CN1454163A - Methods of creating a tamper resistant informational article - Google Patents

Abstract

Methods of creating tamper resistant informational articles and related products are disclosed. In one method a metal foil has a hologram formed therein after which information is created on the metal foil at least partially over the hologram and the foil is encapsulated in a resinous plastic material. In another embodiment, a tamper resistant informational article is provided by creating a base having an upper surface and a lower surface with an elongated metal core having extruded therearound a resinous plastic material. A magnetic media storage element is secured to this base. A lens is created by providing an lengated transparent layer, forming a hologram in the lower surface thereof and applying information to the hologram. The lens lower surface is then secured to the base upper surface.

Description

Form the method for anti-tamper information goods

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind ofly form anti-tamper information goods and by the method for the product of its generation; the present invention includes the various embodiment that are formed in the metal level or are formed on the hologram in the resin and plastic layer; and need protected information for example can be set on the hologram by printing, and the additional materials protectiveness cover on the hologram.

Background technology

Be known that people take all means to prevent that information goods is forged and changes for multiple purpose.For example, for bank note, be known that and adopt special printing ink, graphic designs, coding and material to make the fake producer be difficult to duplicate bank note more.Be known that in addition by packing into can prevent that it is damaged, duplicates or changes between the plastic sheet of a pair of lamination such as the card credit card, identity card, debit card, member's card or other cards, this in the Tufnol sheet at least one be transparent.Always can be referring to United States Patent (USP) 3,582,439.These systems can be encapsulated in the protected information of need between the resin and plastic sheet of multilayer such as PVC, and these plastic sheets for example can utilize heating to combine.

Be known that in addition and in the article of credit card and so on, use hologram to forbid not authorized duplicating.

United States Patent (USP) 4,631,222 have disclosed a kind of paillon foil of hot-die impression, and this paillon foil comprises that a magnetosphere and has the layer of the structure of the diffraction effect of generation such as hologram.Can utilize adhesive means that these elements are fixed in the substrate.The paillon foil of backing is suitable for discharging from transfer layer.Referring to United States Patent (USP) 3,582,439.United States Patent (USP) 4,378,392 have disclosed a kind of lamination, and this lamination is described to prolong the life-span of photo.Plural layers adhesively combine to become the protection relation with respect to photo.

United States Patent (USP) 4,897,533 have disclosed the credit card that has magnetic stripe, and card is provided with a transparent membrane, and wherein transparent membrane can be taked the form of ultraviolet curing varnish.

United States Patent (USP) 5,248,544 have disclosed on the papery article and have used hologram.

United States Patent (USP) 4,684,795 have disclosed a kind of use of safety card, and this safety card comprises a hologram image that is positioned at the embossing on the transparent polyester carrier, then is covered with iron oxide on carrier, thereby forms a magnetic stripe that has visible hologram image on it.

United States Patent (USP) 4,856,857 have disclosed the use of a kind of transparent holographic figure, and this hologram can be provided with the removable supporting course of a stack and be used for one deck that hologram is fixed on the article is positioned at following adhesive.

United States Patent (USP) 4,971,464 have disclosed a kind of holographic film product, have wherein used film or plastic binder to fix holographic film and metallized coating, and wherein metallized coating is positioned under the protective layer of a printed layers and a transparent membrane.

United States Patent (USP) 4,429,015 has disclosed a kind of ID card of lamination, and wherein, the card polyethylene or the polyacrylic fiber that can cause the single axial orientation that delaminate torn in attempt, and the visible indication of being distorted is provided thus.

My United States Patent (USP) 5,243,641 disclosed how to prevent the information that after shaping, adds article by undesirable change.This be by be provided with one such as hologram special outward appearance zone, on this zone, add information and in case write information and at least a portion special area that material cover to add and realize.By this way, owing to be to write on the information of insertion, therefore can prevent from file is carried out accurate photocopying and changes.

My United States Patent (USP) 5,370,763 and 5,595,624 has disclosed a kind of method of making the information goods of tamper-indicating and anti-counterfeiting.One hologram is applied on the article, and information is inserted on the hologram, and is applied with oolemma, and can have the anti-coating of writing such as silicones on the oolemma.The specific final use that is disclosed combines with formation one interim vehicle registration.

My patent application serial number 08/652,026 has disclosed the anti-tamper vehicle identification label in a kind of recess that often is inserted in the vehicle license.Owing to be provided with different adhesion characteristics between each layer of article, therefore, attempt separates these layers will destroy the information integrity that is located at wherein.Having disclosed another kind in my United States Patent (USP) sequence number 08/854,717 can be in conjunction with the embodiment of vehicle window use.

