WO2010071611A1 - Method for a battery and passive power supply to an rfid tag and a switching circuit for carrying out said method - Google Patents

Method for a battery and passive power supply to an rfid tag and a switching circuit for carrying out said method Download PDF

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WO2010071611A1
WO2010071611A1 PCT/SI2009/000066 SI2009000066W WO2010071611A1 WO 2010071611 A1 WO2010071611 A1 WO 2010071611A1 SI 2009000066 W SI2009000066 W SI 2009000066W WO 2010071611 A1 WO2010071611 A1 WO 2010071611A1
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Kosta Kovacic
Anton Pletersek
Andrej Vodopivec
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  • the invention concerns a method for battery and passive power supply to a RFID tag, which is provided with a battery and situated in a radio-frequency radiation field, and to a switching circuit for carrying out said method. Yet the subject matter of the invention is primarily devoted to be used in RFID tags provided with one or several sensors for acquisition of magnitudes of some of the physical quantities related to a tagged article.
  • An RFID tag is also used to acquire magnitudes of physical quantities related to the interior or the surface of a tagged article, to acquire its temperature or illuminance, pressure or humidity, to which the article is exposed, as well as magnitudes of other physical quantities.
  • RFID tags are provided with one or several adequate sensors.
  • An individual sensor can be built into an integrated circuit of the RFID tag or is an external sensor with respect to said integrated circuit of the RFID tag.
  • an RFID tag called data logger carries out measurement, analogue-to-digital conversion of the measuring result and stores digital data in its nonvolatile memory.
  • a temperature history profile for example, is very important especially during transportation and storage when the tagged article is food article, medicament, human organ and so forth.
  • a battery supply in such RFID tag is used for measuring, analogue-to-digital conversion, storing digital data in a nonvolatile memory as well as for reading data herefrom. Such RFID tag is discarded after the battery has been depleted and the data stored in the nonvolatile memory get lost.
  • Ohmic voltage drop across the diode is added hereto, which depends on the diode resistance and the current therethrough.
  • an RFID tag with a sensor which normally also uses power of induced voltage, but data stored in a nonvolatile memory may be lost in this RFID tag, if a battery unexpectedly gets depleted during recording a profile (WO 2007/145911 A2). Certain information can also get lost in a divided supply, wherein one part of tag circuits is supplied by the battery and the other part by induced voltage (WO 01/84518).
  • the problem of the invention is to suggest such method of the invention for battery and passive power supply to a RFID tag, which is provided with a battery and situated in a radio-frequency radiation field, and such controlled switching circuit for carrying out said method that power will be supplied only by the battery as long as it still has enough energy, wherein voltage drop across said controlled switching circuit during said power supply should be as negligible as possible.
  • the invention provides for an automatic selection of a way of supplying a RFID tag in a way that it is stably supplied by a battery as long as possible, according according to the very invention this is rendered possible for a longer time due to a very low voltage drop across a controlled switching circuit, and that a supply by a radio-frequency radiation field is selected only when the battery gets depleted.
  • Fig. 1 a schematic presentation of an integrated circuit of the invention of an
  • Fig. 2 the switching circuit of the invention for carrying out said method of the invention for the battery power supply and the passive power supply to an
  • An integrated circuit tic according to the invention of an RFID tag is schematically presented in Fig. 1 together with a battery b and an antenna a being power sources supplying it. Arrows show energy flows.
  • the supply power is fed to a controlled switching circuit esc on the one hand by the battery b at a voltage Vbat and on the other hand by a radio analogue module ram at the voltage Vrect.
  • the RFID tag Since the invention deals with a two-way supply to the RFID tag, the RFID tag is supposed to be situated in an interrogator radio-frequency radiation field, which induces voltage in the antenna a. Said voltage is rectified in the radio analogue module ram.
  • the main part of power extracted from said radio-frequency radiation field is fed to the controlled switching circuit esc and a part of said extracted power is fed to a radio digital module rdm.
  • the energy flow at the supply voltage Vps from an output ps (Fig. 2) of the controlled switching circuit esc is fed to an analogue measuring circuit amc comprising, among other things, also one or several sensors, and to a control and memory circuit cmc.
  • a method of the invention for battery and passive power supply to an RFID tag, provided by a battery and situated in the interrogator radio-frequency radiation field is carried out in the following way.
