WO1988001427A1 - Method of remote sensing of objects - Google Patents

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WO1988001427A1
WO1988001427A1 PCT/SE1987/000358 SE8700358W WO8801427A1 WO 1988001427 A1 WO1988001427 A1 WO 1988001427A1 SE 8700358 W SE8700358 W SE 8700358W WO 8801427 A1 WO8801427 A1 WO 8801427A1
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Carl H. TYRÉN
Leif Arnold Persson
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K7/00—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns
    • G06K7/08—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by means detecting the change of an electrostatic or magnetic field, e.g. by detecting change of capacitance between electrodes
    • G06K7/082—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by means detecting the change of an electrostatic or magnetic field, e.g. by detecting change of capacitance between electrodes using inductive or magnetic sensors
    • G06K7/083—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by means detecting the change of an electrostatic or magnetic field, e.g. by detecting change of capacitance between electrodes using inductive or magnetic sensors inductive
    • G06K7/086—Methods or arrangements for sensing record carriers, e.g. for reading patterns by means detecting the change of an electrostatic or magnetic field, e.g. by detecting change of capacitance between electrodes using inductive or magnetic sensors inductive sensing passive circuit, e.g. resonant circuit transponders
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07F—COIN-FREED OR LIKE APPARATUS
    • G07F7/00—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus
    • G07F7/08—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means
    • G07F7/086—Mechanisms actuated by objects other than coins to free or to actuate vending, hiring, coin or paper currency dispensing or refunding apparatus by coded identity card or credit card or other personal identification means by passive credit-cards adapted therefor, e.g. constructive particularities to avoid counterfeiting, e.g. by inclusion of a physical or chemical security-layer
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08B—SIGNALLING OR CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS
    • G08B13/00—Burglar, theft or intruder alarms
    • G08B13/22—Electrical actuation
    • G08B13/24—Electrical actuation by interference with electromagnetic field distribution
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G11—INFORMATION STORAGE
    • G11C—STATIC STORES
    • G11C11/00—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor
    • G11C11/19—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using non-linear reactive devices in resonant circuits
    • G11C11/20—Digital stores characterised by the use of particular electric or magnetic storage elements; Storage elements therefor using non-linear reactive devices in resonant circuits using parametrons

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  • One method of improving the reliability of prior art detecting systems comprises the steps of providing on each article or object a marker or label which is more readily detected than the object itself.
  • Such a system is utilized in stores where articles provided with bar code labels automatically are detected and entered in the recording counter when passed one by one, in front of a detecting unit.
  • Similar methods are utilized in factories where pro ⁇ ducts are assembled in different parts of the pre- mises and transported therebetween by means of con ⁇ veyers and the like. Markers on the products make it possible to direct them automatically through the factory to desired locations therein.
  • One of the problems with systems utilizing bar code labels is the necessity of bringing an intact and co pletly visiable label within a narrow field of a vision of the detecting device.
  • EP-A2-0 096 182 New developments in this technical field, see EP-A2-0 096 182, have brought forth a system respon- sive to the presence of at least one of a plurality of markers within an interrogation zone, comprising: a. means for defining an interrogation zone; b. generating means for generating a magnetic field having a frequency band within said interrogating zone; c. a plurality of markers appointed for pass ⁇ age through said interrogation zone, each of said markers being characterized by a substantial change in its effective mag ⁇ netic permeability at a different pre ⁇ selected fre.quency within said frequency band that provides each of said markers with signal identity; and e. detecting means for detecting resonances of said markers within said interrogation zone at each different preselected frequency.
  • the markers of this system comprise a plurality of elongated ductile strips of magnetostrictive ferromagnetic material each of said strips being disposed adjacent to a ferromagnetic element which, upon being magnetized, magnetically -biases said strips and arms them to resonate at said preselected frequencies, each of said strips having a magneto- mechanical coupling factor, k greater than 0, where k - (1-fJ/fjj). fr and fa, being the re- sonant and anti-resonant frequencies, respectively.
  • a major problem of the system disclosed in EP- -A2-0 096 182 is the difficulty of detecting and identifying several markers provided with a plu ⁇ rality of strips, the strips beeing taken from a fi ⁇ nite number of such strips without mismatching strips belonging to different markers. This problem does not occur when the system is used with a highly limited number of different markers and no attention is paid to the case when two or more identical mark ⁇ ers occur at the same time in the interrogation zone.
