EP2024566B1 - Element de securite comprenant un motif discernable - Google Patents

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EP2024566B1
EP2024566B1 EP07788970.7A EP07788970A EP2024566B1 EP 2024566 B1 EP2024566 B1 EP 2024566B1 EP 07788970 A EP07788970 A EP 07788970A EP 2024566 B1 EP2024566 B1 EP 2024566B1
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Pierre Doublet
Michel Camus
Stéphane Mallol
Yvan Thierry
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ArjoWiggins Security SAS
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H21/00—Non-fibrous material added to the pulp, characterised by its function, form or properties; Paper-impregnating or coating material, characterised by its function, form or properties
    • D21H21/14—Non-fibrous material added to the pulp, characterised by its function, form or properties; Paper-impregnating or coating material, characterised by its function, form or properties characterised by function or properties in or on the paper
    • D21H21/40—Agents facilitating proof of genuineness or preventing fraudulent alteration, e.g. for security paper
    • D21H21/42—Ribbons or strips
    • 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
    • B42D25/355—Security threads

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  • the invention relates to a flat security element comprising a discernible pattern and the sheet or security article containing it.
  • Such yarns may have printed indicia, but they may have the disadvantage of being too conspicuous in reflected light and therefore relatively easily reproducible by counterfeiters or forgers who print the pattern of the yarn on the paper.
  • the object of the present invention is therefore to propose a security element, such as a security wire, strip or patch that further improves the protection of the document in which it is incorporated.
  • the Applicant has found that a non-regular arrangement of elementary characters present on at least one of the faces of the security element achieves this goal.
  • the subject of the invention is a flat security element, bearing on at least one of its faces a set of elementary characters, said elementary characters having a variation of shape and / or density and / or size making it possible to show at least one discernable pattern.
  • These patterns may represent alphanumeric patterns, symbols, drawings, or the like.
  • the pattern is discernible, with respect to the background also formed of elementary characters, by the observer who looks in transvision and / or in reflection the security document comprising the security element according to the invention .
  • Patterns are not necessarily discernible when the security element at a short distance, for example by means of a magnifying glass. Indeed, at a short distance, the outlines of the patterns are not clear and the arrangement of the elementary characters appears as random.
  • the density in elementary characters corresponds to the number of elementary characters per unit area of the support of the security element.
  • the variation of the density and / or the shape and / or the size of the elementary characters allows the observer, by the contrast brought by this or these variations, to distinguish zones forming the patterns, the background of the security element.
  • the observer can recognize the patterns.
  • Another advantage of the invention is that this variation makes forgery particularly difficult. Indeed, because of the variable character of the elementary characters, their arrangement is particularly difficult to reproduce.
  • Yet another advantage of the invention is that the security element can be authenticated by verifying the shape and arrangement of the elementary characters by means of a microscope or a suitable magnifying device.
  • the support of the security element according to the invention is preferably made of a transparent or translucent material.
  • the support is made of plastic.
  • Suitable materials are based on polymers selected from the group of polyesters, especially poly (ethylene terephthalate), polypropylenes, polyethylenes, polyvinyl chloride, and mixtures thereof.
  • the support of the security element has a thickness of between 5 and 700 ⁇ m, preferably between 5 and 200 ⁇ m, more preferably between 5 and 50 ⁇ m.
  • the elementary characters disposed on the surface of the security element may be points, and / or straight segments, and / or curved segments and / or combinations thereof.
  • Such a combination may, for example, lead to elementary characters having geometric shapes such as quadrilaterals, triangles, disks, circles, or figures such as stars, quarters or half-moons or the like.
  • the characters placed on the surface of the security element according to the invention have an irregular shape, that is to say a non-geometric shape and variable in dimensions (of so-called "patato ⁇ de” type).
  • the different elementary characters arranged on one of the faces of the security element can all be of the same shape.
  • the security element comprises on its surface a set of elementary characters in the form of stars whose density varies.
  • the security element comprises on its surface a set of stars of different sizes.
  • the different elementary characters arranged on the surface of the security element are not all of the same shape.
  • the security element has on its surface a set of points, curved segments and stars.
  • the elementary characters have different forms, and the forms of the elementary characters of the patterns and the background are common.
  • the bottom as well as the discernable patterns are formed by points and straight segments whose variation in density and / or size will reveal said discernable patterns.
  • the elementary characters arranged in the zone or zones forming one or more patterns are different from the elementary characters arranged outside the zone (s) forming the patterns.
  • the background may consist of dots and patterns of straight segments. It is also possible that each zone forming a pattern consists of elementary characters different from the elementary characters constituting the other zones forming a pattern.
  • the density in elementary characters is constant over the entire security element.
  • the density in elementary characters may be higher in an area corresponding to a pattern so that said pattern will appear to the observer darker than the surrounding background.
  • the density in elementary characters may be lower in an area corresponding to a pattern, so that said pattern will appear to the observer lighter than the surrounding background.
  • the security element comprises on its surface elementary characters consisting of a set of points.
  • the density of these points is higher in the areas forming a pattern than in the bottom of the security element.
  • the elementary characters have a size of between 50 and 100 ⁇ m.
  • the size of the elementary characters of the security element is constant, only the density and / or the shape of said elementary characters varying.
  • the elementary characters consist of dots with a diameter of 60 ⁇ m.