  • a value of the battery voltage Vbat is checked whenever the battery b is connected to the integrated circuit tic of the RFID tag or the rectified voltage Vrect induced in the antenna a due to the radio-frequency radiation field reaching a preset value. Then a battery type ( 1.5 V or 3 V) is determined at the same time as well and a sensor circuit is adjusted.
  • the analogue measuring circuit amc and the control and memory circuit cmc in the RFID tag are supplied through the controlled switching circuit esc by the battery b.
  • the instantaneous battery voltage Vbat drops across the controlled switching circuit esc by a voltage drop across an open PMOS transistor in the amount of several millivolts; said circuits amc and cmc are fed at the supply voltage Vps determined as mentioned here.
  • said circuits amc and cmc of the RFID tag start energizing by a rectifier (not shown) rectifying said induced voltage and being contained in the radio analogue module ram through the controlled switching circuit esc.
  • the instantaneous voltage Vrect at a rectifier output also drops across the controlled switching circuit esc by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor in the amount of several millivolts; in this case said circuits amc and cmc are fed at the supply voltage Vps determined as mentioned here.
  • Said time delay is selected to range from 5 microseconds to 500 microseconds. When selecting said time delay it should be considered that switching performed within a short switching time consumes more energy. The most adequate time delay turns out to range from 10 microseconds to 100 microseconds.
  • the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention for battery power supply and passive power supply to the RFID tag provided with the battery b and situated in the radio-frequency radiation field of the interrogator, is made up in the following way (Fig. 2).
  • the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention comprises a first controlled switch csl, which is fabricated with a first PMOS transistor. A first terminal of the first controlled switch csl is connected to the supply battery b and its second terminal is connected to the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc.
  • the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention also comprises a second controlled switch cs2, which is fabricated with a second PMOS transistor. A first terminal of the second controlled switch cs2 is connected to a rectifier output terminal with the rectified voltage Vrect induced in the antenna a due to the radio-frequency radiation field and its second terminal of the second controlled switch cs2 is connected to the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc.
  • the supply voltage Vps at the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc is, depending on conditions, equal either to the instantaneous battery voltage Vbat reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor or to the instantaneous voltage Vrect at the output terminal of said rectifier reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor. Therefore as wide PMOS transistors as possible are used in order to keep said voltage drop as low as possible.
  • a signal bat OK indicating good condition of said battery voltage Vbat and a signal rect OK indicating good condition of said rectified voltage Vrect and being time-delayed as already mentioned are conducted to a logic decision circuit ldc within a logic control circuit Ice.
  • the logic decision circuit ldc can make a decision only after the two input signals got stabilized. However, it should not be forgotten that more energy is used for a faster stabilization of the integrated circuit tic of the RFID tag.
  • An output signal of the logic decision circuit ldc either triggers a signal to close the first controlled switch csl and a signal to open the second controlled switch cs2, when the value of said battery voltage Vbat is acceptable, or triggers a signal to open the first controlled switch csl and a signal to close the second controlled switch cs2, when the value of said battery voltage Vbat is no more acceptable and the value of said rectified voltage Vrect has already reached the preset value.
  • a comparator circuit cc selects the higher of the battery voltage Vbat and said rectified voltage Vrect. Said higher voltage is the highest voltage Vmax in the controlled switching circuit esc and is conducted through the logic control circuit
  • PMOS transistors namely has to be controlled with the highest voltage in the circuit in order to prevent an activation of any parasitic semiconductor structure.
  • a dynamic-reset generator drg is connected to the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc.
  • a dynamic-reset signal POR is generated when the battery b is connected or when a sufficiently strong radio-frequency radiation field is set up, yet the battery b is depleted.
  • Time developments of the battery voltage Vbat, the rectified induced voltage Vrect, the highest voltage Vmax at the bodies of the PMOS transistors being said first and second controlled switches csl, cs2, of the supply voltage Vps at the output of the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention and the signals bat CK, rect OK, bat OK and POR are represented by graphs in windows I to IV in Fig. 3 for the case when the battery b gets depleted during operation.
  • the battery b is connected at a time moment 1.
  • the signal bat CK for checking the battery voltage and the dynamic-reset signal POR are generated and the signal bat_OK follows indicating good condition of the battery b.
  • the highest voltage Vmax at the bodies of the PMOS transistors being said first and second controlled switches csl, cs2 is then the battery voltage Vbat.
  • the supply voltage Vps at the output of the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention is the instantaneous battery voltage Vbat reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor, in fact even after a time moment 2 when the battery voltage Vbat has already decreased bellow the allowed value and the radio-frequency radiation field has not yet been set up.
