CA1122671A - Device for identifying objects and persons - Google Patents

Device for identifying objects and persons

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CA1122671A
CA1122671A CA327,730A CA327730A CA1122671A CA 1122671 A CA1122671 A CA 1122671A CA 327730 A CA327730 A CA 327730A CA 1122671 A CA1122671 A CA 1122671A
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Klaus Vogel
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
    • B61L25/00—Recording or indicating positions or identities of vehicles or vehicle trains or setting of track apparatus
    • B61L25/02—Indicating or recording positions or identities of vehicles or vehicle trains
    • B61L25/04—Indicating or recording train identities
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61—RAILWAYS
    • B61L—GUIDING RAILWAY TRAFFIC; ENSURING THE SAFETY OF RAILWAY TRAFFIC
    • B61L25/00—Recording or indicating positions or identities of vehicles or vehicle trains or setting of track apparatus
    • B61L25/02—Indicating or recording positions or identities of vehicles or vehicle trains
    • B61L25/04—Indicating or recording train identities
    • B61L25/045—Indicating or recording train identities using reradiating tags
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S13/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of radio waves, e.g. radar systems; Analogous systems using reflection or reradiation of waves whose nature or wavelength is irrelevant or unspecified
    • G01S13/74—Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systems; Analogous systems
    • G01S13/75—Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systems; Analogous systems using transponders powered from received waves, e.g. using passive transponders, or using passive reflectors
    • G01S13/751—Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systems; Analogous systems using transponders powered from received waves, e.g. using passive transponders, or using passive reflectors wherein the responder or reflector radiates a coded signal
    • G01S13/755—Systems using reradiation of radio waves, e.g. secondary radar systems; Analogous systems using transponders powered from received waves, e.g. using passive transponders, or using passive reflectors wherein the responder or reflector radiates a coded signal using delay lines, e.g. acoustic delay lines
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01S—RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION OR RERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES
    • G01S17/00—Systems using the reflection or reradiation of electromagnetic waves other than radio waves, e.g. lidar systems
    • G01S17/74—Systems using reradiation of electromagnetic waves other than radio waves, e.g. IFF, i.e. identification of friend or foe
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
    • G06K—GRAPHICAL DATA READING; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD CARRIERS; HANDLING RECORD CARRIERS
    • G06K19/00—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings
    • G06K19/06—Record carriers for use with machines and with at least a part designed to carry digital markings characterised by the kind of the digital marking, e.g. shape, nature, code
    • G06K19/067—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components
    • G06K19/0672—Record carriers with conductive marks, printed circuits or semiconductor circuit elements, e.g. credit or identity cards also with resonating or responding marks without active components with resonating marks
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07C—TIME OR ATTENDANCE REGISTERS; REGISTERING OR INDICATING THE WORKING OF MACHINES; GENERATING RANDOM NUMBERS; VOTING OR LOTTERY APPARATUS; ARRANGEMENTS, SYSTEMS OR APPARATUS FOR CHECKING NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE
    • G07C9/00—Individual registration on entry or exit
    • G07C9/20—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass
    • G07C9/28—Individual registration on entry or exit involving the use of a pass the pass enabling tracking or indicating presence
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08G—TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS
    • G08G1/00—Traffic control systems for road vehicles
    • G08G1/01—Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled
    • G08G1/017—Detecting movement of traffic to be counted or controlled identifying vehicles

Abstract

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE

Disclosed is a device for identifying objects and persons and con-sists of a data-carrier (identifying arrangement) and a reading unit. The identifying arrangement comprises a plurality of delay elements, connected in parallel at least at their inlet ends and having different, specific delay times. Connected in series with them, if necessary, are electrical transducers, with specific frequency-band widths, and adjustable attenuating elements, with specific attenuation. The delay branches, connected in parallel, are connected to a transmitting/receiving antenna through matching quadripoles and connect-ing conductors.

