JP2002133543A - Sticking position adjustment method for theft preventing tag or rf-id tag - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adjustment method for sticking a tag to a right position without failure in the cancellation of a theft preventing tub or the read and write of an RF-ID tag. SOLUTION: This sticking position adjustment method for sticking the theft preventing tag or RF-ID tag 11 to a fixed position of a package carton 20 comprises printing a positioning mark in the carton inner surface position corresponding to the part of the carton surface where any one of a barcode 22, an article name logo 21, and a lump display part 23 is printed; and sticking the theft preventing tag or RF-ID tag 11 to the positioning mark position. This method can be applied similarly also to a soft packaging material. The sticking position of the tag may be set to the top surface, bottom surface, side flap part, top panel, bottom panel, side panel or the like of the carton.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for adjusting a sticking position of an antitheft tag or an RF-ID tag. More specifically, by restricting these sticking positions to a fixed position, it is intended to eliminate invalidation processing and failure in reading / writing information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Hitherto, anti-theft tags of the "resonance type" or "magnetic type" for non-contact detection have been put into practical use for the purpose of preventing theft and shoplifting. The anti-theft tag is attached to a package of pharmaceutical cosmetics, foodstuffs and the like, and issues an alarm in response to the gate sensor when taken out illegally. On the other hand, in the case of a product that has been purchased legally, a process of invalidating the tag near the cash register is performed so that the gate sensor does not respond. Conventionally, this tag was affixed to the outside of the package, so that the position was clear and the tag could be correctly positioned at the time of invalidation with respect to the device to be invalidated.

[0003] However, recently, from the demands of "want to keep the tag attached to consumers,""do not conceal the display on the package", and "do not impair the package design," Tagging has started on the inside avoiding the surface. In this case, if a tag is attached to an undefined position that is not determined for each product, invalidation of the tag may fail due to the posture of the product. The invalidation is performed by radio waves or magnetism, so there is a limit to the reach, but if the invalidation fails and the gate sensor responds, it will cause a lot of trouble for the customer.

[0004] On the other hand, "RF-ID tags" (in general, "contactless data carriers", "wireless IC tags", "contactless ICs", "contactless IC labels", " It may be expressed as "non-contact IC tag" etc.), and various kinds of information are recorded to display product information, streamline distribution, or manage articles. While it is only necessary that the anti-theft tag can issue a warning regardless of the presence or absence of the memory, the RF-ID tag generally has a memory so that information can be recorded and read. . Similarly, this “RF-ID tag” has also been affixed to the inside of the package, and a similar problem has arisen when reading or writing data.

Generally, an RF-ID tag performs non-contact communication over a distance of several cm to several tens of cm to perform read / write (R / W).
Yes, but the communication distance will be extremely short depending on the frequency band used and circumstances. Particularly high frequency band (Example: 2.45G
In the tag used in hz), there is a case where attenuation due to moisture increases and normal communication cannot be performed. Also, in a large package, the panel to which the tag is attached may come out of the communication range depending on the posture of the package, and if the attachment position of the RF-ID tag is indefinite, communication is impossible. Often become.

[0006]

Therefore, in the present invention,
Theft prevention tag or RF-ID on the package (carton)
When attaching tags, stick them at specific locations based on certain rules, so that anti-theft tags can be disabled and RF-
The present invention has been completed with the idea of ensuring read / write of an ID tag.

[0007]

A first aspect of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problem is a method of attaching an anti-theft tag to a fixed position of a package carton, which comprises a bar code printed on the surface of the carton. , A positioning mark is printed on the inner surface position of the carton where one of the product name logo and the batch display section is printed, and an anti-theft tag is attached to the position of the positioning mark. How to adjust the position of tag attachment. Because of this sticking position adjusting method, the anti-theft tag can be stuck to a carton without fail at a fixed position.

[0008] The second aspect of the present invention to solve the above-mentioned problems.
Is a method of attaching an RF-ID tag to a fixed position of a package carton, wherein a barcode printed on the surface of the carton, a product name logo, or a portion of the carton inner surface where a batch display portion is printed, There is a method for adjusting the position of the RF-ID tag, wherein the positioning mark is printed, and the RF-ID tag is attached to the position of the positioning mark. Because of this method of adjusting the sticking position, the RF-ID tag can be stuck to the carton without fail at a fixed position.

[0009] The third aspect of the present invention to solve the above problems is as follows.
Is a method of attaching an anti-theft tag to a fixed position of a package carton, where the top, bottom, top side flap, bottom side flap, top panel,
A sticking position of an anti-theft tag, characterized in that a positioning mark is printed on the inner surface position of the carton in any part of the bottom panel and the side panel, and an anti-theft tag is attached to the position of the positioning mark. Adjustment method. Because of this sticking position adjusting method, the anti-theft tag can be stuck to a carton without fail at a fixed position.

