JP2003123039A - Electronic tag for managing home electric appliance - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electronic tag for managing a home electric appliance for holding records of a material name attached to a home electric appliance over a long period of time until the time of recycling and facilitating record management. SOLUTION: The electronic tag 20 for managing the home electric appliance constituted of an antenna part 21 transmitting information and generating electromotive force and a semiconductor chip 22 having a function of recording the information and transmitting the information is attached to the home electric appliance 10 directly or indirectly. Electronic data regarding materials used when manufacturing the home electric appliance 10 are recorded in the tag and they are read and utilized in sorting work when recycling the home electric appliance later.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic tag for managing home electric appliances, which is capable of recording information on materials used for home electric appliances as electronic information.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, household electric appliances have a certain number of durable years, and when the durable years have passed, the life of the household appliances is exhausted. Home appliances will be disposed of when their life is exhausted or no longer needed.

The household appliances to be disposed of are made of various materials such as metal, plastic, glass and semiconductor in addition to natural materials such as wood and paper. Therefore, when disposing of home electric appliances, from the viewpoint of effective use of resources, it is desired that the materials used for the production are separated as much as possible from the viewpoint of effective use of resources, and collected and reused.

From such a point of view, conventionally, household electrical appliances are generally made of a material by displaying a resin name on each component, and by printing detailed records on paper or by attaching a bar code on the inside. Was being managed.

[0005]

However, since the recording of the material name of the home electric appliances in the related art is performed by printing on paper, it is roughly limited to displaying the resin name on each part, and the manufacturer name or It was not possible to cover detailed information such as lots used. Also, even if a detailed record is printed on paper or marked with a bar code is attached on the inside, after a long period of use such as the endurance period, print fading, paper stains, etc. may occur. In many cases, this made it difficult to read the material name.

[0006] Therefore, an object of the present invention is to solve the above problems and provide an electronic tag for home electric appliance management, which can retain a record of the material name attached to the home electric appliance for a long time until recycling and manage the record easily. To do.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is configured as follows.

The electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to the invention of claim 1 is directly or indirectly attached to the home electric appliances for the purpose of clearly indicating the materials used which are important in sorting work when recycling the home electric appliances. And a semiconductor chip having a function of transmitting information about materials used in manufacturing home electric appliances and generating an electromotive force, and a semiconductor chip having a function of recording the information and transmitting the information. To do.

The invention according to claim 2 is the electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to claim 1, wherein the communication frequency is 125 kHz.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to the first or second aspect, the antenna section and the semiconductor chip are covered with a protective layer to form a card shape.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to the first or second aspect, the antenna portion is composed of a magnetic core such as a ferrite core and a winding antenna, and the antenna portion and the semiconductor chip are provided. It is characterized in that it is supported on a resin base material and resin-molded.

The invention of claim 5 is the electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to claim 3 or 4, wherein an adhesive for attachment is attached to the back surface of the tag.

<Operation> The electronic tag for managing home electric appliances of the present invention is directly or indirectly attached to each home electric appliance.
Then, the material name such as the resin name used for the home electric appliance is recorded on the electronic tag attached to the home electric appliance. The recording of the material name is performed, for example, at the time of manufacturing home electric appliances.

The home appliance management electronic tag of the present invention comprises an antenna section and a semiconductor chip. The antenna section receives a radio wave emitted from a reader / writer and generates power by induction to drive the semiconductor chip. At the same time, it is possible to receive management information such as used material names of home electric appliances sent as radio waves, and the management information such as used material names is recorded in a recording unit inside the semiconductor chip.

As described above, the management information such as the used material name of the home electric appliance, which is recorded in the recording section of the electronic tag for managing the home electric appliance in advance at the time of manufacturing, transmits the radio wave from the reader / writer as necessary at the time of recycling. Upon receipt, the semiconductor chip is driven, and the recorded information is read out to the reader / writer through the antenna. As a result, it is possible to take out record information such as names of materials used for home electric appliances at the time of recycling and use them for separation processing.