Although proposed above-mentioned these technology, but for providing article still to have the demand of suitable reality and essence with information, information wherein is the additional information for being used for the standard information on all article and may changing in some cases, these additional informations can be discerned the identity of user or group with a kind of like this mode, promptly, this information is easy to be seen or can be read by machine by naked eyes, and can stop photocopying and use information to change or to forge effectively simultaneously.

Summary of the invention

The invention provides various embodiments, every kind of embodiment all is suitable for the information that provides required, and no matter this information is variable information or standard information, and also no matter this information is that read or that machine reads and be stored in the magnetic medium by human eye.Physically information is loaded in the protective material, stops directly to touch thus and changes.It has also comprised the device that can stop the photocopying of not expecting.

The quantity of layer and the quantity of the required assembly that provides of seller have been provided method of the present invention, and by making this method pipelining reduce cost.These methods also provide complete production article in the center produces, the article that perhaps provide the part to be prefabricated into, the selection that this article can be finished in retail shop or other similar place with shirtsleeve operation.

In a kind of method of the present invention, a hologram forms on a layer of metal foil, after this, is formed into required information on the tinsel and is positioned at least partly on the hologram, and the tinsel that comprises information and hologram encapsulates with resinous plastic material.Encapsulation preferably realizes by resinous plastic material is squeezed on the paillon foil.Perhaps, paillon foil can encapsulate by injection-molded.Article can form with elongated continuous tape, and can isolate single card or other single article from it.

This method is also conceived by making an elongated metal inner core form a base portion by an extruder, and this base portion has a upper surface and a lower surface.Extruder comes the package metals inner core with resinous plastic material, and a magnetic medium element is fixed on the base portion.By an elongated clarity plastic layer being set forming lens, and in its lower surface, form a hologram, and need the information of protection for example can be coated onto on the hologram by printing.Then, the upper surface with base portion is fixed on the lower surface of lens.In a preferred embodiment, lens and base portion fixing can be after extruding carries out in time of one section abundance, is in higher temperature owing to the extrusion process resin and plastic at that time.

If desired, less bead or metal particle can be inserted in the resinous plastic material, thereby prevent from information or card are carried out undesirable photocopying.

In one embodiment of the invention, the tinsel inner core can be used as a shielding, and it can prevent that the information that is stored on the interior magnetic medium of card from undesirable loss taking place.In addition, an antenna can be arranged in the card, thereby can between the card machine relevant, realize more effective information transmission with an operation.In addition, if such as suitable structures such as coiled types antenna to be set, it can receive and store the energy of guiding card into, and can utilize these energy to come the built-in system of operation sheet.

Anti-tamper information goods can comprise that one is formed on the hologram in the tinsel inner core, and information is positioned on the paillon foil and is superimposed upon at least partly on the hologram, and the resinous plastic material of encapsulation paillon foil is transparent.This card for example can be credit card, smart card, identity card or debit card.For the ease of observing, be applied to the color that the information on the card can adopt strong row to contrast.These article can prevent to forge.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the transparent lens with a upper surface and a lower surface has one and is formed on the hologram in its lower surface and is applied to information on the lower surface of hologram.Base portion has a metal inner core that is encapsulated in the resinous plastic material.The magnetic medium memory element can be fixed on the base portion, and base portion is fixed on the lower surface of lens, wraps to protectiveness hologram and information thus.The magnetic medium memory element for example can be elongated magnetic stripe or microchip.

In another embodiment, hologram can be formed in the surface of a transparent resin material, and information is printed on the hologram, comes the hologram of printing is carried out metalized by injection or the layer of production layer of metal thereon subsequently.One second resin bed can be fixed on the hologram of the printing of passing through metalized.

An object of the present invention is to provide and be used to form a method and a Related product that comprises the article of information, in this kind article, directly the information of touching is changed, and these article can prevent to forge by photocopying.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of like this system, and information goods can be made in a large number in this system, and these article are whole at first, are cut into some Individual Items subsequently.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of like this method and product, this product is suitable for information storage on the magnetic storage medium, and in some certain embodiments, article are provided with a metal band that can be used as the metal band of shielding (ground) and/or be used as antenna, preventing that information stored from undesirable loss taking place, and improve with can with the efficient of communicating by letter of the equipment of its associative operation.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of like this system, and this system makes the production process streamlineization, and it uses less expensive.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of like this system, and wherein information can comprise that (a) uses standard information on all article and the variable information that (b) can show particular individual or commercial entity's identity.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of like this system, and wherein article can be made the part in away from an equipment of retail shop or other commercial facility, and the limited equipment that retail shop or other commercial facility have can be finished the making of card.

Another object of the present invention provides a kind of like this system, and this system allows to have with customization the information goods of security, durability and required function.