[0010] The fourth aspect of the present invention which solves the above problems is as follows.
Is a method of attaching an RF-ID tag to a fixed position of a package carton, wherein a top surface, a bottom surface, a top side flap, a bottom side flap, a top panel,
A positioning mark is printed on the inner surface position of the carton in any part of the bottom panel and the side panel, and an RF-ID tag is bonded on the positioning mark position. Adjustment method. Because of this method of adjusting the sticking position, RF-
The ID tag can be stuck to a certain position without fail.

A fifth aspect of the present invention for solving the above problems is as follows.
Is a method of attaching an anti-theft tag at a fixed position of a soft packaging material, a bar code printed on the surface of the packaging material,
Theft characterized by printing a positioning mark so that either the product name logo or the batch display section can be seen from the inner side of the printed portion, and attaching an anti-theft tag to the position of the positioning mark Method for adjusting the position of the tag for prevention. Because of this sticking position adjusting method, the anti-theft tag can be stuck to the soft packaging material at a certain position without fail.

A sixth aspect of the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems.
Is a method of attaching an RF-ID tag to a fixed position of a soft packaging material, wherein a bar code printed on the surface of the packaging material;
An RF tag comprising: printing a positioning mark so that any one of the product name logo and the collective display portion can be visually recognized from the inner side of the printed portion; and attaching an RF-ID tag to the position of the positioning mark. -Adjusting method of sticking position of ID tag. Because of this method of adjusting the sticking position, the RF-ID tag can be reliably stuck to a fixed position on the soft packaging material.

[0013]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A method for adjusting a sticking position of an anti-theft tag or an RF-ID tag according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. Hereinafter, an RF-ID tag will be mainly described, but the same applies to an anti-theft tag. FIG.
FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an attaching position when attaching an RF-ID tag to a carton. In the carton, generally the product name logo 2
1, a barcode 22, and a collective display unit 23 are provided.
The product name logo is a part that displays the product name, and the collective display part is a part that displays the product name, raw materials, manufacturer name, and the like in a certain place according to the law. In the case of FIG. 1, a barcode 22 is provided on the surface of the carton 20, and an RF-ID tag or an anti-theft tag 11 is attached to the inner surface of the carton 20 corresponding to the barcode position. In this case, the invalidation process can be performed by bringing the reader / writer into contact with the surface of the carton. When invalidating the anti-theft tag 11, it is usually invalidated by cutting the circuit or the like. However, when the tag is on the inner side of the carton, a measure is taken to apply an overvoltage to cause a short circuit.

[0014] The RF-
The position where the ID tag or the anti-theft tag 11 is attached is
Not only the bar code 22 but also a product name logo 21 and a collective display 23 can be used. When there are a plurality of product name logos 21 on the carton surface, a specific product name logo portion is selected and the anti-theft tag 11 is attached. When the product name is displayed in a large size, the position is specified so as to be located at the center. Since the RF-ID tag 11 is always stuck to a specific position in this way, the person performing the processing can surely know the location of the anti-theft tag 11 even if the tag cannot be seen visually. Correct treatment can be performed.

The position where the RF-ID tag 11 is attached is not limited to the case where the display is printed on the surface of the carton as described above, but may be the inner surface of a specific portion of the carton. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating another example of the RF-ID tag attaching portion to the carton. In FIG. 2, the inner surfaces of the top surface 24 and the bottom surface 25 are shown, and the bottom surface indicated by hatching and the top surface facing the corresponding portion are the sticking positions.
Are side flap portions 26 and 27, which can be attached to left and right side flaps. Indicates a top panel 28 and a bottom panel 29, and a side panel 30 indicates a sticking position. In the case of displaying them on the panel, it is easy to perform invalidation processing and read / write by setting a certain rule such as a central portion of the panel.

FIG. 3 shows the RF in the state of a carton blank.
It is a figure showing an ID tag sticking part. The top and bottom are
Although this corresponds to the positions of “A” and “C” in the figure, it can be attached to the positions of “B” and “D” that will be the side panels. The positioning mark is printed and displayed on these parts, and the RF-ID
Tags or anti-theft tags are stuck with a labeler or the like in a blank state immediately before sticking. The numbers with a triangle in FIG. 3 correspond to the above-mentioned,.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the types of positioning marks to be displayed. Since the attachment of the RF-ID tag and the anti-theft tag is usually performed mechanically by a labeler or the like, the printed display preferably has a shape that can be mechanically identified. Examples include (A) a rectangular colored portion, (B) a box with a rectangular line, (C) a display with a scored line, (D) a display with a phototube mark, or (E) an antenna pattern with conductive ink, Etc. may be printed. Extreme precision is not required for invalidation processing and tag read / write, so it is necessary to provide positioning marks with a size that has some allowance so that failure will not occur if tags are attached in the display. Can be. In the case of the antenna pattern of (E),
For example, “Bistatix” of Motorola, which will be described later, is attached to the center position of the pattern.

