EP4384399A1 - Sicherheitsdokument mit einem in seinem substrat ausgebildeten transparenten fenster - Google Patents
Sicherheitsdokument mit einem in seinem substrat ausgebildeten transparenten fensterInfo
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- EP4384399A1 EP4384399A1 EP23718641.6A EP23718641A EP4384399A1 EP 4384399 A1 EP4384399 A1 EP 4384399A1 EP 23718641 A EP23718641 A EP 23718641A EP 4384399 A1 EP4384399 A1 EP 4384399A1
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- 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
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Definitions
- a security substrate which comprises the following: a polymer substrate with a first and a second surface; an array of focusing elements in the form of a surface relief over a first region of the polymer substrate, the surface relief being defined in the surface of a transparent base layer, the transparent base layer comprising either the polymer substrate or a layer arranged thereon; an optical matching layer disposed on the transparent base layer over a second region of the polymer substrate, the second region including at least the first region, the optical matching layer having a first surface in contact with the surface relief of the transparent base layer and an opposing second surface with a Profile that is not effective to focus visible light, wherein the optical matching layer comprises a first transparent material that extends over a first subregion of the array of focusing elements, the first subregion covering all or only a part of the first region first region, wherein the first transparent material has a refractive index different from that of the transparent base layer, the focusing elements in the first subregion of the arrangement being functional focusing elements; and
- a security device comprising an arrangement of focusing elements with regular periodicity in at least a first direction, each focusing element having an optical footprint, the different sections of which are directed towards the viewer depending on the viewing angle; and an array of pixels having regular periodicity in at least the first direction overlapping the array of focusing structures, the pixels representing portions of at least two respective images, and wherein at least one pixel of each respective image is located in the optical footprint of each focusing structure; wherein the security device includes a first region and a second region laterally offset from the first region, the pixels in the first region being laterally displaced in at least the first direction relative to the pixels in the second region such that, at a first viewing angle, in the first region of the device, the focusing structures guide image elements that correspond to a first image to the viewer in such a way that the first image is displayed over the first region of the device, and simultaneously, in the second region of the device, guide the focusing structures Image elements corresponding to a second image to the viewer such that the second
- EP 2 493 700 A2 discloses a method for producing a security device, the method comprising: providing an array of lens-shaped focusing elements on one side of a transparent substrate; and providing a corresponding array of sets of image strips on the other side of the transparent substrate, the image strips and the lenticular focusing elements defining a lenticular device such that under different viewing directions a corresponding image strip from each set is viewed via respective lenticular focusing elements.
- a security document which comprises a document substrate with at least two transparent or transparent windows which are spaced apart from one another and a device which comprises a transparent substrate which carries: i) a uniform arrangement of micro- focusing elements on a first surface, the focusing elements defining a focal plane; ii) a corresponding first array of microimage elements in a first color and located in a plane that substantially coincides with the focal plane of the focusing elements; and, iii) a corresponding second array of micro-image elements, in a color different from the first color and located in a plane substantially coincident with the focal plane of the focusing elements, the pitches of the micro-focusing elements and the first and second arrays of micro-image elements and whose relative positions are such that the array of micro-focusing elements cooperates with each of the first and second arrays of micro-image elements to generate respective enlarged versions of the micro-image elements of each array due to the moire effect; and wherein at least a portion of the first array of micro
- a lens array for imaging a plurality of image elements in an object plane is known, the lens array containing a plurality of microlenses which are arranged in or on one side of a transparent or translucent material with the image elements on the opposite side are shaped, wherein the lens array has a measurement thickness that corresponds to the distance from the apex of each microlens to the object plane, each microlens having a set of lens parameters, the measurement thickness and / or at least one lens parameter being optimized such that each microlens has a focal point size in the Object plane which is essentially equal to the size of the image elements in the object plane, or which deviates from the size of the image elements by a predetermined amount.
- the measurement thickness of the lens array is preferably smaller than the focal length of all microlenses.
- the image elements can e.g. B. take the form of points or lines.
- the lens array of DE 11 2010 000 957 T5 is designed in such a way that in a sectional plane lying parallel to the main plane of the relevant microlens in a cone or angular field of the light incident on the microlens in question in the direction of the picture elements, only one of the picture elements arranged next to one another is always arranged , whereby only a single frame is perceivable at any given time by a viewer viewing the printed image from a specific viewing angle.
- the invention is based on the object of creating a security document with a transparent window formed in its substrate.
- FIG. 1 shows a security document with a security element having an optically imaging structure
- FIG. 2 shows a greatly enlarged sectional view of an arrangement having at least one printed image and an individual plano-convex microlens integrated into an optically imaging structure with an incidence of light from a first viewing angle;
- FIG. 3 shows the arrangement according to FIG. 2 with an incidence of light from a second viewing angle
- Fig. 6 shows a security document with a contrast-enhancing back and with
- Fig. 7 is a simplified schematic representation of a printing machine for producing a security document, in particular according to Fig. 5 or 6.
- the term “lens” refers to a component that is transparent to light and has at least one light-refracting surface arranged in the beam path of the light.
- the term light here refers to the part of electromagnetic radiation that is visible to the human eye. In the electromagnetic spectrum, the range of light includes wavelengths from approximately 380 nm (violet) to 780 nm (red). The following is based on converging lenses, i.e. lenses that focus incident light, in particular plano-convex lenses.
- Preferred designs are, on the one hand, rotationally symmetrical spherical or aspherical lenses and, on the other hand, axisymmetric, rod-shaped lenses, with the respective axis of symmetry of the lens in question and its optical axis each being congruent.
