WO2008043194A2 - Rfid-druckproduktidentifikation - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method for processing flexible, flat products according to the preamble of patent claim 1, flexible, sheet-like products according to the preamble of claim 16, and a system for the production of flexible, sheet-like products according to the preamble of claim 17.
- Radio frequency identification transponders (referred to below as RFI D-tags) are known in the prior art, and their use in intelligent labels (also referred to as HFIDs or smart labels for short) is becoming increasingly important.
- intelligent labels also referred to as HFIDs or smart labels for short
- the fundamentals of RFID technology which makes it possible to transmit data by means of radio waves without contact and without visual contact between an RFID tag and a transceiver, are known and need not be explained further here.
- the systems for wireless data transmission usually consist of the three components: RFID tag, transceiver with which data is read from the tag or written on the tag and a higher-level IT System that manages the corresponding data.
- the RFID tags distinguish between passive, semi-active and active power supply, but only the passive RFID tags that receive their energy from the electromagnetic field generated by the transceiver and that are inductive, respectively capacitive coupling in the near range received via the antenna.
- inductive coupling is currently mainly in low frequency ranges from 30 to 500, preferably 100 to 135 kHz with a range of up to one meter and worked in high frequency ranges from 3 to 30, preferably 13.56 MHz 1 with a range of about 1.7 meters.
- LF RFID tags are usually populated with chips with a storage capacity of up to 2 kbit.
- HF high frequencies
- the range also corresponds to about 1.7 meters.
- the available storage space ranges from the storage of simple identification numbers to the storage of complex data such as manufacturer, minimum durability date, date of manufacture, sales prices etc.
- the passive RFID tags About 50% of the production costs of the known passive RFID tags are currently attributable to the actual chip (also referred to below as the tag IC) and the remainder to the coupling element in the form of a coil or antenna (referred to hereinafter as the antenna), the connection the antenna with the chip, other passive components and the substrate of the tag.
- the actual chip also referred to below as the tag IC
- the antenna the coupling element in the form of a coil or antenna
- the simplest systems for wireless data transmission include tags without tag IC, in which the transponder function is essentially taken over by an antenna or another coupling element.
- Such simplest transponders act as electronic data carriers of a 1-bit information and are accordingly referred to below as 1-bit tags.
- the presence of an activated 1-bit tag in the transmitting and receiving area of a correspondingly adapted reading device with a corresponding range can be detected, so that in the simplest case the presence or absence of the transponder can be "read out" as 1-bit information the use of such IC-less 1-bit tags in anti-theft systems.
- radio frequency labels are used which have an electrically conductive coil which forms a resonant circuit together with a capacitor.
- the resonant circuit modulates the transmission energy of the system by absorbing energy and can thereby be detected by the transceiver.
- the resonant circuit can be irreversibly electrically deactivated by the capacitor overcharged and thus the resonant circuit is detuned.
- Electromagnetic labels for example, comprise strips of soft magnetic materials, can be magnetized, for example in a sinusoidal alternating magnetic field with a frequency of 10Hz to 2OkHz to saturation and then detect by means of harmonics in the alternating field.
- the electromagnetic labels can be reversibly activated and deactivated in a known manner.
- harmonic tags are known as harmonic tags because they answer harmonic harmonic waves transmitted by the transceiver, thereby indicating to the system their presence in the receive range of the transceiver.
- harmonic tags as well as for acousto-magnetic tags, preferably amorphous metal strips are used, which are equipped with hard magnetic elements. These tags can be reversibly deactivated by magnetizing the magneto-magnetic elements and the associated shift of the harmonic arrangement. Different arrangements of the hard-magnetic elements allow tags to be generated with a wide variety of harmonic patterns, so that different tags can be identified individually.
- a miniaturized RFID tag called " ⁇ -chip" measuring just 0.15 x 0.15 mm and a thickness of 7.5 microns is available from Hitachi.
- Prototypes of an RFID chip manufactured using the 90-nmometer process which only measures 0.05 x 0.05 mm x 5 ⁇ m (without antenna) and a 128-bit ROM to accommodate a 38 -digit 1D codes.
- the ROM of these RFID chips can already be described during production with an electron beam.
- the transmission range at 2.45 GHz is 30 centimeters.
- both the antenna and any capacitors and / or ICs can be generated by printing techniques.
- the antennas are applied by means of screen printing or inkjet methods to films which are subsequently laminated and further processed into adhesive labels.
- WO 2005/021276 it is proposed to print a substrate in an online process not only in a known manner with the functionality of color, but also to print with the functionality of electrical conductivity or electrical semiconductivity.
- Radio Frequency Identification transponders on the printing substrate, for example a packaging.
- only the antenna for the RFID transponder is printed, and the chip is then glued in-line electrically contacting with the antenna.
- all the active components of the RFID transponder are printed in the printing device in several steps, the transistors being interconnected to form semiconductor chips. From DE 10 2005 026127 a printing method is known in which also an inline in the printing press an RFID tag or only the antenna applied to the substrate, overprinted in multiple colors and checked inline.
- the invention also has the task, while largely using known high-performance methods and systems in print finishing, to provide new methods and systems for producing flexible, flat products, preferably multi-part printed products, which make it possible to produce cost-effective printed products which can be selected Degree of individual identifiability.
- This task is to be solved for a wide variety of types of printed products, for example also for large, combined and / or stapled printed products with product supplements.
- a further object of the present invention is to provide a method and a system which enables a simple addressing and, in particular, a correct sequence of the addressed and addressed products and thus the subsequent delivery at higher efficiency without increased machine outlay. cheap possible.
- the printing device downstream processing device with a Identification means provided in the form of an RFID tag.
- the identification means carries at least one 1-bit information for identifying the products and makes them identifiable. These individual identification is also referred to below as an indication.
- groups of products can be provided with an RFID tag with identical identification information, which should be referred to as omnification in the context of this application. For example, an omnification is suitable for a region-specific subproduct.
- multipart printed products are produced which comprise at least one main product and / or one or more partial products.
- partial products unless the description clearly indicates otherwise insert sheets, postcards or promotional product supplements. CD's etc. are understood.
- At least one of the main and / or partial products, insert sheets, postcards, advertising supplements, etc. is provided with an RFID tag having at least one 1-bit control information and / or at least one product information, the at least one step directly or indirectly in the Print finishing controls.
