EP3339046A1 - Data carrier and method and device for manufacturing such a data carrier for a book-like document - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a data carrier and to a method and a device for producing such a data carrier for a book-type document, in particular value and / or security document, which consists of at least two layers which form a film composite and have at least one outer side (35) whose Front side (41) by two along the outer side (35) extending end edges (42, 43) is limited, wherein a by a cutting process on the front edge (42, 43) of the outer side (35) of the film composite formed burr (44) is smoothed ,

Description

The invention relates to a data carrier and to a method and a device for producing such a data carrier for a book-type document, in particular value and / or security document.

Such security documents may in particular be passport documents which are typically in booklet or book form and in which an information-storing data carrier is connected to the passport document. This data carrier is, for example, a passport card or passport card, which is integrated in the passport document. This passport card contains personalized data and other data, such as information about the issuing authority. This passport card must be so connected to the other insides of the passport document that a third party can not remove the passport card from the document in order to make a forgery or falsification of the passport document. In addition, it is necessary that by incorporating this passport card by means of a tab Aufsperrverhalten the passport document is improved so that after a single opening and a subsequent closing the passport also remains closed to prevent optical reading of the information.

From the DE 10 2012 112 383 A1 For example, a method of manufacturing such a volume for a book-type document is known. In this case, the volume on a data page to be connected flexible tape material is supplied, so that an overlap region is formed with the disk. Subsequently, the band material, which is provided by an endless belt, is cut off, so that after the positioning of the tab to form an overlap region, this can be permanently connected to the data carrier.

In the manufacture of such a data carrier, at least one outer side of the data carrier is replaced by a cutting or punching tool produced. In this case, a burr is formed by such a trimming due to the cutting guide of the cutting tool at a lower end edge of the outside, which is cut and opposite to the cutting tool exits down. Further processing of the data carrier for incorporation into a book-type document may damage an adjacent page or a tab attached to the data carrier for incorporating the data carrier in the book-type document.

The invention has for its object to provide a data carrier and a method and an apparatus for producing such a data carrier, which has a burr-free longitudinal edge.

This object is achieved by a data carrier in which a burr formed by a cutting process on the front edge of the outside is smoothed. This defuses the sharp, ridge-rimmed front edge of the outside to prevent damage from adjacent sides. Also, a connection of a tab can be improved, since a predetermined breaking point would be formed by the application of a tab on a burr-end edge.

Furthermore, the front edge of the outside is preferably thermally smoothed. Due to the thermal deformation of the burr-edged front edge, a defined contour can be introduced in a simple manner.

Advantageously, the smoothed end edge is formed by a chamfer, a rounding or a gradation as a transition. As a result, a haptically appealing outside of the data carrier is created.

A further advantageous embodiment of the data carrier provides that the smoothed end edge extends at least over a quarter of the width of the end face of the film composite. This allows a smooth transition into a data page or the title page of the data carrier from the front side along the outside.

The problem underlying the invention is further achieved by a method for producing a data carrier for a book-type document, in which the data carrier consists of a film composite with at least two layers, along at least one Outside is cut and a cutting guide with a cutting tool for forming the outside of a title page to the data side of the disk or from a data page to the front page of the disk is performed and on the data page or title page on which the cutting tool exits, over the data or title page protruding Burr along the one end edge of the outside formed and in which the burr formed on the front edge of the outside is smoothed. As a result, the burr is removed in a simple manner. In addition, by smoothing a desired edge contour can be introduced simultaneously.

Preferably, the burr provided on the front edge of the outside is thermally smoothed. This allows easy processing of the front edge without further reworking. Due to the thermal smoothing of the burr can be melted and flow back into the adjacent layer, so that a burr-free surface is formed.

Furthermore, the front edge of the outside is preferably placed on a thermally heated smoothing device and held under pressure on the smoothing device and smoothed. This allows a quick and easy smoothing of the front edge of the outside, without the need for further reworking or a waste material is obtained. The data carrier is aligned with the edge edge of the outside which bears on the burr - preferably parallel to the smoothing device - and positioned over the entire length of the end edge on the smoothing device. Thus, over the entire length of the outside of the data carrier, a uniform contouring or smoothing can take place.