  • the radio-frequency radiation field is set up at a time moment 3; then the rectified induced voltage Vrect starts increasing and some time thereafter at a time moment 4 when it has reached the preset value the signal rect OK and thereafter also the signal bat CK for checking the battery voltage Vbat appear.
  • a confirmation of battery condition folows. But since said battery condition is unacceptable, the signal bat OK does not change into a high state.
  • the rectified induced voltage Vrect at the time moment 4 immediately became the highest voltage Vmax at the bodies of the PMOS transistors being said first and second controlled switches csl, cs2.
  • the rectified induced voltage Vrect reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor appears at a time moment 5 as the supply voltage Vps with said time delay after the time moment 4. Therefore the control and memory circuit cmc in the RFID tag is supplied.
  • the data from the nonvolatile memory can be read despite the depleted battery b.
  • the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention namely automatically selected supply by the radio-frequency radiation field.
  • the controlled switching circuit esc automatically selected the battery power supply despite the presence of a strong enough radio- frequency radiation field.
  • the battery power supply is namely more stable because it does not depend on various circumstances. And a considerably low voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor makes it possible that the battery voltage Vbat can be assessed for a longer time as being in good condition and used for supplying the RFID tag.

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A controlled switching circuit (csc) comprises two controlled switches (csl, cs2) fabricated with PMOS transistors and connected between its output terminal as well as a battery (b) or a rectifier rectifying voltage induced in an antenna. Conditions of the battery voltage and the rectified voltage with a time delay are checked. Only when the battery voltage gets unacceptable and the value of rectified voltage exceeded a preset value tag circuits are supplied by the rectified voltage induced in an antenna. The invention provides for an automatic selection of a way of supplying an RFID tag in a way that it is stably supplied by a battery as far as still possible, but just according to the invention this is rendered possible for a longer time due to a very low voltage drop across a controlled switching circuit, and that a supply by a radio-frequency radiation field is selected only when the battery gets depleted.

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Method for a battery and passive power supply to an RFID tag and a switching circuit for carrying out said method
The invention concerns a method for battery and passive power supply to a RFID tag, which is provided with a battery and situated in a radio-frequency radiation field, and to a switching circuit for carrying out said method. Yet the subject matter of the invention is primarily devoted to be used in RFID tags provided with one or several sensors for acquisition of magnitudes of some of the physical quantities related to a tagged article.
An RFID tag is also used to acquire magnitudes of physical quantities related to the interior or the surface of a tagged article, to acquire its temperature or illuminance, pressure or humidity, to which the article is exposed, as well as magnitudes of other physical quantities. To this purpose RFID tags are provided with one or several adequate sensors. An individual sensor can be built into an integrated circuit of the RFID tag or is an external sensor with respect to said integrated circuit of the RFID tag.
At predetermined points of time an RFID tag called data logger carries out measurement, analogue-to-digital conversion of the measuring result and stores digital data in its nonvolatile memory. A temperature history profile, for example, is very important especially during transportation and storage when the tagged article is food article, medicament, human organ and so forth. A battery supply in such RFID tag is used for measuring, analogue-to-digital conversion, storing digital data in a nonvolatile memory as well as for reading data herefrom. Such RFID tag is discarded after the battery has been depleted and the data stored in the nonvolatile memory get lost.
There is known an RFID tag with battery power supply combined with passive supply of power, which a tag antenna picks up from the radio-frequency radiation field of an interrogator (US 6,944,424). A capacitor as a device for energy accumulation is connected on the one hand to the battery through a first forward biased diode and on the other hand is also connected through a second forward biased diode to an output of a rectifyer rectifying the voltage induced in the antenna due to the interrogator radio- frequency radiation field. Both diodes are preferably Schottky diodes. Said combined power supply does not allow for a selection between said power sources and therefore RFID tag circuits are always supplied by the power source having higher voltage. A voltage drop across the forward biased diodes ranging from 0.2 V to 0.7 V that depends on the type of the diode and technology used for its fabrication has very adverse and sometimes even decisive effects. Ohmic voltage drop across the diode is added hereto, which depends on the diode resistance and the current therethrough.