  • the bias field is pro ⁇ vided by a hard ferromagnetic material, i.e. a per ⁇ manent magnet, located proximate the strips so as to make possible deactivation of the marker by demagnetization of the magnet, thus altering the resonant frequencies and preventing detection.
  • a hard ferromagnetic material i.e. a per ⁇ manent magnet
  • a subject of the present invention is to make possible automatic remote identification of a prac- tically indefinite number of separate objects in a set of objects without placing restrictions on the location and visibility of the individual objects.
  • the identification capacity is su ⁇ perior to the capacity of the human eye. Accordingly the method according to the inven-' tion has been given the characteristics appearing from claim !.
  • FIG 1 is a plan view of a marker comprising three strips of magne;tos;trictive material ,
  • FIG 2 is a iperspec;ti ⁇ e ; view of a cashier desk and a detecting system using the method according to the invention
  • FIG 3 is a graph showing an interrogation sig ⁇ nal applied to the interrogation zone
  • FIG 4 is a graph showing the detected signal over a preselected frequency range
  • FIG 5 is a graph depicting the magnetic field dependency of the resonant frequency for a strip containing an amorphous metal alloy
  • FIG 6 is a schematic graph showing the fre ⁇ quency response signal detected from two identical markers exposed to different magnetic bias field strengths
  • FIG 7 is a perspective view of a conveyer sy ⁇ stem and a detecting system utilizing the method ac ⁇ cording to the invention.
  • the marker 10 according to FIG 1 comprises a supporting layer 11 of fabric or paper and three magnetostrictive strips 12, 13, 14, the strips having different lengths and being made of amorphus ferromagnetic material in foil form and being ex- ceedingly ductile.
  • the marker 10 further comprises an covering layer, not shown, covering the strips 12, 13, 14 when the marker is used. When assembled the covering- layer of the marker does not prevent the vibrations of the strips. Either of the sup- porting layer or the covering layer can be self ad ⁇ hesive so as to facilitate an easy attachment of the marker 10 on an object.
  • the arrangement according to FIG 2 utilizes the method of the invention to detect and identify auto- matically markers on goods and also to register au ⁇ tomatically in a cash register the number of and prices of goods present in an interrogation zone 20.
  • a customer in a store provided with said arrangement puts the articles he intends to buy in a bag, his pocket or in any other way and then he just passes the interrogation zone 20 to have the articles booked in the cash register. There is no need for removing the articles from the bag.
  • a driver unit 15 and an exciting and bias generating coil unit 16 ge- nerate an exciting and a heterogenous magnetic bias field, together forming an interrogation field in the zone 20.
  • the resulting magnetic field variations caused magnetomechanically by mechanical oscilla ⁇ tions in the strips are detected and transformed to an electric signal by a receiver coil unit 17 and a processing unit 18.
  • the processing unit 18 further comprises a frequency analyzer and is connected to a ca * sh register 19.
  • the Young's modulus of the strips are changed, the Young's modulus being dependent on the applied mag ⁇ netic bias field.
  • the variation of the Young's mo ⁇ dulus can be detected by observing variations in the resonant frequency because the resonant frequency depends on the Young's modulus.
  • An exciting signal according to FIG 3 generated by an exciting unit and coil unit 16 brings all strips to osc llate at their resonant frequencies. These oscillations are easily detected in the receiver coil unit 17, the received signal being shaped as the signal shown in FIG 4.
  • the resonant frequency dependency on 1 the applied magnetic bias field is shown in FIG 5.
  • FIG 6 is a graph showing the signal detected in the processing unit 18 when two identical markers are present in the interrogation zone 20 and an in ⁇ terrogation signal has been applied.
  • Each marker comprises three strips of amorphous material. The three strips have different resonant ! requencies , f, , f 2 and f 3 when not exposed, to the magnetic, bias field. However, as a result of said magnetic bias field the resonant frequencies are changed and changed differently due to the difference in the applied heterogenous magnetic bias field. In first marker the frequencies are decreased to f, . , f 2 1 and f-,, respectively, and in second marker the frequencies are decreased to f,n, f 2 « and f ⁇ " . respectively.
  • the unique combinations of frequencies defining each marker are stored in a computer memory in the pro ⁇ cessing unit 18. While the number of different and unique frequencies can be limited to a few tens the number of combinations will be billions.
