EP4079183B1 - Purse or wallet with slot for a tag / tracker - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to a purse or wallet with a recording function for a tracker according to the features in claim 1. It is known from the prior art that purses or so-called wallet clips can get lost. On the one hand, means of identification, such as an ID card or the like, are present in purses. It always depends on the honesty of the finder, whether such a purse is returned.

There are also various approaches from the prior art that such a purse can be found again, for example via GPS trackers or the like. However, this has not caught on in the mass market.

However, so-called tags are known from the prior art, which can be found, for example, with an RFID or NRF, that is, under certain circumstances, with a short-range function. This, sometimes in the age of smartphones, so that you can find your lost key or your own Lost purse could be found again in the short term, since, for example, a display device, in particular a smartphone, leads to this purse.

Such tags or trackers can be passive or active. Active trackers in particular have their own energy source and sometimes emit a signal themselves.

The US 2003/0178461 A1 discloses a flexible card holder that can be attached to a lanyard. The card holder has at least one pocket for holding a card, at least one side of which is formed by transparent plastic to make the card visible from the outside. Information stored on an electronic chip in the card can be read through the plastic material.

Furthermore, the DE 10 2019 101 385 A1 a purse that has a protective device against a contactless reading of information that is stored on cards located therein.

Further state of the art is through the DE 203 14 826 U1 and the FR 2 779 328 B1 educated.

The object of the present invention is to integrate a tracker in a purse or wallet, with the ability to be found being improved.

The above object is solved by claim 1.

This is done in such a way that there is a section on the outside, in which the tracker can be detachably integrated. A pocket is incorporated for this purpose. The bag has a receiving space. A protective film or a protective cover is preferably also arranged on the outside. However, this protective film or protective cover is in particular not designed to be shielding or radiation-inhibiting.

This offers two main advantages. On the one hand, an active tracker can transmit better and is not shielded by the coins themselves inside a purse, for example in a coin compartment or similar. Here it is sometimes only a matter of slight transmission amplification in order to be able to find a lost purse at all.

A second essential advantage is in particular optical visibility, so that an honest finder sometimes already knows that this wallet can be found via a tag or tracker and, for example, uses a reader to read this tag or tracker.

It is essential that the tracker or tag is not arranged in the interior area and is shielded here in case of doubt, but is detachably but captively integrated directly into the outer skin or an outer part with direct visibility. On the one hand to the deterrent effect that the item is not stolen. In addition, the direct integration into the outside serves to signal a finder immediately that a tracker is available and that he can immediately start the process of finding the original owner.

The recording is designed as a pocket. The pocket is accessible from an interior of the purse or wallet. The bag has a form-fitting receptacle. In particular, the tag or tracker is round and about the size of a coin. The pocket can also preferably be round. The outwardly visible field is round.

In a further preferred embodiment variant, the present invention provides that a code is additionally applied. In this case, it does not have to be a purse, but can also be a key fob or something similar, for example. The additional application of the code ensures the following. If the tracker, which transmits its data electronically, is not working, for example because an active tracker no longer has any energy or a passive or active tracker cannot be read, there is the additional feature that by entering the code in a found system, the Found item still identifiable as to its previous owner is. The code can be a numeric code, a bar code, a bar code or the like. The code can also be read out as a QR code. It is then possible to determine the owner by entering the code via a downstream lost and found system.

Figur 1

perspektivische Ansicht auf eine Geldbörse,

Figur 2

perspektivische Ansicht auf ein Wallet und

Figur 3 bis 5

Längsschnittansichten durch eine Außenseite einer Geldbörse gemäß Figur 1.

Additional features, properties, aspects are shown in the following figures. These serve for a simple understanding of the invention. Show it:

figure 1

perspective view of a purse,

figure 2

perspective view on a wallet and

Figure 3 to 5

Longitudinal sectional views through an outside of a purse according to figure 1 .

