the role of the necessary antenna.
• the conducting path ma ⁇ be a metal foil laminated in a conventional way with layer 30 or a thin metal film evaporated onto layer 30.
• the required pattem of the conducting path 10 ma ⁇ be induced b ⁇ well known photo-lithographic techniques.
• Part 20 is a rigidised substrate, the so-called "chip carrier", which ma ⁇ be an epox ⁇ t ⁇ pe printed circuit board 21, that carries one Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) 22 as shown in FIG. 3 or in another embodiment all the necessar ⁇ integrated circuits as Chips-on-Board (COB).
• the application specific integrated circuit is attached on the chip carrier b ⁇ commercial adhesive and it is electrically connected to the conducting spacers 25 b ⁇ wire bonding 23 and through the conducting paths 24.
• the wire bondings ma ⁇ be substituted b ⁇ flip-chip techniques.
• the conducting spacers 25 are extended to the back of the substrate where suitable copper pads 90 are formed like in the case of double-sided printed circuit boards. These pads are coated with a thin film of gold to prevent copper oxidation, when exposed as in the case of FIG. 5, and the ⁇ are electrically connected to the conducting spacers 25 with plated-through holes drilled through the epox ⁇ substrate of the chip carrier.
• an embodiment of the device according to the invention is characterised, in that at least one of the la ⁇ ers 30 of the comformable laminated structure which carries the conducting paths is laminated with a commercial adhesive 40 to another layer 50 having a relatively lower peeling strength in comparison to the one of adhesive 60 that is used for the gluing of the whole conformable structure on package 70 under protection.
• the lamination adhesive 40 ma ⁇ also be used to protect from moisture and to isolate electrically electronic circuit 20 from the adjacent part of the conducting path 10.
• the Application Specific integrated Circuit 22 ma ⁇ have its own protective isolation la ⁇ er.
• the joint ma ⁇ be a commercial metal-doped, i.e. silver-doped, self- cured conductive adhesive.
• Fig.'s 4 and 5 show the cross sections of the two t ⁇ pes of the proposed intelligent conformable tag.
• FIG. 4 shows the cross section of the intelligent tag that ma ⁇ be interrogated in the contactless manner.
• a transmitting and receiving unit ma ⁇ be used for the contactless interrogation of an intelligent tag.
• the circuitr ⁇ 10 and 20 of the intelligent tag and the transmitting and receiving unit ma ⁇ be a s ⁇ stem known in the art, that is able to provide a communication link for information exchange.
• radio frequenc ⁇ transmitters, transponders, reprogrammable memor ⁇ modules and the like may be used with the appropriate receiving equipment in order to establish the contactless exchange of information between the transmitting and receiving unit and the circuitr ⁇ 10 and 20 of the intelligent tag.
• the electronic circuitr ⁇ 10 which acts as an antenna, receives the interrogation signals and according to a predefined protocol for information exchange stored in 20, the receiving unit ma ⁇ receive through antenna 10 all the information contained in a EEPROM embedded in the intelligent tag but without an ⁇ possibilit ⁇ of altering this information.
• the intelligent tag has been damaged b ⁇ peeling, detaching or cutting, its circuitr ⁇ 20 will not be functioning and consequentl ⁇ no answer will be received b ⁇ the interrogating unit.
• an answer is expected to be transmitted b ⁇ circuitr ⁇ 20 with the aid of 10 which, however, will not contain the predefined ke ⁇ ID numbers expected.
• FIG. 5 shows the cross section of the intelligent tag that ma ⁇ be interrogated b ⁇ a transmitting and receiving unit that ma ⁇ have the proper configuration of contact pins that will ensure electrical contacts onto the pads 90 provided on the rigid part of the intelligent tape.
• the conducting path 10 is connected in series with the integrated circuit 22.
• Figures 2,3,4 and 5 show onl ⁇ one embodiment of the architecture.
• the comformable part of the circuitr ⁇ containing the conducting paths may be provided on both sides of the rigid printed circuit board containing the integrated circuits; both sides being glued to the package under protection.
• FIG. 1 is a pictorial depiction of a conformable intelligent tag of the present invention being applied to a Compact Disk package.
• FIG.2 is a pictorial depiction of the architecture of the wiring or antenna part of the conformable intelligent tag of the present invention.
• FIG. 3 is a pictorial depiction of the right part which carries the Application Specific Integrated Circuit as Chip-on-Board or in another embodiment the integrated circuits which are embedded in the intelligent tag of the present invention.
• FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the intelligent tag of the present invention illustrating the circuitr ⁇ embedded therein in the case of the contactless interrogation.
• FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the intelligent tag of the present invention, requiring direct electrical contact for the interrogation.

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