Advantageously, the data carrier is inclined aligned and placed on the designed as a heating plate smoothing device. Depending on the angular position of the data carrier to the heating plate, a smoothed surface may be formed on the outside. Preferably, a longitudinal center plane of the data carrier is aligned at an angle between 1 and 89 °, preferably 30 to 60 °, inclined to a support surface of the heating plate.

Preferably, a chamfer is formed on the outside of the data carrier. This can for example be aligned at an angle of 45 ° to the data page or title page. Further angular ranges can be provided. Alternatively, the burr-end edge of the data carrier can also be formed as a rounding or gradation. This can be created a particularly appealing feel. It is preferably provided that the chamfer or the transition occupies at least a quarter of the width of the outside.

A further preferred embodiment of the method provides that the flattening device preferably heated to a temperature above a glass transition temperature of at least one of the layers of the film composite to a temperature range between 200 and 350 ° C and the outside of the disk with a force of 5 to 25 Newton and a period of 1 to 5 seconds is placed on the smoother. As a result, it is possible to melt the burr-related front edge of the outside and to introduce a desired contour.

The object underlying the invention is further achieved by a smoothing device for producing a data carrier, in particular by a method according to one of the above-described embodiments, which has at least one heating plate with a support surface and at least one length of an outer side of the data carrier. As a result, with a single placement of the data carrier on the smoothing device along the entire outside of the film composite, a sufficient smoothing of the burr-edged front edge can already take place.

Advantageously, the support surface of the heating plate is flat or has a rounded or V-shaped recess. Due to the shape and contour of the support surface, a smoothing contour of the front edge along the outside can be determined and introduced. In a flat bearing surface, a chamfer is formed between an end face and an adjacent data or title page of the data carrier. In a rounded depression, a curved contour can be created. In a shallow V-shaped recess a kind of double chamfer may be formed.

• Figur 1 eine perspektivische Ansicht eines buchartigen Dokumentes,
• Figur 2 eine schematische Ansicht eines Datenträgers mit einer daran angeordneten Lasche gemäß Figur 1,
• Figur 3 eine schematische Seitenansicht des Datenträgers mit Lasche gemäß Figur 2,
• Figuren 4a bis 4c schematisch dargestellte Verfahrensschritte zur Herstellung einer geglätteten Stirnkante am Datenträger,
• Figuren 5a bis 5c schematische Verfahrensschritte einer alternativen Ausführungsform zu Figur 4, und
• Figuren 6a bis 6c schematische Verfahrensschritte einer weiteren alternativen Ausführungsform zu Figur 4.

The invention and further advantageous embodiments and developments thereof are described in more detail below with reference to the examples shown in the drawings and explained. The features to be taken from the description and the drawings can be applied individually according to the invention individually or in combination in any combination. Show it:

• FIG. 1 a perspective view of a book-like document,
• FIG. 2 a schematic view of a data carrier with a strap arranged thereon according FIG. 1 .
• FIG. 3 a schematic side view of the disk with tab according to FIG. 2 .
• FIGS. 4a to 4c schematically illustrated method steps for producing a smoothed front edge on the data carrier,
• FIGS. 5a to 5c schematic method steps of an alternative embodiment to FIG. 4 , and
• FIGS. 6a to 6c schematic method steps to another alternative embodiment to FIG. 4 ,

In FIG. 1 a book-like document 11 is shown. This book-type document 11 is, for example, a value and / or security document, in particular a passport. This cover 11 comprises a book cover 12 with a book cover front side 13 and a book cover back 14. This book cover front page 13 and the book cover back 14 include at least one book cover insert, which may have on the outside, for example, a book cover 17, wherein on the respective inside of the book cover front side 13 and book cover back side 14th a header 18 may be applied. Preferably, the book cover 17 and the attachment 18 are connected by gluing with the at least one book cover insert.