- the information read out by the RFID tag preferably triggers a work step at at least one workstation without involving a higher-level control device.
- the direct control can be used, for example, for a feeder with the advertising insert W by a signal originating from the RFID tags of the partial products R trigger the insertion process.
- the controller of the investor must not be in contact with a higher-level control unit for a correct insertion, but it is sufficient if the information read out by the RFID tag to be supplemented with the sub-products R information is detected and serves as a trigger for the insertion of W.
- the investor remains inactive for R.
- the information read out by the RFID tag is forwarded to a higher-level control device, processed and a signal is generated which triggers a work step in at least one workstation.
- the at least one operation controlled by the RFID tag preferably comprises one of the following activities: conveying, storing, inserting, collecting, collating, stapling, foliation, folding, insertion, gluing, cutting, addressing or packaging.
- the work step can also be a control step.
- At least one of the main and / or partial products is provided with an RFID tag which cooperates in cooperation with at least one further RFID tag of at least one further main and / or partial product and / or supplement.
- the at least two RFID tags jointly modulate an output signal of a transmission unit, so that at least one common response signal is generated.
- This response signal which is influenced by two RFID tags, is also referred to as a composite response signal, also called a combination signal.
- the response signal is modulated by means of the cooperating RFID tags with respect to the output signal at least in terms of amplitude and / or frequency.
- the at least one control information stored on the RFID tags and / or at least one product information is a T-bit or a multi-bit information.
- the information can range from 1-bit information that allows the presence of an RF-tagged product to up to a kilobyte or even mega bit of information ranging from the individual identification of each individual print product to the storage of product-specific information Additional information in the form of text, image and / or sound documents or combinations thereof allowed. Since no visual contact is required to read out the RFID tags, and since the RF technology used makes it possible to read from several centimeters to over one meter, there are no narrow limits to the positioning of the tags on the products to be marked.
- the tags are preferably arranged in fold areas so as not to impair the free area available at the layout.
- this predetermined position of the RFID tag can be used as further information about the position and orientation of the product during conveying or during storage.
- the at least one RFID tag is a readable and writable RFID tag, preferably a passive RFID tag, which comprises an antenna and an IC operatively connected thereto, in particular an IC 1 arranged on a chip.
- the at least one RFID tag is created according to preferred embodiments of the present invention in a printing process directly on the, to be tagged, product or it is a previously created RFID tag in a separate step at the, to be provided with the day, Product attached.
- the 1-bit RFID tags according to the invention are preferably produced directly on the product to be tagged and, after being created, described with product and / or control information comprising at least 1 bit or created in such a way that they produce the desired 1-bit information already included.
- Multi-bit RFID tags will preferably be on the to-be-tagged product after creation, or on separately fabricated RFID tags after affixing to the tagged product having at least 1-bit Product and / or control information described.
- the identification means comprises a 1-bit RFID tag which is applied to the printed product in a printing process and read and / or changed in the print finishing without contact and without visual contact between tag and read / write device can.
- the RFID tags are not mounted directly in or on the printed product, but detachable from the printed product, temporarily spatially assigned directly.
- the identification means may be formed, for example, in a transport unit associated with the printed product for a certain duration and a certain section of the transport path, for example a support of a ladder conveyor or a gripper of a gripper transporter.
- the RFID tags can be arranged on device parts of buffer and / or memory paths, which in turn are assigned to a single or a group of printed products for a specific duration and a specific section in a buffer path or a memory path.
- the RFID tags are according to preferred embodiments, in which the printed products are provided directly with the RFID tags, directly in Hochleistu ⁇ gstik remedies, or directly downstream of the printing process at the interface for further processing, in any case before the first downstream processing station attached to the printed product.
- it is at least the main products that are so indi- cated.
- complexly compiled printed products which comprise, for example, one main product and several first-order partial products and / or advertising inserts which in turn contain inserted (second-order) partial products, preferably also the first and / or higher-order partial products or only these with an RFID Tag provided.
- the indification can also be restricted to individual products of a product group.
- an indexed product with an RFID tag is assigned one or more products not provided with an RFID tag.
- a day-controlled processing station for all subsequent products can be activated by the product with RFID tag arranged in the conveying direction until another product provided with an RFID tag deactivates the processing station again.
- the product groups in the product stream can be composed regularly or have different sizes.
- an RFID tag of conductive ink is printed on each major product by means of a digital printing unit (eg, an inkjet printer) during or after rotation in a suitable area.
- the RFID tag is preferably positioned in an inner fold area, so that it is not cut away in any edge trimming and does not affect the layout.
- the RFID tag consists for example of a printed conductive coil with a capacitor, which form a resonant circuit.
- the resonant circuit modulates the transmission energy of the system by energy absorption and can be detected by the transceiver.
- This effect can be illustrated in a schematic diagram, for example in FIG. 4, in which a signal intensity I is plotted on the y-axis against a frequency F on the x-axis. If there is no RFID tag in the area of the read / write device, the output signal according to curve A is not modulated and the response signal has the essentially unchanged amplitude a A.
- the amplitude of the signal will increase modified manner known, in the present example, the signal strength of the response signal is reduced to an intensity of a B.
- the discrete decrease in the signal strength of the response signal indicates to the system the presence of an RFID tagged product. If two RFID-tagged products are in the reading range, the signal strength of the response signal is attenuated again to a c . If a third product provided with an RFID tag is in the reading area, then it is attenuated to a D.
- the indicated in Figure 4 relative intensity or amplitude differences between output or query and response signals will be influenced in industrial use by a variety of confounders.
- the system parameters such as frequency, output power, signal strength, distance from the read-write device to the RFID tags (detection area), set a predetermined Lesepositio ⁇ , etc. selected such that the amplitudes of interrogation and response signal by a Sufficient difference ⁇ are separated from each other, so that the A ⁇ twortsig ⁇ al recorded by the read-write device in a bandwidth of approximately +/- 4/2 can schwa ⁇ - ken an amplitude a, and yet correctly recognized and clearly assigned.
- the control can now be significantly simplified and reduce the error rate, since it is no longer a positioning of products to each other, but the actual presence of the products is detected.
- a desired group of two is present in the parenthesis, it supplies to the read-write unit a response signal C (according to FIG. 4) with the amplitude ac.