- the optical axis is therefore a straight line running through the center of curvature of a convex lens surface. With a flat lens surface, the optical axis is perpendicular to it.
- convex surface is given by its radius of curvature, where the radius of curvature has its origin on the optical axis.
- a flat lens surface is defined by an infinitely large radius of curvature.
- Rod-shaped lenses are designed in the form of a straight circular cylinder or elliptical cylinder halved according to their rod length, with the respective axis of symmetry of such a lens extending orthogonally to its respective rod length.
- the refractive surface is designed as a surface section made of a sphere, i.e. e.g. B. in the form of a spherical cap.
- An aspherical lens has at least one refractive surface that deviates from the spherical or flat shape.
- the shape of rotationally symmetrical aspherical surfaces is usually given as a conic section (circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola) plus a correction polynomial for higher order deformations.
- a lens has two surfaces intersected by the beam path of the light, so-called envelope surfaces, whereby with regard to light bundling, by definition, the light enters a plano-convex converging lens on its convexly curved envelope surface and the light exits from this lens on its planar envelope surface.
- the envelope surfaces are interfaces between different media in which the light propagates.
- One of these media is formed by the material, ie the material of the lens in question.
- At least one other medium is the space, usually filled with air, in which the lens in question is located. Since at least two of the media arranged in the beam path of the light have different optical material properties, the light is refracted at the interface between these adjacent media.
- the optical material property associated with the refraction of light is expressed by the respective refractive index of the medium in question.
- the refractive index is a dimensionless physical quantity that indicates by what factor the wavelength and phase velocity of light in the medium in question are smaller than in vacuum.
- the medium with the higher refractive index is called the optically denser one.
- the Abbe number also known as Abbe's number, is a dimensionless quantity for characterizing the optical dispersive properties of a lens and indicates how much its refractive index changes with the wavelength of light.
- the property of a lens to be able to produce an optical image of an object viewed through the lens in question depends on the refractive index of the material of the respective lens and on the shape of its envelope surfaces that form interfaces between different media.
- the main plane of a lens is a plane arranged in this component orthogonally to the axis of symmetry of the lens in question.
- the thickness of the lens is to be viewed as very small compared to the radius of curvature of its convex envelope surface, because the radius of curvature of the convex envelope surface z. B. is at least five times larger than this thickness, only a single main plane can be used as a basis with sufficient accuracy for considering the properties of the lens in question.
- this main plane coincides with the planar lens surface.
- the focal length of a lens is the distance between the main plane of the lens in question and its focus (focal point), whereby the focus of a lens here is to be understood as an intersection of light rays bundled by the lens and incident parallel into this lens.
- the light rays incident parallel into the lens do not necessarily arrive parallel to their optical axis, but rather at an arbitrary, in particular acute, angle of incidence with respect to the main plane of the lens in question.
- a plane arranged in focus orthogonally to the optical axis is called a focal plane or focal plane.
- the aperture or opening width of a lens refers to its free opening or diameter through which light rays can be received unhindered and corresponds to a maximum of the lens width.
- the point that lies at the intersection of the optical axis with the envelope surface of the lens in question, which is used for the entry of light, is called the vertex.
- the apex is located furthest away from the focus of this lens on the envelope surface used for light entry.
- a rotationally symmetrical spherical or aspherical lens focuses light incident on it in a cone or cone, the diameter of the base of this cone or cone being a maximum of the lens width and the height perpendicular to the base of this cone or cone being the focal length of the relevant lens Lens correspond.
- An axially symmetrical rod-shaped lens focuses light incident on it in an acute angular field, with the origin of the angular field being in the focus of this lens.
- the numerical aperture describes the ability of a lens to focus light. It determines the minimum size of the light spot that can be generated in its focus and is therefore an important size that limits the resolution.
- a lens group which is also referred to as a lens array.
- Several axially symmetrical rod-shaped lenses which are each lined up orthogonally to their rod length, preferably without gaps and without overlap, form a lens grid, which is also referred to as a lenticular.
- a plurality of lenses arranged in a grid-shaped lens group and/or a plurality of lenses arranged in a lenticular grid form, in their respective combination, an optically imaging structure in the form of a geometric figure that extends over a flat or curved surface.
- the surface of the optically imaging structure can have any contour, e.g. B. rectangular, round, oval or polygonal.
- a geometric figure is viewed as a set of points.
- a lens is arranged at least on a subset of the points forming the geometric figure.
- only one or more grid-shaped lens groups or only one or more lenses arranged in a lens grid as well as these two lens arrangements can be arranged mixed together with the other lens arrangement, so that both grid-shaped lens groups can be arranged in the same optically imaging structure as well as lenses arranged in a lens grid are arranged together.
- Lens grids formed in the relevant optically imaging structure can be used, for example. E.g. one of each have different orientations, the respective orientation of the relevant lenticular grid being determined by the respective direction of the rod length of the lenses involved in the structure of the relevant lenticular grid.
- a microlens is a miniaturized form of a conventional lens.
- the term microlens is intended to mean a lens whose lens width is less than 100 pm and is preferably in the range between 20 pm and 65 pm.
- Microlenses have a focal length of less than e.g. B. 100 pm, preferably a maximum of 95 pm.
- Microlenses can now be manufactured industrially.
- Microlenses made of a plastic or resin can, for. B. can be produced using a (spray) casting process or (spray) embossing process or printing process.
