An implantable device comprising a core portion and a capsule encapsulating the core portion, said capsule having an outer surface, wherein at least a portion of the outer surface comprises gold.

A structure for wireless communication having a plurality of conductor layers, an insulator layer separating each of the conductor layers, and at least one connector connecting two of the conductor layers wherein an electrical resistance is reduced when an electrical signal is induced in the resonator at a predetermined frequency. The structure is capable of transmitting or receiving electrical energy and/or data at various near and far field magnetic coupling frequencies.

A contactless transponder includes an autonomous power supply and a non-volatile memory device. In a first mode of operation, an apparatus external to the transponder transmits to the transponder, according to a contactless communication protocol, module command information associated with a module external to the transponder and module data information relating to data to be written to or to be read from the module. The transponder stores the module command information and module data information in a first area of the non-volatile memory device. In response to an activation signal, the transponder autonomously communicates, according to a first communication protocol, with the module by using the module command information and module data information.

In an embodiment, a system includes a contactless reader and an apparatus. The apparatus includes a contactless transponder including a contactless interface and a transponder wired interface and being configured to communicate with a contactless reader according to a contactless protocol through the contactless interface. The apparatus includes a bus coupled to the transponder wired interface, and at least one module coupled to the bus, the at least one module including a processing circuit, the contactless reader being configured to communicate instructions of a software program executable by the processing circuit to the at least one module through the contactless transponder.

An operation of calibrating the object using a reference reader is performed, the calibration operation including an operation of placing the reference reader at various distances away from the object that correspond to various values of a parameter within the object that is representative of the intensity of the signal received by the object, and, for each distance, an operation of determining an internal phase-shift compensation in the object with respect to a nominal internal phase shift, making it possible to obtain a load modulation amplitude that is higher, in terms of absolute value, than a threshold, and an operation of storing a lookup table of the various values of the parameter and the corresponding internal phase-shift compensations.

There is described a method of determining an initial transmission phase offset in an NFC device configured to operate in NFC card mode only, wherein the NFC device comprises an NFC chip and a matching circuit. The method comprises: determining an initial RF matching resonance frequency of the NFC device utilizing an internal oscillator of the NFC chip; reading correction data from a non-volatile memory of the NFC chip, the correction data being indicative of a frequency offset of the internal oscillator relative to a nominal oscillator frequency; determining a corrected RF matching resonance frequency of the NFC device based on the initial RF matching resonance frequency and the correction data; and determining the initial transmission phase offset based on the corrected RF matching resonance frequency. Furthermore, a device and a method of manufacturing an NFC device are described.

The present invention relates to visible components with a functional coating in the interior and exterior of motor vehicles and a method for the production thereof.

A sewer inspection and/or maintenance system includes a base unit and at least one system component which can be arranged on the base unit, wherein a transponder is arranged on the system component, and a reading device is arranged on the base unit, wherein the transponder is adapted to provide data identifying the system component, and the reading device is adapted to receive the data provided by the transponder from the transponder without contact or to read them out from the transponder without contact.

Disclosed in the present application are a backscatter transmitter and a signal transmission method, relating to the field of mobile communication. The backscatter transmitter comprises a processor, a receiving antenna, a transmitting antenna, and a keying switch; the processor is used for controlling the connection path between the receiving antenna and the transmitting antenna by means of controlling the keying switch; the receiving antenna is used for receiving a first radio frequency signal; the connection path is used for modulating the phase of the first radio frequency signal to obtain a modulated second radio frequency signal; and the transmitting antenna is used for transmitting the second radio frequency signal. Thus, provided is a novel backscatter transmitter that does not require the arrangement of a mixer and is capable of implementing modulation of the phase of a radio frequency signal by means of only the connection path between the receiving antenna and the transmitting antenna; the structure is simple, the implementation principles are simple, and there is no need for excessive power consumption. The processor can adjust the connection path between the receiving antenna and the transmitting antenna by means of controlling the keying switch, being highly flexible.

A method includes providing an ensemble of distributed sensors, delivering radio frequency (RF) power to each sensor by inductive near-field coupling by a magnetic field projected by an epidermal transmit (Tx) coil, in each individual sensor, detecting a sparse binary event in its immediate environment, reporting the detected sparse binary event to an external RF receiver hub asynchronously and with low latency, and minimizing error rates due to statistical data packet collisions in asynchronous telemetry by digitally encoding each sensor according to a particular address scheme where each address is one function from an infinite set of mathematically orthogonal functions, enabling a simultaneous detection from up to ten thousand points without interference at a common receiver.