- the system that is to say at least the read-write unit, has been previously programmed to be on Response signal C can assign the presence of two products and detects the corresponding bracket as correctly filled. If there is only a single product in a parenthesis, a stronger response signal B with amplitude a B is generated, and the loading of the parenthesis is recognized as faulty in comparison with the action word A, which is present as internal target information.
- the filling state of pockets of a pocket conveyor or of compartments of a plug-in drum can be controlled.
- the read / write devices can be attached with a great deal of freedom at a suitable point in the further processing plant, for example along a conveying device. Since no visual contact between the reader and RFID tags is necessary, the tags can be attached on each side of the product, that is also inside, and it is still no opening, separating, cropping or otherwise treating the products when reading and / or Describe necessary, which is a decisive advantage over optical control methods, as are known for example from US5613669.
- the range of the RFID tags correlated directly with the length of the antenna of the transmitting and receiving device and the antenna length of the RFID tag.
- At least the antenna of the read / write device can be located laterally on the product arrange flow, so that the products are conveyed past the read-write device with a distance of, for example, a few centimeters. Since the RFI D tags are preferably arranged in the upper or lateral edge region on the side of the products facing the read / write device, the effective distance between RFID tag and antenna of the read / write device can be reduced to a few centimeters ,
- such a short working distance is advantageous because it permits small assemblies, short antenna lengths and low transmission powers.
- it can be achieved by a transmit-receive range of a few centimeters that there is no singularization of the response signals of different product groups, for example the products one after the other Tvansportklammern, necessary
- the existing distance between the product groups is sufficient to ensure that there is only one product group in the transmit-receive area.
- data transfer rates can already be achieved with the currently known RFID technologies, which are also used in high-performance processing plants with processing capacities of up to to allow 80000 products per hour, at virtually every point of the conveying path to exchange data. If larger Date ⁇ me ⁇ ge ⁇ be transmitted, it is advisable to select areas of the conveying path, where the conveying speed of the products is slowed down. Such areas can be found in the further processing of printed products, for example, in an inventively controlled completion, which can be accomplished in an advantageous manner with all devices for collecting, collating and plugging in the broad sense.
- the conveying path of the printed products between two investors or other processing stations preferably comprises regions without axial advances in insertion drums of the Ferag AC.
- the read-write devices can preferably be arranged in a saddle-shaped carrier.
- the read / write devices can be mounted on or integrated with dividing drums and saddle drums behind partitions or under saddle-shaped supports, so that they can again be positioned in the immediate vicinity of the products and the RFID tags attached thereto. Since the conveying speed of the products in relation to the equipment provided with read-write devices is greatly reduced, especially in the processing drums, there is even a relative standstill, a sufficiently long time window is available to transfer even large amounts of data.
- the products to be processed pass through a conveying path along the longitudinal axis of the drum which corresponds to an irregular spiral, in which case no axial feed is exerted on the products in certain radial conveying sections that they stand relative to partition walls or supports of the drum even at full processing capacity of up to 40'0OO products per hour, for approximately 3 seconds relative to each other.
- the read / write devices can also be arranged outside the drum according to further advantageous embodiments. In known drums with a radial division into 40 pockets, the products are conveyed at about 0.5 m / s in Umwindu ⁇ gsraum.
- Linearly extending rungs of a device as are known, for example, from EP 0095603, or parts of compartments and pockets of devices, as described for example in EP 771754, EP 510525 and EP 346578, can be used in the same way Provided write-read devices.
- a decisive advantage of the invention is that the individualized collation can be controlled without direct control instruction of a higher-level control system and only by the information contained in the RFID tag.
- the higher-level control is not only relieved enormously, but the process is much more robust, since even in the event of a complete failure of the higher-level controller, the already-indi- products are correctly compiled.
- all the information needed to generate the RFID tags of an entire edition can be stored in the corresponding unit, for example in the digital printer in the rotation, so that it is available locally and independently of the higher-level controller. stand. In this way, it is also possible with little effort sub-products that are supplied by third-party manufacturers to provide the appropriate information and thus fully integrate into the production process in the processing.
- bars made of partial products can not only be checked to see whether they are the correct partial products, but, as shown in FIG. 10, they can also be very simple at each Rod are checked whether individual sub-products are arranged in wrong bearing directions in the rod.
- multi-bit RFID tags are used at least on the main products of the printed products to be produced, then a virtually arbitrary degree of individualization of the multi-part printed products to be produced can be achieved with very low tax expense and a very lean higher-level control system.
- the degree of individualization of the products to be produced can be, for example, from main products in which a region-specific partial product and / or such an advertising insert are inserted, up to a complete product. constantly addressee-specifically compiled newspaper from a main product and sub-products selected according to a previously known subscriber profile range.
- the final products to be produced are based on address information stored in the RFID tag and provided with addressee-specific advertising, for example advertising letters with a personal address or pre-addressed reply cards.
- addressee-specific advertising for example advertising letters with a personal address or pre-addressed reply cards.
- This can be done in the field of gathering, for example, by inserting target group-specific high-quality conventionally produced advertising inserts, pasting the same postcards, cut-sheets or product samples and in the case of RFID tags with appropriate storage capacity to storing digital addressee-specific information in the RFID Day, which the addressee with a suitable reader, preferably with his mobile phone read and play in audio or visual-perceptible form.
- a ringtone for a mobile phone for example, can be transferred from an advertising sponsor to the end customer.
- the person skilled in the art recognizes the enormous potential for target group-oriented advertising, up to completely individualized advertising, which the system according to the invention primarily offers through the integration of printing plate-bound high-performance printing processes and printing form-free information transfer processes in the production of a partially individualized printed product, and is without inventive Dazutun able to exploit this potential through needs-based adjustments for the specific individual case.
- the high-quality RFID tags which can store text, audio or even image and video files, comprise a powerful IC and are preferably not printed on the printed products, but separately produced and glued onto the printed products. This can be carried out very elegantly with devices such as are known from EP 1 106550, EP 1 086 914 and EP 275607 of Ferag AG and are extremely successfully established in the market under the brand name MEMOSTICK®. If such high-quality and therefore expensive RFID tags are to be used exclusively or primarily for the control of work steps in the print finishing, the MEMOSTICK®-like RFID tags can be removed from the products, for example also from cards or CDs, before packaging , remove and recycle.
- an RFID tag is left on a product, then this preferably carries the address and transmission information which can be read out by the forwarder of the parcel or its receiver with a corresponding reader.
- write-using devices which represent generic interfaces as system elements, which facilitate the integration of workstations or system components from third-party suppliers.