- Optical imaging structures consisting of microlenses are also referred to as micro-optical structures.
- an optically imaging structure formed in particular from microlenses is or is arranged in combination with a preferably flat printed image
- this optically imaging structure e.g. B. is or is applied to a substrate containing the printed image
- various effects can be created for a viewer viewing the printed image through the optically imaging structure.
- an arrangement consisting of at least one printed image and at least one optically imaging structure can be used, for example.
- These effects can be perceived by a viewer without optical aids when he alternately looks at the printed image from different viewing angles.
- the perception presented to the viewer through different viewing angles is also called a lenticular image.
- the usually flat printed image is preferably two-dimensional Substrate e.g. B. preferably formed in an industrial manufacturing process with a printing press.
- the substrate is e.g. B. a printing material web or designed as a printed sheet.
- the print image is z. B. applied to the substrate in a punctiform or linear grid.
- the printed image therefore consists of e.g. B. from several, in particular a large number of pixels and / or lines.
- a pixel size or a line thickness is in a range of less than 100 pm, preferably less than 50 pm, in particular less than 20 pm, e.g. B. in the range of about 5 pm to 10 pm.
- the pixel size of pixels and/or the line thickness of lines, which are each involved in the formation of a printed image used together with an optically imaging structure, e.g. B. are each at most as large, preferably smaller, in particular less than half as large as the respective lens width of the lenses involved in the construction of the relevant optically imaging structure.
- resolution is the ability to distinguish between fine structures, i.e. the minimum distance that e.g. B. must have two pixels or two lines apart in order to be able to perceive them as separate pixels or lines.
- the resolution of the naked human eye varies from person to person. Adults with normal vision can usually distinguish structures at a distance of 150 pm at a distance of 25 cm. This corresponds to a visual angle of approximately 2 arcminutes, which is referred to as angular resolution.
- the visual acuity of the human eye decreases noticeably, with visual acuity representing the reciprocal of the resolving power.
- the lens width of a microlens is therefore usually smaller than the resolution of the naked eye of a normal-sighted adult.
- the substrate is or is printed with several printing colors, e.g. B. the printing colors referred to as primary colors red, green, blue and optionally the printing color black are formed on the substrate.
- a Print image usually consists of an arrangement of several small-area image elements arranged at different positions of the relevant print image, each image element preferably having several image points or lines and generally extending over a length of less than 100 pm. Each picture element or a group of neighboring picture elements forms z.
- the individual image elements are generally arranged in a printed image to form a print motif that determines the informational content of a printed image.
- a color impression of the printed image or at least a part of this printed image perceived by a person is created by an additive color mixing that takes place in the viewer's eye and brain of pixels and/or lines printed in different printing colors in the relevant image elements.
- a superposition of two primary colors results in the color impressions yellow, cyan and magenta, known as secondary colors.
- a superposition of all three primary colors results in the color impression white.
- a color register ie a registration accuracy, ie a registration accuracy of pixels and/or lines of different printing colors in their relative arrangement to one another, is in each case less than 20 pm, preferably less than 10 pm, in the exemplary embodiments of the invention considered here and is in particular in the range of about 5 p.m.
- the optically imaging structure provided in connection with the exemplary embodiments of the invention considered here is preferably arranged in combination with pixels and/or lines of different printing inks.
- the printed image is or is preferably produced as or by superimposing several partial printed images, with several or preferably each of the partial printed images z. B. is or is printed in a different printing color.
- the overlay can be done by successively overprinting on the substrate or preferably by collecting the Partial print images on a print element, e.g. B. on a cylinder, and a simultaneous delivery to the substrate.
- the partial printed images in turn consist of pixels and/or lines, with the pixel size of these pixels and/or the line thickness of the relevant lines being in the micrometer range, e.g. B. in the range of less than 20 pm.
- the several partial print images involved in this print image are superimposed, for example. B. to create an overall color impression.
- An arrangement consisting of at least one printed image and at least one optically imaging structure allows a viewer viewing the printed image to perceive several different individual images from different viewing angles, with a sequence of individual images being perceived by the viewer as an alternating image or shaky image (flip) and/or a spatial image , d. H. three-dimensional effect and/or a morphing effect and/or a zoom effect and/or an animation. Each of these individual images is also referred to as a frame.
- the individual images that can be perceived by the viewer at a certain viewing angle are created by a selection determined by the optically imaging structure from the set of partial print images that can be perceived at the respective positions of the microlenses due to the at least one image element or the image elements there, whereby the image is based on a position of the print image
- Related overall color impression is created by superimposing all partial print images present and perceivable at this position.
- the optically imaging structure arranged in combination with a print image is therefore an optical masking of the partial print images involved in the print image in question, arranged in congruence with the surface of the optically imaging structure.
- an arrangement comprising a printed image and an optical imaging structure consisting of several plano-convex microlenses is used, in which several, preferably more than three, in particular between five and ten, image elements are arranged next to one another under at least one microlens of the relevant optical imaging structure, these image elements between the extent of the lens width of the microlens in question and its focus in a sectional plane lying parallel to the main plane of the microlens in question, the sectional plane intersecting a cone or an angular field of the light incident through the lens width of the microlens in question in the direction of the image elements arranged next to one another is, with several different image elements being arranged in a row in the cutting plane within the cone or the angular field.
- the printed image is for one Several frames can be perceived simultaneously by the viewer at a certain viewing angle, which creates complex and/or differentiated animations as well as sliding color transitions in the case of correspondingly colored image elements and/or sliding frame transitions in the case of different print motifs formed from the image elements.