With reference to appended explanation, from following description, will more completely understand these and other purposes of the present invention.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is the front view of information goods of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is the cutaway view of the information goods of Fig. 1 of analysing and observe along 2-2.

Fig. 3 is the partial schematic diagram that shows the method for the information goods of type shown in construction drawing 1 and Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is the exploded diagrammatic sketch of a part that shows the process of the information goods of making another embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is the schematic diagram of the method for the information goods in the construction drawing 4.

Fig. 6 is the upward view of the information goods of Fig. 4.

Fig. 7 shows a kind of improved form of information goods of the present invention.

Fig. 8 is the cutaway view of the part of the information goods of Fig. 7 of analysing and observe along 8-8.

Fig. 9 is the exploded view of a kind of form of information goods of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a kind of schematic diagram of producing the method for information goods of the present invention.

Figure 11 is the exploded view of another embodiment of the present invention.

The specific embodiment

As used herein, term " information goods " is meant a kind of like this article, these article are suitable for providing information by character, figure, colour coding or other means, these information can provide with the form that human eye vision receives, and perhaps the form that reads with machine with the information in being stored in magnetic medium (as magnetic stripe) or microchip provides.This term will be particularly including (but being not limited only to) identity card, credit card, debit card, smart card, organizational member card, security system card, safety enters the pass and other provide the article of information, wherein, these information goodses can require to prevent change, distort or duplicate.

As used herein, term " hologram " is to use with its traditional wide in range meaning, it comprises the single hologram element of independent use or uses a plurality of hologram elements, and a plurality of hologram element can maybe can not be in contact with one another or physically close mutually.

As used herein, for example the term that uses " encapsulation " be meant package metals bar by surrounding bonding jumper extrusion resin plastic material, will be understood that, elongated strap ends or can have the metal edge that exposes from the single article of last cutting-out, like this, this term will comprise the band that is encapsulated fully or encapsulate (exposing as strap ends) substantially fully.Term " metal band " comprises band and the band local or that made by the other materials of metal level covering fully that is made of metal.

See figures.1.and.2 in detail, wherein show a kind of information goods 2 of form.This jig has one first row general information 6, and this row information represents that the publisher of this card is " ABC bank ", and it will appear on all cards.For ease of reference, herein, this type of information is called as " fix information ", and this information will appear on each object in this series.Being positioned under the fix information is the variable data of several rows 8,10, and these data are that the specific holder for card customizes.In this example, card number is 1234-5678, and individuality is defined as " D.E.SMITH ".Importantly, information the 6,8, the 10th is touched information 6,8,10 by (a) prevention and is prevented that it is modified and (b) exempts to be protected by photograph.In this embodiment of the present invention, a layer of metal foil 12 has one and is formed directly into hologram in the tinsel 12 by impression, and this hologram is always by label 60 expressions.Therefore, this impression tinsel 12 not only can be implemented in the requirement of realization physics embossment in the Individual Items but also can carry out metalized to it.Paillon foil 12 for example can be aluminium foil or copper foil, and its thickness can be about 15 to 150 microns.The gross thickness of card 2 for example is about 750 microns.

In the particular instance of Fig. 1 and Fig. 2, fix information also comprises the graphic element 18 of multiple composition, and if desired, this graphic element 18 can be any required size and shape, and can be replicated in two or more positions.In the form that illustrates, hologram is made of the element of a plurality of basic rhombuses, and wherein first group 22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38 size want the size of smaller rhombus 42,44,46,48,50,52,54 and 58 big.In illustrated form, these rhombuses pass information goods 2 location, and generally are grouped into the arranged vertical of two or three rhombuses.Be pointed out that partial information 6,8,10 overlaps on the hologram.By this way, because hologram can hinder and duplicate and change, therefore, can stop any by photocopying and change the attempt that this photocopying part is forged subsequently.

As further safer measure, the several portions of information goods has the color different substantially with other parts.These parts are preferably disposed on basic and hologram is overlapping and be arranged in position under the information.In the form that illustrates, basic and the remaining background color of the color that many row's row 60,64,68,70,72,74 basic vertical orientation, substantially parallel and a pair of substantially parallel end 80,84 have forms contrast, and the color that wherein remains background is always by label 90 expressions of the remainder of card.Need point out that in the form that illustrates, colour band 60 is overlapping and be arranged under the letter " A " of fix information with holographic Figure 54.Colour band 64 is positioned under the part of the part of a part, numeral " 3 " of letter " C " and letter " E ".Colour band 68 is arranged under the part of second letter " A " of fix information 6, and colour band 70 is positioned under the part of numeral " 7 " and the letter " T " and is overlapping with hologram part 58.Numeral " 8 " is overlapping with holographic Figure 26.Need be understood that the different combination of these features can be used to provide required security.