- the antenna of the RFID tags at least partially formed by staples of a suitable material, for example, preferably made of copper or a copper-containing bimetal.
- the information stored in multi-bit RFID tags preferably comes from a higher-level control system and will be at least one read-write station online or supplied via a locally readable storage medium and preferably temporarily stored in the read-write station.
- FIG. 3a shows a single product provided with an RFID tag
- 3b shows a product group of two successive products, wherein a first product is provided with an RFID tag
- 3c shows a product group of three successive products, wherein a first product is provided with an RFID tag
- FIG. 3d shows a product group with ten successive products, wherein a first product is provided with an RFID tag
- 4 shows a diagram for modulating the signal strength of an output signal of a read / write device by one or more 1-bit or multi-bit RFID tags
- 5 shows a diagram for the frequency modulation of an output signal of a read / write device by one or more 1-bit or multi-bit RFID tags
- FIG. 6a shows a transport clamp correctly filled with two printed products in the area of a read / write device, wherein the printed products are held flush in the region of the base;
- FIG. 6b shows a transport clamp incorrectly filled with only one printed product in the region of a read / write device, wherein the printed product is held in the region of the fold;
- FIG. 6c shows a transport clamp incorrectly filled with three printed products in the region of a read / write device, wherein the printed products are held flush in the region of the fold;
- FIG. 6d shows a transport clamp correctly filled with two printed products in the region of a read / write device, wherein the printed products are held offset in the region of the fold;
- FIG. 6e shows a transport clamp incorrectly filled with three printed products in the region of a read / write device, wherein the printed products are held offset in the region of the fold;
- FIG. 6f shows a transport clamp incorrectly filled with only one printed product in the region of a read / write device, wherein the printed product is held in the region of the fold
- FIG. 6g shows a transport clamp erroneously filled with only one printed product in the region of a read / write device, wherein the printed product is held in the region of the flower
- FIG. 6i shows a transport clamp incorrectly filled with three printed products in the region of a read / write device, wherein the printed products are held flush in the area of the flower;
- FIGS. 6a to 6c shows a staple conveyor with clamps according to FIGS. 6a to 6c, wherein a transport clamp correctly filled with two printed products is located in the region of the read-write device;
- FIG. 7b shows a staple conveyor according to FIG. 7a, wherein in the area of the read-write device a transport clamp is incorrectly filled with only one printed product;
- FIG. 7c shows a staple conveyor according to FIG. 7a, wherein in the area of the read / write device there is a transport clamp incorrectly filled with three printed products;
- FIG. 8 shows a conveying device according to a further embodiment of the invention, with the clips equipped with products being attached to a series of writing devices.
- FIG. 9a is a top view of a scale flow formed by a plurality of properly aligned products with a pair of read / write devices;
- FIG. 9a is a top view of a scale flow formed by a plurality of properly aligned products with a pair of read / write devices;
- FIG. 9b shows a view according to FIG. 9a, wherein a product in the scale flow is misaligned
- 10a shows a product stack (bar) shown in exploded view with a group of three misaligned products
- FIG. 10b shows a complete bar according to FIG. 10a with front and rear board cheeks and strapping
- FIG. 10c is a schematic representation of the rod according to FIG. 10b; FIG.
- Fig. 1 1 is a schematic representation of a system for the production of flexible, sheet-like products according to a first embodiment
- 12a is a schematic representation of a system for the production of multi-part printed products according to another embodiment
- Fig. 12b is a schematic representation of another system for the production of multi-part printed products
- FIG. 13 shows a schematic representation of a system for the production of multi-part printed products according to a further embodiment with a switch for sorting the products; and
- FIG. 14 is a schematic representation of a system for the production of multi-part printed products according to another embodiment with two rotary outputs.
- FIGS. 1 and 2 show two different methods for applying RFID tags to flexible, flat products 2a, 2b, preferably to printed products.
- FIG. 1 shows how, for example, a 1-bit or multi-bit RFID tag 10a according to the invention is produced in a high-performance printing process II a, or subsequently to such a product 2 a directly on the product 2 a to be tagged, and in FIG a conveying direction F is promoted.
- the tag 10a is written to a writing station 12, preferably a read-write station, with at least 1-bit product and / or control information, such that the RFID tag 100 comprises the desired 1-bit information. This described or information-bearing state of the tag 100 is indicated as in the figure 1 by the sampling.
- FIG. 2 schematically shows how an RFID tagl Ob created separately by the printing process II b is mounted on a product 2 b by means of a workstation 13 and subsequently with the aid of a writing station 12, preferably with a read / write station 12, with at least one 1 Comprehensive product and / or control information is described. Based on the figure 2, it is understandable to those skilled in that by means of the workstation 13 also already described or provided with information tags can be attached to the products 2b.
- the tags T Oa 1 10b of FIGS. 1 and 2 have in common that they can be read and / or changed without contact and without visual contact between tag and read / write device in the further steps of print processing.
- the printed products are provided with 1-bit RFID tags directly in the high-performance printing process.
- the processing stations directly following the printing process at the interface for further processing are not absolutely necessary.
- FIG. 3 a shows a single product 2 which is provided with a described RFID tag 10 a, as can be produced, for example, in method steps according to FIG. 1.
- the RFID tags are restricted to individual products 2 of a product group. In this case, not every single product in a product flow along a conveyor line or a storage path is provided with an RFID tag, but an indexed product 2 with an RFID tag 100 is assigned one or more products 20 not provided with an RFID tag.
- I ⁇ dility of product groups can be activated by the leader in the conveying direction product arranged with RFID tag, a day-controlled processing station for all subsequent products until another provided with an RFID tag product deactivates the processing station.
- the product groups in the product stream can be composed regularly or have different sizes.
- FIG. 4 shows a frequency-amplitude diagram with various signals (resonance curves), as applied to a detection antenna of a read / write device, when the read / write device (RFID reader of the RFID system) at the frequency f 0 an interrogation signal with amplitude a 0 , depending on whether one or more RFID tags corresponding to the interrogation signal (of the RFID system) are located in a detection range of the antenna.
- the RFID tag has an antenna or a resonant circuit with a resonant frequency, which inductively couples with the frequency f 0 of the interrogation signal, so that in the detection area a response signal (with an amplitude ai) is present of the Abfragesig ⁇ al (with the amplitude a 0 ) differs by a detectable and / or circuitry technically evaluable difference ⁇ .
