EP1923229B1 - Document de sécurité - Google Patents

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EP1923229B1
EP1923229B1 EP06023970A EP06023970A EP1923229B1 EP 1923229 B1 EP1923229 B1 EP 1923229B1 EP 06023970 A EP06023970 A EP 06023970A EP 06023970 A EP06023970 A EP 06023970A EP 1923229 B1 EP1923229 B1 EP 1923229B1
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Jerome Martin
Günther Philipp
Andrew Parker
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
    • B42D25/20—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof characterised by a particular use or purpose
    • B42D25/29—Securities; Bank notes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
    • B42D2035/20—
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
    • B42D25/30—Identification or security features, e.g. for preventing forgery
    • B42D25/324—Reliefs

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  • the present invention generally relates to security documents comprising a substrate and at least one security feature, and in particular to banknotes.
  • Security documents such as banknotes, checks, stocks, bonds, passports, vouchers and the like are the subject to fraudulent copying.
  • the authentication of security documents is a long standing problem.
  • security features have been developed to allow users and machines to discriminate among genuine and forged security documents as wells as to discriminate among different values of security documents, in particular banknotes, using special papers, special inks, special patterns, the inclusion of watermarks and security threads and the like.
  • the security documents comprise a substrate, in particular a substrate made of paper or plastic.
  • the security features are provided on the surface of the substrate and within the substrate.
  • WO 00/72275 A describes a multilayer surface comprising at least two layers having different refractive indices such that selective wavelengths are transmitted or reflected. These layers are laid on to a transparent substrate.
  • the multilayer structure may be used as an anti-counterfeiting device.
  • the security document according to the invention comprises a substrate which is provided with an arrangement of optical elements within a predetermined area of the security document.
  • the arrangement of optical elements forms an optical reflector, wherein each of said optical elements comprises a stack of curved, preferably spherically curved, alternating layers of different refractive indices, i.e. an optical element having a lower refractive index follows an optical element having a higher optical element and vice versa.
  • the reflector produces an unique optical effect that when viewed from any direction under the illumination with directional incident light it provides a bright sparkling effect, while under the illumination with diffuse incident light it provides the appearance of a single dull colour over its surface, giving the appearance of plastic.
  • This optical effect is unusual and obvious to the unaided eye, and can not be reproduced by means of any copying devices.
  • the optical elements are arranged on a plane surface which may be the plane surface of the substrate.
  • the optical elements being arranged on a plane surface are preferably formed such that the optical elements have distorted apertures representing the projection of said optical elements arranged on the curved surface onto the plane surface.
  • the optical elements can be arranged either on or within said substrate of the security document and the aperture of the optical elements can have different shapes.
  • the optical elements preferably comprise a rectangular, quadratic, hexagonal or circular aperture, wherein the aperture diameter of each optical element is preferably 10 to 50 ⁇ m, in particularly 15 to 25 ⁇ m.
  • the curved layers of the optical elements preferably comprise a constant thickness of 75 to 120 nm, particularly a thickness of 90 nm.
  • the curved layers can also have a different thickness.
  • the diameter of said stack of alternating layers is preferably greater or equal than the aperture diameter of said optical element so as to cover the aperture of said optical element as much as possible with active optical surface.
  • said optical elements are covered with a protective layer of an optically inactive material.
  • the protective layer can be formed as a layer providing an arrangement of optical elements having a plane or curved surface.
  • the security document is a banknote preferably comprising a paper based-substrate.
  • said banknote comprises a safety thread and / or a picture element, wherein said safety thread and / or picture element is provided with said arrangement of optical elements.
  • Fig. 1 , 2 , and 3 show only a part of the arrangement of optical elements on a substrate of a security document.
  • the security document SD comprises a substrate 4 having an upper curved surface 18 on which an arrangement of micro-optical elements 2 forming an optical reflector is deposited within a predetermined area of the security document SD. Since the Figures show only a small sector of the whole preferably slight curved surface, the curvature of the sector of the surface could not be seen. However, a substrate having a plane upper surface can also be used, on which a basic layer can be arranged having a lower plane surface and an upper curved surface. The arrangement of the micro-optical elements 2 can also be included in the substrate 4 of the security document SD.
  • Each of the micro-optical elements 2 of the preferred embodiment comprises a basic layer 8 having a curved, preferably spherically upper surface.
  • the basic layer is arranged on the curved upper surface of the substrate.
  • On the upper curved surface of the basic layer a stack of alternating layers 10 of different refractive indices is deposited, the alternating layers 10 also having a curved, preferably spherically shape. If the layers are made of flexible material, the basic layer 8 causes the layers 10 to take on its spherical shape.
  • the stack of the layers 10 comprises 10 high index layers 12 in total with a refractive index of 1.54 and 9 layers with a refractive index of 1, each of which is arranged between two high index layers 12.
  • Each of the layers 10 has a constant thickness of preferably 90 nm. However, the thickness of the layers 10 can vary between 75 to 120 nm.
  • On top of the stack there is deposited a protective layer 16 of an optically inactive material.
  • the upper surface of the protective layer 16 has the same curvature as the upper surface 18 of the substrate 4.
  • the height h of the optical element and the arrangement of optical elements, respectively, measures 4.5 to 8 ⁇ m, preferably 6 ⁇ m.
  • aperture geometries can be realized, such as rectangular, quadratic or circular apertures, wherein the aperture diameter D of the optical element measures preferably 10 to 50 nm, particularly 15 to 25 nm.
  • the diameter d of the spherically shaped stack of layers 10 corresponds to the aperture diameter D of the optical element.
  • the diameter d of the stack of layers 10 can be greater than the aperture diameter D of the optical element so as to cover the aperture as much as possible with active optical surface.
  • Fig. 5 schematically illustrates this arrangement, wherein the stack of layers 10 exceeds the aperture diameter D for the purpose of illustration only. The areas of this stack of layers 10 exceeding the aperture diameter D are actually truncated.
  • the optical elements 2 of the security document SD according to the invention form an optical reflector which provides the unique optical effect that it changes its appearance depending on the type of incident illumination.
  • the optical reflector When viewed from any direction under diffuse white incident illumination, the optical reflector has the appearance of a single dull colour, while under directional white incident illumination a bright sparkling effect is observed, which is used for the purpose of verifying the genuineness of the security document.
  • the security document SD of which only a part is illustrated in Fig. 4 , comprises a substrate 4 having a plane upper surface instead of a curved upper surface.
  • an arrangement of distorted micro-optical elements 2 forming an optical reflector is deposited within a predetermined area of the security document SD.
  • the arrangement of distorted micro-optical elements on a substrate having a plane surface replace the arrangement of the undistorted micro-optical elements on a substrate having a curved upper surface of the first embodiment of the invention.
  • Each of the distorted optical elements 2 is formed with a distorted aperture 22 representing the projection of an optical element 23 arranged on a curved, preferably convex surface 20 onto the plane surface 18 of the security document, the projection being indicated by projection lines 23b.
  • the distortions of the optical elements 2 occur either in one of the directions X, Y or in two directions X, Y which are orthogonal to each other with respect to one reference point 26 which remains undistorted.
  • the arrangement of the distorted optical elements on a curved surface provides the same optical effect as the arrangement of the undistorted optical elements on a plane surface.
  • the advantage of the distorted optical elements is that a substrate having a plane surface can be used.
  • Fig. 6 shows a banknote 28 as a security document SD comprising a plane paper-based substrate 30, on which surface analogous to the previously described embodiment of the invention is deposited said arrangement of distorted optical elements 2 forming the optical reflector.
  • the distorted optical elements are included in the safety thread 32 and one of the picture elements 34 of the banknote.

