EA037240B1 - Reference identification mark with a combined protection - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to devices having information of commercial products, which are to some extent protected from copying and counterfeiting, in particular, to a control identification mark with a combined protection (hereinafter - identification mark), which contains constant and machine-readable transient data about commercial products protected from copying. The technical result consisting in complete detection of copies and minimization of counterfeiting capabilities of the identification mark is reached due to the presence on the identification mark of the multilayer security element with associated security features and with the possibility of duplication of at least a part of the constant data. The identification mark is provided for personalization of each unit of commercial products information about which it contains, and can be used as a component of the automated information systems of marking or marking and tracking of commercial products.

Description

(12) DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION TO THE EURASIAN PATENT (45) Date of publication and grant of the patent

2021.02.25 (21) Application number

202000263 (22) Application Filing Date

2020.08.13 (51) Int. Cl. G06K19 / 08 (2006.01)

G09F3 / 10 (2006.01)

G06K19 / 06 (2006.01)

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(54) IDENTIFICATION SIGN WITH COMBINED PROTECTION (43) 2021.02.24 (96) 2020 / ЕА / 0051 (BY) 2020.08.13 (71) (73) Applicant and patentee: CLOSED JOINT STOCK SOCIETY HOLOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY; REPUBLICAN UNITARY ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING BELBLANKAVYD; REPUBLICAN SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL UNITARY ENTERPRISE CRYPTOTECH OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SIGNS OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; REPUBLICAN UNITARY ENTERPRISE MINSK PRINT FACTORY GOZNAK; MANUFACTURING UNITARY ENTERPRISE PAPER FACTORY GOZNAK DEPARTMENT OF STATE SIGNS OF THE I MINISTRY OF FINANCE THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS; LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ATVTECH (BY) (72) (74) (56) Inventor: Tanin Leonid Viktorovich, Boboreko Alexander Georgievich, Lushchikov Mikhail Nikolaevich, Moiseenko Petr Vasilievich, Tanin Vyacheslav Andreevich, Shevtsov Viktor Arkadievich, Kapshai Alexander Evgenievich, Smirnov Aleksey Pavlovich, Shkatulo Lyudmila Ivanovna, Rak Alexander Vasilievich, Petr Gorelenko, Gorelenko Alexander Yakovlevich Viktorovich, Gremyakin Alexey I Vladimirovich, Gubareva Elena Georgievna, Melnikov Alexander Ivanovich, Kashko Pavel Frantsevich, Shangin Sergey Valerievich, Lipsky Oleg Nikolaevich (BY) Representative: Shakirina S.G. (BY) RU-U1-120261 RU-C2-2431193 RU-C2-2574969 ЕА-В1-014999 US-A1-20040000787 WO-A1-2007133164 (57) The invention relates to devices that carry information about a commercial product, which to one degree or another are protected from copying and counterfeiting, in particular to a control identification mark with combined protection (hereinafter - identification mark), which contains constant and machine readable variable information about a commercial product, copy protected. The technical result consisting in the complete detection of copies and minimization of the possibilities of making counterfeits of the identification mark is achieved due to the presence on the identification mark of a multilayer security element with interconnected security features and with the possibility of duplicating at least part of the permanent information. The identification mark is designed to individualize each unit of commercial products, information about which it contains, and can be used as an integral part of automated information systems for marking or marking and traceability of commercial products.

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The invention relates to devices that carry constant and machine-readable variable information about a commercial product, which to one degree or another are protected from copying and counterfeiting. The claimed control identification mark with combined protection (hereinafter referred to as the identification mark) is intended to individualize each unit of commercial products, information about which it carries, and can be used as an integral part of automated information systems for marking or marking and traceability of commercial products.

Copy protection means the presence in the composition of the identification mark of means that make it possible to distinguish the original copy of the identification mark from its copy, made, for example, with the use of duplicating technology of any resolution and any possibility of transferring color shades.

