JP2009023131A - Passport - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a passport which prevents information memorized in an IC chip set in the passport from being read illegally by an outsider. <P>SOLUTION: In the passport, the front cover and the back cover are formed by two-folding a sheet, and by interleaving the front cover and the back cover with a plurality of pages to keep them filed in between in the shape of a booklet. On the side of the inner surface of the front cover or the back cover of the folded sheet, a page wherein a RFID tag consisting of an antenna coil arranged on the base film substrate and the IC chip connected to the antenna coil is set is provided. The sheet is made of an electromagnetic wave shielding material. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a passport provided with an RFID tag having a non-contact IC module including an IC chip and a communication antenna.

Conventionally, a passport with an anti-counterfeit ID chip embedded with an ID chip on which various kinds of passport ID information for preventing forgery are embedded is known. (See Patent Document 1)
As described above, providing an ID chip or IC chip in the passport to record or store information is effective as a countermeasure against illegal use because it can prevent forgery and prevent falsification of information.
However, when information is stored in these IC chips or the like, there is a risk that information stored in the IC chip or the like may be illegally read and misused by a third party, and it is necessary to take measures to protect personal information. There is a problem that there is.

JP 2003-99752 A

  An object of the present invention is to provide a passport that prevents information stored in an IC chip provided in the passport from being illegally read by a third party.

  The passport of the present invention is a passport in which a front cover and a back cover are formed by folding a sheet in two, a plurality of pages are sandwiched between the front cover and the back cover, and bound together. A page in which an RFID tag comprising an antenna coil disposed on a base film substrate and an IC chip connected to the antenna coil is provided inside the front cover or back cover of the folded sheet. The sheet is made of an electromagnetic shielding material.

  In the passport of the present invention, a front cover and a back cover are formed by folding a sheet into two, and a plurality of pages are sandwiched between the front cover and the back cover and bound together. An RFID tag comprising an antenna coil disposed on a base film substrate and an IC chip connected to the antenna coil is provided on any one of the plurality of pages, and the RFID tag Each of the pages located on both sides of the page provided with is formed of an electromagnetic shielding material.

  In the passport of the present invention, since one sheet forming the front cover and the back cover is made of an electromagnetic wave shielding material, the radio wave transmitted from the RFID tag reader is not printed when the booklet passport is bound. There is an effect that the information stored in the IC chip memory can be prevented from being stolen and read by being blocked by the electromagnetic wave shielding material.

  Further, the passport of the present invention is configured such that each page located on both sides sandwiching the page provided with the RFID tag is made of an electromagnetic shielding material even when the RFID tag is provided on a page other than the front cover or the back cover. Therefore, in the state where the booklet-like passport is bound, the radio wave transmitted from the RFID tag reader is blocked by the electromagnetic wave shielding material, and it is possible to prevent the stored information in the IC chip memory from being read and stolen.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
1 to 3 show a passport 1a according to a first embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 4 shows a passport 1b according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the passport 1 a according to the first embodiment has a passport display printed on the cover 2, and as shown in FIG. 2, when the cover 2 is opened, the inside of the cover 2 and the back cover 3. A plurality of pages 4 are sandwiched and bound together in a booklet form.
Inside the back cover 3 is provided a page provided with an RFID tag 8 composed of an antenna coil 6 disposed on the base film base 5 and an IC chip 7 connected to the antenna coil 6. ing.

  The RFID tag 8 provided on the back cover 3 or the inner page of the cover 2 transmits radio waves transmitted from an RFID tag reader (not shown) provided at a place where the passport is confirmed to the antenna coil 6. The RFID tag reader can receive and receive information stored in the memory of the IC chip 7 and write information by transmitting a response radio wave from the antenna coil 6. It is configured.

FIG. 3 is a side view showing a state in which the passport 1a according to the first embodiment of the present invention is opened.
The front cover 2 and the back cover 3 of the passport 1a are composed of one sheet, and the substantially central portion of the sheet is folded in half.
One sheet constituting the cover 2 and the back cover 3 is made of an electromagnetic shielding material.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 1, when the cover 2 and back cover 3 of the passport 1a are bound, the radio wave transmitted from the RFID tag reader is blocked by the sheet made of the electromagnetic shielding material. Thus, the antenna coil 6 of the RFID tag 8 provided on the page 4 cannot receive the radio wave, and the information stored in the memory of the IC chip 7 can be illegally read or illegally written. Is configured to not.
Here, the electromagnetic shielding material used for the sheets constituting the cover 2 and the back cover 3 is made of a material that does not transmit radio waves or electromagnetic waves, such as iron, aluminum, copper, and ferrite.