Best as shown in Figure 2, a resinous plastic material 100 has encapsulated the tinsel 12 that comprises hologram, fix information 6, variable information 8,10 and colour band 60,64,68,70,72,74.Preferable, be about 10 to 20mil with the thickness " T " of the overlapping resinous plastic material part of tinsel 12 and hologram.In a preferred embodiment, when resinous plastic material be in a higher temperature so that its can utilize the heat that is included in wherein the time, the wear-resistant coating 104 of stack can preferably be fixed on the resinous plastic material 100.Resinous plastic material for example can be polyethylene.Because any thawing of resinous plastic material all will trend towards making information 6,8,10 to damage or damage, therefore, resinous plastic material is preferably thermoplastic.Resinous plastic material 100 and wear-resisting coating 104 (if you are using) should be transparent, and so more easily visual observation information 6,8,10.

Fig. 3 shows the schematic diagram of the method for the information goods among a kind of construction drawing 1 and Fig. 2.Volume tinsel 126 such as aluminium foil can be single-width or many times of width, and this will depend on the information goods that will make.Not only can cut longitudinal component to form single information goods, also can cross the width that needs extra otch to separate the band of single information goods and form a plurality of information goodses.When forming a hologram between tinsel 122 is by the roller 128,170 of cooperation and in paillon foil, these two rollers are used for making tinsel 122 to form embossment.Then, the tinsel that moves along arrow A, B, C indicated direction will be through printing operation, and wherein, the printing equipment 132,134 of cooperation is set on the upper surface 140 with the overlapping paillon foil 122 of hologram " information ".Then, paillon foil enters extruder 144, therein, contains hologram on the surface of coming encapsulating face to make progress with resinous plastic material 146 and is superimposed upon tinsel 122 on the information, thereby form the sort of structure as always illustrating among Fig. 2.Have an overlapping wearing course 104 if desired, can after extruding, be preferably in a period of time that resinous plastic material 146 is in higher temperature coating last layer coating or film.This will help to make wear-resisting coating 104 to be attached on the following resin material 146.If anti-friction material is supplied with thin film, can be with the supply source of a suitable spool (not shown) as film, and a pair of roller of exerting pressure (not shown) can impel layer 104 closely to contact with the upper surface of resinous plastic material 146.A cutter can comprise an anvil block 150 and a cutting element 152, cutting element 152 is that in the art those of ordinary skill is known, this cutter can be cut into a plurality of single information goodses with product longitudinally, as 153,154, these article are transported to required cooling, packing or storage areas by endless belt conveyer 160.

If desired, a bar code (not shown) can be arranged on the overlapping resinous plastic material 100 of hologram in shielded position in, but can interfere information 6,8,10.

Will be understood that the embodiment among Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 can completely cut off information 6,8,10 and directly touches and change.Equally, the existence of hologram, materials of different colors band and information also will stop photograph and the change of carrying out for the spurious information article to taking a picture with respect to the location of hologram and colour band.This realizes with reasonable manner with minimum material layer.

To Fig. 6, below will consider another embodiment of the present invention with reference to Fig. 4.In this embodiment of the present invention, information goods is formed by lens 190 and a base portion 192.Lens have a resin and plastic film 194, and this plastic sheeting 194 for example can be made of polyester or polypropylene, and can have the transparent wear-resisting coating 196 of one deck stack.Preferably, the thickness of film 194 be about whole card thick 10% to 25%.Holographic Figure 200 of one impression is formed in the downside of lens 190, and information 202 should be carried out metalized 203 by coating or tinsel by holography Figure 200 subsequently adjacent to holographic Figure 200 setting.Lens 190 allow from the local holographic Figure 200 that is superimposed upon on the information 202 of observation, and it is preferably formed by extruding.Base portion 192 has a metal inner core 206 that is encapsulated in the resinous plastic material 210.In the illustrated embodiment, magnetic storage medium layer 212 can adopt the form of magnetic stripe, and the length L of the length of this medium layer and information goods 216 is extended jointly, and in illustrated form, information goods 216 is a card that width is W.One antenna member 220 is arranged in the zone 221, and it can be made of metal, and as shown in Figure 6, this antenna member 220 is positioned in the space adjacent with magnetic stripe 212.As Fig. 4 and shown in Figure 6, antenna 220 links to each other with magnetic stripe 212, and magnetic stripe 212 links to each other with shielding 206 by lead-in wire 223.Magnetic stripe 212 can be fixed on the information goods 216 by lamination or hot stamping.Antenna 220 can be made of the tinsel of metal wire or cooling, perhaps with conductive ink with predetermined graphic printing on article.Antenna 220 also can form by setting up a metallized area on the surface of card.In the form shown in Fig. 6, the width of antenna 220 is w (Fig. 6).In the assembling of as shown in Figure 6 article, preferably under the influence that lens 190 and base portion 192 is advanced roller together exert pressure, the lower surface 222 of lens 190 is fixed on the upper surface 224 of base portion 192, preferably this moment, extrded material 210 was in higher temperature, thereby was convenient to effectively fixing.Will be understood that, in this mode, can protect information 202 effectively in case it is directly touched, and not at least the part assembly is damaged, and the position of the arrow D from Fig. 4 is again to observe easily.Will be understood that also card 216 can provide information with naked eyes along the visual means that arrow D observes by conduct, but the information that also can read by the machine that is included on the magnetic stripe 212 of cooperating with the antenna 202 and the end 206 provides information.

