DE102009011881A1 - Cardboard card is made of natural materials like wood or hemp mostly from renewable raw materials instead of plastics made from fossil raw materials - Google Patents

Abstract

The cardboard card is made of natural materials like wood, hemp etc. mostly from renewable raw materials instead of plastics made from fossil raw materials. The cards are used depending on the useful life and specific frequency of each application. An appropriate shape is given by the required compression density of the material, a suitable edge stamping or pressing and an appropriate sealing or coating of the surface.

Description

The Invention is based on these "plastic cards", similar to the already known related and generally use smart cards made of plastic, for example the financial traffic [credit card] and also telephone cards, comparable etc. such as B. the corresponding cards of health insurance, other Achievers.

The generic, well-known, Plastic cards are certainly known to everyone and an integral Part of our life.

A Chip card [credit cards or other related means of payment, proof of identity or similar, as well as a telephone card so designated here] is a card made of plastic in the format of a bank card or a bank-standard debit card.

in the Basically, all "plastic cards" are the same built up. They are made of plastic, mostly PVC, and have all the cards the same format and with the pertinent information printed. Thus, the visible map data z. B. Name of the Owner, card number and period for which the card is valid, and information about the issuer of the card.

On the front of a cash card all card data are imprinted and on the back she wears the cardholder's signature and usually a card verification number, the so-called CVC. At the moment credit cards are partly on the back a magnetic stripe on which the map data is stored. From 2007 on all new credit cards this magnetic stripe replaced by a memory chip on the front.

often the cards are provided with a magnetic strip on which all information about the cardholder, the card account as well as the secret PIN number are stored and can also be rewritten.

Of There is also the so-called prepaid credit card, which is like a ordinary Credit card is used as a means of payment, but none Credit line features. To pay with her, she must in advance via bank transfer charged or rewritten at the ATM. As an an example in addition also the Prepaidkarte of the Telekom or other telecommunications offerers.

With so-called PIN cards [such as the telephone cards listed here] you can not only pay for goods and services, but also withdraw cash at ATMs. Or telecommunications services and similar use. The pin is not readable from the magnetic strip, but will always online or by inquiry on the phone at the respective card issuer off.

So called chip cards are used in many areas and already in the near future, the commonly used method of payment this planet.

These Cards are separated according to their characteristics, not all Chip card has the same technical capabilities. There are memory chip cards with simple logic and "processor power". Smart cards, who have their own card operating system on their chip and also also the data in addition encode can. The chip cards are thus according to application and ability the chip is judged.

In order to The chip on the card, nothing happens, he is from a smart card module protected. He is therefore not visible. The golden contacts you get on the Chip cards sees, so are not the chip itself but only the contacts that allow the chip to read through the common devices.

These Chips including module are inserted in the already printed chip cards built-in.

The The simplest chip cards are for example the health insurance card or the phone card in the prepaid variant. They only have one Memory that can be read out as well as written.

such Chip cards are usually only used if only one memory must be present on the map, but no further operations with this card should take place.

ever according to the application-specific shaping and design of this Invention, similar except for the weighty circumstance that the one used here Material is not made of plastic [as with the general Use of so-called PVC] but of natural Materials such as wood, hemp, leather and others as base material suitable renewable raw materials is produced, certainly every well-known commercial Plastic cards [chip cards, telephone cards, identity documents Etc.].

The invention is therefore the object of developing these already known generic plastic / plastic cards such that a sustainable, environmentally friendly and resource-saving production of these commonly used "plastic cards" seems possible without the Ver purpose.

simultaneously thereby offer serious advantages in the by state Make binding regulatory requirements in waste prevention and Disposal of the no longer needed Cards.

Therefore means this invention with the name "Card" over the well-known commercially available "plastic cards" made of synthetic Materials in cashless payment or for example as a proof of identity, Phone card a significant advantage and thus significant benefits for the Consumers, manufacturers and service industries of these specific Products.

For the consumer In addition, the good and safe feeling Environment conscious, sustainable and therefore strategic Consumption also in the exercise cashless payments to be able to.