The RFID tag 8 is also referred to as, for example, a non-contact data carrier or RFID, and is configured such that a resonant circuit is formed by the antenna coil 6 and a capacitive element to receive and transmit a radio wave having a constant frequency.
As another method, power transmission and data transmission may be performed by electromagnetic induction of a carrier wave from a reader / writer.
Generally, a frequency band of 135 kHz (medium wave), 13.56 MHz, and 2.45 GHz (microwave) is used.

The antenna coil 6 forms a jumping circuit on the back surface of the base material by a conductive member, and is connected to bumps on the back surface of the IC chip by coil connection terminals.
The IC chip 7 includes a CPU and a memory.

In the illustrated example, the capacitive element is built in the IC chip 7.
Such an RFID tag 8 is formed by forming a coil pattern of the antenna coil 6 by photo etching or etching after resist printing on a metal foil such as an aluminum foil laminated on a resin base material, mounting an IC chip 7, and for protection. It can be formed by providing a coating.
The size can also be set to about 30 mm × 30 mm or less.

As a resin base material used for the RFID tag 8, various materials such as PET, polypropylene, polyethylene, polystyrene, and nylon can be used, and paper may be used.
A thickness of 15 to 300 μm can be used, but 20 to 100 μm is more preferable in terms of strength, workability, cost, and the like.
Although copper foil, aluminum foil, or iron foil can be used as the metal foil, aluminum foil is preferable from the viewpoint of cost and workability, and the thickness is preferably about 6 to 50 μm.

Next, FIG. 4 shows a passport 1b according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 4, the passport 1 b according to the second embodiment has a plurality of pages 4, 4 a, 4 b, and 4 c sandwiched between the cover 2 and the back cover 3 when the cover 2 is opened, They are bound together.

An antenna coil disposed on the base film substrate 5 having the same configuration as that of the RFID tag shown in FIG. 2 is provided on the page 4a located inside the plurality of overlapped pages 4, 4a, 4b, 4c. 6 and an RFID tag 8 comprising an IC chip 7 connected to the antenna coil 6 is provided.
Note that the page 4a on which the RFID tag 8 is provided may be any of the pages located inside the plurality of superimposed pages, and is not limited to the position of the page 4a.

  The RFID tag 8 provided on the page 4a receives the radio wave transmitted from the RFID tag reader (not shown) provided at the place where the passport is confirmed by the antenna coil 6 and the antenna coil 6 By transmitting a response radio wave from the RFID tag reader, the RFID tag reader can receive it and read information stored in the memory of the IC chip 7 or write information.

The pages 4b and 4c located on both sides of the page 4a on which the RFID tag 8 is provided are made of an electromagnetic shielding material.
Thus, when the cover 2 and back cover 3 of the passport 1b shown in FIG. 4 are bound, the radio wave transmitted from the RFID tag reader is composed of an electromagnetic shielding material positioned on both sides of the page 4a. The antenna coil 6 of the RFID tag 8 provided on the page 4a, which is blocked by the respective pages 4b and 4c, cannot receive the radio wave, and the information stored in the memory of the IC chip 7 cannot be received. It is configured to prevent unauthorized reading and unauthorized writing of information.

  Here, the electromagnetic wave shielding material used for each of the pages 4b and 4c located on both sides of the page 4a provided with the RFID tag 8 is made of a material that does not transmit radio waves or electromagnetic waves such as iron, aluminum, copper, and ferrite. Become.

It is a top view of a passport concerning a 1st embodiment of the present invention. It is a perspective view which shows the state which opened the back cover of the passport which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view which shows the state which opened the passport which concerns on 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a side view which shows the state which opened the passport which concerns on 2nd Embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1a, 1b passport
2 Cover
3 Back cover
Page 4
5 Base film substrate
6 Antenna coil
7 IC chip
8 RFID tags

Claims (2)

A front cover and a back cover are formed by folding a single sheet in two, a plurality of pages are sandwiched between the front cover and the back cover, and bound together,
Inside the front or back cover of the sheet folded in half, provided with a page provided with an RFID tag consisting of an antenna coil arranged on a base film substrate and an IC chip connected to the antenna coil,
The passport, wherein the sheet is made of an electromagnetic wave shielding material. A front cover and a back cover are formed by folding a single sheet in two, a plurality of pages are sandwiched between the front cover and the back cover, and bound together,
An RFID tag comprising an antenna coil disposed on a base film substrate and an IC chip connected to the antenna coil is provided on any one of the plurality of pages,
A passport characterized in that each page located on both sides of a page where the RFID tag is provided is made of an electromagnetic shielding material.

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