  • the system of code utilized can correspond for instance to the bar code system present today. If the heterogenous magnetic bias field is given a known value of intensity and/or direction in every different location of the interrogation zone 20 the frequency offset defines the exact position of the marker. In FIG 7 such a field is applied on a first conveyer 21. Objects 24, 25, 26 provided with markers 27, 28, 29 are identified and the positions thereof on the conveyer are defined when said ob ⁇ jects enters the zone between the coil units 30 and 31. Means not shown then move the objects from said first conveyer to a second conveyer 22 or a third conveyer 23 according to a predetermend program.
  • the magnetic bias field, the magnetic excita ⁇ tion field and the ⁇ detection of the resulting str.ip signals may be accomplished with a single coil unit or with separate coil units.
  • the magnetic field of the earth may also be used as the bias field.
  • the method according to' the invention also opens up for the possibility of determining the di- rectfon of a strip and thus the direction of the ob ⁇ ject on which the strip is attached. This is based upon the fact that when an a orphus strip is rotated in the plane of a homogenous magnetic bias field its resonant frequency will change, since the component of the magnetic bias field along the strip axis changes when the direction of the strip is changed.
  • the method according to the invention may be developed to comprise also a credit card system.
  • a credit card system should comprise a credit card which is provided with the same type of marker as objects in a store. Relevant information stored on the marker is detected automatically by means of the method of the invention.
  • money from the bank account of the customer is then trans- ferred to the bank account of the store.
  • the resonant frequency of the prefabricated strips can be modified or eliminated as magneto- mechanical oscillators on the spot in a writing pro ⁇ cess, i.e. by means of a termal printer apparatus or the like, causing chrystal1 ization or changes of the strips or parts thereof.

Abstract

A method and an arrangement of automatic remote identification of separate objects or separate objects in a set of objects, each object being provided with identifier means comprising identifiers made by material with high magnetomechanical coupling, the identifiers preferably comprising a plurality of strips of said material, the resonant frequency thereof being tuned to correspond to the desired information specific to the object, said objects being disposed in an interrogation zone when identification is requested. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of exposing essentially the whole of said zone to a magnetic bias field, generating in said zone a magnetic interference signal bringing said strips to oscillate at resonant frequencies, detecting the changes in the Young's modulus of said strips on said identifier means caused by said magnetic bias field, and utilizing said changes of the Young's modulus from the basic values to detect presence of individual strips and sets of strips, each set belonging to one identifier means.

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TITLE OF INVENTION: METHOD OF REMOTE SENSING OF OB¬ JECTS
The problem of remote detecting of articles and objects has been the subject of numerous technical solutions, the best of which correspond to the capa¬ city of the human eye. One method of improving the reliability of prior art detecting systems comprises the steps of providing on each article or object a marker or label which is more readily detected than the object itself. Such a system is utilized in stores where articles provided with bar code labels automatically are detected and entered in the recording counter when passed one by one, in front of a detecting unit. Similar methods are utilized in factories where pro¬ ducts are assembled in different parts of the pre- mises and transported therebetween by means of con¬ veyers and the like. Markers on the products make it possible to direct them automatically through the factory to desired locations therein.
One of the problems with systems utilizing bar code labels is the necessity of bringing an intact and co pletly visiable label within a narrow field of a vision of the detecting device.
New developments in this technical field, see EP-A2-0 096 182, have brought forth a system respon- sive to the presence of at least one of a plurality of markers within an interrogation zone, comprising: a. means for defining an interrogation zone; b. generating means for generating a magnetic field having a frequency band within said interrogating zone; c. a plurality of markers appointed for pass¬ age through said interrogation zone, each of said markers being characterized by a substantial change in its effective mag¬ netic permeability at a different pre¬ selected fre.quency within said frequency band that provides each of said markers with signal identity; and e. detecting means for detecting resonances of said markers within said interrogation zone at each different preselected frequency. The markers of this system comprise a plurality of elongated ductile strips of magnetostrictive ferromagnetic material each of said strips being disposed adjacent to a ferromagnetic element which, upon being magnetized, magnetically -biases said strips and arms them to resonate at said preselected frequencies, each of said strips having a magneto- mechanical coupling factor, k greater than 0, where k - (1-fJ/fjj). fr and fa, being the re- sonant and anti-resonant frequencies, respectively.
A major problem of the system disclosed in EP- -A2-0 096 182 is the difficulty of detecting and identifying several markers provided with a plu¬ rality of strips, the strips beeing taken from a fi¬ nite number of such strips without mismatching strips belonging to different markers. This problem does not occur when the system is used with a highly limited number of different markers and no attention is paid to the case when two or more identical mark¬ ers occur at the same time in the interrogation zone.