Description

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The invention relates to a device for identifying objects and persons, the said device consisting of a data-carrier (ident-ifying arrangement) applied to the object to be identified and a reading unit communicating therewith by electro-magnetic waves, the said identifying arrangement consisting of a plurality of passive elements connected in parallel, at least at the input ends, and furthermore connected, through matching quadripoles and connecting lines, to a transmitting/receiving antenna or to separate trar.smitting and receiving antennae. A device of this kind is disclosed in U S. Patent 3,169,242 of Davis et al, issued February 9, 1965.
Devices of this kind have a wide field of application.
They have hitherto been used mainly for rail traffic, for ident-ifying freight cars, "containers" and the like, and for highway traffic, for identifying automotive vehicles, It is the purpose of the invention to provide, for a device of this kind, an identifying arrangement which is entirely passive, particularly small, light, resistant to heat and impact, and having information content and an extremely long life.
2Q According to the invention t~ere is provided a device for identifying objects and persons, said device consisting of a data-carrier applied to an ob~ect to be identified and a reading unit communicating therewith by electro-magnetic waves, the said data-- carrier consisting of a plurality of passive elements having inlet and outlet e~ds, said data carriers being connected in parallel at least at the inlet ends and containing indiviaual, separable, - frequency~selective circuits, and furthermore connected through matching quadripoles and connecting conductors to transmitting ' 3 P ', ~ZZ67~

and receiving antenna means, characterized in that the passive elements are delay elements having different, specific time.
delays to which adjustable attenuating elements with specific attenuation and filter means are connected in series, and that delay conductors, attenuating elements, filters and matching quadripoles are accommodated on one side and the antenna means on the opposite side of a common carrier element, and the ele-ments of the opposite sides of the carrier element are connected to one another by means of through-connections.
10The invention is explained hereinafter in greater detail, in conjunction with the examples of embodi~ent illustrated in the drawing attached hereto, wherein Figure 1 is a circuit diagram of an identifying arrange-ment according to the invention, in which the input ends of the delay branches are connected in parallel;
Figure 2 is a circuit diagram of an identifying arrange-ment according to the inventionF in which the input and output ends of the delay branches are connected separately in parallel;
Figure 3 shows an example of embodiment of an identifying 20arrangement;
Figure 4 is a block wiring diagram of another identifying arrangement according to the invention;
Figures 5 to 8 show various ways of connecting the ident-ifying arrangement to the transmitting/receiving antenna;
Figure 9 is a block wiring diagram of another identifying arrangement according to the invention, with additional devices, Figure 10 shows an example of embodiment of the invention comprising a special arrangement of delay lines.

~., 1~22~i71 An identifying arrangement according to the basic principle of the invention is shown as a block wiring diagram in Figure 1. In this case, electro-magnetic waves are received from a reading unit by a receiving device A-ES (an antenna, optical collector, etc.) and are passed, through a matching quadripole SP, to the parallel circuit consisting of attenuating elements - 2a -11;~267~
2, ~ n, transducers W1, W2, Wn, and delay lines V1, V2, Vn, and are transformed, in such a manner that the largest possible amount of reading energy enters the individual delay branches and is provided with identifying information. This reading energy passes, through attenuating elements ~, which are optionally present and adjustable for identification, and, if nec-essary, through electrical transducers W - which, for identification, may have a specific frequency-band width and operating frequency, and thus act like filters- to delay elements V which possess, as identifying info~mation, different delay times ~.
Delay elements V may be of various kinds, for instance surface- and bulk-wave-delay conductors on quartz or lithium-titanate substrates, optical conducting fibres of various lengths (in which case transducer W may be dis-pensed with, for example), conductors consisting of distributed and concen-trated elements, elements on ceramic, metal and magnetic bases ("bubble"
technique) or based upon "charge-coupled devices", or others. It must, however, be possible to make use of their delaying properties - if necessary, through transducer W - in the electro-magnetic field, the operating frequency varying between low and very high (e.g. as high as the frequency of light).
At the outlet from delay elements V, the reading energy is reflected, with the highest possible reflection factor (short circuit or open circuit).
After passing once more through the delay element (delay time 2 ~) of transducer W and attenuating element ~ , the reading energy returns to the reading unit through antenna A-ES and the radio field. The reading operation may be such that all information contained in the identifying arrangement, namely:
- time delays in individual delay branches llZ2~;7~

