JPH0672352U - Animal ear tag - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Objective] To provide an animal ear tag that has individual identification information with high sensitivity and a large amount of data and that can be visually recognized from the outside with the naked eye. [Structure] An indicator tag 11 formed of a soft material for indicating individual identification information of an animal, and a fixture 12 for attaching the indicator tag 11 to the ears of animals such as livestock, and a flexible printed board 19 is attached to the indicator tag. An animal ear tag 10 having an identification body 18 having a coil 20, an IC electronic circuit 21, and a capacitor 22 formed thereon.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to an animal ear tag that is attached to an auricle of a livestock mainly for identifying individual livestock such as cattle, pigs, and sheep.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 Conventionally, one widely used as an animal ear tag is shown in FIG. The ear tag 1 is composed of a marking tag 2 and a fixing tool 3, and a spike 5 of the fixing tool 3 penetrating the auricle A of the livestock is inserted and fixed in a hole 4 formed in the marking plate 2. It is a thing. Then, the individual identification information of the livestock, for example, individual identification number and the number of years after birth of the livestock are written in advance on the marking tag 2, and the manager identifies the individual by looking at the marking.

However, in recent years, in order to keep track of the growth of the livestock and to manage their health, in addition to the individual identification number and the age of birth, information on each individual, for example, It was desired that data such as body weight be directly attached to the individual, and that a system that can read these data mechanically instantaneously was desired. As such a system, recently, a system that allows registration and confirmation of individual identification information of livestock has been provided. This system uses a discriminator in which a non-powered IC electronic circuit is enclosed in a small cylindrical body. This discriminator is embedded in the livestock body, for example, at the rear part (lower part) of its ear, and it is discriminated by a transmitting and receiving antenna. It reads the individual identification information recorded on the body.

[0004]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 However, the above-mentioned implantable identification body is inevitably small in size because it is embedded in the body, and therefore has poor sensitivity, and has a small data capacity, so that it can only transmit and receive over a limited distance. Furthermore, since it is an embedded type, there is a complaint that it cannot be visually recognized from the outside from the outside and that individual identification cannot be performed unless the antenna is within a short distance. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an animal ear tag that has individual identification information with high sensitivity and a large amount of data, and that can be visually recognized from the outside. To do.

[0005]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 The ear tag for animals of the present invention comprises a marking tag formed of a soft material for displaying individual identification information of an animal, and a fixture for attaching the marking to the ear of an animal such as livestock. In addition, the above-mentioned means for solving the above-mentioned problems is to provide an identifying body having a coil, a non-power supply type IC electronic circuit and a capacitor formed on a flexible printed board.

[0006]

[Action]

 According to the present invention, the identification body having the coil, the IC electronic circuit, and the capacitor formed on the flexible printed board, which is provided on the marking board having a relatively large area to be attached to the ear of the animal, can enlarge itself. Therefore, the sensitivity of the discriminator can be improved and the data capacity can be increased. Further, since the ear tag has a marking tag like the conventional ear tag, individual identification information can be written and marked on the tag, so that the identification information can be visually recognized from the outside with the naked eye. Furthermore, since the marking tag is made of a soft material and the identification body is also made of a flexible printed board, the ear tag itself has flexibility, so that the ear tag unexpectedly comes into contact with other animals. This will not hurt the animal, and of course it will prevent the animal to which it is attached from being hurt.

[0007]

【Example】

 An embodiment of the animal ear tag according to the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. In these drawings, reference numeral 10 is an ear tag for animals (hereinafter abbreviated as ear tag). The ear tag 10 includes a marking tag 11 and a fixture 12, and the ear tag 1 shown in FIG. It is attached to the auricle A of livestock in the same manner as. The signboard 11 is made of a soft material such as soft polyvinyl chloride resin, and is composed of a mounting part 13 to be attached to the auricle A and a tag part 14 integrally formed below the mounting part 13. .