In the EP-A2-0 096 182 the bias field is pro¬ vided by a hard ferromagnetic material, i.e. a per¬ manent magnet, located proximate the strips so as to make possible deactivation of the marker by demagnetization of the magnet, thus altering the resonant frequencies and preventing detection.
A subject of the present invention is to make possible automatic remote identification of a prac- tically indefinite number of separate objects in a set of objects without placing restrictions on the location and visibility of the individual objects. In' this aspect the identification capacity is su¬ perior to the capacity of the human eye. Accordingly the method according to the inven-' tion has been given the characteristics appearing from claim !.
In order to explain the invention in more de¬ tail reference is made to the accompanying drawings, in which
FIG 1 is a plan view of a marker comprising three strips of magne;tos;trictive material ,
FIG 2 is a iperspec;tiγe; view of a cashier desk and a detecting system using the method according to the invention,
FIG 3 is a graph showing an interrogation sig¬ nal applied to the interrogation zone,
FIG 4 is a graph showing the detected signal over a preselected frequency range, FIG 5 is a graph depicting the magnetic field dependency of the resonant frequency for a strip containing an amorphous metal alloy,
FIG 6 is a schematic graph showing the fre¬ quency response signal detected from two identical markers exposed to different magnetic bias field strengths, and
FIG 7 is a perspective view of a conveyer sy¬ stem and a detecting system utilizing the method ac¬ cording to the invention. The marker 10 according to FIG 1 comprises a supporting layer 11 of fabric or paper and three magnetostrictive strips 12, 13, 14, the strips having different lengths and being made of amorphus ferromagnetic material in foil form and being ex- ceedingly ductile. The marker 10 further comprises an covering layer, not shown, covering the strips 12, 13, 14 when the marker is used. When assembled the covering- layer of the marker does not prevent the vibrations of the strips. Either of the sup- porting layer or the covering layer can be self ad¬ hesive so as to facilitate an easy attachment of the marker 10 on an object.
The arrangement according to FIG 2 utilizes the method of the invention to detect and identify auto- matically markers on goods and also to register au¬ tomatically in a cash register the number of and prices of goods present in an interrogation zone 20. A customer in a store provided with said arrangement puts the articles he intends to buy in a bag, his pocket or in any other way and then he just passes the interrogation zone 20 to have the articles booked in the cash register. There is no need for removing the articles from the bag. A driver unit 15 and an exciting and bias generating coil unit 16 ge- nerate an exciting and a heterogenous magnetic bias field, together forming an interrogation field in the zone 20. The resulting magnetic field variations caused magnetomechanically by mechanical oscilla¬ tions in the strips are detected and transformed to an electric signal by a receiver coil unit 17 and a processing unit 18. The processing unit 18 further comprises a frequency analyzer and is connected to a ca*sh register 19. When objects with attached markers comprising strips are positioned in the zone 20 the Young's modulus of the strips are changed, the Young's modulus being dependent on the applied mag¬ netic bias field. The variation of the Young's mo¬ dulus can be detected by observing variations in the resonant frequency because the resonant frequency depends on the Young's modulus. An exciting signal according to FIG 3 generated by an exciting unit and coil unit 16 brings all strips to osc llate at their resonant frequencies. These oscillations are easily detected in the receiver coil unit 17, the received signal being shaped as the signal shown in FIG 4. The resonant frequency dependency on1 the applied magnetic bias field is shown in FIG 5.
FIG 6 is a graph showing the signal detected in the processing unit 18 when two identical markers are present in the interrogation zone 20 and an in¬ terrogation signal has been applied. Each marker comprises three strips of amorphous material. The three strips have different resonant ! requencies , f, , f2 and f3 when not exposed, to the magnetic, bias field. However, as a result of said magnetic bias field the resonant frequencies are changed and changed differently due to the difference in the applied heterogenous magnetic bias field. In first marker the frequencies are decreased to f, . , f21 and f-,, respectively, and in second marker the frequencies are decreased to f,n, f2« and fβ". respectively. Thus, two identical markers are easily detected simultaneously as two individual markers. The unique combinations of frequencies defining each marker are stored in a computer memory in the pro¬ cessing unit 18. While the number of different and unique frequencies can be limited to a few tens the number of combinations will be billions. The system of code utilized can correspond for instance to the bar code system present today. If the heterogenous magnetic bias field is given a known value of intensity and/or direction in every different location of the interrogation zone 20 the frequency offset defines the exact position of the marker. In FIG 7 such a field is applied on a first conveyer 21. Objects 24, 25, 26 provided with markers 27, 28, 29 are identified and the positions thereof on the conveyer are defined when said ob¬ jects enters the zone between the coil units 30 and 31. Means not shown then move the objects from said first conveyer to a second conveyer 22 or a third conveyer 23 according to a predetermend program.