- operating frequencies of transducers and delay elements - band-widths of transducers and delay elements - transmission loss in individual delay branches - phase response of the arrangemen~ to a long ( ~ ~max) single-frequency reading pulse with quartz accuracy can be read and evaluated.
The areas enclosed in dotted lines indicate single "chips~' C1, C2 containing one or more delay branches, which are combined as desired for coding.
Figure 2 shows a modification of the identifying arrangement accord-ing to Figure 1. In this case, the reading energy is not reflected at the end of delay elements V, but passes, through an additional transducer W~ to a second parallel-circuit-point where the outputs from all delay branches are collected by a conductor L. From here they pass, through another antenna ~S
(optical), back to the reading unit.
Figure 3 illustrates an example of embodiment of the invention in which the identifying arrangement, including the transmitting/receiving antenna, is arranged upon a carrier, for example a quartz orlithium-titanate disc Q.
Located on the front face~ in parallel arrangement are a series of delay con-ductors Vl, V2 ... with electro-mechanical transducers W~ W2 ... arranged on each side, and attenuating elements ~ 2 connected in series. The inlets to and outlets from transducers W1~ W2 ... are connected in parallel through conductors L and are connected electrically, through etched matching coils SP, to dipoles Dl~ D2 arranged on the back surface of disc Q and constituting the transmitting/receiving antenna, through through-connected holes X.
In order to resist impact and shock, disc Q may be incorporated into .: , ~267~

a stable, hermetically-sealed housing. The antenna may also be designed, for example, in such a manner that the antenna element constitutes the carrier substrate for the information-storage elements (W;V;~ ) located in commercial sealed housings, both being cast jointly in plastic. The information-storage element (data-carrier) is thus protected from environmental effects.
All interrogation of the indentifying arrangement produce~ in the reading unit a chronologically specific sequence and, depending upon whether time-delay conductors of length ~X' frequency fy, and amplitude Az are present or not, a sequence of pulses of different heights and lengths and spaced at different intervals, with the information content of the identifying arrange-ment. It is possible to accommodate, upon a quartz surface measuring 40 x 40 mm, about 40 different time-delay conductors having a maximal delay of 3/usec per conductor, including transducers and attenuating elements. This provides storage for a very large amount of information.
Coding the identifying units for a system comprising, for example, 20 frequencies, 20 possible time-delay lengths, and 2 amplitude stages may he carried out by producing, for each of the 20 possible frequencies, a "layout"
having 20 conductors of different length for the quantity-production of quartz chips (see Figure 1~. Time-delay coding in individual chips is carried out by interrupting the electrical-transducer connections to common connecting conductor L, for example with the aid of a laser beam. This makes it possible to connect up attenuating elements by cutting the conductor by-passes. I'Quartz chips", having frequencies selected for the frequency-coding of identifying arrangements, are then inserted into a hermetically-sealed housing, e.g. they are glued in and connected.

11;~2671 By selecting the dimensions and configuration of the identifying elements to allow the structures of the delay elements, tranducers and attenu-ating elements to be produced by electron-beam exposure (electron-beam litho-graphy), it is possible to produce very compact identifying arrangements of high frequency (2 - 3 GHz) because of the high resolu~ion, on quartz and lithium-titanate substrates, for example. This would allow each single identi-fying arrangement to be coded and produced by individual, computer-controlled single electron-beam exposure from individual computer-stored masks ( ~ , l;
f).
One example of an extended design is shown in Figure 4. In this case, the purely passive identifying network is also followed by active transmitting amplifiers or is incorporated into individual amplifiers which increases the range of the identifying process obtained with the proposed identifying arrangement. Individual conductors of the identifying arrangement are connected, by branches Z, to connecting conductors L at the inlet end. A
first branch consists of a filter F, a transducer W1, a delay conductor V1, an attenuating element 7r, and a switch S1. A second branch, consisting of a suppressing filter SF, an attenuating element ~ , and a transducer W2, is - connected to delay conductor V1 of the first branch and forms a mesh M1. A
third branch, consisting of a filter F, an attenuating element ~ , a transducer W3, a delay conductor V3, and an individual amplifier VS, is connected, through an adding circuit An~ to the outlet from the first branch. A fourth branch, consisting of a transducer W4~ a delay conductor V4, an adjustable attenuating element ~ , a switch S2, and a phase shifter 4 is connected to a fifth branch, consisting of a transducer W5, a delay conductor V5, and an ~l~2267~