- the substrate is e.g. B. a fiber-containing printing material, in particular paper, or a film, preferably a polymer film.
- the substrate can be opaque or transparent.
- the substrate can be designed in a single layer or in multiple layers, in particular in multiple layers in sections. Different layers of a multi-layer substrate can be made of different materials, e.g. B. a layer of paper and another layer of polymer film.
- the substrate or at least a respective layer of this substrate has a material thickness, i.e. H. Thickness e.g. B. less than 100 pm, preferably less than 50 pm, in particular about 25 pm.
- a printed image formed on the substrate has a layer thickness of e.g. B. less than 10 pm, preferably less than 5 pm, in particular in the range from 1 pm to 2 pm.
- the substrate can be printed on one or two sides.
- the arrangement of the printed image and the optically imaging structure is part of a security element or a document, in particular a security document.
- security documents include, for example, banknotes, credit cards, checks, securities, stock certificates, passports, ID cards, driver's licenses, title deeds, travel documents such as airline or train tickets, entrance tickets, study receipts and other official or official documents such as birth, death or marriage certificates. This list is only an example and is by no means exhaustive. However, they are preferably banknotes.
- Fig. 1 shows an example of a document 02, in particular a security document 02 or in which at least one security element 01 is arranged.
- the document 02 and/or the security element 01 in question have at least one optically imaging structure 03 over part or all of its surface, wherein the respective optically imaging structure 03 is preferably designed as a micro-optical structure 03 formed from microlenses 11.
- the optically imaging structure 03 in question is arranged in such a way that, for. B. at least partially covers a printed image 27 formed or applied to the document 02.
- the microlens 11 in question has an axis of symmetry 12, which at the same time also forms the optical axis 12 of this microlens 11.
- the microlens 11 can be designed to be rotationally symmetrical, spherical or aspherical, or it can be z.
- the microlens 11 is z. B. made from a transparent plastic or resin by injection, casting, embossing or printing.
- the microlens 11 has a convex envelope surface 13 used for light entry, z. B. a bundle of parallel light rays 14 hits this envelope surface 13.
- the microlens 11 has two opposite edge points 16 delimiting the convex envelope surface 13, axially symmetrical to its optical axis 12, which runs through the apex 37 of the convex envelope surface 13; 17, the distance between these two edge points 16; 17 determines a width of this microlens 11, referred to as lens width 18.
- the lens width 18 of a microlens 11 is less than 100 pm.
- the two edge points 16; 17 of the convex envelope surface 13 lie in a plane arranged orthogonally to the optical axis 12 of the microlens 11 in question, which is also referred to as the main plane 19 of this microlens 11.
- the main plane 19 forms a flat enveloping surface 21 of the relevant plane Microlens 11.
- a distance between the main plane 19 of the microlens 11 and its focus 23 (focal point) forms the focal length 22 of the microlens 11 in question, the focus 23 being an intersection of the bundled light rays 14 incident in particular parallel into the microlens 11.
- the focal length 22 of a microlens 11 is less than 100 pm.
- a plane arranged in the focus 23 orthogonally to the optical axis 12 is called the focal plane 24.
- the microlens 11 is part of a lens array or a lens grid, in which a large number of microlenses 11 are arranged, preferably without gaps and without overlaps, with respect to a specific surface of any contour.
- the lens array or the lens grid is arranged on a substrate 26, the substrate 26 z. B. is designed as a fiber-containing printing material with a transparent window, in particular paper, or as a film, preferably as a transparent polymer film.
- the substrate 26 has a material thickness 29 or thickness 29 z. B. of less than 100 pm, preferably less than 50 pm, in particular about 25 pm.
- the substrate 26 is preferably part of a security element 01 or a document 02, in particular a security document 02.
- the substrate 26 is designed to be transparent at least in the area covered by the flat envelope surface 21 of the respective microlens 11.
- a printed image 27 with a small layer thickness 36 is on the back of the substrate 26, ie on the side of this substrate 26 facing away from the microlens 11. B. of less than 10 pm, this print image 27 having a large number of individual image elements 28 that are different from one another. These individual image elements 28 have a very small area and extend parallel to the lens width 18 over just a few micrometers, e.g. B. over a maximum of 10 pm. It is therefore possible to have several, e.g. B. ten such image elements 28a to 28j in the area covered by the flat envelope surface 21 of the microlens 11 z. B. to be arranged next to each other.
- At least One of these image elements 28a to 28j preferably has image points and/or lines printed in different printing colors, in particular depending on the number of z.
- picture elements 28a to 28j arranged next to one another, whose respective pixels have a pixel size 38 and / or whose lines have a line thickness 38, each in the range of a few micrometers, preferably in the range of less than 20 pm.
- the printed image 27 preferably consists of a superimposition or a superposition of several partial printed images each printed in different printing colors.
- the image elements 28a to 28j which are arranged in particular next to one another in the area covered by the flat envelope surface 21 of the microlens 11, ie under the relevant microlens 11, preferably each belong to different print motifs.
- image elements 28a to 28j arranged next to one another are advantageously arranged closer to the microlens 11 than its focus 23. These image elements 28a to 28j are preferably arranged between the relevant microlens 11 and its focus 23 in a sectional plane 31 lying parallel to the main plane 19 of the relevant microlens 11 , wherein the cutting plane 31 forms a cone 32 or an angular field 32 of the respective microlens 11 through the lens width 18 in the direction of z. B.