The printing of the positioning mark on the carton can be performed, for example, by printing a picture on the front side using a gravure rotary printing press for front and back printing, and then printing the back side in one color in one color when printing the picture on the carton. Alternatively, after the front side pattern is printed, the image can be cut into sheets, and thereafter, the sheet can be subjected to off-line printing on the back side in an offset manner. In the case of off-line printing, the back side is aligned based on the registration mark at the time of front side printing. When printing the antenna pattern with conductive ink, the antenna pattern is printed with one-color conductive ink following the printing of the surface side pattern.

The printing of such a positioning mark is not limited to a carton for a package, but may be a soft packaging material.
This is because even in the case of a soft packaging material, it is preferable to attach a tag to the inner surface of the package. In the case of a soft packaging material, if it is a transparent material, it will be printed or backprinted, but in principle, in the case of surface printing, print the positioning mark before printing the white concealment print and then print the pattern, In the case of back printing, the positioning mark is printed after the last white concealment printing. In either case, it is to make the positioning mark easily visible from the back side, but as long as the mark is easily visible,
It is not limited to these printing methods. The positioning mark can have the same shape as that of the carton. However, in the case of the antenna pattern, the antenna pattern needs to be separately printed on the inner surface side of the packaging material regardless of whether the printing is front printing or back printing. This is for sticking while conducting with the IC chip label.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an embodiment of an RF-ID tag. The same applies to the anti-theft tag. RF used
Although the ID tag 11 has various embodiments, a general-purpose example is shown in FIG. FIG.
The illustrated RF-ID tag 11 is a base material 1 such as plastic.
10, an antenna pattern 112 is formed, and a resonance circuit is formed by the antenna coil and a built-in capacitance element in the IC chip 10 to receive a radio wave of a certain frequency and perform RF-ID
Tag information can be sent back to the source and returned. FIG.
In this case, the antenna pattern 112 forms a jumping circuit on the back surface of the base 110 by the conductive member 119 and is connected to the bumps or pads on the back surface of the IC chip 10 by the coil connection terminals 112C. Such RF-ID
The tag can be formed by forming an antenna pattern 112 on a metal foil such as an aluminum foil laminated on the base material 110 by photoetching or etching after resist printing, and attaching an IC chip. Its size is also 20mm × 2
The size can be about 0 mm or less.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the RF-ID tag. FIG. 6A is a plan view in which the IC chip label 1L is attached so as to be connected to both of the antenna patterns 111 and 112, and FIG. 6B is a partial view of the IC chip label 1L from the antenna patterns 111 and 112. 6 (C) is a view taken along line AA of FIG. 6 (A).
It is a figure which shows the expanded cross section along a line. In the case of this embodiment, the RF-ID tag 11 is attached to the carton base material as shown in FIG.
(E) Direct printing of the antenna pattern as shown,
The IC chip label 1L is attached to the antenna patterns 111 and 112. The antenna patterns 111 and 112 can be printed using conductive ink by offset, gravure, silk screen printing, or the like. As the conductive ink, an ink in which carbon, graphite, silver powder, aluminum powder, or a mixture thereof is dispersed in a vehicle is used.

The shape of the antenna pattern is not particularly limited, and may be linear or wound, or may be two wings as shown. The IC chip label 1L is stuck so as to conduct to the wing-shaped pattern. The “IC chip label” refers to an IC chip provided with an integrated circuit and / or a memory on a silicon substrate, and the antenna patterns 111 and 1 of the RF-ID tag.
12 means a state in which a tack label is attached so as to be attachable to the label 12, and the label itself may have a small antenna unit connected to an IC chip. Specifically, it expresses a form of an interposer for “Bistatix” manufactured by Motorola.

Generally, the IC chip label 1L is
10, an antenna pattern 111 formed by printing,
As shown in FIG. 6B, small antenna patterns 121 and 122 are also printed on the IC chip label 1L using a conductive printing ink or the like. As shown in FIG. 6 (C), the antenna patterns 111 and 112 of the base 210 and the antenna patterns 121 and 122 of the IC chip label 1L are electrically connected by the anisotropic conductive adhesive 117 which is conductive only in a direction orthogonal to the pattern. Will be obtained. The anisotropic conductive adhesive is used in advance for the antenna patterns 121, 1 of the IC chip label 1L.
It is coated on 22 sides and is tack-labeled.

In the case of an IC memory, 1024 bits
Thus, 128 characters can be recorded, and the present invention can be applied to minimum information recording as a normal management label or a product package. With a few kilobits, it is possible to display more than a two-dimensional barcode. In the case of an anti-theft tag, it is sufficient to resonate with the transmission source, so that the tag generally has no memory.
D tags can also be used as anti-theft tags.