The book cover 12 receives a plurality of inner sides 19. Also preferred is a data carrier 21, such as a personalization data page, for example. intended. The inside 19 and / or the disk 21 and the attachment 18 are preferably connected to a book block 22 and secured in the book cover 12. For example, the inner sides 19 and / or the data carrier 21 and the attachment 18 may be connected to one another by a seam to a book block 22.

The data carrier 21 embodied as a personalization data page is embodied, for example, in accordance with the ICAO standard and comprises an image 24 of the document owner, an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) machine-readable lines 25 and further personalization data 26.

According to this exemplary embodiment, the data carrier 21 may further comprise a transponder module 28 in which the data of the document owner and further security features may be stored. The data carrier 21 is designed, for example, as an insert sheet and, according to the exemplary embodiment, may comprise a tab 29 which extends beyond a seam region 30. Alternatively, instead of tab 29, a complete personalization or data page may be provided.

The data carrier 21 comprises at least two plastic layers which are laminated together and form a film composite. In between, the transponder module 28 is provided. Preferably, between the at least two outer plastic layers, a further layer, in particular made of paper, may be introduced, which includes the Personalisierdaten 26 and the image 24 and the OCR machine-readable lines 25. Preferably, the outer plastic layers are formed of polycarbonate and envelop the inner layer preferably completely.

The transponder module 28 comprises an IC chip 32 and an antenna 31 connected thereto, which consists of several windings and can preferably be printed.

In FIG. 2 is a plan view of the disk 21 is shown. The data carrier 21 comprises a tab 29, for example made of a flexible strip material. This flexible band material can be for example, to act a fabric of a textile strip material. For example, is fully on the DE 10 2012 213 913 A1 Referenced. Such a textile strip material may preferably be connected by welding to an outermost layer or layer of the data carrier 21. The tab 29 has a portion 36 projecting beyond an outer side 35 of the data carrier 21. Within this protruding region 36, the binding of the data carrier 21 to the inner sides 19 takes place for a book block 22. In this protruding region 36, the seam 30 can also be introduced. The tab 29 is connected in an overlapping region 37 with the data carrier 21.

In FIG. 3 is a schematic side view of the data carrier 21 according to FIG. 2 shown. The data carrier 21 comprises a title page 38 or a back side and a data page 39 or a front side. The data page 39 is also in FIG. 1 represented, on which the Personalisierdaten are visible.

The disk 21 takes the tab 29, for example, on the front page 38. After welding the tab 29 to the disk 21, this tab 29 may be provided with an outside flush with the title page 38. The longitudinal edge 35 comprises an end face 41 which is associated with the tab 29.

The data carrier 21 consists of two or more layers of one or more plastic materials which form a film composite or laminate composite.

Furthermore, the data carrier 21 is preferably formed from one or more layers and the one or more layers of one or more plastic materials used to form a data carrier 21 or a data carrier 21 in the laminate composite. As a result, in particular, a good binding of the textile strip material to the formation on the data carrier 21 may be made possible. For example, a welding can take place, whereby at least a clawing of the textile strip material is made possible with the disk. The data carrier is preferably formed from a polycarbonate or from a polycarbonate derivative. For the formation of the data carrier plastics can be provided in particular, bisphenol A polycarbonate, carboxy-modified PC, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), its derivatives such as glycol-modified PET (PETG), carboxy-modified PET, polyethylene naphthalate (PEN), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyvinyl butyral (PVB), polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polyimide (PI), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polystyrene (PS), polyvinylphenol (PVP), polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), especially thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU), acrylonitrile-butadiene Styrene copolymer (ABS) and / or derivatives thereof or of paper and / or cardboard or of mixtures of the abovementioned materials. The material for the data carrier is preferably formed at least partially from polycarbonate or from a polycarbonate derivative.

