1. A terminal made of a conductive metal, comprising:
a contact portion having a number of contact protrusions for making electrical contact with terminal portions of a cable, a longitudinal lateral section of each contact protrusion having a polygonal shape, a push nib being positioned on a leading end of each contact protrusion, the push nib having a pointed leading end;
a support portion connected to the contact portion via a connection portion and supported on a fixing portion to prevent the contact portion from playing; and
a mounting portion positioned on a side of the connection portion and electrically connected to an outside.
2. The terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the push nib has a triangular shape.
3. The terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the contact portion, the support portion, and the mounting portion have a width larger than a thickness.
4. A terminal positioned on a connector mounted on a substrate, the terminal comprising:
a first side electrically connected to the substrate;
a second side electrically connected to terminal portions of a flexible cable;
a contact portion electrically connected to the terminal portions of the flexible cable; and
at least two contact protrusions positioned on the contact portion and electrically connected to the terminal portions, respectively, a longitudinal lateral section of each contact protrusion having a polygonal shape, a push nib being positioned on a leading end of each contact protrusion, the push nib having a pointed leading end.
5. The terminal as claimed in claim 4, wherein the push nib has a triangular shape.
6. The terminal as claimed in claim 4, wherein the contact portion, a support portion, and a mounting portion have a width larger than a thickness.
7. A connector comprising:
a housing;
a number of terminals positioned in the housing while being at least partially exposed to an outside and electrically connected to a substrate, the terminals are arranged at a predetermined interval, at least two contact protrusions being formed on each of the terminals while being electrically connected to terminal portions of a cable, a longitudinal lateral section of each contact protrusion having a polygonal shape, a push nib being positioned on a leading end of each contact protrusion, the push nib having a pointed leading end; and
an attachment device positioned on the housing so as to attach the terminal portions of the cable to the contact protrusions of the terminals.
8. The connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein each of the terminals comprises:
a contact portion having the at least two contact protrusions;
a support portion extending in a direction parallel to the contact portion, the support portion having an end connected to the contact portion via a connection portion, the support portion being supported on a fixing portion to prevent the contact portion from playing; and
a mounting portion positioned on a side of the connection portion and electrically connected to an outside.
9. The connector as claimed in claim 7, wherein the push nib has a triangular shape.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
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15. A network of antennas for contactless reading or writing of RFID tags in a detection volume, comprising three or four flat, independent antennas sequentially connected to a single reader by a switch, wherein:
planes of the antennas pass through a readingwritingdetection volume centered in the detection volume,
for every pair of antennas, an intersection of their planes is comprised in the optimal readingwriting volume, and
the antennas are arranged so that any direction in the optimal readingwriting volume forms an angle of about 45\xb0 or less with at least one of the planes of the antennas.
16. The network according to claim 15, wherein the optimal detection volume has a similar cross-section and a surface comprised between about 10% and about 75% of that of the detection area.
17. The network according to claim 15, comprising three orthogonal antennas offset by 120\xb0 around a longitudinal axis of a detection area.
18. The network according to claim 15, comprising three quadrilateral antennas.
19. The network according to claim 15, comprising four antennas.
20. The network according to claim 19, wherein the antennas are rectangular and a detection area is a right-angled parallelepiped and each antenna passes through the detection area from one side of an entrance end of the detection area to an opposite side of an opposite end.
21. The network according to claim 15, wherein the switch provides an interface between the reader and the antennas are controlled by the reader and make it possible to supply the antennas independently with energy.
22. The network according to claim 15, wherein it comprises, in addition, shielding against external interference and disturbances.
23. A system for detecting RFID tags placed on a detection volume comprising at least two networks of antennas according to claim 15, wherein the networks of antennas overlap and are offset in relation to one another.
24. The system according to claim 23, wherein offsets between the networks are substantially equal to the width of the volume of the optimal reading volume in a direction of the offsets.
25. The system according to claim 23, wherein the reader is capable of controlling the switch sequentially to supply the antennas one by one, network after network.
26. A method of readingwriting an RFID tag in the network according to claim 15, comprising, when a tag passes through the network, successively and for each of the antennas:
tuning the antenna,
supplying power to the antenna with a multiplexer controlled by the reader,
reading readingwriting the RFID tag,
cutting the power supply to the antenna with the multiplexer, and
deactivating tuning the antenna.
27. The method according to claim 26, wherein tuning or deactivating the tuning comprises switching with the switch the antenna of the arrangement with an associated passive circuit for activating or deactivating the tuning.
28. The method according to claim 26, further comprising a prior step of detection, by a sensor connected to the switch and to the reader, of a tag in the network.