[0025]

(Embodiment 1) An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. Paperboard (260 g / m ² ) 110
The carton for liquor bottling is printed by rotogravure printing (FIG. 1).
(E) An antenna pattern as shown was printed in-line. The carton is punched out to form a carton blank, and before the sack is attached, 1 L of an IC chip label (“Bistatix interposer” (size: 16 mm × 16 mm)) made by Motorola is placed on the portion where the left and right patterns of the antenna pattern approach each other. It was stuck using. This was used as an anti-theft tag.

Example 2 Paperboard (260 g / m ² ) 11
At 0, the carton for liquor bottling was printed by gravure rotary printing (FIG. 1), and a positioning mark as shown in FIG. The carton is punched into a carton blank, and the RF is placed in the positioning mark before sticking.
-ID tag ("accuwav" manufactured by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.)
e ") 11 was attached using a labeler.

Example 3 Back printing of a food package was performed by gravure on a polypropylene film, and a positioning mark as shown in FIG. 4C was printed in-line so that it could be visually recognized from the inner surface. The packaging material is wound up and RF-filled in the positioning mark before filling the food.
ID tag ("accuwav" manufactured by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.)
e ") 11 was attached using a labeler.

The anti-theft tag for the carton of the first embodiment is as follows:
The invalidation could be easily performed from outside the carton, and the RF-ID tags of Example 2 and Example 3 could easily read and write food information data from outside the package.

[0029]

As described above, according to the sticking position adjusting method of the anti-theft tag or the RF-ID tag of the present invention, the positioning mark indicating the sticking position of the tag is printed on the carton or the soft packaging material. Therefore, the anti-theft tag or the RF-ID tag can be attached to a correct position on the inner surface side of the package. Therefore, if the package is manufactured in this manner, the anti-theft tag is invalidated or R
No failure occurs in reading and writing of the F-ID tag.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of an attachment position when an RF-ID tag is attached to a carton.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing another example of an RF-ID tag attaching portion to a carton.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an RF-ID tag attaching portion in a state of a carton blank.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing types of positioning marks to be displayed.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an embodiment of an RF-ID tag.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing another embodiment of the RF-ID tag.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1L IC chip label 10 IC chip 11 RF-ID tag or anti-theft tag 20 Carton 21 Product name logo 22 Barcode 23 Batch display unit 24 Top surface 25 Bottom surface 26, 27 Side flap unit 28 Top panel 29 Bottle panel 30 Side panel 31 Glue portions 111 and 112 Antenna patterns 121 and 122 Antenna patterns

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A method of attaching an anti-theft tag to a fixed position of a package carton, wherein the inner surface of the carton is a portion where one of a bar code, a product name logo, and a batch display portion printed on the surface of the carton is printed. A method for adjusting a sticking position of an anti-theft tag, comprising printing a positioning mark at a position and attaching an anti-theft tag to the position of the positioning mark. 2. A method for attaching an RF-ID tag to a fixed position of a package carton, wherein the inner surface of the carton is a portion where one of a barcode, a product name logo, and a batch display portion printed on the surface of the carton is printed. Printing a positioning mark at the position, and RF-ID at the position of the positioning mark.
A method for adjusting a sticking position of an RF-ID tag, comprising: attaching a tag. 3. A method of attaching an anti-theft tag to a fixed position of a package carton, comprising: a top surface, a bottom surface, a top side flap, a bottom side flap, a top panel, a bottom panel, and a side panel of the carton. A method for adjusting a sticking position of an anti-theft tag, comprising: printing a positioning mark on an inner surface position of a carton in any portion; and attaching an anti-theft tag to the position of the positioning mark. 4. A method of attaching an RF-ID tag to a fixed position of a package carton, comprising: a top surface, a bottom surface, a top side flap, a bottom side flap, a top panel, a bottom panel, and a side panel of the carton. A method for adjusting a sticking position of an RF-ID tag, comprising: printing a positioning mark on an inner surface position of a carton in any portion; and sticking an RF-ID tag on the positioning mark position. 5. A method of attaching an anti-theft tag to a fixed position of a soft packaging material, wherein a portion of a bar code, a product name logo, or a batch display portion printed on the surface of the packaging material is printed. A method for adjusting the sticking position of the anti-theft tag, comprising printing a positioning mark so that the tag can be visually recognized from the inside of the tag, and attaching an anti-theft tag to the position of the positioning mark. 6. A method of attaching an RF-ID tag to a fixed position of a soft packaging material, wherein a portion of a bar code, a product name logo, or a batch display portion printed on the surface of the packaging material is printed. The positioning mark is printed so that it can be visually recognized from the inner surface side, and the RF-I
A method for adjusting an RF-ID tag attachment position, comprising attaching a D tag.