Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1987-05-20
1988-10-18
Swann, III, Glen R.
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
340572, G08B 1318
Patent
active
047790768
ABSTRACT:
A deactivatable coded marker for use in article surveillance systems has a core of soft magnetic material. An electrically conductive element at least partly surrounds the core, by reason of which the marker will generate a phase-shifted harmonic signal responsive to a reference signal. A magnetizable element of high coercivity is adjacent to and overlying the electrically conductive material, the marker generating the phase-shifted harmonic signal when the high coercivity element is not magnetized but generating a non-phase-shifted harmonic signal responsive to the reference signal when the high coercivity element is magnetized, whereby the high coercivity element neutralizes the effect of the electrically conductive element when magnetized. The deactivatable marker may have a plurality of cores, a plurality of electrically conductive elements and a plurality of separately magnetizable elements, forming respective and independently activatable and deactivatable marker parts. An article surveillance system for use with such deactivatable markers has an automatic gain control for continuously adjusting the intensity of transmitted reference signals responsive to the intensity of the received harmonic signals to compensate for the variation due to marker presence in a detection zone, thereby preventing random variation in the phase shift of the harmonic signals.
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Swann III Glen R.
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