JP2011008498A - Ic tag adapter and power supply tap device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more efficiently execute a system using an IC tag without embedding an IC tag in an existing apparatus plug.SOLUTION: The IC tag adapter includes: plug blade slots where plug blades of the apparatus plug are inserted; the IC tag in which information is written; and adapter blades each having a shape corresponding to the plug blade of the apparatus plug, to be inserted into the plug blade slot of a power supply tap. A power supply tap device includes the IC tag adapters and the power supply tap, and the power supply tap includes plug blade slots for the IC tag adapters and IC tag readers. When the adapter blades of the IC tag adapter are inserted in the plug blade slots of the power supply tap while the plug blades of the apparatus plug are installed in the plug blade slots of the IC tag adapter, information written in the IC tag of the IC tag adapter can be read by the IC tag reader.

Description

  The present invention relates to an IC tag adapter and a power strip device.

  Conventionally, it is possible to remotely control the state of home appliances such as fans, heaters, air conditioners, refrigerators, microwave ovens, TVs, etc. from outside the house, for example, using a mobile communication terminal or using a personal computer installed in the house Such a system is known (for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2). In such a system, the current situation is that it is not widely used because it requires work such as wiring or setting of a program or the like, which takes a lot of troublesome work. Therefore, the applicant of the present application is studying a system for remotely controlling the state of a device connected to a power strip without requiring complicated operations and labor such as setting of software for wiring and control. In the course of this study, Patent Document 3 was disclosed which disclosed a power plug incorporating an IC tag (ID tag) storing identification information sent to the power outlet side.

JP 2004-215131 A JP 2004-214937 A JP2008-270075

  However, in the plug disclosed in Patent Document 3, it is necessary to individually incorporate an IC tag, and in reality, it is difficult to incorporate it in an existing plug.

  Therefore, the problem to be solved by the present invention is to eliminate the necessity of incorporating an IC tag into an existing device plug and to implement the above system more efficiently.

  An IC tag adapter according to the present invention includes a plug blade insertion port of an equipment plug, an adapter blade that is electrically connected to the plug blade insertion port and can be inserted into a plug blade insertion port of a power strip, And a writable IC tag.

  It is preferable that the IC tag can be rewritten by an IC tag writer.

  A power strip device according to the present invention includes an IC tag adapter and a power strip. The IC tag adapter is electrically connected to a plug blade insertion port of a device plug and the plug blade insertion port, and has a power source. An adapter blade that can be inserted into the plug blade insertion slot of the tap and an IC tag capable of writing information, and the power strip includes a plug blade insertion slot and an IC tag reader When the adapter blade of the IC tag adapter is inserted into the plug blade insertion port of the power strip, the information written in the IC tag of the IC tag adapter can be read by the IC tag reader. It is characterized by this.

  As described above, in the present invention, when the plug blade of the device plug is inserted into the plug blade insertion port of the IC tag / adapter, the adapter blade of the IC tag / adapter is inserted into the plug blade insertion port of the power strip. The information written in the IC tag of the IC tag adapter can be read by the IC tag reader.

  Therefore, in a system equipped with an equipment plug, a power strip, and an IC tag and an IC tag reader between them, there is no need to bother incorporating an IC tag into an existing equipment plug, and the system is implemented more efficiently. Will be able to.

  According to the present invention, there is no need to bother incorporating an IC tag into an existing device plug, and a system using the IC tag can be implemented more efficiently.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a schematic configuration of a power strip device according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is an enlarged view showing a main part of FIG. FIG. 3 is an enlarged view showing the configuration of the IC tag adapter. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the configuration of another power strip device. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the configuration of the IC tag system.

  Hereinafter, an IC tag adapter and a power strip device according to embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 shows a schematic configuration of a power strip device, FIG. 2 shows an enlarged main part of FIG. 1, and FIG. 3 shows an enlarged configuration of an IC tag adapter. Referring to these drawings, 1 is a device, 3 is a device plug, 5 is an IC tag adapter, 7 is a power strip, 9 is a programmable controller, and 11 is a wall outlet. The IC tag adapter 5 and the power strip 7 constitute a power strip device 13.

  Each said apparatus 1 is apparatuses, such as an air-conditioner, a fan heater, a television, a personal computer, for example. Each of these devices 1 is integrally provided with a device plug 3. There are various forms of the device plug 3, but any form can be included. The device plug 3 includes a pair of plug blades 3a at the tip.

  Each of the IC tag / adapter 5 is provided with a pair of plug blade insertion ports 5a into which the plug blade 3a of the device plug 3 can be inserted, and a shape corresponding to the plug blade 3a of the device plug 3. A pair of adapter blades 5b that can be inserted into the plug blade insertion port 7a of the tap 7 are provided, and an IC tag 5c capable of writing information is provided therein.

  In the IC tag / adapter 5, the inner wall of the plug blade insertion port 5a is made of a conductive material, and the plug blade 3a of the device plug 3 inserted into the plug blade insertion port 5a is connected to the plug blade insertion port 5a. Conductive contact can be made with the conductive material on the inner wall. Further, the inner wall of the plug blade insertion port 5a and the adapter blade 5b are connected by, for example, an electric wiring 5d. The form of electrical connection between the inner wall of the plug blade insertion port 5a and the adapter blade 5b is not particularly limited. Thus, the plug blade 3a of the device plug 3 inserted into the plug blade insertion port 5a is electrically connected to the adapter blade 5b.