The magnetic bias field, the magnetic excita¬ tion field and the ■ detection of the resulting str.ip signals may be accomplished with a single coil unit or with separate coil units. The magnetic field of the earth may also be used as the bias field.
The method according to' the invention also opens up for the possibility of determining the di- rectfon of a strip and thus the direction of the ob¬ ject on which the strip is attached. This is based upon the fact that when an a orphus strip is rotated in the plane of a homogenous magnetic bias field its resonant frequency will change, since the component of the magnetic bias field along the strip axis changes when the direction of the strip is changed.
The method according to the invention may be developed to comprise also a credit card system. Such a system should comprise a credit card which is provided with the same type of marker as objects in a store. Relevant information stored on the marker is detected automatically by means of the method of the invention. In the fully automated system money from the bank account of the customer is then trans- ferred to the bank account of the store. The resonant frequency of the prefabricated strips can be modified or eliminated as magneto- mechanical oscillators on the spot in a writing pro¬ cess, i.e. by means of a termal printer apparatus or the like, causing chrystal1 ization or changes of the strips or parts thereof.

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1. Method of automatic remote identification of separate objects or separate objects in a set pf ob-
5 jects, each object being provided with identifier means comprising identifiers made by material with high magnetomechanical coupling, the identifiers preferably comprising a plurality of strips of said material, the resonant frequency thereof being tuned 0 to correspond to the desired information specific to the object, said objects being disposed in an inter¬ rogation zone when identification is requested, c h a r a c t e r i z e d by the steps of exposing essentially the whole of said zone to a magnetic 5 bias field, generating in said zone a magnetic interference signal bringing said strips to oscil¬ late at resonant frequencies, detecting the changes > in the Young's modμlus of said strips on saild ident-( ifier means caused by said magnetic bias field, and 0 " utilizing said changes of the Young's modulus from the basic values to detect presence of individual strips and sets of strips, each set belonging to one identifier means.
2. Method as claimed in claim 1, c h a - r a c t e r i z e d in that the magnetic bias field generated in said zone is essentially heterogeous.
3. Method of automatic remote identificat on as claimed in claim 1 or 2, c h a r a c t e r i z e d by detecting changes in the resonant frequencies of said strips caused by said magnetic bias field.
4. Method as claimed in any of the proceeding claims 1 - 3, c h a r a c t e i z e d in varying the strenght of the magnetic field within a range, in which changes in the Young's modulus can be de- 5 tected.
5. Method as claimed in any of the proceeding claims 1 - 4, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the magnetic bias field generated has an essentially uniform flux density in a volume corresponding to one identifier means.
6. Method as claimed in any of the proceeding claims 1 - 5, c h a r a c t e r i z e d by pro¬ cessing said detected signals in an electronic pro¬ cessing unit (18).
7. Method as claimed in any of the proceeding claims 1 - 6, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that sensing means are arranged to detect a plurality of resonant frequencies.
8. Arrangement for carrying out a method of au- tomaiic remote identification of separate objects or separate objects in a set of objects, each object being provided with identifier means comprising identifiers made by material with high magneto- mechanical coupling, the identifiers preferably co - prising a plurality of strips of said material, the resonant frequency thereof being tuned to correspond to the desired information specific to the object, said objects being disposed in an interrogation zone when identification is requested, c h a r a c t - e r i z e d by means for exposing essentially the whole of said zone to a magnetic bias field, means for generating in said zone a magnetic interference signal, means for detecting the changes in the Young's modulus of said strips on said identifier means caused by said magnetic bias field, and means for utilizing said changes of the Young's modulus from the basic values to detect presence of indivi¬ dual strips and sets of strips, each set belonging to one identifier means.
9. Arrangement as claimed in claim 8, TO
c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that the means for gene- rating said magnetic bias field and said magnetic interference signal comprise a driver unit ( 15) and a coil unit (16) .
10. Arrangement as claimed in claim 8 or 9, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that' said detecting means comprises a receiver coil unit (17) and a pro¬ cessing unit (18).
11. Arrangement as claimed in any of claim 8 - 10, c h a r a c t e r i z e d in that said ge¬ nerating and said detecting means comprise several coils, the direction of; maximum sensitivity of said coil s ' defining at least one plane.
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