A hole 15 for inserting the fixture 12 is formed in the mounting portion 13 as described later, and a hole 16 a communicating with the hole 15 is formed on one surface side of the mounting portion 13. The formed cylindrical portion 16 is formed (see FIG. 3). The holes 16a are formed to have a larger diameter than the holes 15, and 12 spikes of a fixture to be described later are locked at step portions 17 between the holes. The bill portion 14 is formed to be thinner than the attachment portion 13, and the surface on the side where the cylindrical portion 16 is formed serves as the marking surface. The marking surface has the individual identification number of the livestock and its birth. The number of years, etc. can be entered or stamped.

Further, an identifying body 18 is provided inside the mounting portion 13 and the bill portion 14. The identification body 18 is formed by forming an EID (electronics identification) including a transmission / reception coil 20, a powerless IC electronic circuit 21, and capacitors 22 and 22 on a flexible printed board 19. That is, this EID is a coil 20 for transmission / reception printed and wired together with an IC and other electronic circuits on the flexible printed board 19, and writing and reading of individual identification information by a dedicated device, and further, It is possible to rewrite a part of it. In addition, since the transmitting / receiving coil 20 is formed almost entirely using the area of the bill portion 14, this EID has a long communication distance and can maintain sufficient sensitivity. There is.

In order to manufacture such a sign board 11, for example, a material (eg, soft polyvinyl chloride) for forming the sign board 11 is divided into a front surface side and a back surface side in advance, and these materials are used. A method is adopted in which a flexible printed board 19 on which an EID is previously formed is placed between them, and then the flexible printed board 19 is embedded in the marking plate 11 by heat molding.

The fixture 12 is made of the same material as the marking plate 11, and as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, a disc-shaped disc portion 23 and a cylindrical portion 24 formed so as to project to the center thereof. The spike 25 is attached to the tip of the cylindrical portion 24. The spike 25 is made of a metal such as brass or a hard resin, and has a conical head portion 25a and a shaft 25b formed behind the head portion 25a. The shaft 25b is inserted into the cylindrical portion 24. By doing so, it is fixed to the cylindrical portion 24. Further, in this fixing tool 12, the bottom portion of the head portion 25a of the spike 25 has a larger diameter than the tip end portion of the cylindrical portion 24, and the step portion formed by this is the same as that of the attaching portion 13 of the marking tag 11 described above. It is adapted to engage with the step portion 17.

With the ear tag 10 having such a configuration, when it is attached to livestock, for example, cows and pigs, it can be performed in exactly the same manner as a conventional ear tag. That is, similarly to the operation shown in FIG. 4, first, the marking tag 11 is placed on the front side (front side) of the auricle A of the livestock, and the fixture 12 is placed on the back side (rear side) so that the hole 15 and the spike 25 face each other. Then, the fixture 12 is pushed to the marking tag 11 side by using a dedicated jig. Here, with respect to the marking tag 11, the surface opposite to the surface on which the cylindrical portion 17 is formed faces the auricle. When the fixing tool 12 is pushed, the spike 25 at the tip thereof pierces the auricle A and enters the hole 15 of the marking tag 11 as it is. Then, when the fixing tool 12 is further pushed, the spike 25 passes through the hole 15 and reaches the hole 16a of the cylindrical portion 16, and the bottom surface of the head 25a of the spike 25 is locked to the step portion 17, whereby the marking tag 11 The fixing tool 12 is integrated with the fixing tool 12, and the attachment of the ear tag 10 to the auricle A is completed.

Further, when the ear tag 10 thus attached to livestock is used, the information marked on the surface of the bill 15 can be visually recognized as usual, and the internal EID Can be done by using a handheld reader or loop antenna. For example, when using a loop antenna, this loop antenna is composed of a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna, and these are connected to an electronic circuit and a host system. Then, by guiding the livestock, for example, by passing through the gate with this loop antenna, the information written in the EID, that is, the number of months after birth, males and females, pedigree, past growth status, etc. are read, By inputting this into the host system, health management for each individual livestock and its growth status are grasped, and further growth planning is performed thereafter. Further, various kinds of information can be transmitted to the EID via the host system and the loop antenna to write data such as weight.