Further an RFID tag with a sensor is known, which normally also uses power of induced voltage, but data stored in a nonvolatile memory may be lost in this RFID tag, if a battery unexpectedly gets depleted during recording a profile (WO 2007/145911 A2). Certain information can also get lost in a divided supply, wherein one part of tag circuits is supplied by the battery and the other part by induced voltage (WO 01/84518). The problem of the invention is to suggest such method of the invention for battery and passive power supply to a RFID tag, which is provided with a battery and situated in a radio-frequency radiation field, and such controlled switching circuit for carrying out said method that power will be supplied only by the battery as long as it still has enough energy, wherein voltage drop across said controlled switching circuit during said power supply should be as negligible as possible.
Said technical problem is solved by the method of the invention for a battery power supply and passive power supply to an RFID tag as characterized by the features of the characterizing portion of the first claim, and by the controlled switching circuit of the invention for carrying out said method as characterized by the features of the characterizing portion of the fifth claim, wherein dependent claims characterize the variants of their embodiments.
The invention provides for an automatic selection of a way of supplying a RFID tag in a way that it is stably supplied by a battery as long as possible, according according to the very invention this is rendered possible for a longer time due to a very low voltage drop across a controlled switching circuit, and that a supply by a radio-frequency radiation field is selected only when the battery gets depleted.
The invention will now be explained in more detail by way of the description of an embodiment of the method of the invention for battery power supply and passive power supply to an RFID tag and of the description of an embodiment of the controlled switching circuit for carrying out said method and with reference to the accompanying drawing representing in
Fig. 1 a schematic presentation of an integrated circuit of the invention of an
RFID tag together with two power sources for supplying it, Fig. 2 the switching circuit of the invention for carrying out said method of the invention for the battery power supply and the passive power supply to an
RFID tag, Fig. 3 for the case of the battery, which gets depleted during operation, in window I, time dependence of the battery voltage and of a rectified voltage induced in an antenna due to the interrogator radio-frequency radiation field, in window II, time dependence of individual signals, in window III, time dependence of the highest voltage at bodies of
PMOS transistors of a first and a second controlled switches in the controlled switching circuit of the invention and in window IV, time dependence of a supply voltage at the output of the switching circuit of the invention, Fig. 4 as in Fig. 3, yet for the case of the battery, which retains an acceptable value of the voltage during operation.
An integrated circuit tic according to the invention of an RFID tag is schematically presented in Fig. 1 together with a battery b and an antenna a being power sources supplying it. Arrows show energy flows. The supply power is fed to a controlled switching circuit esc on the one hand by the battery b at a voltage Vbat and on the other hand by a radio analogue module ram at the voltage Vrect. Since the invention deals with a two-way supply to the RFID tag, the RFID tag is supposed to be situated in an interrogator radio-frequency radiation field, which induces voltage in the antenna a. Said voltage is rectified in the radio analogue module ram. The main part of power extracted from said radio-frequency radiation field is fed to the controlled switching circuit esc and a part of said extracted power is fed to a radio digital module rdm.
The energy flow at the supply voltage Vps from an output ps (Fig. 2) of the controlled switching circuit esc is fed to an analogue measuring circuit amc comprising, among other things, also one or several sensors, and to a control and memory circuit cmc.
A method of the invention for battery and passive power supply to an RFID tag, provided by a battery and situated in the interrogator radio-frequency radiation field is carried out in the following way.
A value of the battery voltage Vbat is checked whenever the battery b is connected to the integrated circuit tic of the RFID tag or the rectified voltage Vrect induced in the antenna a due to the radio-frequency radiation field reaching a preset value. Then a battery type ( 1.5 V or 3 V) is determined at the same time as well and a sensor circuit is adjusted.
In case of an acceptable value of the battery voltage Vbat, the analogue measuring circuit amc and the control and memory circuit cmc in the RFID tag are supplied through the controlled switching circuit esc by the battery b. The instantaneous battery voltage Vbat drops across the controlled switching circuit esc by a voltage drop across an open PMOS transistor in the amount of several millivolts; said circuits amc and cmc are fed at the supply voltage Vps determined as mentioned here. In case of an unacceptable value of the battery voltage Vbat and after a termination of a time delay after the rectified voltage Vrect obtained by rectifying the voltage induced in the antenna a due to the radio-frequency radiation field exceeding the preset value, said circuits amc and cmc of the RFID tag start energizing by a rectifier (not shown) rectifying said induced voltage and being contained in the radio analogue module ram through the controlled switching circuit esc. The instantaneous voltage Vrect at a rectifier output also drops across the controlled switching circuit esc by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor in the amount of several millivolts; in this case said circuits amc and cmc are fed at the supply voltage Vps determined as mentioned here.