Anti-counterfeiting means the creation of such an identification mark, which is characterized by features based on knowledge from various fields of science and technology, and for the manufacture of which specialized expensive equipment and highly qualified specialists from various fields of science and technology are required. There can be no one hundred percent protection against counterfeiting, there is only the possibility of making it as difficult as possible so that the economic benefits from counterfeiting do not exceed the material costs of its implementation.

Many solutions are known in the art for preventing copying and counterfeiting, and these can be divided into three groups. The first group includes devices that carry machine readable variable information in two codes, made with different resolutions for printing codes, reading them and then interpreting the content. Such devices are known, for example, from [1-3]. The devices described in these sources use the technique of creating coarse and fine codes. The disadvantage of such devices is that copy protection in them is not based on physical principles, but on the resolution of the reproducing devices, i.e. an attacker must take a scanner and printing devices of appropriate resolution to copy such codes.

The second group includes devices that, along with machine readable information, contain a non-reproducible picture [4] or randomly located visible particles [5]. However, these techniques do not prevent the appearance of copies of such devices, i.e. from replicating an unreproducible picture or reproducing randomly located visible particles.

The third group includes the solution, which is known from [6]. This patent presents a method of protecting products from counterfeiting, which is based on the fact that each unit of commercial products is equipped with an information security label, on which a bar code is applied containing permanent and machine-readable variable information, and this label is intended to be placed on a product protected from counterfeit. products. The label is also equipped with a diffractive anti-copying and counterfeiting element with surface micro-relief, creating an optical diffraction effect. As a diffractive copy protection element having a surface microrelief, a Benton hologram or an electron-beam-recorded hologram or Kinegram is used.

This label is chosen as a prototype, since it is a means of the same purpose as the claimed identification mark, is provided with constant and machine-readable variable information and has a set of features closest to the claimed identification mark.

The disadvantage of the prototype is that the diffractive element of protection against copying and counterfeiting used in it is based on holograms, the production of which has more than three decades and has been mastered by hundreds of enterprises, and therefore the possibility of making high quality counterfeits is not excluded.

The objective of this invention is to create an identification mark containing permanent and machine-readable variable information about a commercial product, which will ensure complete detection of its own copies, as well as minimize the possibility of making counterfeits of the claimed identification mark.

The specified problem is solved due to the fact that the claimed identification mark contains a paper or polymer base, on one side of which glue with residual stickiness is applied, covered with siliconized paper, on the other side permanent and machine-readable variable information about the commercial product is applied and a security element is attached, while said security element is made multi-layer and sequentially includes a protective layer; a polymer layer with additives of photoluminophores, consisting of anisotropic and isotropic regions, including a latent image, in which at least part of said constant information is duplicated; a layer of oriented polymerized liquid crystals, including a latent image, in which at least a portion of said permanent information is also duplicated; reflective layer and relief-phase hologram.

Advantage is the identification mark, in which the paper or polymer base is made, respectively, of self-destructive paper or of a self-destructive polymer film.

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The identification mark is also advantageous in which the reflective layer of the security element is made of metals or substances with a high refractive index.

Also advantageous is the identification mark in which the machine readable variable information is applied in the form of an alphanumeric code and / or a bar code.

The identification mark also has an advantage, in which through cuts are made in the paper base.

The identification mark also has an advantage, in which permanent information includes elements of polygraphic security (guilloche, microprinting, graphic traps).

The identification mark, in which the paper substrate includes security fibers, is also advantageous.

All these advantages of the claimed identification mark will be explained in an example of embodiment of the invention, schematically represented by the drawings in FIG. 1 and 2, on which:

in fig. 1 shows a general view of the identification mark, which is made in the form of a self-adhesive label (sticker), the base of which contains permanent information, machine readable variable information and a security element;

in fig. 2 is a schematic cross-section of the identification mark shown in FIG. one.