attenuating element ~ , through a subtracting circuit ST. The different con-ductor branches together form meshes M2, M3, M4. The outputs from adding cir-cuit AD and subtracting circuit ST are passed to a branch Z, the third arm of which constitutes outlet A from the identifying arrangement. To this is con-nected a switch S3 which is also connected, through an identifying unit I, to inlet E to the identifying arrangemen~ and, thereafter, a transmitting amplifier SV which is connected to transmitting antenna AS. A code arriving from the transmitter can be recognized by identifying unit I and it may thus be decided whether the reply from the identifying arrangement will be passed on, through switch S3, to antenna As, or not. Thus, out of a plurality of units, only the unit called will answer. Switches S1 and S2 make it possible to carry out active programming of the identifying arrangement.
A more complex circuit of this kind makes it possible to use delay elements also to form more complicated identifying functions which are diffi-cult to decode and imitate, namely identification by frequency, time-delay (transit time), amplitude, band~width and phase. Another characteristic of such a circuit is the automatic forming, by delaying, of intermediate frequencies in the reading unit, with transmitting frequency and power varying specifically and by programming.
Inlet E to, and outlet A from, identifying arrangement ~A may be connected to one, or also to two, antennae (e.g. cross-polarized dipoles), as shown in the figures. If a single antenna A-ES is used, the connection may be in the form of a direct parallel circuit (Figure 5), an interconnection through conductors L4, L5 (Figure 6); circulators Z ~Figure 7), or hybrids H
(Figure 8). In this case~ the indi~idual elements of the identifying arrange-,. . .

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ment~ and the antem~ae, may be accommodated upon the same substrate (See Figure 3) or upon separate substrates.
Figure 9 illustrates a circuit by means of which the identifying arrangement described hereînbefore may also be used in frequency ranges in which complex delay networks cannot be used, or can be used only with diffi-culty. In this case a filter F1~ a receiving mixer ME, and an amplifier VS1 are inserted between receiving antenna AE connected to inlet E~ of the circuit, while an amplifier VS2, a transmitting converter MS, a filter F2, and a trans-mitting amplifier SV are inserted between the outlet from the identifying arrangement and transmitting antenna AS. The incoming read-signal is passed, through receiving filter F1, to receiving mixer ME and is converted therein, with the frequency of a carrier supply TRV, to a frequency range where the complex identifying arrangement is easily realized. The signal, provided with identification according to identifying arrangement KA, is then amplified in amplifier VS2, is reconverted in transmitting converter Mæ2, also connected to carrier supply TRV, to exactly the same frequency as the signal received, is filtered in filter F2, amplified in transmitting amplifier SV~ and is re-transmitted.
The transducer and delay conductors may also be laid out, in accord-ance with known HF pulse-compression and pulse-expansion techniques, in such a manner that when the information content in the identifying arrangement is read with HF pulses, an identifying info~mation (a pulse-length identification) is produced with these techniques; or in such a manner that~ by pulse compres-sion, the signal returned from the identifying unit to the reading unit is passively amplified to some extent by this technique, thus increasing the 67~.

signal-to-noise ratio of the reading system.
Figure 10 illustrates a design of the delay elements which produces particularly compact identifying arrangements with particularly high informa-tion density. In this case, the delay elements, with transducers of equal pass frequency, are each combined in a delay conductor in such a manner that the surface or ~'bulk" wave is produced by a transducer W1, W2 ... fed from receiving antenna AE, the number of consecutive electrical transducers ~11, W12, W13 and W21, W22, W23 arranged along the path thereof being equal to the number of different delay (transit) times required. The dimensions and arrangement of these transducers are such that an amount of energy as similar as possible is released from all of the transducers7 and only the smallest possible amount of reading energy goes to waste unused.
The identifying arrangement according to the invention may also be produced simply in units of small size and light weight. The arrangement is highly temperature-independent9 uses delay conductors on a quartz substrate, for example, and is highly resistant to weathering, vibration and impact. It reads reliably and is falsification-proof. A par~icular advantage is that it may be used over a very wide range of frequencies.