To produce the data carrier 21 with the tab 29 arranged thereon, at least the outside 35 is cut or punched with a cutting tool after laminating the layers to form a film composite. In such a trimming, the outer side 35 may have an end face 41 which is delimited by two mutually differing end edges 42, 43.

In FIG. 4a is an example schematically enlarged an outer side 35 of the data carrier 21 shown after trimming. The upper end edge 42, on which the cutting tool is first supplied, is burr-free and may be rounded. The opposite end edge 43, in which the cutting tool exits downward relative to the data carrier 21, has a ridge 44. Usually, in the data carriers 21, a cutting guide is provided in which the cutting tool is guided from the title page 38 to the data page 39. This can also be reversed. Preferably, the cutting guide of the cutting tool is aligned perpendicular to the longitudinal center plane 46. Also, a cutting guide is possible, which is inclined to the longitudinal center axis 46 aligned.

In a connection of a tab 29 to the disk 21, the ridge 44 after incorporating the disk 21 in the book-like document 11 in the direction of the adjacent inner side 19. This can lead to damage. It is therefore intended, the front edge 43 to Smooth to remove the ridge 44. For this purpose, the data carrier 21 is aligned with respect to its longitudinal center plane 46 inclined to a support surface 48 of a smoothing device 51. The smoothing device 51 is preferably designed as a heating plate with the support surface 48. This heating plate is preferably heated electrically, in particular by heating cartridges.

The data carrier 21 or the longitudinal central axis 46 of the data carrier 21 is inclined relative to the support surface 48 of the smoothing device 51, for example at an angle between 1 and 89 °, preferably in a range between 30 and 60 ° and in this orientation according to arrow 53 on the heating plate supplied and held down according to a predetermined time and a predetermined force to this. Also, a front edge 43 can be placed with the ridge 44 on the support surface 48 and then carried out the alignment of the longitudinal center axis 46 of the data carrier 21 to the support surface 48. After placing the end edge 43 is melted and smoothed, as in FIG. 4b is shown. By this smoothing a chamfer 55 is formed. The orientation of the chamfer 55 or the angular position of the chamfer 55 to the end face 41 is determined in dependence of the inclined positioning of the data carrier 21 to the heating plate 51. The heating plate is heated at least to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the at least one layer of the data carrier 21. Preferably, the heating temperature is far above the glass transition temperature of the plastic to be melted of the film composite. For example, a temperature range of 200 to 350 ° C is provided in order to achieve a rapid melting. At a contact force of, for example, 15 Newton, a period of 1 to 2 seconds may be sufficient to attach the chamfer 55. Subsequently, the data carrier 21 is lifted, as in Figure 4c is shown, since the end edge 43 is smoothed.

Subsequently, the tab 29 can be attached to the data carrier 21, wherein it is applied to the title page 38 and adjacent to the front edge 42, which is opposite to the smoothed end edge 43.

In the FIGS. 5a to 5c are procedural steps in analogy to the FIGS. 4a to 4c shown. This alternative embodiment of the method differs only in that, instead of a flat bearing surface 48 of the smoothing device 51, a bearing surface 48 with a depression 57 is provided. This recess 57 is preferably formed as a rounding. As a result, a rounded transition 58 on the front edge 43 can be created instead of a chamfer 55.

In the FIGS. 6a to 6c is another alternative embodiment of the method to the FIGS. 5a to 5c shown. The bearing surface 48 of the smoothing device 51 in turn has a recess 57, which, however, deviating from the recess 57 formed as a rounding FIG. 5c as a recess 57 with a flat V-shaped contour according to FIG. 6c is trained. As a result, a stepped transition 59 may be formed on the front edge 43. This recess 57 can also be composed of several individual surfaces to form the stepped transition 59.