- the horizontal axis corresponds to the frequency f of the signal, the vertical axis to the amplitude a of the signal.
- the interrogation signal is not affected accordingly and the response signal is unaffected (and corresponds to the interrogation signal): resonance curve 401 with amplitude 410.
- an inductive coupling takes place, i. the RFID tag influences (attenuates) the interrogation signal and correspondingly the response signal or the amplitude of the response signal: resonance curve 402 with amplitude 420.
- the amplitude of the resonance curve 402 is reduced or attenuated compared to the resonance curve 401 by a difference 41 1.
- the resonance curves of the individual tags are superimposed and the response signal is reduced more than one day reduction, as indicated by the resonance curve 403 with amplitude 430 and a reduction by a difference 421.
- the number of RFID tags present in the reading area can be detected or checked. It can, for example, up to 50 Tags are recorded and thus counted when they are in the detection area of the RFID reader. This is indicated by the resonance curve 404 with amplitude 440.
- different tags can be designed so that they influence the interrogation signal to different degrees, for example, in that the antennas have more or fewer windings, different sizes or geometric shapes or different thicknesses of the conductor tracks of the antenna windings.
- different RFID tags can be detected or distinguished, in particular different 1-bit RFID tags, for example a first tag with a resonance curve 402 and amplitude 420, a second tag with resonance curve 403 with amplitude 430 and a third tag with resonance curve 404 with Amplitude 440, in each case compared to the interrogation signal with resonance curve 401 and amplitude 410.
- both 1-bit RFID tags and multi-bit RFID tags can be detected.
- no communications take place between the RFID reader and the RFID tag in the sense of entering or writing data into or out of the RFID reader or the RFID tag (data communication).
- the reduction or attenuation by the difference ⁇ (41 1, 421) of the interrogation signal by one or more RFID tags can be a few thousandths to several percent (of the interrogation signal), depending on the sensitivity of the detection device (detection circuit). Accordingly, the system sensitivity or system resolution is in the same range, so that with such an RFID system can distinguish and detect some 100 different states, this system states, in which up to several 100 RFID tags are simultaneously in the detection area or which until several 100 RFID tags are distinguished. Depending on the system resolution and the definition of threshold values, the exact number of RFID tags can also be determined and, for example, overwritten.
- a unit intended for delivery to a particular customer comprises a defined number of RFID tags or corresponding print products, eg exactly 50 newspapers and neither 49 nor 51 newspapers.
- the attenuation is measured, for example, by converting the possibly attenuated analog interrogation signal in an A / D converter (analog-to-digital converter) into a digital signal (the voltage value) and comparing it with a reference signal which corresponds to the unattenuated interrogation signal becomes.
- the sensitivity of the detection device taking into account the system noise and the environmental influences, is given by the resolution of the A / D converter.
- the attenuation can also be measured by directly comparing the possibly attenuated analog interrogation signal, possibly after attenuation or division, as an analog voltage value of a few volts in a comparator with the reference signal.
- the magnitude ratios correspond to the change (reduction, attenuation) of the interrogation signal in or on the detection antenna and the corresponding digital signal (of the voltage value) or the analog voltage value.
- the number of RFID tags or RFID tags with different resonance frequencies as for the system sensitivity of a few percent to several percent is in the same almost constant geometric conditions, in particular the distances between the RFID tags and the RFID reader.
- Typical frequency ranges for RFID systems (read / write devices with associated RFID tags) or for the frequency f 0 of the interrogation signal of the read / write device are the ISM frequency bands or ISM frequency ranges (Industrial-Scientifical-Medical) of 100-135 kHz, at 6.78 MHz, at 13.56 MHz, at 27.125 MHz, at 40.68 MHz, at 433.92 MHz 1 at 869 MHz, at 91 5 MHz 1 at 950 MHz, at 2.45 GHz and at 5.8 GHz.
- passive RFID tags that do not have their own power supply, such as a battery and powered by inductive coupling through the field of the interrogation signal of the read-write device, that the desired detection range is determined by the signal strength (output power) of the interrogation signal, depending on the size of the antenna or the resonant circuit of the RFID tag.
- the higher the frequency of the interrogation signal the greater the detection range. Since a detection range of less than 20 cm, preferably 1 to 10 cm, is generally desired, RFID systems with frequencies up to 50 MHz and with an upper detection range of up to 100 cm are used.
- a 13.56 MHz RFID system with an output power (of the interrogation signal) of 200 mW (about 20 dB ⁇ A / m @ 10m) under a detector with a diameter of about 10 cm has a detection range of 10 cm (according to the rule of thumb the diameter of the detection antenna corresponds approximately to the detection range).
- the amplitude monitoring method changes in the interrogation signal of a few tenths of a dB (0.01 to 0.05 dB) can be detected, ie response signals that differ at least 0.2 to 1 mW from the interrogation signal.
- the detection area must be spatially small; In general, in this case, the detection range of the size (the diameter) of the antenna or the resonant circuit of the RFID tags must correspond, further two print products must have a distance, which also at least the size (the diameter) of the antenna or the resonant circuit the RFID tags corresponds, but preferably have twice the distance.
- the detection range as well as the size of the detection antenna is a multiple of the size (diameter) of the antenna or the resonance circuit of a single RFID tag.
- the response signal is evaluated on a rolling basis by groups of 10 print products, each of which is within the detection range. If all 10 of the RFID tags assigned to the print products are detected by a first group, then this group is considered completely or correctly marked for, for example, control and monitoring purposes.
- the group is marked as incomplete or incorrectly marked and can be rejected or further investigated in a subsequent process or on a subsequent RFID reader to identify the missing RFID tag or to find the print product with the RFID tag, which was not detected, for example because of a wrong orientation.
- part of the print products or RFID tags of the first group can form part of the print products or RFID tags of the second group (rolling basis).
- Figure 5 shows a frequency-amplitude diagram with various signals (resonance curves) applied to the detection antenna of an RFID reader when the RFID reader emits an interrogation signal at the frequency f 0 , depending on whether one or how many RFID tags of a second type corresponding to the interrogation signal lie in the detection range of the RFID reader.
