Hand held portable printer with RFID read write capability
US7609406B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 15, 2006 |
| Grant date | Oct 27, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 11, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB65C2210/0032
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A hand-held portable printer includes a number of input devices mounted in or on a printer housing including a barcode scanner, keypad, communication interface in a receive mode and an RFID read/writer in a read mode. The hand-held portable printer also includes a number of output devices including a printing system, the communication interface in a transmit mode and the RFID read/writer in a write mode for writing to an external RFID chip. A processor selects received data from one or more of the input devices manipulates the data and/or combines it with other data for an output device wherein the data selected for one output device may be different then the data selected for another output device. The hand-held portable printer may utilize both an internal antenna and external antenna. Applying different energy levels to the antennas may determine whether the hand-held portable printer reads from and/or writes to a single RFID chip or a plurality of RFID chips.
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