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Title: Tamper resistant magnetic stripes

Patent ·
OSTI ID:20013853

This invention relates to a magnetic stripe comprising a medium in which magnetized particles are suspended and in which the encoded information is recorded by actual physical rotation or alignment of the previously magnetized particles within the flux reversals of the stripe which are 180{degree} opposed in their magnetic polarity. The magnetized particles are suspended in a medium which is solid, or physically rigid, at ambient temperatures but which at moderately elevated temperatures, such as 40 C, is thinable to a viscosity permissive of rotation of the particles therein under applications of moderate external magnetic field strengths within acceptable time limits.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-76DP00789
OSTI ID:
20013853
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 9 Nov 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English