- juxtaposed image elements 28a to 28j of incident light is arranged intersecting, preferably several of the image elements 28a to 28j being arranged in a row in the cutting plane 31 within the cone 32 or the angular field 32 at the same time.
- the z. B. five image elements 28c to 28g are arranged in a row, whereas the remaining image elements 28a, 28b and 28h to 28j arranged in the area covered by the flat envelope surface 21 of the microlens 11 are visible to a viewer viewing the printed image 27 under a corresponding one with the incident light rays 14 e.g. B. acute first viewing angle 33 are not perceptible.
- FIG. 3 which has the same arrangement as FIG. 2 with a printed image 27 and an optical imaging structure 03 consisting of several plano-convex microlenses 11. Due to the second viewing angle 34, which is different from the first viewing angle 33, in the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. 3, only the image elements 28d to 28h are perceptible to a viewer viewing the printed image 27, while the others are not.
- the image elements 28a to 28j shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, which are arranged in the area covered by the flat envelope surface 21 of an individual microlens 11, are formed by image points and/or lines, each preferably printed in different printing colors.
- the respective pixel size 38 of the relevant pixels and/or the line thickness 38 of the relevant lines is each significantly smaller than the lens width 18 of the relevant microlens 11, preferably in the range of a few micrometers, in particular in the range of less than 20 pm.
- At least one of these image elements 28a to 28j has image points and/or lines, for the printing of which special printing fluids, in particular inks, are used whose optical properties differ from conventional printing fluids. in particular differ from usual printing colors or inks.
- These special pressure fluids are, for example: B. inks that are not visible to the naked human eye of a normal-sighted observer without an excitation lying outside the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye, in particular ink that absorbs infrared radiation or ink that reflects infrared radiation or converts infrared radiation into the visible Ink or an ultraviolet ray fluorescent ink or a magnetic ink.
- These inks, which are particularly invisible under daylight conditions, can be used like the other printing inks following appropriate stimulation different colors can be perceived, e.g. B. in the color ranges blue, green or red.
- This excitation is preferably an electromagnetic or magnetic excitation.
- ink here is understood to mean an intensely colored and coloring liquid, which usually consists of a solution or dispersions of colorants in water or other solvents, these solvents containing no binder or, in the case of inks designed as an ink, little binder.
- Colorants are coloring substances, e.g. B. Pigments and dyes that can be inorganic or organic, natural or synthetic.
- printing inks are mixtures containing colorants that are applied to a substrate, i.e. using a printing form. H. be transferred to a printing material.
- Printing inks contain inorganic and organic pigments, e.g. B. titanium dioxide as a white pigment or carbon black as a black pigment, as well as binders that envelop the pigments. Both conventional printing inks and inks, including inks that are invisible to the human eye under daylight conditions, can be subsumed under the term printing fluid.
- the aforementioned special inks that react to infrared radiation (IR) are used, for example.
- NIR near infrared range
- One based on infrared radiation (IR; NIR) reacting ink contains e.g. B. inorganic i. d. R. pigment-shaped luminophores that, after absorbing energy, emit radiation in the visible spectral range and/or infrared range (NIR).
- An ink that converts infrared radiation into visible contains so-called anti-Stokes pigments.
- UV radiation is electromagnetic radiation that is invisible to the human eye and has wavelengths shorter than visible light.
- the spectrum in the ultraviolet includes according to widely accepted classification the wavelengths from 100 nm to 380 nm, ie from the short-wave range to the limit of visible light.
- An ink that fluoresces ultraviolet radiation has fluorescent color pigments that glow intensely when exposed to ultraviolet radiation and, if necessary, evaluate the ultraviolet rays of daylight.
- a magnetic ink is understood to mean an ink that is particularly mixed with iron oxide particles. These particles can be magnetized by an external magnetic field with respect to the relevant substrate 26 and the optically imaging structure 03, which is different from the earth's magnetic field, and can thus be analyzed and read magneto-optically.
- An arrangement that is advantageous in terms of machine readability and has a printed image 27 applied to a substrate 26 and an optically imaging structure 03 covering at least parts of the printed image 27 provides that the optically imaging structure 03 has a group or a grid of several plano-convex microlenses 11, the planar envelope surface 21 of the microlenses 11 faces the substrate 26, wherein the printed image 27 arranged on the substrate 26 is preferably arranged on its side facing the optically imaging structure 03 and has at least one image element 28a to 28j with at least one image point and / or a line, where This image point and/or this line is formed in terms of printing technology by a printing fluid, the printing fluid only being visible to the human eye due to an excitation lying outside the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye.
- This printing fluid is preferably formed as an infrared radiation absorbing ink or an infrared radiation reflecting ink or an infrared radiation visible converting ink or an ultraviolet radiation fluorescent ink or a magnetic ink.
- the relevant at least one image element 28a to 28j of the machine-readable printed image 27 is an integral part of the relevant arrangement, for example. B. on a security element 01 or a document 02, in particular on a security document 02.
- the Excitation of the pressure fluid lying outside the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye occurs with reference to the optically imaging structure 03 covering at least parts of the printed image 27 on the front, ie directed towards the respective convex envelope surface 13 of the microlenses 11, if this excitation is caused by the optically imaging structure 03 is designed to act through, or on the back, ie on the substrate side or directed towards the respective flat envelope surface 21 of the microlenses 11, if the optically imaging structure 03 is designed to block this excitation.