In these drawings, the following numerical designations are adopted:

- the basis of the identification mark;

- part of the base 1 for applying permanent information about the product;

- part of the framework 1 for applying machine readable variable information in the form of an alphanumeric code;

- part of the base 1 for applying machine readable variable information in the form of a bar code;

- a security element that is attached to the base and includes:

- protective layer,

- a polymer layer with additives of photoluminophores, consisting of anisotropic and isotropic regions, including a latent image, in which at least a part of said constant information is duplicated;

- a layer of oriented polymerized liquid crystals, including a latent image, in which at least a part of said constant information is duplicated;

- reflective layer,

- relief-phase hologram;

- the glue with which the security element 5 is attached to the base 1;

- glue with residual stickiness;

- siliconized paper;

- through cuts in the base 1.

In this example, the identification mark contains a base 1 of paper. It is also possible to use a polymer film base. The cut-throughs 14 in the paper base 1 make it difficult to remove the identification mark from a legal product and transfer it to a counterfeit product. To completely exclude the possibility of removing the identification mark, self-destructive paper or self-destructive polymer film is used. On one side of the paper base 1 is applied adhesive 12 with residual tack, covered with siliconized paper 13. On the other side of the paper base 1, permanent information is applied. FIG. 1 and 2 show part of the base paper 2 for applying permanent information about the product. The name of the product group is often used as permanent information about a product. Permanent information may include other information, as well as polygraphic means of protection against counterfeiting and copying, such as microtext, guilloches, etc. Also applied to this side of the paper base 1 is machine readable variable information, which in FIG. 1 and 2 are represented as alphanumeric code 3 (series and serial number) and bar code 4 (two-dimensional matrix bar code). The security element 5 is also attached with an adhesive 11 on this side of the paper base 1. The security element 5 is multilayer and consists of the following layers.

Protective layer 6. Protects element 5 of protection from mechanical and partly chemical influences;

Polymer layer 7 with additives of photoluminophores, consisting of anisotropic and isotropic regions and including a latent image, in which at least a part of said constant information is duplicated. This latent image is visualized by a rotating polarizer while illuminating the security element 5 with UV radiation.

Strengthening the security against forgery of the identification mark using the above-mentioned polymer layer 7 can be as follows. Ink with photoluminescent phosphor is printed on the basis of 1, outside the zone of the security element, permanent information, for example the abbreviation KIZ (control identification mark). Under normal lighting, this inscription is not detected. When UV-2 037240 radiation is directed to this place, the inscription KIZ will appear. In the polymer layer 7 with additives of photoluminophores, consisting of anisotropic and isotropic regions, we also write the abbreviation KIZ as a latent image, but this inscription will be visualized on the principles of polarized luminescence. To visualize it, a UV source is also required, but additionally a rotating polarizer, i.e. special device. When we put this device on this control identification mark and turn it on, i.e. UV radiation turns on and the polarizer starts rotating, then we will see that the isotropic sections of the polymer layer with additives of photoluminophores will glow constantly, the anisotropic sections will blink, highlighting and extinguishing the KIZ inscription. The printed inscription KIZ will light up without blinking. UV radiation in this case will work for the visualization of two latent images, as well as for the visualization of security fibers, which are colorless under normal lighting, but luminescent under UV radiation.

Layer 8 of oriented polymerized liquid crystals, which contains a latent image, in which at least part of the mentioned constant information is duplicated. The name of the product group can be duplicated as a latent image. The latent image is visualized by an identifying device that consists of a polarizer and a phase plate.

The total maximum phase incursion of the layer 8 of oriented polymerized liquid crystals and the phase plate is a quarter of the wavelength.

The reflective layer 9, which can be made of metals (aluminum, copper, chromium) or of substances with a high refractive index (zinc sulfide, titanium oxide). In the latter case, the protective agent will be transparent. The reflective layer 9 is designed to visualize the aforementioned latent images, as well as to observe the relief-phase hologram 10.

Relief-phase hologram 10. Visual protection with anti-copy properties.

