Electronic Technology Application Examples in Packaging and Printing

When we look closely at a sounding gift card, we find that the electronic devices it used were common during World War II. They include a loudspeaker with a cone and a magnet, as well as capacitors, resistors, batteries, wires, and solder joints. Among those styles with recording capabilities, there is even an old-fashioned microphone made of wire wound. Since the 1940s, these devices have become smaller, and there have been no major changes. Indeed, vacuum tubes have been replaced by silicon wafers, but the pace of progress is still such a matter of no time. We have not yet seen the possibility of reducing such a circuit to only a small part of the card. The existing sound card is too thick and too expensive.

This is especially true for electronic devices in packaging, labels, and other forms of applications. Those circuits are usually too large, too fragile and, more importantly, too expensive. The traditional rule in a packaging field is this: if you offer a valuable specialty product or service at a price of $1, you will be lucky to reach 1 million in sales in a year; if you offer a featured product Or a service that costs only a few cents—such as a hologram or an anti-theft tag—you can sell hundreds of millions each year.

Using the example of the company Mangia Media, Inc. as a reference, they have just begun to sell advertising sounding pizza boxes. Due to the high price of electronic devices used, their sales of this product will be limited. This is also the reason that the UK's Talking Tags has not been very successful in the market: Although these tags can record your voice, the electronic devices they use are the same as those that can be heard, including Expensive lithium battery.

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The good news is that there are now more reasons for electronic device features to be valued, and there is a complete set of electronic device kits that make up an absolutely cheaper, thinner, and more powerful device. There are many factors that drive the increasing demand for the use of electronic smart packaging, such as the growing proportion of elderly people in the demographic structure, increasingly demanding consumers, new regulations on product traceability, and the recycling of materials. And the desire of the consumer goods industry to reduce costs and increase sales.

These new components include printed batteries from many manufacturers, including Cymbet Corp. in Elk River, Minnesota, Infinite Power Solutions in Denver, Colorado, and Intellikraft in Oxford, UK. Ltd., NTK Technologie, Inc., Irvine, Calif.; Power Paper, Israel; Stone Battery, Taipei, Taiwan; Toshiba Japan, Toshiba Japan, Tokyo; and Menlo, California, USA Park's VoltaFlex Corp.

Some of these companies only want technology licenses, but some of them will also operate on a small scale. Others are engaged in mass production. The performance of these batteries varies greatly, from low performance and low prices to the opposite of high performance and high prices, which reflects the emerging market demand with a wide range of diversity.

The first generation of smart packaging used only one technology, such as mechanical or chemical, but the second generation of smart labels even achieved greater results by integrating multiple technologies.

As an alternative, some companies, such as Konarka Technologies in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA, and other companies with similar ideas are trying to use printed optoelectronic devices on low-cost flexible packaging films. . The distribution of intellectual property and production capacity of printed conductors is even more extensive, including the ASK company in France, QinetiQ, Inc. in Arlington, Virginia, UPM Rafsec in Finland, and Ancheng in Michigan, USA. Precisia, LLC, there are many contributions from other companies. The first affordable, disposable, variable-print electronic mobile color display first appeared on the 15,000 Valentine cards sold by Marks & Spencer in 2003, thanks to Dow Printed Display Solutions. Work hard. The cost of mass production of such displays is approximately 5 cents per centimeter of effective area, and a price of 3 cents per centimeter of effective area is also achievable.

Precisia's products include low-cost printed electronics, and more precisely, printed RFID antennas produced with conductive inks.

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