  The IC tag 5c built in the IC tag / adapter 5 is called by a name such as an electronic tag, a wireless tag, a wireless IC tag, an RF tag, an electronic tag, and an electronic price tag, but is not limited to the name. The IC tag 5c may be a battery built-in type active tag, but a passive tag that receives radio waves from an IC tag reader and generates electromotive force from the received radio waves is preferable. This passive tag shortens the communication distance, eliminates the influence of radio waves between adjacent IC tags and IC tag readers, and is inexpensive and preferable for long-term use.

  The power tap 7 has a plurality of pairs of two plug blade insertion ports 7a. The adapter blade 5b of the IC tag / adaptor 5 or the plug blade 3a of the device plug 3 can be inserted into each plug blade insertion port 4a. Therefore, the device plug 3 can be indirectly connected to the power tap 7 by inserting the plug blade 3 a into the plug blade insertion port 5 a of the IC tag adapter 5, and the plug blade insertion port 7 a of the power tap 7. And can be connected directly to the power strip 7. The connection can be arbitrarily selected by the user. As is well known, the power tap 7 has a plug 7e, and when the plug 7e is inserted into the wall outlet 11, power is supplied.

  The power tap 7 is provided with an IC tag reader 7b corresponding to each plug blade insertion port 7a. The power strip 7 further includes a wireless communication unit 7c for processing the output of each IC tag / reader 7b in the form of wireless communication data, and a wireless antenna 7d for transmitting the output of the wireless communication unit 7c is provided outside. ing.

  When the plug blade 5b of the IC tag adapter 5 is inserted into each plug blade insertion port 7a of the power strip 7, the IC tag 5c in the IC tag adapter 5 is the IC tag reader in the power strip 7. Power is obtained from 7b, and the internal storage information is transmitted to the IC tag reader 7b by radio waves. In this case, as shown by the phantom arrow 14 in FIG. 3, the IC tag 5c and the IC tag reader 7b correspond to each other in a one-to-one relationship for each plug insertion port 7a, and adjacent IC tags. 5c does not correspond to the IC tag reader 7b.

  Thus, the IC tag reader 7b arranged in the vicinity of each plug insertion port 7a reads the information written in the IC tag 5c from the radio wave transmitted from the IC tag 5c of each IC tag adapter 5 to perform wireless communication. To the unit 7c. The wireless communication unit 7c processes the information read by each IC tag reader 7b into a form capable of wireless communication, and then outputs the information to the wireless antenna 7d. The wireless antenna 7 d transmits this information to the wireless antenna 9 a of the programmable controller 9. Thus, the IC tag 5c in the IC tag adapter 5 and the IC tag reader 7b in the power strip 7 constitute an IC tag system.

  The programmable controller 9 can receive the above information by the wireless antenna 9a and can control each device 1 according to the received information. As a form of this control, the programmable controller 9 can identify a device connected to the power strip 7 from the IC tag information and control the device.

  In FIG. 4, an IC tag reader 15 a may be provided in the wall outlet 15, and the IC tag adapter 5 may be inserted into the wall outlet 15. In this case, the wall outlet 15 may be provided with a wireless antenna 15 b so that communication data between the IC tag 5 c of the IC tag adapter 5 and the IC tag reader 15 a of the wall outlet 15 can be transmitted to the programmable controller 9.

  FIG. 5 shows a schematic configuration of the IC tag system. The IC tag system in the embodiment is composed of an IC tag 5 c in the IC tag adapter 5 and an IC tag reader 7 b in the power strip 7. In this case, although not shown in detail, the IC tag 5c includes an antenna coil and a semiconductor chip on a substrate, and the semiconductor chip includes a storage unit for writing information, a controller for wireless communication, and the like. As shown in FIG. 5, an IC tag reader / writer 7 c is arranged on the power strip 7. The IC tag reader / writer 7c includes a radio wave transmission / reception unit 7c1 and a controller 7c2. When write information is input to the IC tag reader / writer 7c from the personal computer 17 to the IC tag 5c in the IC tag adapter 5, the IC tag reader / writer 7c writes information to the IC tag 5c. . Of course, information may be written to the IC tag 5c by an IC tag writer instead of the power strip 7.

  As described above, the power strip device 13 according to the present embodiment includes the IC tag adapter 5 and the power strip 7, and the plug blade 3 a of the device plug 3 is inserted into the plug blade insertion port 5 a of the IC tag adapter 5. When the adapter blade 5b of the IC tag / adapter 5 is inserted into the plug blade insertion port 7a of the power tap 7 in the mounted state, the IC tag / cable 5c of the IC tag / adapter 5 is obtained by the IC tag / reader 7b. It is possible to read the information written in the device, so that it is not necessary to have an IC tag built in the existing device plug 3 and the system using the IC tag can be implemented more efficiently. it can.

1 Device 3 Device Plug 5 IC Tag / Adapter 5a Plug Blade Insertion Port 5b Adapter Blade 5c IC Tag 7 Power Tap 7a Plug Blade Insertion Port 7b IC Tag Reader

Claims (3)

Plug blade insertion port of the equipment plug,
An adapter blade that is electrically connected to the plug blade insertion port and can be inserted into the plug blade insertion port of the power strip;
An IC tag capable of writing information;
IC tag adapter characterized by having.   2. The IC tag adapter according to claim 1, wherein information can be rewritten by the IC tag writer. IC tag adapter,
A power strip, and
The IC tag adapter is the IC tag adapter according to claim 1 or 2,
The power strip includes a plug blade insertion slot and an IC tag reader. When the adapter blade of the IC tag adapter is inserted into the plug blade insertion slot of the power strip, the IC tag reader A power strip device capable of reading information written on an IC tag of a tag adapter.

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