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  • Credit Cards Or The Like (AREA)
  • Inspection Of Paper Currency And Valuable Securities (AREA)
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Claims (12)

  1. Document de sécurité comprenant un substrat (4) avec une caractéristique de sécurité, ladite caractéristique de sécurité comprenant un agencement d'éléments optiques (2) à l'intérieur d'une zone prédéterminée du document de sécurité formant un réflecteur optique, lesdits éléments optiques (2) comprenant un empilement de couches alternées incurvées (10) d'indices de réfraction différents, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments optiques (2) sont agencés sur une surface plane (18), et que chacun desdits éléments optiques (2) est formé avec une ouverture déformée (22) représentant la projection dudit élément optique agencé sur une surface incurvée (20) sur une surface plane (18).
  2. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments optiques (2) sont agencés sur ledit substrat (4) du document de sécurité.
  3. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 2, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments optiques (2) sont agencés à l'intérieur dudit substrat (4) du document de sécurité.
  4. Document de sécurité selon une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisé en ce que chacune desdites couches (10) comprend une épaisseur constante.
  5. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 4, caractérisé en ce que chacune desdites couches (10) comprend une épaisseur constante de 75 à 120 nm, de préférence une épaisseur de 90 nm.
  6. Document de sécurité selon au moins une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisé en ce que chacun desdits éléments optiques (2) comprend une ouverture rectangulaire, quadratique, hexagonale ou circulaire.
  7. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que chacun desdits éléments optiques (2) comprend un diamètre d'ouverture (D) de 10 à 50 µm, de préférence 15 à 25 µm.
  8. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que le diamètre (d) dudit empilement de couches alternées (10) est supérieur ou égal au diamètre d'ouverture (D) dudit élément optique.
  9. Document de sécurité selon au moins une des revendications 1 à 8, caractérisé en ce que lesdits éléments optiques (2) sont recouverts avec une couche de protection (16) d'un matériau optiquement inactif.
  10. Document de sécurité selon au moins une des revendications 1 à 9, caractérisé en ce que ledit document de sécurité est un billet de banque (20).
  11. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 10, caractérisé en ce que ledit billet de banque (20) comprend un substrat à base papier (30).
  12. Document de sécurité selon la revendication 10 ou 11, caractérisé en ce que ledit billet de banque (20) comprend un fil de sécurité (32) et / ou un élément d'image (34), dans lequel ledit fil de sécurité et / ou élément d'image comprend ledit agencement d'éléments optiques (2).
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ES06023970T ES2348045T3 (es) 2006-11-18 2006-11-18 Documento de seguridad.
DE602006015974T DE602006015974D1 (de) 2006-11-18 2006-11-18 Sicherheitsdokument
AT06023970T ATE476304T1 (de) 2006-11-18 2006-11-18 Sicherheitsdokument
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