In the figures, the same reference numbers are used for the same or similar components, even if a repeated description is omitted for reasons of simplification.

figure 1 shows a perspective view of a purse 1. In an outer side 2 of the purse 1, a viewing window 4 is incorporated. This viewing window 4 is used to form a pocket. For this purpose, the outside 2 itself is cut out in the area of the pocket. A tracker 3 is thus arranged. The tracker 3 can be used from an inside (not shown) or in an interior of the purse 1 of the wallet. The viewing window 4 can have a diameter D4 that is smaller than a diameter D3 of the tracker 3. The tracker 3 is thus overlapped radially on the outside, but is directly visible from the outside with its main body through the viewing window 4 or can transmit to the outside.

figure 2 shows a wallet or a clip. This is a simplified version of a wallet, in which credit cards and possibly banknotes are also transported. Here, too, there is a receptacle for a corresponding tracker 3 on an outside 2.

figure 3 shows a cross section through such an outside (2). There is a section 5 here, in which the outside 2 is cut out. One Cover or film 6 then covers this from the outside. Indicated holders 9 can be on the inside, which provide a corresponding rear cover. This can also be a continuous holder 9, a leather seam or something else, so that the actual tag 3 or tracker 3 is arranged directly on the outside 2 itself. A few coins 8 are shown inside. 8 credit cards can also be arranged here instead of the coins. These therefore do not shield the tracker 3 from ensuring that it can ensure its full transmission power or reception power to the outside in order to be able to be found via wireless contact paths.

figure 4 shows an alternative longitudinal sectional view. In this case, the diameter D4 of the viewing window 4 is smaller than the diameter D3 of the tag/tracker 3. The tag 3 or tracker can therefore not be lost to the outside. figure 5 shows an additional design variant. The ends of the outside 2 in the region of the viewing window 4 are narrowed in wall thickness 7 or tapered to a point. This offers the advantage that with a corresponding thickness of the tag or tracker 3 the wall thickness 7 of the outside 2 or of the leather of the outside 2 does not protrude by several millimeters beyond the tracker 3 to the outside.

figure 6 shows another variant. The end 10 of the viewing window 4 has a stepped shoulder 11 here. The wall thickness 7 of the outside 2 is cut out or graduated from the inside. This makes it possible for the tag or tracker 3 not to be so thick on the outside. At the same time, this is held in an improved form-fitting manner.

Insofar as the end of the viewing window 4 is spoken of in the context of this invention, the inwardly directed edge or frame of the viewing window 4 is meant. This can be circumferential, at least partially circumferential.

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wallet

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outside

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tag/tracker

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viewing window

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cutout

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cover/foil

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Wall thickness

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coin

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holder

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end up

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stepped heel

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diameter

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diameter

Claims (6)

1. Purse (1) or wallet for receiving a tag/tracker (3), having at least one outer side (2) which is made of leather and has a wall thickness (7), wherein a cutout (5) with a receiving pocket for the tag/tracker (3) is provided in the outer side (2), characterised in that in that the cutout (5) has a viewing window (4) which is round on the outside, wherein the tag/tracker (3) can be form-fittingly integrated in a detachable and captive manner into the outer side (2) so as to be directly visible from the outside, and the receiving pocket is accessible from an interior of the purse (1) or wallet.
2. Purse (1) or wallet according to claim 1, characterised in that a cover and/or a film is arranged over the cut-out (5) of the tracker (3) and facing outwards.
3. Purse (1) or wallet according to claim 2, characterised in that the wall thickness of the cover or film (6) is thinner than the wall thickness (7) of the outer side (2).
4. Purse (1) or wallet according to claim 1, having a tag/tracker (3), wherein the viewing window (4) has a diameter (D4) that is smaller than the diameter (D3) of the tag/tracker (3).
5. Purse (1) or wallet according to claim 1, characterised in that the ends (10) of the viewing window (4) have a reduced wall thickness (7).
6. Purse (1) or wallet according to claim 1, characterised in that the ends (10) of the viewing window (4) have a stepped offset (11).

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