Said time delay is selected to range from 5 microseconds to 500 microseconds. When selecting said time delay it should be considered that switching performed within a short switching time consumes more energy. The most adequate time delay turns out to range from 10 microseconds to 100 microseconds.
The controlled switching circuit esc of the invention for battery power supply and passive power supply to the RFID tag provided with the battery b and situated in the radio-frequency radiation field of the interrogator, is made up in the following way (Fig. 2).
The controlled switching circuit esc of the invention comprises a first controlled switch csl, which is fabricated with a first PMOS transistor. A first terminal of the first controlled switch csl is connected to the supply battery b and its second terminal is connected to the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc. The controlled switching circuit esc of the invention also comprises a second controlled switch cs2, which is fabricated with a second PMOS transistor. A first terminal of the second controlled switch cs2 is connected to a rectifier output terminal with the rectified voltage Vrect induced in the antenna a due to the radio-frequency radiation field and its second terminal of the second controlled switch cs2 is connected to the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc.
The supply voltage Vps at the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc is, depending on conditions, equal either to the instantaneous battery voltage Vbat reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor or to the instantaneous voltage Vrect at the output terminal of said rectifier reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor. Therefore as wide PMOS transistors as possible are used in order to keep said voltage drop as low as possible.
A signal bat OK indicating good condition of said battery voltage Vbat and a signal rect OK indicating good condition of said rectified voltage Vrect and being time-delayed as already mentioned are conducted to a logic decision circuit ldc within a logic control circuit Ice. The logic decision circuit ldc can make a decision only after the two input signals got stabilized. However, it should not be forgotten that more energy is used for a faster stabilization of the integrated circuit tic of the RFID tag.
An output signal of the logic decision circuit ldc either triggers a signal to close the first controlled switch csl and a signal to open the second controlled switch cs2, when the value of said battery voltage Vbat is acceptable, or triggers a signal to open the first controlled switch csl and a signal to close the second controlled switch cs2, when the value of said battery voltage Vbat is no more acceptable and the value of said rectified voltage Vrect has already reached the preset value.
A comparator circuit cc selects the higher of the battery voltage Vbat and said rectified voltage Vrect. Said higher voltage is the highest voltage Vmax in the controlled switching circuit esc and is conducted through the logic control circuit
Ice to bodies of the PMOS transistors of said first and second controlled switches csl, cs2. A proper operation of said switches is thus ensured. The body of the
PMOS transistors namely has to be controlled with the highest voltage in the circuit in order to prevent an activation of any parasitic semiconductor structure.
A dynamic-reset generator drg is connected to the output terminal ps of the controlled switching circuit esc. A dynamic-reset signal POR is generated when the battery b is connected or when a sufficiently strong radio-frequency radiation field is set up, yet the battery b is depleted.
Time developments of the battery voltage Vbat, the rectified induced voltage Vrect, the highest voltage Vmax at the bodies of the PMOS transistors being said first and second controlled switches csl, cs2, of the supply voltage Vps at the output of the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention and the signals bat CK, rect OK, bat OK and POR are represented by graphs in windows I to IV in Fig. 3 for the case when the battery b gets depleted during operation.
The battery b is connected at a time moment 1. The signal bat CK for checking the battery voltage and the dynamic-reset signal POR are generated and the signal bat_OK follows indicating good condition of the battery b. The highest voltage Vmax at the bodies of the PMOS transistors being said first and second controlled switches csl, cs2 is then the battery voltage Vbat. The supply voltage Vps at the output of the controlled switching circuit esc of the invention is the instantaneous battery voltage Vbat reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor, in fact even after a time moment 2 when the battery voltage Vbat has already decreased bellow the allowed value and the radio-frequency radiation field has not yet been set up.
The radio-frequency radiation field is set up at a time moment 3; then the rectified induced voltage Vrect starts increasing and some time thereafter at a time moment 4 when it has reached the preset value the signal rect OK and thereafter also the signal bat CK for checking the battery voltage Vbat appear. A confirmation of battery condition folows. But since said battery condition is unacceptable, the signal bat OK does not change into a high state.
The rectified induced voltage Vrect at the time moment 4 immediately became the highest voltage Vmax at the bodies of the PMOS transistors being said first and second controlled switches csl, cs2.