LIST OF REFERENCE NUMBERS

Table 1 11. Book-like document 35. outside 12. Book cover 36. Outstanding area 13. Book cover front 37. Overlap area 14. Book cover back 38th front page 17. Book cover binding 39. Data page 18. intent 41. front side 19th insides 42. front edge 21. Disk (personalization data page) 43. front edge 22nd book block 44. Burr 24th picture 46th longitudinal center plane 25th line 48th bearing surface 26. Personalization data 51. Smoothing device 28. Transponder module 53. arrow 29. Tab 55th chamfer 30. seam area 57. Deepening of 51 31. Antenna 58. Transition 32. Electronic component / IC chip 59th transition

Claims (15)

Data carrier for a book-type document, in particular value and / or security document, which consists of at least two layers which form a film composite and at least one outer side (35) whose end face (41) by two along the outer side (35) extending end edges (42, 43) is limited, characterized in that a by a cutting process on the front edge (42, 43) of the outer side (35) of the film composite formed burr (44) is smoothed. A data carrier according to claim 1, characterized in that the end edge (42, 43) of the outer side (35) of the data carrier (21) is thermally smoothed. A data carrier according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the smoothed end edge (42, 43) has a chamfer (55) or a rounded transition (58) or a stepped transition (59). Data carrier according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the smoothed end edge (42, 43) extends at least over a quarter of the width of the end face (41) of the film composite. Method for producing a data carrier (21) for a book-type document, in particular value and / or security document, in which the data carrier (21), which consists of a film composite with at least two layers, is cut along an outside (35) of the data carrier (21), in which a cut is carried out with a cutting tool for forming the outside (35) from a title page (38) to the data page (39) or from the data page (39) to the title page (38) of the data carrier (21) and at a front edge ( 42, 43) of the title page (38) or data page (39) on which the cutting tool emerges, a ridge (44) protruding from the data page (39) or front page (38) is formed along the outer side (35) and - In which the ridge (44) on the front edge (42, 43) of the outside (35) of the data carrier (21) is smoothed. A method according to claim 5, characterized in that the end edge (42, 43) is thermally smoothed. A method according to claim 5 or 6, characterized in that the end edge (42, 43) of the outer side (35) to a thermally heated Smoothing device (51) is placed and held under pressure on the smoothing device (51) and smoothed. A method according to claim 7, characterized in that the end edge (42, 43) aligned parallel to the smoothing device (51) and over the entire length of the end edge (42, 43) on the smoothing device (51) is positioned. A method according to claim 7 or 8, characterized in that the smoothing device (51) is designed as a heating plate and a longitudinal center plane (46) of the data carrier (21) inclined at an angle of 1 to 89 °, preferably 30 to 60 °, to the heating plate aligned and placed on the hot plate. Method according to one of claims 5 to 9, characterized in that on the outer side (35) of the data carrier (21) a chamfer (55) or a rounded transition (58) or a stepped transition (59) is formed, and preferably the bevel ( 55) or the transition (58, 59) occupies at least a quarter of the width of the outer side (35). Method according to one of claims 7 to 10, characterized in that the flattening device (51) is heated to a temperature which is above the glass transition temperature of the at least one layer of the film composite and preferably the flattening device (51) to a temperature range between 200 and 350 ° C is heated. A method according to claim 11, characterized in that the front edge (42, 43) of the data carrier (21) is heated with a force of 5 to 25 Newton and a period of 1 to 5 seconds and positioned on the flattener (51). Method according to one of claims 5 to 12, characterized in that after smoothing the end edge (42, 43) a tab (29) along the outer side (35) to the data carrier (21) with formation of an overlap region (37) positioned and an over the disk (21) protruding portion (36) formed and in the overlap region (37) the tab (29) with the disk (21) is connected, wherein the tab (29) on one of the smoothed end edge (42, 43) opposite end edge ( 43, 42) is attached to the data carrier (21). Smoothing device for producing a data carrier (21), in particular according to A method according to any one of claims 5 to 12, comprising at least one heating plate having a bearing surface (48) comprising at least a length of an outer side (35) of the data carrier (21). Smoothing device according to claim 14, characterized in that the bearing surface (48) of the heating plate is flat or has a rounded or flat V-shaped recess (57).

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