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Near field rfid system with multiple reader coilsRelated Patent Categories: Pulse Or Digital Communications, Cable Systems And ComponentsNear field rfid system with multiple reader coils description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20070171992, Near field rfid system with multiple reader coils. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
[0001] This patent application is claiming priority under 35 USC .sctn.119 to a provisionally filed patent application entitled NEAR FIELD RFID SYSTEM WITH MULTIPLE READER COILS, having a provisional filing date of Jan. 16, 2007, and a provisional Ser. No. of 60/880,592 and is further claiming priority under 35 USC .sctn.120 as a continuation-in-part patent application of co-pending patent application entitled DECODING OF BI-PHASE ENCODED DATA, having a filing date of Jan. 26, 2006, and a Ser. No. of 11/340,243; of co-pending patent application entitled POWER GENERATING CIRCUIT, having a filing date of Mar. 31, 2006, and a Ser. No. of 11/394,808; and of co-pending patent application entitled HYBRID ON-CHIP-OFF-CHIP TRANSFORMER, having a filing date of Sep. 28, 2006, and a Ser. No. of 11/529,055. CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED PATENTS [0002] NOT APPLICABLE STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0003] NOT APPLICABLE INCORPORATION-BY-REFERENCE OF MATERIAL SUBMITTED ON A COMPACT DISC [0004] NOT APPLICABLE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0005] 1. Technical Field of the Invention [0006] This invention relates generally to communication systems and more particularly to a transformer that may be used in such communication systems. [0007] 2. Description of Related Art [0008] Communication systems are known to support wireless and wire lined communications between wireless and/or wire lined communication devices. Such communication systems range from national and/or international cellular telephone systems to the Internet to point-to-point in-home wireless networks. Each type of communication system is constructed, and hence operates, in accordance with one or more communication standards. For instance, wireless communication systems may operate in accordance with one or more standards including, but not limited to, IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, advanced mobile phone services (AMPS), digital AMPS, global system for mobile communications (GSM), code division multiple access (CDMA), local multi-point distribution systems (LMDS), multi-channel-multi-point distribution systems (MMDS), radio frequency identification (RFID), and/or variations thereof. [0009] Depending on the type of wireless communication system, a wireless communication device, such as a cellular telephone, two-way radio, personal digital assistant (PDA), personal computer (PC), laptop computer, home entertainment equipment, RFID reader, RFID tag, et cetera communicates directly or indirectly with other wireless communication devices. For direct communications (also known as point-to-point communications), the participating wireless communication devices tune their receivers and transmitters to the same channel or channels (e.g., one of the plurality of radio frequency (RF) carriers of the wireless communication system or a particular RF frequency for some systems) and communicate over that channel(s). For indirect wireless communications, each wireless communication device communicates directly with an associated base station (e.g., for cellular services) and/or an associated access point (e.g., for an in-home or in-building wireless network) via an assigned channel. To complete a communication connection between the wireless communication devices, the associated base stations and/or associated access points communicate with each other directly, via a system controller, via the public switch telephone network, via the Internet, and/or via some other wide area network. [0010] For each wireless communication device to participate in wireless communications, it includes a built-in radio transceiver (i.e., receiver and transmitter) or is coupled to an associated radio transceiver (e.g., a station for in-home and/or in-building wireless communication networks, RF modem, etc.). As is known, the receiver is coupled to the antenna and includes a low noise amplifier, one or more intermediate frequency stages, a filtering stage, and a data recovery stage. The low noise amplifier receives inbound RF signals via the antenna and amplifies then. The one or more intermediate frequency stages mix the amplified RF signals with one or more local oscillations to convert the amplified RF signal into baseband signals or intermediate frequency (IF) signals. The filtering stage filters the baseband signals or the IF signals to attenuate unwanted out of band signals to produce filtered signals. The data recovery stage recovers raw data from the filtered signals in accordance with the particular wireless communication standard. [0011] As is also known, the transmitter includes a data modulation stage, one or more intermediate frequency stages, and a power amplifier. The data modulation stage converts raw data into baseband signals in accordance with a particular wireless communication standard. The one or more intermediate frequency stages mix the baseband signals with one or more local oscillations to produce RF signals. The power amplifier amplifies the RF signals prior to transmission via an antenna. [0012] In many wireless communication devices, the transmitter and/or receiver is coupled to antenna, or antennas, by one or more transformers. Such a transformer typically includes a single-ended winding that is coupled to the antenna and a differential winding that is coupled to a low noise amplifier of a receiver section and/or to a power amplifier of a transmitter section. The transformer may be implemented in a variety of ways. For instance, the transformer may be implemented on-chip with the receiver and/or transmitter section. While an on-chip transformer provides the convenience of not requiring an external transformer, the on-chip transformer's power capabilities are limited due to its size. [0013] Another known implementation of a transformer is a marginal type transformer that is fabricated on a printed circuit board (PCB). A marginal type transformer includes two parallel traces that each is approximately one-quarter wavelength in length. As such, a margin type transformer consumes a significant amount of PCB real estate, but does provide significant power in comparison to the on-chip transformer. As with any transformer, impedance matching between the antenna and receiver or transmitter section is an important design criterion. [0014] In RFID systems, the cost and the size of the tag and the ability to provide secure communication between the reader and the tag are critical design challenges. The reduction of the cost and the size of the tag in existing RFID systems, however are primarily limited to the design and implementation of passive components, i.e. bulky antenna or coupling coil that can not be integrated on-chip. In addition, the use of complex data encryption algorithms, for security, requires a lot of power consumption and therefore, is not practical for extremely low-power passive tags. [0015] Therefore, a need exists for a size, cost, and/or performance efficient RFID system. BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0016] The present invention is directed to apparatus and methods of operation that are further described in the following Brief Description of the Drawings, the Detailed Description of the Invention, and the claims. Other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the invention made with reference to the accompanying drawings. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING(S) [0017] FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of a radio frequency identification (RFID) system in accordance with the present invention; [0018] FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of an embodiment of a hybrid on-chip-off-chip transformer in accordance with the present invention; Continue reading about Near field rfid system with multiple reader coils... Full patent description for Near field rfid system with multiple reader coils Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Near field rfid system with multiple reader coils patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. 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