- the respective pixel size 38 is relevant pixels and/or the line thickness 38 of the relevant lines z. B. each larger than the lens width 18 of the relevant microlens 11.
- the respective microlens is located at several individual positions in the group having a plurality of plano-convex microlenses 11 or in the grid having a plurality of plano-convex microlenses 11 of the respective optically imaging structure 03 11 remains unformed and at least one image element 28a to 28j of the printed image 27 with at least one image point and / or a line is arranged at the relevant defect, this image point and / or this line only being visible to the human eye in terms of printing technology Electromagnetic spectrum excitation visible to the human eye is formed pressure fluid.
- the pressure fluid which is not visible to the human eye under normal conditions, is therefore applied or arranged at selected defects in the respective optically imaging structure 03.
- the arrangement of substrate 26 and optically imaging structure 03 can have a printed image 27, which allows a normal-sighted observer viewing the printed image 27 through the optically imaging structure 03 with the naked eye to perceive several different individual images at different viewing angles, wherein a sequence of individual images In the viewer's perception, a changing image or shaky image (flip) and/or a spatial, ie three-dimensional effect and/or a morphing effect and/or a zoom effect and/or an animation are created. These different individual images are also referred to as frames.
- the relevant at least one print image 27 is composed.
- the relevant printed image 27 has several partial printed images at least in the area covered by optically imaging structure 03.
- At least one partial print image of these partial print images has image elements 28a to 28j with at least one image point and/or one line, the relevant image point and/or the relevant line being printed by the excitation lying outside the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye Pressure fluid visible to the human eye is formed.
- At least one image element 28a to 28j of at least one partial print image of the print image 27, which is to be machine-readable and has several partial print images is formed by a mixture, this mixture comprising a printing fluid that is visible to the human eye, in particular under daylight conditions, and only one has pressure fluid visible to the human eye due to the excitation lying outside the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye.
- the image elements 28a to 28j of the printed image 27 arranged therein are each through a printing fluid that is visible to the human eye, in particular under daylight conditions, and in a second the area covered by the optically imaging structure 03, the image elements 28a to 28j of the printed image 27 arranged therein are each formed by a printing fluid that is only visible to the human eye due to the excitation lying outside the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye.
- Fig. 4 shows an example of a security document 02, e.g. B. a banknote, the substrate 26 of which e.g. B. consists of a fiber-containing printing material, in particular paper, and has at least one transparent window 04.
- the substrate 26 of the security document 02 can also be a film, preferably a transparent polymer film or a film with a transparent window 04.
- a micro-optical structure 03 that partially or completely covers this window 04 is arranged.
- This micro-optical structure 03 is designed as a lens array or as a lenticular, each of which consists of plano-convex microlenses 11.
- microlenses 11 are rotationally symmetrical spherical or aspherical in the case of a lens array and, for example, in the case of a lenticular.
- B axially symmetrical rod-shaped.
- a printed image 27 is formed or applied on the other side of this security document 02, ie on the side of the security document 02 that does not have the aforementioned lens array or lenticular, this printed image 27 being visible to the human eye in particular Pressure fluid visible under daylight conditions or by a pressure fluid visible to the human eye only due to the excitation lying outside the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye.
- the print image 27 in question can contain information that is immediately recognizable to humans or can be designed to be machine-readable.
- This print image 27 is in a z. B. point-shaped or line-shaped grid consisting of image elements 28a to 28j is applied to the substrate 26 and preferably in an industrial printing process z. B. created in an offset printing process.
- a pixel size 38 or a line thickness 38 of the image elements 28a to 28j of the printed image 27 applied to the substrate 26 is designed to be smaller than a lens width 18 of the microlenses 11 arranged in the lens array or lenticular and is therefore significantly less than 100 pm, preferably about 20 pm or fewer.
- the window 04 which is partially or completely covered by the micro-optical structure 03, also has a further printed image 27, preferably also created using an offset printing process, on the back of this substrate 26 of the security document 02, that is to say on the side of the substrate 26 of the security document 02 facing away from the micro-optical structure 03 has, this further printed image 27 arranged in the area of the transparent window 04 has at least one unprinted surface, ie a recess 06, in the area covered by the micro-optical structure 03, so that the recess 06 in question is in the further one arranged in the area of the window 04
- Print image 27 partially exposes the micro-optical structure 03 applied to the substrate 26 of this security document 02 and a view through the transparent window 04 onto the respective flat envelope surface 21 in the micro-optical structure 03 releases plano-convex microlenses 11.
- a method for authenticating a security document 02 having a micro-optical structure 03 consists in folding the substrate 26 of the security document 02 - as indicated by an arrow in FIG printed image 27 formed or applied at a distance from the area of the transparent window 04 with that on the other side of the substrate
- the substrate 26 of this security document 02 applied micro-optical structure 03 or at least with one of the micro-optical structure 03 partially exposing recesses 06 in the printed image 27 arranged in the area of the window 04 is brought into congruence or at least can be brought into congruence.
- the substrate 26 of the security document 02 can - as indicated in FIG. 4 - at the fold line 07 z. B. be folded over in approximately half, so that the folded part of the substrate 26 which has the printed image 27 applied outside and at a distance from the area of the transparent window 04 is placed on the other part of this substrate 26 which has the transparent window 04 and the micro-optical structure 03 or is at least legible.
- the printed image 27 which is applied outside and at a distance from the area of the transparent window 04, is placed in the transparent window 04 of the substrate 26 of this security document 02 on the respective flat envelope surface 21 of the plano-convex microlenses 11 arranged in the micro-optical structure 03 .