- an RFID tag of the second type modulates an auxiliary carrier (subcarrier) of the frequency f 1 to the frequency f 1 0 of the interrogation signal (carrier signal, carrier frequency). If no data communication takes place between the RFID reader and the RFID tag, the subcarrier is not modulated and / or coded. The subcarrier still influences the response signal: the subcarriers 520, 521 show up as sidebands with frequency f o + f, and f o -f, and is used to decide if there is an RFID tag in the detection area.
- the resonance curves and the subcarriers of the individual tags are superimposed.
- the result is a response signal with two subcarriers (520, 521, 530, 531) with sidebands at the frequencies f o + f "Mi, f o + f, and f o -f ,.
- the number of tags detectable in this way at the same time is basically defined by the minimum frequency difference of the subcarrier frequencies f 1 and f j, which are contained in a corresponding prior art detection circuit (with corresponding bitpass filters for the evaluation or detection of the optionally present analogue or digitized subcarriers ) can still be distinguished.
- the frequency difference of the subcarrier frequencies, and correspondingly the subcarrier frequency is multiples of, for example, about 13 kHz, about 26 kHz, about 53 kHz, about 106 kHz, or about 212 kHz, which are in one range from 9 to 18 MHz, ie in a range of + / ⁇ 4.5 MHz, preferably in a range of +/- 1 -5 MHz, around the carrier frequency.
- a subcarrier frequency of 106 kHz a distinction can be made in the preferred range of +/- 1.5 MHz to 15 RFID tags and, if necessary, detected simultaneously.
- FIGS. 6a to 6i it is intended to show possible applications according to the invention in which contact-free determination can be made as to which content or which products each clip carries and possible interaction of the RFID tags of the products held in a clip with the clip assigned to them.
- 6a to 6i each show a bracket K, K 1 , K "of a conveyor, here for example a staple transporter according to EP 330868, the conveyor itself being hidden for the sake of simplicity directed, in which everyone Clamp K 1 K ', K "from a preceding, unspecified processing means a group of two printed products should be transferred.
- Fig. 6a shows a clamp K of a conveyor in the form of a staple conveyor in which the product transfer functioned as intended and which in the process has received two products 2c and 2d and now holds them approximately centrally on the fold.
- the products 2c and 2d may be products according to product 2. Both products 2c and 2d are folded products and therefore each have a fold 22 and are both provided on an outer side of the product 2c, 2d near the gripping area of the clamp K near the fold each with an RFID tag 100.
- the product 2c is drawn in the region of its RFID tag 100 in partial section so that the RFID tag 100 of the second product 2d is visible.
- the RFID tag may be an active or passive RFID tag, which in the case of the latter has at least one antenna.
- each clip holds exactly two products 2c, 2d, it will detect the presence of two products in the clip.
- the bracket K has been pulled along with the product arrangement shown in FIG. 6 on a writing station or write reading station 12 which is substantially stationary relative to the bracket K and which subsequently has an answer signal C (according to FIG. 4) with the amplitude ac produced.
- the system, or at least the read-write station was previously programmed so that a Antwig-ig ⁇ al C of the presence of two products is generated and this clip K therefore recognized as correctly filled.
- the response signal can now be read out from the RFID tag or the RFID tags by means of a correspondingly formed reading station or read-write station and to a higher-level control system and / or to a conveyor, in the present case to the just tested bracket K (as in FIG 6a) can be handed over by another writing station or the same station designed as a writing / reading station converting this response signal C, for example, into 1-bit information and passing or communicating it to another RFID tag 200, which is assigned to each bracket K. is.
- bracket K is thus informed that it is a duplicate of products 2c, 2d summarizes and may later pass or use this information, for example, for later use as will be described with reference to FIG.
- the further RFID tag 200 preferably designed as an erasable and rewritable RFID tag, of the bracket K
- the readout of the information from the further RFID tag 200 of the bracket K, K 1 , K is also more independent of the conveying speed of the conveyor, whereby information in buffer sections with lower conveyor speeds can be read out just as well as in regular conveyor lines with a higher conveyor speed.
- the RFID tags assigned to the products 2c, 2d contain further information about specific properties of the products 2c, 2d, for example if it is a region-specific partial product, also referred to as regional parts.
- region-specific partial product also referred to as regional parts.
- the bracket K, K ', K "are probably kept only two identical products 2c, 2d, it is quite possible that the products 2c and 2d are not identical, region-specific partial products and this information also in different information the respective RFID tag 100. If such information is to be given to the respective parenthesis, in this case the bracket K, this would also be possible, for example, as multi-bit information.
- Fig. 6b shows a bracket K 1 , in which the product transfer did not work as intended and which therefore has received only one of the two products 2c, 2d. Since there is only a single product in a bracket K ', a stronger response signal B with amplitude a % was generated at the read-write station 12, and the loading of the bracket K' is recognized as erroneous in comparison with the response signal A, which is present as an internal target information, as indicated in Figure 6b.
- the response signal can now be transferred again to a higher-level control system and / or to the just tested bracket K (as shown in FIG. 6b), in that the further writing station converts this response signal B, for example into 1-bit information, and one of the Clamp K 1 assigned RFID tag 200 passes.
- 6c shows a clamp K "in which the product transfer did not work as intended and which therefore received three products 2c, 2d, 2e
- the incorrect loading of the clamp K" with three products 2c, 2d, 2e is determined by the writing Lesestatio ⁇ 12 detected because it generates too much attenuated response signal D with the amplitude ao.
- the response signal of this type can be used further as described above.
- the products 2f, 2g, 2h shown in FIGS. 6d to 6f are each on the outside of the product 2f, 2g, 2h in the region of a free one Side edge 24 near the fold, each provided with an RFID tag 100.
- the products are shown partially cut away. To ensure that each clip holds exactly two products 2g, 2f, detection of the presence of two products in each clip is again performed.
- the sequence in the state shown in FIG. 6d corresponds to the state already described with reference to FIG. 6a.
- the write-read station 12 in the case where the products 2f, 2g, 2h are different products, a superimposed signal from the individual RFID tags 100 of the respective products 2f, 2g, 2h reads out, evaluates it and feeds this information as 1-bit information to the further RFID tag 200 of the respective bracket K 1 K 1 , K "and / or a higher-level system.
- a product and / or control information of a product is not communicated to that element of an aid or conveying means, which is associated with the product with the information just read, but a this element - seen in the conveying direction F - advance current element of this funding.
- the term aid is used below as an umbrella term of a device such as a conveyor and the term of the conveyor is again used as an umbrella term, for example for a staple conveyor.