In order further to prevent undesirably information goods to be carried out photocopying, a plurality of particulates such as 226,228 mix with resinous plastic material 210, and these particulates are preferably quite little and can be bead or hologram fragment.These particulates for example can account for resinous plastic material 210 or tinsel particulate cumulative volume percentage 1/4% to 3/4%.

Referring again to Fig. 6, be pointed out that, a material area 230 that color is different can be set, for example be opaque ink, like this, the holder of card can write his signature 232 in the zone on 230, with as further safety measure.

With reference to Fig. 5, wherein be the schematic diagram of the method for the card shown in construction drawing 4 and Fig. 6.In this embodiment, flow to and be the direction shown in the arrow E.Tinsel 250 advantageously can be aluminum strip or copper bar, and this tinsel 250 supplies and enter extruder 256 from spool 252, illustrates as 260 places, and extruder 256 is used to resinous plastic material package metals paillon foil.Subsequently, when material when the direction shown in the arrow F moves, the lens 290 (Fig. 4) of previous holographic Figure 200 with superposed metalization that forms and information 202 and transparent membrane 194 and wear-resistant hyaline layer 196 were sent to the upper surface of package metals paillon foil 260.Magnetic stripe 294 is transported on the lower surface of tinsel 260 of encapsulation, exerts pressure and be applied on the assembly by the metal antenna 298 that aluminium, copper or other conducting metals constitute.Roller 300,302 is exerted pressure on package metals inner core 260, magnetic stripe 294, antenna 298 and lens 290, thereby impel assembly self to combine securely, and the resinous plastic material that is extruded that is in higher temperature will help this self combination.Will be understood that resin material is transparent, metal level 250 will make holographic Figure 200 can be in sight like this.

Then, assembly is moved past cooled region 306, and its temperature is reduced to about 40EF to 80EF herein.Cutter arrangement 310,312 can be any traditional device, and they for example are used for elongated information goods 314 is cut into a plurality of single information goods such as 316,322,324.These article can be single card, as from debit card, smart card, identity card, organizational member card, safety card, safety enters the pass and other provide a kind of card of choosing the article of information.In such a case, when the information goods that occurs from cooling device 306 is many times of width, then needs to cut along the longitudinal direction and form single card.

Need be understood that, in the present embodiment, tinsel 250 is as such one deck shielding, and it can make magnetic stripe not wish that the information loss that occurs minimizes, and be convenient to efficient communication between magnetic stripe and the machine, wherein machine is by coming and card-to-card communication to its transmission information and the information that receives on it.In addition, antenna 298 is made of metal, and it can be used to improve the efficient of communicating by letter between the operational contact part of card and equipment.

With reference to Fig. 7 to Fig. 9, another embodiment of the present invention will be described.Information goods 350 has transparent lens 354 and one and is positioned at following base portion 370.Lens 354 comprise that wearing course 358, the embossment by film 356 of a transparent membrane 356, a stack form is positioned at following hologram and information 364.Be positioned at a resinous plastic material 374 and an antenna 380 that following base portion 370 comprises a metallic film inner core 372, an encapsulation.The magnetic storage medium has adopted the form of microchip 384, and little heart sheet 384 is fixed on the antenna 385, and both all are received within the recess in the base portion 370 of information goods, and the memory capacity that microchip comprises for example is 8K or bigger.Microchip links to each other with metal inner core 372 by lead-in wire 387.In an embodiment of the present invention, visible hologram partly can be contained in the rectangle 390, in illustrated form, in the transparent part of Information Level 364, rectangle 390 has three elongated hologram elements 392,394,396, allow thus to be positioned at following metal level 372, make the hologram can be in sight.In order strengthening, a plurality of particulates such as 400,402 can be arranged in the resinous plastic material in the rectangle 390, thereby to prevent undesirable photocopying the effect that prevents by photocopying.The volume of particulate preferably account for resinous plastic material cumulative volume percentage 1/4% to 3/4%.When the remainder 365 of information goods 350 when being opaque, because metal level 372 is positioned under the opaque section 365, therefore, hologram is sightless, in the form shown in Fig. 7, observe in Fig. 7, opaque part 365 is present on all parts of the information goods 350 except that part 390 and 420.Opaque section 365 can provide zone eye impressions, receivability part information as one, and this will be discussed hereinafter.This opaque part can form by any method known to the those of ordinary skill in the art, as contaminating in the several portions of transparent membrane 356 or by surface colour.A kind of preferred methods is that a coloured film that has opening or transparent window is added on the hologram.