- the advantage of the solution found is that the security document 02 can be authenticated without the help of third-party means.
- the proposed method thus enables self-authentication of the security document 02 in question solely based on means that the security document 02 in question itself has.
- the authentication proposed here is therefore proof that can be carried out anywhere and at any time that the security document 02 in question is an original, in particular a genuine banknote.
- the printed image 27 applied in the area of the transparent window 04 on the back of the substrate 26 is at least partially overprinted with a layer 39 of a white ink.
- This layer 39 forms an extensive cover layer consisting of light, in particular white, ink for the printed image 27 applied in the area of the transparent window 04 on the back of the substrate 26.
- This cover layer can be opaque, ie for electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of about 380 nm (violet) to 780 nm (red) opaque, ie opaque, or partially transparent to electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range of about 380 nm (violet) to 780 nm (red).
- the partial transparency can be designed to vary gradually over the two-dimensional areal extent of the cover layer, so that some locations of the cover layer are designed to be more transparent than other locations of this cover layer.
- a degree of transparency for incident light can preferably be in the range between 10% and 90%.
- the result is - as shown by way of example in FIG and at least one printed image 27 is arranged on the other side of the substrate 26 opposite this micro-optical structure 03.
- the print image 27 in question has a plurality of image elements 28a to 28j in a dot-shaped or line-shaped grid, these image elements 28a to 28j being formed in a color different from white.
- a pixel size 38 or a line thickness 38 of these image elements 28a to 28j is each designed to be smaller than a lens width 18 of the microlenses 11 arranged in the micro-optical structure 03.
- the layer 39 covering the relevant printed image 27 is arranged on the opposite side, this layer 39 consisting of a lighter color than the at least one color different from white of which the relevant printed image 27 consists.
- This layer 39 is preferably designed in the color white.
- the layer 39 covering the print image 27 in question can be designed to be opaque for electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range from 380 nm to 780 nm, or this layer 39 is for electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in the range from 380 nm to 780 nm transparent, with a degree of transparency for this electromagnetic radiation in the range z.
- the transparency can be designed to vary gradually over the two-dimensional areal extent of the layer 39 covering the printed image 27 in question, so that some locations of this layer 39 are designed to a different degree of transparency than other locations of this layer 39.
- certain image elements 28a to 28j of the relevant printed image 27 are emphasized by their improved recognizability for the human eye, whereas other image elements 28a to 28j of the relevant printed image 27 remain deliberately weaker in their respective recognizability.
- the layer 39 covering the relevant printed image 27 is or is created in an inkjet printing process or in an offset printing process or in a screen printing process, whereas the relevant printed image 27 arranged on the other side of the substrate 26 opposite the micro-optical structure 03 is created in an offset printing process is created.
- Contrast is generally the difference in brightness between adjacent light and dark areas in an image.
- a security document 02 results with a contrast-enhancing layer 39 on the back of the substrate 26 together with means for self-authentication, as shown by way of example in a sectional view in FIG. 6 and described below.
- this first printed image 27 has a plurality of image elements 28a to 28j in a dot-shaped or line-shaped grid, these image elements 28a to 28j preferably being formed in a color tone different from white.
- a pixel size 38 or a line thickness 38 of these image elements 28a to 28j is each designed to be smaller than a lens width 18 of the microlenses 11 arranged in the micro-optical structure 03.
- the first Print image 27 is arranged on the side facing away from the micro-optical structure 03, a layer 39 covering the surface of this first print image 27, this layer 39 preferably consisting of a lighter color than the at least one color different from white from which the first printed image 27 consists.
- the security document 02 now proposed according to FIG. 6 differs from the exemplary embodiment shown in FIG. H.
- a further printed image 41 is arranged.
- This second printed image 41 is arranged on the layer 39 covering part of the first printed image 27 in such a way that this second printed image 41, after carrying out a fold indicated by an arrow in FIG 4 shown by way of example - with the micro-optical structure 03 applied on the other side of the substrate 26 of this security document 02 is or at least can be brought into congruence in such a way that this second printed image 41 or at least one piece of information contained in it can be seen from the direction of the micro-optical structure 03 is or will be visible and/or recognizable.
- the fold line 07 on which the substrate 26 of this security document 02 is folded, is preferably arranged outside the layer 39 which partially covers the first printed image 27, i.e. H. spaced from this layer 39.
- This fold line 07 is preferably arranged in that part of the first printed image 27 which the layer 39 arranged on the first printed image 27 does not cover.
- the image elements 28a to 28j of the first printed image 27 are formed in a color different from white, with the layer 39 partially covering the first printed image 27 being made of a lighter color exists as the at least one color tone different from white from which the first printed image 27 consists.
- the embodiment of the invention according to FIG. 6 can also have at least some of the features that have already been described in connection with FIGS. 1 and 5 in any technically sensible combination.
- the particularly contrast-enhancing layer 39 covering the printed image 27 in question can also be created in an offset printing process or in a screen printing process, although in the preferred embodiment it is created in an inkjet printing process, whereas on the other side opposite the micro-optical structure 03
- the relevant print image 27 arranged on the substrate 26 is created in an offset printing process.
- the printed image 27 consists of several image elements 28a to 28j printed in at least two different printing colors, these image elements 28a to 28j in turn forming image points and/or lines.
- a pixel size 38 or line thickness 38 is preferably in a range of less than 20 pm, e.g. B.
