Ultra-Thin Printed Batteries for Active Packaging Design
June 16, 2004 | Levent OZLER
The ink producer, Precisia LLC, has teamed up with the thin battery technology firm, TBT, in a partnership to develop ultra-thin printed batteries that are flexible and powerful enough for RFID tags, smart labels, active packaging, game boards, and a variety of other commercial uses.
The partnership combines the battery design expertise of Thin Battery Technologies Inc. (TBT), using technology licensed from Eveready Battery Company Inc., with the high-speed printing, advanced ink and electronics capabilities of Precisia.
At less than one millimetre thick, ultra-thin batteries are ideal for smart labels, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and active packaging applications that require an external power source. They can serve as a replacement for button batteries in diverse applications such as greeting cards, cereal box giveaways, printed board games, point-of-purchase displays, and even in credit cards or customer loyalty cards.
"Our strategy of developing applications for ultra-thin batteries using our high-speed printing technologies and printed components will provide customers with an affordable product that is thinner, and flexible," commented Jim Rohrkemper, president of Precisia.
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