Be pointed out that those elements that information can be considered to always be pointed out by label 401.Symbol " ABC CORP. " can be for being present in the standard information on all cards, these symbols and corresponding a series of figure part 403,405,407 preferably have with substrate message part 365 in pairs than color, can make information in sight easily like this.Standard information can also comprise " No.410 ".The data that change can be made of the numeral of label 412 pointed following " No.410 ", and in illustrated form, the data of variation are made of numeral " 12345 ", and it is used for determining specific entity or individuality.Be pointed out that, part standard information 401,410 is arranged in and contains visuals 422,426 and such as the second portion 420 of the hologram of the rectangular in form of 428,430 based fine particles, wherein the part of numeral " 3 " and numeral " 4,5 " are located thereon.Like this, information 401,403,405,407,410 and 412 is protectively packed in the assembly.The attempt that touches these information can make local impaired and can stay the visible sign of this attempt at least.Equally, the attempt of changed information will be stoped by hologram or associated particulate as coming Copy Info by photocopying or other forgery means or duplicating also.

Will be understood that Information Level can be provided with any in contrastive colours, graphic element, printing font and combination thereof or other features, thereby strengthen observability and stop change and duplicate.

With reference to Fig. 9, this accompanying drawing is the exploded view of the embodiment of a kind of form shown in Fig. 7 and Fig. 8.Assembly has one deck coating material 403 that resistance to wears, and this material is fixed on the upper surface 432 of transparent membrane 434, is formed on hologram 438 in its lower surface 440 and transparent membrane 434 comprises an embossing.In the present embodiment, comprise the film 442 of one first process color and certain transparent part and comprise second process color and the film 444 of certain transparent part provides " information ", should " information " be the relation that contacts from following with film 434, film for example can be made by polyester, and its thickness is about 0.5mil to 2mil.Those parts that one layer of metal foil 446 is used for making the hologram 438 that has transparent part in two films 442 and 444 as seen.Will be understood that remove one and use preprinted film 442,444, information also can be printed on the hologram 438.Only schematically illustrated base portion 450 among the figure, as described above, base portion 450 can be for having tinsel inner core, suitable magnetic storage medium (as microchip 384) and the resinous plastic material of antenna (if necessary).Except having the magnetic storage medium, information goods can also have other means that are used to communicate by letter, bar code for example, and these means can read by a kind of suitable exercisable relevant equipment.

With reference to Figure 10, the structure that Fig. 7 discloses in Fig. 9 can be easy to make by the method shown in Figure 10.One carrier that is fit to enters in the extruder 474, and this carrier will be as the inner core 470 of base portion, and it can be a tinsel, for example is aluminium or copper.Resinous plastic material for example can be polyester, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) (ABS) copolymer or vinyl-type monomer or polymer (and being placed in other applying portions).The information film 480 that is mainly lens comprises that the wearing course (if setting), of transparent membrane, a stack is formed on hologram and one or more layers information of the embossing in the film.At pressure and preferably be in roller 490,492 under the temperatures involved of the resinous plastic material that comes from extruder has formed lens in substrate permanent connection, wherein the temperature that has of extruder can be about 360EF.

With reference to Figure 11, below another embodiment of the present invention will be described.The part that the present invention's conception can be produced the lens 500 of assembly in advance.After on information being set to preformed article, can requiring some retail shops or other places to make the complete assembly of other embodiment of the present invention, thereby finish information goods with limited equipment.

In the form that illustrates, lens 500 have a transparent and resin bed 510 that preferably be substantially rigidity, and wear-resisting coating 506 and one deck of having one deck stack on it are positioned at following integrally formed hologram 512.The product that is transported to final production producer place comprises transparent assembly 506,520,512, and this assembly preferably is substantially rigidity.Before finishing article, if desired, this assembly can be stored.The end user can be set to information 514 on the hologram, and hologram is easier to be seen in order to make subsequently, can carry out metalized.When metalized can adopt the form of coating or injection, in illustrated form, base portion 502 had one deck resin bed 522, has fixed layer of metal foil layer 520 on the top of resin bed 522.Base portion 502 can by such as from conjunction with or bonding any required means be fixed on the lens 500.Will be understood that, by this way, information 514 is carried out undesirable forgery or change, make that information is more lasting, the assembling of information is protected and is easy to see by stoping.

