Method and apparatus for the continuous manufacture of electrical and/or electronic film components

Abstract

1. A method and an apparatus for the continuous manufacture of electrical and/or electronic film components. 2.1. A method for the continuous manufacture of electrical and/or electronic film components built up in at least one row and successively on at least one continuous film web is known. 2.2. According to the invention on the at least one film web and in several method sections are built up electrical terminal faces and both active and inactive coatings for forming electrochemically active power supply units. 2.3. Use for the manufacture of active transponders.

1 . Method for the continuous manufacture of electrical and/or electronic film components successively built up in at least one row on at least one continuous film web, wherein, in several method sections, on the at least one film web ( 1 ,  2 ) are built up electrical terminal faces and both active and inactive coatings for forming electrochemically active power supply units.  
     
     
         2 . Method according to  claim 1 , wherein each power supply unit is connected to an electrical or electronic load ( 10 ).  
     
     
         3 . Method according to  claim 2 , wherein to the film web ( 2 ) are applied transponder elements ( 11 ) and/or electronic chip components ( 10 ), which are connected to the power supply units.  
     
     
         4 . Method according to  claim 1 , wherein separate film webs are provided for different pole layers of the power supply units and following the application of electrical terminal faces and inactive or active coatings as carrier and cover layers are brought together and continuously interconnected.  
     
     
         5 . Method according to  claim 4 , wherein with each pole layer per film component is associated at least one electrolytic coating ( 4   a ,  4   b ), a membrane separating layer ( 6 ) being inserted between the electrolytic coatings ( 4   a ,  4   b ) of both pole layers ( 1 ,  2 ).  
     
     
         6 . Method according to  claim 5 , wherein the electrolytic coatings of each power supply unit are applied as gel beads.  
     
     
         7 . Method according to  claim 4 , wherein electrical terminal faces ( 9   a ,  9   b ) of the carrier and cover layers ( 1 ,  2 ) are mechanically interconnected.  
     
     
         8 . Method according to  claim 1 , wherein the film components successively built up on the film web are separated and stacked.  
     
     
         9 . Method according to  claim 1 , wherein the film web provided with the built up film components is wound up to form a roll.  
     
     
         10 . Method according to  claim 1 , wherein the film web provided with the built up film components is in each case grooved and placed in concertina fold-like manner between adjacent film components.  
     
     
         11 . Method according to  claim 4 , wherein the film web ( 1 ,  2 ) of each pole layer is provided with electrically active coatings and subsequently a mask web ( 3   a ,  3   b ) is connected to each film web ( 1 ,  2 ) covering the latter except for the surface areas decisive for building up the electrochemically active power supply units.  
     
     
         12 . Method according to  claim 11 , wherein the electrolytic coating ( 4   a ) for the pole layer ( 1 ) is applied to the exposed surface areas of said pole layer serving as the carrier layer.  
     
     
         13 . Method according to  claim 12 , wherein separating layer blanks of the membrane separating layer ( 6 ) are applied to the electrolytic coating ( 4   a ) of the carrier layer ( 1 ).  
     
     
         14 . Method according to  claim 13 , wherein to the separating layer blanks applied to the electrolytic coating ( 4   a ) is applied an electrolytic coating ( 4   b ) of the other pole layer ( 2 ).  
     
     
         15 . Method according to  claim 14 , wherein the cover layer ( 2 ) provided with the associated mask web ( 3   b ) is continuously applied to the carrier layer ( 1 ) and is integrally joined therewith.  
     
     
         16 . Apparatus for the continuous manufacture of electrical and/or electronic components with at least one unrolling device for receiving and unwinding a flexible film web, wherein there are two unrolling devices ( 12 ,  22 ) for film webs ( 1 ,  2 ) with different pole layers of electrochemically active power supply units, wherein with each unrolling device are associated means ( 13 ,  15 ;  23 ,  25 ) for the continuous supply and connection of in each case one mask layer ( 3   a ,  3   b ) to the film web ( 1 ,  2 ) of each pole layer and means ( 14 ,  24 ) for separating surface areas from each mask layer level with the surface areas on each film web decisive for building up the electrochemically active power supply unit and wherein means are provided for the flat connection of the mask layer to the particular film web.  
     
     
         17 . Apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein two electrolyte application stations ( 16 ,  21 ) are provided which, considered in the running direction of at least one film web, are associated in spaced, successive manner with a film web path.  
     
     
         18 . Apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein an unrolling device ( 17 ) is provided for receiving and unwinding a web-like membrane separating layer, together with supply means for the application of said membrane separating layer to the at least one film web.  
     
     
         19 . Apparatus according to  claim 18 , wherein with the membrane separating layer are associated punching means ( 19 ) for the separation of a punching lattice web and means for applying the remaining membrane blanks to at least one electrolytic coating of the at least one film web, the means for applying the remaining membrane blanks being positioned spatially between the two electrolyte application stations.  
     
     
         20 . Apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein there are means ( 26 ) for uniting and joining the two film webs ( 1 ,  2 ).  
     
     
         21 . Apparatus according to  claim 20 , wherein means are provided for separating the finished film components.  
     
     
         22 . Apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein means ( 27 ) are provided for monitoring the operation of electronic components of the film components.  
     
     
         23 . Apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein at least one tool, especially a crimping tool, for mechanically interconnecting electrical terminal faces ( 9   a ,  9   b ) of different pole layers of the separate film web is provided.