If the communication frequency with the reader / writer is 125 kHz, even if the home electric appliance is made of metal or accompanied by a metal case, the reader / writer and the home electric appliance can be managed without being affected by the metal part. It is possible to reliably transmit and receive with the electronic tag.

[0017]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION The present invention will be described below based on the illustrated embodiments.

FIG. 1 shows an example in which an electric home appliance 10 is provided with an electric home appliance management electronic tag 20. Here, electronic tag for home electric appliances management 2
0 is of a non-contact IC card type. Reference numeral 30 denotes a reader / writer that reads and records the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances in a contactless manner using radio waves.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing the structure of the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 21 is an antenna section for transmitting information and generating electromotive force, and 22 is a semiconductor chip (IC chip) having a recording section for recording information. The semiconductor chip 22 has a recording unit with an antenna unit 21.
It has a function of recording more received information or transmitting information from the recording section through the antenna section 21.

The antenna portion 21 and the semiconductor chip 22 are protected by a protective layer (not shown). Specifically, the antenna portion 21 and the semiconductor chip 22 are built in a sheet-shaped resin base material (not shown).
However, it is also possible to have a structure in which one side of a sheet-shaped resin base material is carried.

The home appliance 1 of this electronic tag 20 for managing home appliances
The attachment means for 0 is an adhesive in this example,
This is performed by applying an adhesive to the back surface of the home electric appliance management electronic tag 20, that is, the back surface of the resin base material, and attaching the adhesive to the surface of the home electric appliance 10. However, depending on the type of the home electric appliance 10, the antenna unit 21 and the semiconductor chip 22 of the home electric appliance managing electronic tag 20 can be incorporated inside the home electric appliance 10.

Next, the operation will be described.

As described above, the home electric appliances 10 are provided with the electric home appliance management electronic tags 20. Information such as a resin name, which is a material name of the home electric appliance 10, a manufacturer name, a used lot, and the like is recorded in advance in the home electric appliance managing electronic tag 20. This is automatically recorded in the home appliance management electronic tag 20 by the reader / writer 30.

That is, the antenna part 21 of the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances receives a radio wave of a communication frequency of 125 kHz from the reader / writer 30 shown in FIG. 1 and generates an electromotive force by electromagnetic induction. Of the calibration record, which is supplied as a driving power source to the semiconductor chip 22 and is simultaneously transmitted at the communication frequency of 125 kHz and is transmitted to the semiconductor chip 22. The semiconductor chip 22 records the information of the calibration record received from the antenna unit 21 in the internal recording unit.

Since this records the management record of the materials used for home electric appliances in the electronic tag 20 for electric home appliances management as electronic data, it can be stored for a long time. Generally, the recording unit in the semiconductor chip 22 can store data for 10 years.

In this way, the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances
When the management information such as the material name is recorded in, the management record is securely stored in each home electric appliance 10 even after being used for a long period of time corresponding to the number of years of durability. Therefore, by directly reading out this record, it is possible to know the material status at the time of recycling the home electric appliances. That is, the prerecorded material name and the like of the home electric appliance 10 can be easily read from the outside by the reader / writer 30. Moreover, by inputting the read information into the host computer, the administrator can utilize the material name of the home electric appliance as the recycling management information of the sorting process.

Conventionally, the material name or the code is written on paper or the like.
When the life of 0 was exhausted, the material name was sometimes unreadable due to changes over time. However, when the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances was used, the material name etc. could be electrically read. Data can be read or recorded without error.

In the above description, the communication frequency between the reader / writer 30 and the home appliance management electronic tag 20 is 12
The frequency is set to 5 kHz, that is, the home appliance management electronic tag 20 is configured as a tag that resonates at 125 kHz. The reason is as follows. That is, the home electric appliance 10 may be composed of a conductor such as metal, and when the electric home appliance management electronic tag 20 is attached to this, the magnetic field formed by the radio waves generated by the transmitting / receiving antenna of the reader / writer 30 is generated. Since the magnetic field is canceled by the magnetic field caused by the eddy current induced in the peripheral conductors, the home appliance management electronic tag 20 may not be identified. A method of increasing the magnetic field strength weakened by metal to the extent that the tag can be activated can be considered, but since the output of the transmitting / receiving antenna of the reader / writer 30 is regulated by various radio laws and regulations, the transmitting / receiving antenna forms. The magnetic field strength cannot be too strong.
Therefore, even if the tag is arranged near the metal case or the like, 125 kHz is selected as the frequency with which the tag can be identified.