It should be noted that various kinds of data for each individual are preliminarily input to the host system, and further, based on these data, an appropriate feeding amount and its type, whether or not a medicine for preventing illness is given, It has a built-in program to calculate and output the amount of exercise to promote optimal growth. By using a loop antenna and arranging it at the gate in this way, the antenna can be placed around livestock, and therefore, it is possible to transmit and receive with high sensitivity without considering the directivity. it can. The ear tag 10 of the present invention can also be sent / received using a hand-held reader without using the loop antenna as described above.

The ear tag 10 can be visually recognized from the outside as in the conventional ear tag, and the loop antenna or the like can be used to read individual identification information from the identification object 18. Can write. Further, since the identification body 18 is formed by forming the EID on the flexible printed board 19 by printing or the like, it is suitable for automation without relying on manual assembly or wiring unlike the conventional embedded type. Therefore, the productivity can be improved by automation, that is, the production cost can be reduced and the reliability can be improved (the defect rate can be reduced). Although the non-power supply type IC electronic circuit is used as the IC electronic circuit in the above-mentioned embodiment, the power supply type IC electronic circuit may be used.

[0016]

[Effect of device]

 As described above, the animal ear tag according to the present invention is an identification body having a coil, an IC electronic circuit, and a capacitor formed on a flexible printed board, which is provided on a tag having a relatively large area for attaching to the animal ear. It is possible to increase the sensitivity of the discriminator and to increase its data capacity. Further, since the ear tag has a marking tag like the conventional ear tag, individual identification information can be written and marked on the tag, and thus the identification information can be visually recognized from the outside with the naked eye. Furthermore, since the marking tag is made of a soft material and the identification body is also made of a flexible printed board, the ear tag itself has flexibility, so that the ear tag unexpectedly comes into contact with other animals. However, it does not hurt the animal, and of course also prevents the animal to which it is attached from being hurt.

[Submission date] November 18, 1993

[Procedure Amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Statement

[Correction target item name] 0009

[Correction method] Change

[Correction content]

Further, an identifying body 18 is provided inside the mounting portion 13 and the bill portion 14. The identifier 18 is formed by forming an EID (electronics identification) composed of a transmitting / receiving coil 20, a powerless IC electronic circuit 21, and capacitors 22 and 22 on a flexible printed board 19. That is, this EID is a coil 20 for transmission / reception printed and wired together with an IC and other electronic circuits on a flexible printed board 19. Writing and reading individual identification information by a dedicated device, and further, It is possible to rewrite a part of it. In addition, since the transmitting / receiving coil 20 is formed almost entirely using the area of the bill portion 14, this EID has a long communication distance and can maintain sufficient sensitivity. There is. Further, when a low frequency to be used, it is necessary to make increased inductance of the transmission and receiving coil 20, in this case, the flexible printed board 19 is a multilayer, the multilayer flexible printed board 19 This can be dealt with by printing and wiring the coils to each of the ... And electrically connecting them. For example, the Furekishibu Le printed board 19 ... of four layers, since the inductance is increased in proportion to the square of the number of printed boards, ing and 16 times the inductance compared to further ones. Moreover, the thickness of the four layers is only about 0.8 mm, and the flexibility is not lost.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a view showing an embodiment of an animal ear tag according to the present invention and is a sectional front view of a main part of a marking tag.

2 is a perspective view of the ear tag shown in FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 3 is a side sectional view of the ear tag shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a side view showing an example of a conventional ear tag.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Animal Ear Mark 11 Marking Tag 12 Fixing Tool 18 Identification Body 19 Flexible Printed Board 20 Transmitting / Receiving Coil 21 Non-powered IC Electronic Circuit 22 Capacitor

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. A flexible printed board, comprising a marking tag formed of a soft material for indicating individual identification information of an animal, and a fixture for attaching the marking to an ear of an animal such as livestock. An animal ear tag, comprising an identification body having a coil, an IC electronic circuit, and a capacitor formed thereon.