Therefore, be understandable that, the invention provides foundation effectively, cheaply, the means of the article of information goods safety, anti-tamper and anti-photocopying and generation thereof.All these are finished like this, wherein utilized hologram, transparent resinous plastic material, anti-photocopying particulate and fix information and variable information have been set in a kind of so safe mode, that is, information can be easy to be seen by naked eyes and/or can be read by machine.This system conception wherein use the embodiment of magnetic storage medium and antenna.Equally, also can use bar code and other means of identification.

Specific embodiment of the present invention described in the literary composition is for the purpose of description, and present technique field those of ordinary skill will be understood that, also can make multiple variation to details under the described prerequisite of the present invention not breaking away from as appended claims.

Claims (63)

1. method that forms anti-tamper information goods, this method comprises:

One tinsel is set,

In described tinsel, form a hologram,

Formation information on the described tinsel at local at least described hologram place, and

Described tinsel is encapsulated in the resinous plastic material.

2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Realize described encapsulation on the described tinsel by pushing described resinous plastic material on the described tinsel.

3. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Adopt aluminium foil as described tinsel.

4. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Adopt copper foil as described tinsel.

5. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Realize described encapsulation by injection-molded described resinous plastic material on described tinsel.

6. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Form described information by printing.

7. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Local at least transparent as the material of described resinous plastic material to allow to see described information.

8. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Adopt the continuous strip of described paillon foil; And

After forming described hologram, generation information and pushing, the several portions that cuts described band is to form a plurality of information goodses.

9. method as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Adopt described method to form card with discernible described information.

10. method as claimed in claim 9 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Described card is selected from following this group, and this group comprises: credit card, debit card, smart card, identity card, organizational member card and safety card.

11. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Formation has the described information goods an of upper surface and a lower surface, and wherein said information can be seen by upper surface; And

Foundation is superimposed upon the described resinous plastic material on the described information, and its thickness on described upper surface is about 10 to 20mil.

12. method as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Set up a plurality of zones, these zones have with substantially adjacent to or be superimposed upon the different color of described paillon foil on described hologram and the described information.

13. method as claimed in claim 12 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

The color that makes described zone is different with described information.

14. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Adopt thickness to be about 15 to 150 microns described tinsel.

15. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

On described film, form described information, and

Described film is fixed adjacent to described hologram.

16. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

With the part of a bar code as described information.

17. an anti-tamper information goods, these article comprise:

One tinsel inner core,

One is formed on the hologram in the described tinsel inner core,

Be positioned on the described tinsel and the local at least information that is superimposed upon on the described hologram,

Encapsulate the resinous plastic material of described hologram, described information and described tinsel, and

The described resinous plastic material that is superimposed upon on the part of described information is transparent.

18. information goods as claimed in claim 17 is characterized in that, described resinous plastic material covers described tinsel substantially fully.

19. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, described tinsel is an aluminium foil.

20. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, described tinsel is a copper foil.

21. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, described information is printed.

22. information goods as claimed in claim 17 is characterized in that, described resinous plastic material part at least is transparent, to allow observing described information by it.

23. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, described information goods is the single card under cutting from continuous band.

24. information goods as claimed in claim 23 is characterized in that, described information is used to provide identity validation.

25. information goods as claimed in claim 24 is characterized in that, described card is selected from following this group, and this group comprises: credit card, debit card, smart card, identity card, organizational member card and safety card.

26. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that:

Described information goods has a upper surface and a lower surface, and wherein said information can see by upper surface, and

In being superimposed upon the part of described information, the thickness of described resinous plastic material is about 10 to 20mil.

27. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, this information goods comprises a plurality of zones, these regional colors with adjacent to or the color of the described paillon foil of superpose described hologram and described information different.

28. information goods as claimed in claim 27 is characterized in that, the zone of described different colours has the different color of information a kind of and described stack.

29. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, described information is arranged on the film.

30. information goods as claimed in claim 18 is characterized in that, a bar code is superimposed upon on the described tinsel inner core and is encapsulated in the described resinous plastic material.

31. information goods as claimed in claim 27 is characterized in that, described hologram has a plurality of parts, and wherein at least some described parts are positioned under the described information of part.