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THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. A device for identifying objects and persons, said device consisting of a data-carrier applied to an object to be identified and a reading unit communicating therewith by electro-magnetic waves, the said data-carrier consisting of a plurality of passive elements having inlet and outlet ends, said data carriers being connected in parallel at least at the inlet ends and containing individual, separable, frequency-selective circuits, and further-more connected through matching quadripoles and connecting con-ductors to transmitting and receiving antenna means, character-ized in that the passive elements are delay elements having dif-ferent, specific time delays to which adjustable attenuating elements with specific attenuation and filter means are connected in series, and that delay conductors, attenuating elements, filters and matching quadripoles are accommodated on one side and the antenna means on the opposite side of a common carrier element, and the elements of the opposite sides of the carrier element are connected to one another by means of through-connections.
2. A device according to claim 1 including transducers in series with the delay conductors.
3. A device according to claim 2, characterized in that the delay elements and transducers, consisting of electro-mechanical transducers, are in the form of surface or "bulk"-wave delay con ductors upon quartz or lithium-titanate substrates, and in that the attenuating elements are also arranged upon these substrates.
4. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that the delay elements of the identifying arrangement consist of optical conducting fibres connected in parallel and that the antenna means consists of appropriate opti-cal systems.
5. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that the delay elements consist of divided conductors.
6. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that the delay elements consist of conductor-balancing networks with concentrated elements.
7. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the delay elements consist of elements upon ceramic bases.
8. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the delay elements consist of elements based upon charge coupled devices.
9. A device according to claim 1 or 27 characterized in that the delay elements are built up on magnetic bases.
10. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that active amplifiers are arranged in series with the series-connected delay elements, transducers, and attenuating elements.
11, A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the delay elements and transducers are designed and shaped for specific pulse compress-ion or pulse expansion ("Chirp" process).
12. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that programm-ing and production of the identifying arrangement is carried out with the aid of computer-controlled electron-beam exposure.
13. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that switches are arranged in the individual parallel-connected delay branches.
14. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the delay time of one or more of the delay branches is defined with such accuracy and is designed with such constancy that this branch may be used for distance measuring and locating.
15. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the conductor paths on the substrate are designed in such a manner that individual delay branches are separable by cutting conducting structures.
16. A device according to claim 2, characterized in that all delay conductors are combined, with transducers of the same pass frequency, in a delay conductor, in such a manner that the surface wave is produced by a transducer fed from the receiving antenna, the number of transducers arranged consecutively along the path thereof, and connected electrically in parallel, being equal to the different delay times required.
17. A device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the antennae and matching elements are arranged upon a carrier element accommodated in a hermetically sealed housing.
18. A device according to claim 1, characterized in that a receiving mixer is located before the identifying arrangement and in that the latter is followed by a signal converter which converts the signal provided with identification back to the exact frequency of the originally received signal, and by a transmitting amplif-ier.
19. A device according to claim 18, characterized in that the receiving mixer and the transmitting converter are connected to a common carrier supply.
20. A device according to claim 1, 18 or 19, characterized in that the outlet ends of the delay conductors of individual con-ductor branches are closed off with a high reflection factor.
21. A device according to claim 1, 18 or 19, characterized in that conducting and suppressing filters are connected in series with the individual branches comprising attenuating elements, transducers, and delay elements.
22. A device according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the antenna means comprises separate transmitting and receiving antennae.
23. A device according to claim 4, 5 or 6, wherein the antenna means comprises separate transmitting and receiving antennae.
24. A device according to claim 1, 2 or 3, wherein the antenna means comprises a single transmitting/receiving antenna.
25. A device according to claim 4, 5 or 6, wherein the antenna means comprises a single transmitting/receiving antenna.
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