  • the size of the elementary characters arranged on the support of the security element varies.
  • the elementary characters may be smaller in the areas forming the patterns than the elementary characters forming the background, so that said patterns appear clearer than the background that surrounds them.
  • the elementary characters may be larger in the areas forming the patterns than the elementary characters forming the background, so that said patterns appear darker than the background surrounding them.
  • the size, the shape and the density of the elementary characters arranged on the support of the security element according to the invention can vary simultaneously. Their degrees of variation will be chosen by those skilled in the art so as to create zones, corresponding to the patterns, discernable from the bottom of the security element.
  • the security element may consist of an optionally repetitive sequence of sequences, each sequence consisting of a different arrangement of elementary characters varying in shape and / or density and / or in size and forming a background and patterns.
  • the arrangement of the elementary characters on the support of the security element can be provided so that the patterns are discernible only when the security element is folded on itself, by complementarity of several areas to form patterns.
  • this density may be higher in complementary areas corresponding to partial patterns.
  • these complementary zones will be completed so as to show one or more patterns darker than the background.
  • said elementary characters are ink impressions and / or metal deposits.
  • said elementary characters are made of metal.
  • the metal used to make the patterns may be selected from aluminum, copper, chromium, and their alloys.
  • the elementary metal characters can be deposited on the surface of the security element by a partial metallization process. They can also be deposited by metallization of the support surface, followed by partial demetallization.
  • the characters are printed in an opacifying ink.
  • it may be a metallic ink.
  • a suitable metallic ink is for example an ink containing metallic pigments such as copper, aluminum, silver, gold, chromium or iron.
  • the patterns can also be printed in a colored ink, including white or black ink, for example a black ink with pigments containing carbon black.
  • the ink used may, in addition, have luminescence properties, in particular fluorescence or phosphorescence.
  • the basic characters can be prints obtained by rotogravure printing, offset printing, flexographic printing, screen printing or by digital printing.
  • the security element according to the invention may also comprise at least one additional coating.
  • the security element may comprise an electroconductive layer, in particular made of a transparent electroconductive polymer.
  • suitable electroconductive polymers are polyaniline, polyethylene dioxythiophene or their derivatives.
  • the security element may comprise a coating with magnetic properties, in combination or not with the electroconductive coating.
  • the security element may also comprise a coating having magnetism or luminescence properties, in particular fluorescence.
  • the security element according to the invention can be implemented in the form of a security thread intended to be inserted at least partially in a security document.
  • Suitable dimensions are a width of 0.7 to 60 mm, especially 1 to 40 mm, and a length corresponding to the distance between a first and a second opposite edge of the document in which the security element will be inserted.
  • the security element according to the invention may be a patch or a foil intended to be applied to a security document.
  • the security element can then, for example, be arranged in a preferably transparent opening provided in the security document and constitute a window in said document.
  • patch is meant here a flat element of reduced dimensions relative to the dimensions of the security document and foil a thin element, flat, elongated, these elements being affixable to the surface of a document, for example by transfer.
  • the invention also relates to a security sheet incorporating the security element described above.
  • a security sheet is here a sheet, for example a fibrous material and / or a plastic material, which may contain one or more security elements, not printed.
  • the invention also relates to a security article incorporating said security element.
  • the article is a security document, including a means of payment such as a bank note, a check, an identity document such as an identity card, a driver's license, a visa, a passport page and the like.
  • the invention relates to a bill in which is incorporated a security element according to the invention.
  • the security document is a bank note in which is incorporated a security element in the form of a security thread or on which is affixed a patch including a window.
  • the security article may also be a security tag or a package particularly intended for drugs or electronic components or food.
  • the security article according to the invention may comprise at least one fibrous layer especially based on cellulose fibers and / or a layer of plastic material.
  • the Figures 1 to 3 illustrate a security thread according to the invention at different scales of magnification.
  • the security thread (1) comprises a transparent support (2) made of polyethylene terephthalate, with a width of 3 mm, a length of 30 mm and a thickness of 30 ⁇ m, on which printed characters (3) are printed. circle, stars, hexagons and ovals. In the illustrated example, the size and density of the characters vary so as to form a bottom (4) dark and patterns (5) alphanumeric clear discernable.
  • the shapes of the characters (3) in the pattern (5) are common to those of the background (4). As can be seen by comparing the Figures 1 to 3 the larger the magnification, the more identifiable the characters (3) but the less the pattern (5) is discernible, making the security thread (1) very difficult to reproduce.
  • a real size, the pattern (5) is perfectly discernable, the bottom (4) as the pattern (5) appear almost united, and the observer does not perceive the precise form of each character (3) printed on the surface of the transparent support (2).

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EP07788970.7A 2006-06-06 2007-06-06 Element de securite comprenant un motif discernable Revoked EP2024566B1 (fr)

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PCT/FR2007/051386 WO2007141459A2 (fr) 2006-06-06 2007-06-06 Element de securite comprenant un motif discernable

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CA (1) CA2654396A1 (pt)
ES (1) ES2432569T3 (pt)
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FR2901812B1 (fr) 2008-12-05
WO2007141459A3 (fr) 2008-01-31
FR2901812A1 (fr) 2007-12-07
EP2024566A2 (fr) 2009-02-18
PL2024566T3 (pl) 2014-01-31
WO2007141459A2 (fr) 2007-12-13
ES2432569T3 (es) 2013-12-04
CA2654396A1 (fr) 2007-12-13
US20100295289A1 (en) 2010-11-25

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