32. a method that forms anti-tamper information goods, this method comprises:

By making a metal inner core form a base portion by an extruder, this base portion has a upper surface and a lower surface, and described ectrusion press resinous plastic material encapsulates described metal inner core;

Form lens by an elongated clarity plastic layer is set, form a hologram in the lower surface of lens, and with information be arranged on described hologram below; And

The upper surface of described base portion is fixed on the lower surface of described lens.

33. method as claimed in claim 32 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

When the base portion of extrusion resin plastic material is in the high temperature, realize the described fixing of described base portion and described lens.

34. method as claimed in claim 33 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

After described the fixing of described base portion and described lens, make described lens-base portion assembly cooling.

35. method as claimed in claim 34 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

After described cooling, described lens-base portion assembly is cut into a plurality of information goodses.

36. method as claimed in claim 32 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Before the extruding of carrying out described resinous plastic material, the particulate of a plurality of different materials is attached in the described resinous plastic material.

37. method as claimed in claim 36 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

With bead as described particulate combination.

38. method as claimed in claim 37 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

According to the volume of described resinous plastic material, with about percent by volume of 1/4% to 3/4% in conjunction with described bead.

39. method as claimed in claim 35 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

One magnetic medium memory element is fixed on the described base portion, and

Described magnetic medium memory element is an elongated magnetic stripe, and described magnetic stripe basic fixed is on the lower surface of described base portion.

40. method as claimed in claim 39 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Antenna assembly is fixed on the described magnetic medium memory element.

41. method as claimed in claim 32 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

One anti-friction material is fixed on the upper surface of described lens.

42. method as claimed in claim 35 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Adopt a microchip as described magnetic medium memory element.

43. method as claimed in claim 42 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

The relation of antenna assembly with described relatively microchip operation is fixed on the information goods; And

Described microchip is connected on the described metal inner core.

44. method as claimed in claim 32 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

The film that is arranged between described metal inner core and the described hologram has at least one transparent part and at least one opaque section, only has the described hologram of part to see thus.

45. method as claimed in claim 44 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Information is arranged on the described film.

46. an anti-tamper information goods, this information goods comprises:

One transparent lens, described lens comprise a upper surface and a lower surface;

One hologram, described hologram forms in lower surface, and information is applied on the described hologram;

One base portion, this base portion have a metal inner core that is encapsulated in the resinous plastic material; And

The upper surface of described base portion is fixed on the lower surface of described lens, and described thus hologram and information will be enclosed in the described article by protectorate.

47. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 46 is characterized in that, these article comprise:

The particulate of a plurality of different materials, these particulates are arranged in the described resin material.

48. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 47 is characterized in that, described particulate is a bead.

49. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 48 is characterized in that, the percent by volume of the described bead of existence is according to about 1/4% to 3/4% of the volume of described resinous plastic material.

50. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 46 is characterized in that, these article comprise:

One magnetic medium memory element, described element are fixed on the described base portion; And

Described magnetic medium memory element is an elongated magnetic stripe.

51. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 50 is characterized in that, these article comprise:

Antenna assembly, described antenna is fixed on the described magnetic memory.

52. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 51 is characterized in that, adopts an aluminium foil band as described inner core material, so that an electromagnetic shielding to be provided; And

Described magnetic memory is connected on the described tinsel band.

53. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 46 is characterized in that, these article comprise:

Anti-friction material, described anti-friction material is fixed on the upper surface of described lens.

54. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 46 is characterized in that information is arranged on the film.

55. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 46 is characterized in that:

Described information goods is a card; And

Described card is selected from following this group, and this group comprises: credit card, debit card, smart card, identity card, organizational member card and safety card.

56. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 46 is characterized in that, these article comprise:

One film, described film are arranged between described metal inner core and the described hologram; And

Described film has some transparent parts and some opaque sections, and only the described hologram of part is visible thus.

57. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 56 is characterized in that, information is arranged on the described film.

58. anti-tamper information goods as claimed in claim 46 is characterized in that, described metal inner core is an aluminium foil, and its thickness is about 15 to 150 microns.

59. a method that forms anti-tamper information goods, this method comprises:

Form the transparent lens of a substantially rigid, be formed with a hologram in the described lens;

Information is formed on the described hologram; And

The described information that comprises hologram is carried out metalized.

60. method as claimed in claim 59 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

By being fixed on the described information that comprises hologram, a layer of metal foil realizes described metalized.

61. method as claimed in claim 59 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

By a metallized coating being coated on the described information that comprises hologram to realize described metalized.

62. method as claimed in claim 59 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

Cover the described metallized layer that comprises information with a resin bed.

63. method as claimed in claim 62 is characterized in that, this method comprises:

After forming transparent lens described substantially rigid, that comprise hologram, but form thereon before the described information, store described lens.

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