The rectified induced voltage Vrect reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor appears at a time moment 5 as the supply voltage Vps with said time delay after the time moment 4. Therefore the control and memory circuit cmc in the RFID tag is supplied. The data from the nonvolatile memory can be read despite the depleted battery b. The controlled switching circuit esc of the invention namely automatically selected supply by the radio-frequency radiation field.
Events at time moments Ia, 3a and 4a in Fig. 4 representing the same voltages and signals as Fig. 3, yet for the case when the battery b is not depleted during operation, correspond to the events in the time moments 1, 3 and 4. Yet in a time moment 5a follows a confirmation of good battery condition and for this reason the signal bat_OK now changes into a high state. As a consequence, the instantaneous battery voltage Vbat reduced by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor continues to be the supply voltage Vps.
The controlled switching circuit esc according to the invention automatically selected the battery power supply despite the presence of a strong enough radio- frequency radiation field. The battery power supply is namely more stable because it does not depend on various circumstances. And a considerably low voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor makes it possible that the battery voltage Vbat can be assessed for a longer time as being in good condition and used for supplying the RFID tag.

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1. A method for battery power supply and passive power supply to an RFID tag, which is provided with a battery (b) and situated in a radio-frequency radiation field, characterized in that a value of a battery voltage (Vbat) is checked whenever the battery (b) is connected or whenever a rectified voltage (Vrect) obtained by rectifying a voltage induced in an antenna (a) due to the radio- frequency radiation field reaches a preset value, that, in case of an acceptable value of the battery voltage (Vbat), circuits of the RFID tag are energized by the battery (b) through a controlled switching circuit (esc), across which the battery voltage (Vbat) drops by a voltage drop across an open PMOS transistor, and that, in case of an unacceptable value of the battery voltage (Vbat) and after a termination of a time delay after the rectified voltage (Vrect) obtained by rectifying the voltage induced in the antenna (a) due to the radio- frequency radiation field exceeded the preset value, circuits of the RFID tag are energized by a rectifier rectifying said induced voltage through the controlled switching circuit (esc), across which the output voltage (Vrect) of said rectifier drops by the voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor.
2. The method as recited in claim 1 , characterized in that said time delay extends between 5 microseconds and 500 microseconds.
3. The method as recited in claim 1, characterized in that said time delay extends between 10 microseconds and 100 microseconds.
4. The method as recited in claim 2 or 3, characterized in that said voltage drop across the open PMOS transistor amounts to several millivolts.
5. A switching circuit for battery power supply and passive power supply to an RFID tag, which is provided with a battery (b) and situated in a radio- frequency radiation field, characterized in that it comprises a first controlled switch (csl), which is fabricated with a first PMOS transistor and whose first terminal is connected to the energizing battery (b) having the voltage
(Vbat) and whose second terminal is connected to an output terminal (ps) of a controlled switching circuit (esc) whereat there is a supply voltage (Vps), and a second controlled switch (cs2), which is fabricated with a second PMOS transistor and whose first terminal is connected to a rectifier output terminal whereat there is a rectified voltage (Vrect) obtained by rectifying a voltage induced in an antenna (a) due to the radio- frequency radiation field and whose second terminal is connected to an output terminal (ps) of the controlled switching circuit (esc), that a signal (bat OK) indicating good condition of said battery voltage (Vbat) and a time-delayed signal (rect OK) indicating good condition of said rectified voltage (Vrect) are conducted to a logic decision circuit (ldc), whose output signal causes a logic control circuit (Ice) either to close the first controlled switch (csl) and to open the second controlled switch (cs2), when the value of said battery voltage (Vbat) is acceptable, or to open the first controlled switch (csl) and to close the second controlled switch (cs2), when the value of said battery voltage (Vbat) is unacceptable and the value of said rectified voltage (Vrect) exceeded a preset value, and that a comparator circuit (cc) selects the higher between the battery voltage (Vbat) and said rectified voltage (Vrect) and said higher voltage being the highest voltage (Vmax) in the controlled switching circuit (esc) is conducted through the logic control circuit (Ice) to bodies of the PMOS transistors of said first and second controlled switches (csl, cs2).
6. The switching circuit as recited in claim 5, characterized in that said time delay extends between 5 microseconds and 500 microseconds.
7. The switching circuit as recited in claim 5, characterized in that said time delay extends between 10 microseconds and 100 microseconds.
8. The switching circuit as recited in claim 6 or 7, characterized in that a dynamic-reset generator (drg) is connected to the output terminal (ps) of the controlled switching circuit (esc).
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