In the above embodiment, the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances has been described as a card having a planar loop antenna. However, the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances of the present invention does not necessarily have to be in the form of a card, and as shown in FIG. 3, an electronic tag using the antenna unit 21 in which the winding antenna 24 is wound around the ferrite core 23 is used. It can also be configured as a tag, and this electronic tag is superior in terms of downsizing.

In the electronic tag 20 for managing home electric appliances of FIG. 3, an antenna portion 21 including a magnetic core 23 such as the above ferrite core and a winding antenna 24 and a semiconductor chip (bare chip) 22 are provided on the surface of a resin base material 25. It is carried and electrically connected to each other via solder balls 26, and the whole is resin-molded 27. With this configuration,
It is possible to create a high-sensitivity small-sized home appliance management electronic tag 20. The attachment to the electric home appliance 10 can be performed by attaching an adhesive to the back surface of the resin base material 25 and attaching the adhesive to an appropriate place on the electric home appliance 10.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following excellent effects can be obtained.

The electronic tag for managing home electric appliances of the present invention is attached directly or indirectly to the home electric appliances for the purpose of clearly indicating the materials used which are important in the sorting work when recycling the home electric appliances. Since it is composed of an antenna section for transmitting information on materials used in manufacturing and generating electromotive force, and a semiconductor chip having a function of recording the information and transmitting the information, this electronic device for managing home electric appliances By attaching the tag to the above home electric appliances and recording the management information such as the material name in the recording section of the electronic tag for managing the home electric appliances, the management information such as the material name can be reliably stored for a long period of time. It is also possible to take out recorded information as needed and use it for management purposes such as recycling.

That is, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

(1) Since the management record of the materials used in home electric appliances can be recorded and read as electronic data in the electronic tag, it can be stored for a long period of time. Generally, the recording unit in the chip can store data for 10 years.

(2) Only exchange of electronic data,
Erroneous recording and reading errors that occur when the operator fills out are eliminated. As a result, the used material can be accurately known, and the used material can be efficiently separated at the time of recycling.

(3) There is a management record in each home electric appliance, and by reading this record directly, the material status can be known when the home electric appliance is recycled.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a usage state in which an electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to the present invention is provided on a home electric appliance.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view showing a schematic configuration of an electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of an electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 household appliances 20 Electronic tags for home appliances management 21 Antenna 22 Semiconductor chips 23 Magnetic core 24 winding antenna 25 Resin base material 26 solder balls 27 resin mold 30 Reader / Writer

Continued front page    (72) Inventor Naoki Sunaga             1-6-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Standing Wire Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masahiro Nagai             1-6-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Standing Wire Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Katto Abe             1-6-1, Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo             Standing Wire Co., Ltd. F-term (reference) 5B035 AA00 BB09 BC00 CA23

Claims (5)

[Claims] [Claim 1] Information on materials used in manufacturing home electric appliances, which are directly or indirectly attached to the home electric appliances for the purpose of clearly indicating the materials used in sorting work when recycling the home electric appliances. An electronic tag for managing home electric appliances, comprising: an antenna section for transmitting electric power, generating an electromotive force, and a semiconductor chip having a function of recording the information and transmitting the information. 2. The electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to claim 1, wherein the communication frequency with the reader / writer is 125 kHz. 3. The electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to claim 1, wherein the antenna section and the semiconductor chip are covered with a protective layer to form a card shape. 4. The electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the antenna section comprises a magnetic core such as a ferrite core and a winding antenna, and the antenna section and the semiconductor chip are made of a resin base material. An electronic tag for managing home appliances, which is supported and resin-molded. 5. The electronic tag for managing home electric appliances according to claim 3 or 4, wherein an adhesive for attachment is attached to the back surface of the tag.