Thus, the security element 5 includes five layers. In this case, layers 7, 8 and 10 have specific security features. Despite the multiplicity of layers, its total thickness does not exceed a few micrometers. The security element 5 is a single whole, its layer-by-layer division into components in order to analyze each layer and make a fake is impossible. The reflective layer 9 enhances the security features of the security element 5. As a result, the protective effect of the relief-phase hologram increases many times over, which poses serious obstacles to copying and counterfeiting the identification mark. It is not enough to make a hologram using traditional technologies, since other protective components require the use of expensive specialized equipment, knowledge of technology and trained highly qualified specialists in various fields of science and technology.

The glue 11 fixes the security element 5 on the base 1. The glue 11 contacts the relief of the relief phase hologram, and not with the reflective layer, as is customary in traditional security holograms. This was done so that there was no possibility of mechanical copying of the relief of the relief phase hologram with the aim of forging it.

The device works as follows. The paper base 1 with glue 12 with residual stickiness is removed from the siliconized paper 13 and is transferred either to the product, or to the product label, or to the product packaging and is fixed on them. Glue 12 with residual stickiness, through cuts in the paper base 1 prevent the identification mark from being removed without destruction. Its transfer is made depending on the number of goods in the batch:

manually;

using etiquette pistols;

etiquette machines.

The identification of the authenticity of the goods, the legality of its production and the place of localization can be carried out in two modes - online and offline. In online mode, when there is a connection between the checking device and the database of the checked commodity group, the machine-readable variable information applied to the base is the main authentication feature, and the security element is auxiliary. Having received confirmation from the database about the legality of the goods and about its correct localization, the inspector checks the security element, its visual (hologram) and visualized (hidden images) components. The authenticity of these constituent security elements ensures that there are no copies or counterfeits. In offline mode (in the absence of communication between the verifier and the database), the security element becomes the main authentication feature and is subjected to more thorough verification for authenticity using specially developed instructions and identifying portable devices.

The security element 5 has a multi-level protection, from the level of perception of a simple customer (relief-phase hologram) to the level of organization of a proprietary system based on a layer of 8 oriented polymerized liquid crystals due to the distribution of the phase incursion between the layer 8 of oriented polymerized liquid crystals and the phase plate of the identifying device.

Thus, the technical result, consisting in the complete detection of copies and minimization

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Sources of information:

1) RU 2520432, publication date: 06/27/2014;

2) RU 2527757, publication date: 09/10/2014;

3) RU 2681696, publication date: 12.03.2019;

4) RU 2408929, publication date: 01/10/2011;

5) RU 2477531, publication date: 03/10/2013;

6) RU 2144220, publication date: 10.01.2000.

Claims (7)

1. Control identification mark with combined security, containing a paper or polymer base, on one side of which adhesive with residual stickiness is applied, covered with siliconized paper, on the other side at least permanent and machine-readable variable information about the commercial product is applied and a security element is attached characterized in that said security element is multilayer and sequentially includes a protective layer; a polymer layer with additives of photoluminophores, consisting of anisotropic and isotropic regions, including a latent image, in which at least part of said constant information is duplicated; a layer of oriented polymerized liquid crystals, including a latent image, in which at least a portion of said permanent information is also duplicated; reflective layer and relief-phase hologram. 2. An identification mark according to claim 1, characterized in that the paper or polymer base is made, respectively, of self-destroying paper or of a self-destroying polymer film. 3. The identification mark according to claim 1, characterized in that the reflective layer of the security element is made of metals or substances with a high refractive index. 4. An identification mark according to claim 1, characterized in that the machine readable variable information is applied in the form of an alphanumeric code and / or a bar code. 5. The identification mark according to claim 1, characterized in that through cuts are made in the paper base. 6. An identification mark according to claim 1, characterized in that the permanent information includes elements of polygraphic security, for example, guilloche, microprinting, graphic traps. 7. An identification mark according to claim 1, wherein the paper substrate comprises security fibers.