- the period of time where a product is close to a stationary object is very short.
- a control information of a product which is held in the bracket K, read at a reading station 1 2 and entered by means of a downstream writing station 12a in the memory of an RFID tag of a bracket K x , which by five clamps downstream in the conveying direction F away from the clamp K is arranged on the same conveyor.
- a diverter 62 can be informed in advance of five clamping distances in advance that it has to change its diverter tongue into a different position when the clamp K arrives at it.
- the pre-information can be used, for example, to save time-consuming switching Operations are initiated in good time before the arrival of the product in question at this switch 62.
- the signal read out is fed back as information via a writing station to an RFID tag of a product.
- FIG. 7a a product flow which is transported by means of an auxiliary means in the form of a staple transporter in the conveying direction F is outlined.
- the brackets K, K ', K "itself and the basic information input and read-out process, as well as the possibility that product information can be transferred to the respective brackets as required, is at this point on 6a to 6c and the same product designations are used again for this purpose ..
- the sequence of clamps correctly loaded with two products 2c, 2d each there are two incorrectly loaded clamps K 1 and K ".
- the staple K ' is loaded with only one product 2c while the staple K "has one product 2e too much If staple K' where a product is missing reaches a control position at the read or write substantially stationary relative to the staples Reading station 12, as shown in Figure 7b, the absence of a product in the bracket K 'is detected and generates an error message ei, which is preferably reported via a signal line L to a subsequent processing unit or a higher-level control system with a surplus product loaded bracket K "the read-write device 12, as shown in the figure 7c, the faulty loading ⁇ 3 is detected at the weak A ⁇ twortsignal D.
- the generated response signal not only provides the information as to whether a clip is loaded incorrectly, but also provides information about the number of products in the clip by means of the intensity of the response signal.
- the turn upstream read-write device 12 has read the information from the products 30, 32 of this bracket K and in the present case the response signal via a writing station of the RFID tag (not shown in the figure) of the bracket K passed.
- the clamp K knows for subsequent processing that it is filled correctly.
- a subsequent read-write device 12 can read this information again.
- the bracket K ' has received only the main product 30. This information was recorded by the reader 12 and also assigned to the bracket K ', therefore, the bracket K' knows that it is not filled correctly and appropriate action can be taken in time to prevent such incomplete products from being processed. Although the staple K "has received both the main product 30 and the subproduct 32, these are only in an undesired relative position to one another since the sub-product fold 36 of the sub-product 32 faces away from the main product fold 34 of the main product 30.
- the staple K '" has not been filled correctly because it now holds one main product 30 and two sub-products 32 whose part product fold 36 lies in the main product fold 34.
- the read / write unit 12 positioned as described above read the response signal from the RFID Tags 100 of the main product 30, as well as the two RFID tags 200 of the sub-product 32, as a modulated, common response signal and generated in the sequence a Wegig- ⁇ al, which as described above the relevant bracket K "'was passed.
- the staple K "" has also not been filled correctly, because it contains a wrong further sub-product 38, which, although arranged like a correctly oriented sub-product 32 in the main product 30. Therefore, the read / write unit 12 read out the response signal of the RFID tag 100 of the main product 30, as well as that of the RFID tag 200a of the further sub-product 38, and subsequently generated an error signal, which as described above parenthesis K "".
- the read / write devices can be attached with great freedom of choice at a suitable point in the further processing system, for example along a conveyor device. Since no visual contact between reader and RFID tags is necessary, can the tags on each side of the product - as in the case shown in Fig. 8 - be mounted inne ⁇ liege ⁇ d, and there is no need to open, isolate, cropping or otherwise treating the products when reading and / or writing, which is a decisive advantage over represents optical control method
- FIGS. 9a and 9b each show a scale flow of products 2, which are conveyed in a conveying direction F.
- the dashed arrow indicates that it is irrelevant for the subsequent inspection if the conveying direction is in the opposite direction.
- the RFID tags 100 of the products 2 are exposed or are covered by other products. Since the RFID tags 100 are arranged in the region of a free side edge 24 of the products 2, the antenna of the read-write device 12 is also arranged in this area, in which the RFID tags 100 are normally located.
- an antenna of a further read-write device 12a is arranged at a further free side edge 24a of the products, which is normally opposite the free side edge 24
- Fig. 9a all products are oriented as desired in the scale flow, which is why the read-write device 12, the signal each RFID tag 100 can read while the read-write device 12a receives no signal because there is no RFID tag in his Read range is located.
- the read / write device 12 can also detect when a product in the conveying direction F is oriented correctly, but it is compared to the However, intended transverse orientation would be oriented upside down, for example, by its flower 26, instead of its fold 22 seen in the conveying direction F or runs behind. This would result in the read / write device 12 reading out a superimposed signal from two or more RFID tags 100 and generating an error message.
- the leading product 2a is misaligned with respect to the other trailing products 2 and other products.
- the further read-write device 12a receives an A ⁇ twortsignal and generates an error message.
- the two write / read devices 12 and 12a control each other.
- the person skilled in the art recognizes that the teaching according to the invention can be analogously also applied to the case where the read / write device 12 itself generates an error message due to a missing response signal in the preceding product 2 itself. The error message can subsequently be used as control information.
- any error messages relating to incorrect product orientation to the respective RFID tags 100 of such incorrectly oriented products 2a from the same read / write device 12 or a downstream read / write device for influencing the further processing of the respective misoriented product is returned by writing this information to the memory of that RFID tag.
- the product information and / or control information and / or further information such as specific addressee information during print further processing, for example by means of a read or write reading station on the / the memory of the RFID tag of a specific product or sub-product or of all products or sub-products.
- FIGS. 10a to 10c A further application according to the invention is to be illustrated with reference to FIGS. 10a to 10c.
- such sub-products for the printing industry are often supplied by external suppliers.
- the partial products 32, 32a, 32b, as shown in Fig. 10a to each other and with the help of end face of such a stack arranged end pieces 42, hereinafter referred to Brettchen 42, and a strapping 44 to a so-called rod 40 held together (see Fig. 10b ).
- rods 40 there is a risk that the rod may be misaligned into further processing, for example, as shown in Fig. 14, so that its partial products are side-turned or upside-down in the final assembled product lie.
- the supplier in the future provides all sub-products 32, 32a, 32b with RFID tags
- the information contained in these RFID tags can continue to be used for control and quality assurance during the smuggling into the subsequent collating process.