- a color register of the image elements 28a to 28j printed in different printing colors, i.e. H. the accuracy of their relative arrangement to one another is less than 20 pm in the exemplary embodiments considered here, preferably less than 10 pm and is in particular in the range of approximately 5 pm.
- the print image 27 with the aforementioned color register accuracy is produced, for example. B. in a printing press designed as a rotary printing press, in particular in a printing press used in value printing, which z. B. as a printing material web or as a printed sheet formed substrate 26 via a z. B. is guided as a cylinder designed as an impression cylinder 42, the printing inks involved in the relevant printed image 27 being applied to the substrate 26 by successive overprinting or in the preferred embodiment the printing inks involved in the relevant printed image 27 z. b. collected on a transfer cylinder 43 and delivered together from this transfer cylinder 43 to the substrate 26 guided by the impression cylinder 42.
- the substrate 26 is z. B. designed as a printing material web in the form of a polymer film or as a printed sheet made of paper.
- At least two forme cylinders 44 are positioned or at least adjustable on the circumference of the transfer cylinder 43, each of these forme cylinders 44 transferring one of the printing inks involved in the print image 27 in question to the transfer cylinder 43.
- the respective direction of rotation of the counter-pressure cylinder 42, transfer cylinder 43 and forme cylinder 44 is indicated in FIG. 7 by an arrow in the direction of rotation. It is known to those skilled in the art that each of the forme cylinders 44 is assigned an inking unit (not shown in FIG. 7).
- the printing inks transferred from the forme cylinders 44 attached to the transfer cylinder 43 each differ in their color.
- a printing device Downstream of the transfer point, at which the transfer cylinder 43 prints the printing inks collected on it to create the printed image 27 onto the substrate 26 guided by the impression cylinder 42, a printing device is provided on the same side of the substrate 26 as the printed image 27 created at the transfer point, this Printing device overprints the printed image 27 at least partially with a layer 39 made of a light-colored, preferably white ink.
- This printing device is preferably designed as at least one inkjet print head 46.
- the color tone of the ink printed by the relevant inkjet print head 46 is lighter than the respective color tone of the printing inks applied to the substrate 26 by the transfer cylinder 43.
- An embossing device 47 is preferably also provided in the printing press, with which embossing device 47 the micro-optical structure 03 consisting of microlenses 11 is formed on the substrate 26. So this embossing device 47 can be in the Printing machine can be arranged upstream of the impression cylinder 42. In a particularly advantageous embodiment, however, the impression cylinder 42 has this embossing device 47 on its circumference, the micro-optical structure 03 consisting of microlenses 11 being formed with this embossing device 47 and being arranged on the substrate 26 guided by this impression cylinder 42 during the rotation of this impression cylinder 42 .
- the z. B. microlenses 11 made of a plastic or resin have a lens width 18 z. B. less than 100 pm, preferably between 20 pm and 65 pm.
- the substrate 26 of the security document 02 has at least one transparent window 04, with a micro-optical structure 03 consisting of microlenses 11 being provided on one side of the substrate 26 at least in the area of the relevant transparent window 04.
- the impression cylinder 42 and the transfer cylinder 43 are arranged to cooperate in such a way that in a printing process, at least in the area of the relevant transparent window 04, the micro-optical structure 03 consisting of microlenses 11 is on one side of the substrate 26 and on the other side of the substrate opposite this micro-optical structure 03 26 the at least one printed image 27 can be arranged at least in the area of the transparent window 04.
- This arrangement of the micro-optical structure 03 made of microlenses 11 by the embossing device 47 and the at least one printed image 27 generated by the impression cylinder 42 and transfer cylinder 43 in the area of the transparent window 04 can be at the aforementioned transfer point at the same time or with reference to the circumference of the impression cylinder 42 different places at different times.
- a printing device is also provided in the printing machine, this printing device applying an extensive layer 39 covering the relevant printed image 27 at least on a section of the relevant printed image 27 on the side facing away from the micro-optical structure 03.
- This printing device is arranged downstream of the transfer point at which the transfer cylinder 43 prints the printed image 27 onto the substrate 26 guided by the impression cylinder 42, on the same side of the substrate 26 as the printed image 27 created at the transfer point, and is designed according to the invention as at least one inkjet print head 46.
- the print image 27 in question has several different colored image elements 28a to 28j in a dot-shaped or line-shaped grid, these image elements 28a to 28j each being formed in a color different from white, the layer formed by the at least one inkjet print head 46 39 consists of a lighter color than the color tones other than white that make up the print image 27 in question.
- the impression cylinder 42 advantageously has the embossing device 47 on its circumference, the embossing device 47 forming the micro-optical structure 03 consisting of microlenses 11 and being arranged in such a way that it forms the micro-optical structure 03 consisting of microlenses 11 during the rotation of this Impression cylinder 42, d. H. during an ongoing printing process, on the substrate 26 guided by this impression cylinder 42.
- a pixel size 38 or a line thickness 38 of the image elements 28a to 28j of the relevant printed image 27 is preferably each smaller than a lens width 18 of the microlenses 11 arranged in the micro-optical structure 03.
- At least two are positioned or at least adjustable to the circumference of the transfer cylinder 43
- Forme cylinder 44 is provided, each of these forme cylinders 44 transferring one of the printing inks involved in the relevant printed image 27 to the transfer cylinder 43, the transfer cylinder 43 collecting these different colored printing inks and the printing inks collected on the transfer cylinder 43 being transferred together to the substrate 26 guided by the impression cylinder 42 become.
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