And as everyone knows succeed this mostly insufficient and fails mostly on the one-sided on non-renewable fossil resources such. For example, oil oriented product range of trade and manufacturing.

Therefore should be achieved by this invention that the manufacturer, trade, Service industries, credit institutions and private end users such so-called "smart cards / calling cards / identity cards" such as those for example, commercially available made of PVC or other for that suitable synthetic materials and used exclusively everywhere finally found a real alternative becomes the obligation imposed by state organs in environmentally friendly and sustainable business pacts or consumption future to be able to correspond.

decisive requirement for Finally, a market economy that works in the long term is the consistent attention to technical feasibility in the quest to protect our environment and future generations thus a survivability to ensure.

Consequently becomes a by the use of this invention described here with the legal provisions and supranational regulations and policy / specifications are the same correct implementation of this "Greenökobio and Naturally Sustainable "now also possible in cashless payment transactions in general.

The technical aspect of this "invention" card:
The "card" described in this invention must be tuned in the manufacturing process on the partially required integrated chip or a magnetic strip and also a usability in commercial chip card readers should be possible without affecting the use of the card or even damage these reading and writing instruments ,

at the commonly used so called phone cards - are Let's face it - would be one Strip paper with the imprint of the relevant PIN mostly perfect be enough.

at these prepaid phonecards but and of course this particular other "plastic cards" will be the Use of natural and renewable raw materials such as As wood, hemp, sisal, etc. so also, for example, leather or the like suitable for it natural Materials in contrast to the current use of fossil resources and the exclusive one Use of synthetic materials by one of the service life and frequency the card usage appropriate required press density of the material, corresponding edge embossing and sealing the surface easily allows.

The Various methods of papermaking are well known and I want you in the description of this independent inventive Performance also not with the subtleties of pulp production etc. bored and shine with read technical knowledge that it beside the mechanical processing of the wood as a production way the chemical defibration of the basic material wood, more similar naturally Raw materials, gives. Of course This produces pulp which also cellulose and others Wood pulp, but no or little lignin, etc., etc. contains.

The Making a map as described above and the integration a chip or a magnetic card or - as with the phone cards in use - Rubbelfeldes to get to the PIN appears with the outlined above natural Materials also possible as with the commercial ones Plastics.

The only thing one in this uncomplicated and well-known manufacturing process in the special - and as in this patent application of an independent inventive achievement sufficiently described - use of natural materials, preferably based on renewable raw materials such. For example, wood, hemp, etc. must be taken into consideration with a view to use in mechanical and electronic reading and writing instruments is only the appropriate edge embossing / pressing and a suitable seal / coating the surface of this "card" described in this application. With leather, horn and any other non-conductive base material, as with a "cardboard card" as described here, it is also easy to integrate a chip, magnetic strip or such a scratch pad, thus making it possible to use the alternative materials generally mentioned here , The costs of disposal and environmentally friendly production of these cards could be reduced and sustainable business activities certainly realized in the interest of the general public.

Generally known and available Standing bonding techniques are not just for solid integration of the chip / magnetic strip in the previously described materials but also the safe protection against unjustified removal of chip and other often necessary security features of Cards.

Of the effective advantage is the cheap Price - performance ratio at Production and subsequent mostly necessary problem-free disposal of such cards.

Claims (4)

Cardboard characterized in that instead of using made of fossil raw materials plastics [such as the commonly used PVC] natural materials such as wood, hemp, etc. as described above from mostly renewable raw materials application and thus can be used accordingly. Cardboard characterized in that the described Invention in the respective use of finding cards depending on Useful life and specific frequency the appropriate application in this case appropriate shaping by the required compactness of the material and a suitable for this Edge embossing / pressing and a suitable seal / coating of the surface and thus receives can be used accordingly. Cardboard characterized in that the described Invention in the respective use of finding cards depending on Need by gluing techniques, other commonly used Manufacturing techniques, the integration of chip, magnetic strip or Rubbelfeld allows and thereby can be used accordingly. Cardboard characterized in that the described Invention in the use of finding cards a Reduction of plastics in the production process and prevention of plastic waste according to the general applicable legal provisions and still allow accordingly the requirements of cashless payment and identity verification can be.