- the bar edge 46 and / or the bar edges 46a, 46b of the rod 40 of FIG. 10b shown in simplified form in FIG. 10c are moved along with a mobile or stationary read / write device 12 in order to advance the bar 40 into the further processing To perform control of the orientation of the partial products.
- the write / read device 12 at the bar edge 46b false response signals from the wrong or wrong read-oriented partial products 32a, 32b and it can be taken in good time appropriate precautions in the further processing.
- the writing / reading device 12 travels along the edge 46b of the bar, no response signal is read in, which is why the incorrect composition of the partial products shown in FIG. 10a is not detected.
- the RFID tags 300 may be actively responding RFID tags 300, each including an antenna and a chip operatively connected thereto.
- the person skilled in the art likewise transfers the teaching according to the invention to the case where only the board surfaces 42 of a bar 40 are provided with an RFID tag 300, but not the partial products themselves.
- the strapping 44 itself is provided with an RFID tag.
- a further application of the invention is purely schematically illustrated by way of example.
- the read / write station 12 receives the memory 10b of the single or multi-bit RFID tag 10b Half-product 2b to be written information from a higher-level control system 50. Since the subsequent further processing steps are not important for understanding this application, they are only referred to as further processing devices 52, 54.
- the further processing device 52 can be, for example, a collection drum of the applicant, with which a processing cadence of 40'0OO to over 80'0OO products per hour can be achieved, while the further processing device 54 is formed for example by a cutting drum of the Applicant.
- the material flow of the products is stylized with arrows only for the sake of simplicity.
- the products 2 are discharged to the processing device 52, they are conveyed along a further read-write station 12a and intermediately stored, for example, on a so-called winding 56 until they are further used or inter-processed in a device not described in greater detail.
- the read / write station 12a forwards the information about the response signal of each product provided with an RFID tag, whose RFID tag is within the range of its antenna, to the higher-level control system 50, so that the latter knows at all times which product. or partial product - has been diverted or discharged from the supply line to the further processing device 54. From the flow chart shown in Fig. 1 1 is further seen that when returning or introducing the previously discharged products these along a further read-write station 12b the individual product information of the RFID tags are forwarded accordingly online to the higher-level control system 50 so that the Product flow is always substantially fully monitored.
- such a discharge is particularly suitable for the intermediate storage of partial products such as bundles of a newspaper, which are only needed again when compiling the newspaper.
- the RFID tags on the products can control aids such as switches 62, 62a themselves or these are also controlled by the higher-level control system 50.
- the input and output can be made in the so-called real-time mode and it is irrelevant whether the RFI D tags carry so-called single or multi-bit information. For example, it is possible for products to be added and removed several times before they are processed into a final product.
- FIGS. 12a and 12b A further application according to the invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 12a and 12b.
- Two different main products 30, 30a have previously been marked in the region of the fold 22 and the free side edge 24 with correspondingly different RFID tags 100 and 200, respectively, and are now transported in the conveying direction F along further processing stations 52, 54.
- These further processing stations 52, 54 are formed in this case by investors 52, 54, which different sub-products 32, 32a, for example region-specific partial products 32, 32a, insert sheets, postcards and / or advertising patterns or the like depending on the readout signal of the corresponding main products 30, 32 in this pocketing.
- the RFID tags 200 of the leading products 30a solve during transport along the write-read station 12, which is associated with the feeder 52, no signal, which is why no feed with a partial product 32 takes place, however, recognizes the other read-write station 12a the leading products 30a
- Insertion is only shown symbolically in FIGS. 12a and 12b and therefore takes place from below in the illustrated arrangement , While in Fig. 12a a series of leading first products 30a followed by a series of second products 30 are shown, the products 30, 30a in Fig. 12b are arbitrarily mixed.
- the correct detection of the respective read-out signals at the read-write stations 12, 12a still lead to the desired result.
- a decisive advantage of the invention is that the individualized collation of main and partial products 30, 30a, 32, 32a without direct tax instruction. tion of a higher-level control system can only be reliably controlled based on the information contained in the RFID tag.
- the teaching according to the invention can also be transferred to the case where the partial products lie with their folds 36 on saddles and further partial products and / or a main product are placed astride it, for example during collection and, for example, a stitching station, a control station, a gluing station, a filming station, a cutting station, an addressing station, a packaging station or the like.
- the various RFID tags 100 and 200 of the region-specific subproducts 32, 32a control their further course as another possible application according to the invention for controlling a follow-up operation in the sense of the application facility described with reference to FIG they are read out from the read-write station 12, which causes a switch 62 to pass in a first direction A or in a second direction B, respectively.
- the unfilled and filled main products are conveyed in the conveying direction F with a conveying means not described in more detail.
- the insertion is also shown only symbolically in FIG. 13 and therefore takes place from below in the illustrated arrangement. In contrast to FIGS.
- a loop 64 in the conveying path indicates that the main products 60, for example, pass through further processing steps, not described in further detail, between the feeder station 54 and the feeder station 52 and / or buffered and / or discharged and then discharged again become.
- various subproducts 32, 32a are added by them to a main product. ordered investors 52, 54 collected or plugged.
- these are now neutral main products 60, which only become a final product by subsequent loading with either one or the other partial product 32 or 32a.
- FIG. 14 is intended to serve as a highly schematic example of a complex plant for the production of complex printed products.
- the dot-dash lines indicate conveying paths in a conveying direction F.
- the production processes II a, II b can be, for example, high-performance printing machines which already apply certain RFID tags directly to the partial or main products as required.
- the further processing devices 56, 56a are formed, for example, by winding devices. Further downstream the products of switches 62, 62a according to their data stored in the RFID tag information subsequent further processing devices, such as investors 52, fed to 54 which may contain 1 4oe in turn a plurality of partial products from a plurality of rods 40, 4Oa 1 40b, 40c, 4OD. Subsequently, the end products are prepared for shipping, for example, in further processing devices formed by shipping devices 66, 66a. The entire product flow can be controlled and / or controlled either via the products themselves or via a higher-level control unit, not shown.
- Reading station writing station, read-write station 12, 12a
- Another RFID tag 300 is Another RFID tag 300.
- winding 56, 56a Further processing device, winding 56, 56a
- Another information-bearing RFID tag 200, 200a, 200b is Another information-bearing RFID tag 200, 200a, 200b.
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