RU12809U1 - IDENTIFICATION CARD AND BASIS FOR IT - Google Patents

Abstract

1. An identification card, including a base with at least one element that determines the validity of the card, characterized in that the element that determines the validity of the card is a mark (label), protected from falsification and attached to the base. 2. An identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the mark is attached to the base in a specific place. Identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the mark is attached to the base with glue. Identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the mark is protected from reuse. An identification card according to claim 4, characterized in that the mark is made in such a way that when disconnected from the base, its violation becomes apparent. Identification card according to claim 4, characterized in that the mark is an element that protects the card from forgery. 7. Identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the brand is an element of personalization. The basis of an identification card containing at least one element indicating the location of personal information, characterized in that it contains elements corresponding to calendar periods or dates that determine the place of attachment of the brand to indicate the validity of the card. 9. The basis of the identification card according to claim 8, characterized in that the elements corresponding to different calendar periods and dates are located on the basis along at least one line in chronological order.

Description

Identification card and the basis for it.

The inventive utility model relates to identification cards used in various fields of activity:

trade and services (discount loyalty and settlement cards);

-health and insurance (medical, insurance and social);

-rest and sports (club, cards of sports and fitness centers);

-commercial and public services (official, access cards); banking and finance (credit and debit cards);

-transport (gasoline, travel cards, airline tickets); communication (payphone and service cards);

-travel and entertainment, etc .;

more specifically to validity period identification cards.

The material from which the cards are made can be different: paper (cardboard), plastic, metal, and combinations thereof.

Currently, almost all cards are made of plastic, which can be easily heat treated and pressure (embossing), which is very important for personalizing the card before issuing it to the client.

Sometimes paper (cardboard) cards are used, sealed or pressed into plastic film (laminated cards). Such cards also apply to plastic cards.

An identification card is a base (usually rectangular-shaped plastic) containing elements that carry identification information.

Identification information includes identification information common for cards about the origin or their affiliation with any organization (for example, name, trademark, logo of their issuer) and specific to

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each card personal information.

Personal information on the card can be: the registration and registration number of the card, its validity, name and surname of the card holder (holder), etc.

In most cases, personal information on the card (including its validity period) should be visually distinguishable.

In the process of applying information, including personal information, methods are widely used that increase the security of using cards, protecting them from counterfeiting, duplication, illegal use when the card is stolen or lost (n.US 5259649 on 09.11.93, B42 D 15 / 00; 3.WO 95/31338 op. 23.11.95, B42 D 15/10; CH 681795 A5, op. 28.05.93, B42 D 15/10).

Known products, usually called labels, that carry identification or substantial information (p. US 5083816 on. 28.01.92, B42 D 15/10; p. US 5288107 on. 22.02.94, B42 D 15/00).

Labels are usually made on a paper or polymer basis, and can be fixed on a unit of goods or containers, for example, using glue or an adhesive layer applied to a label (FR 2692393 op. A.12.93, G09 F 3/10; par. US 5366251 on. 22.11.94, B42 D 15/00).

Labels, if required, are protected in one way or another from tampering or copying. (ПМ No. 9542 U1 of the Russian Federation, Op. 16.03.99, G09 F 3/00; Sec. US 4889365 on. 26.12.89, B42D 15/00).

If necessary, labels are made protected from reuse (JP 5-18431 B4 op. 11.03.93, G09 F 3/03), with re-sticking protection (JP 5061632 B4 op. 06.09.93, G09 F 3/03; JP 5080676 B4 on. 09.11.93, G09 F 3/03).

This is achieved by using destructible (exfoliating) materials in their production, and not allowing re-sticking (JP 6040240 B4 op.25.05.94, G09 F 3/03).

However, such well-known labels are intended to be attached to a product or container. They are not used to indicate the validity of identification cards.

A known identification card with glued labels (p. US 5209514 on. 11.05.93, B42 D 15/00). It is a paper card pasted with a plastic shell. Labels are glued to the paper base of the card, while plastic provides durability and protection of the card from counterfeiting.

However, the labels do not contain information about the validity period of the card, and their use is not intended here, as the process of making such a card takes a certain time and requires the use of special equipment. The validity period of a card usually becomes known only when it is issued to a client, and therefore, when it is affixed, speed and efficiency are required. While other personal information (for example, card number) can be put on the card in advance.

The so-called protective signs (stamps) are known - visually recognizable physical objects intended for direct or indirect protection of various marking objects (detecting unauthorized access to them) and informing about their origin (SN 678838 op. 15.11.91, B42 D 15/10; p. US 5120089 on. 09.06.92, B42 D 15/00).

Self-adhesive destructible security signs (stamps) and destructible holographic materials in the form of dacron films and hot stamping foils are widely used to confirm the authenticity of identification cards for various purposes (A. A. Andreev et al. Plastic cards. 3rd edition, revised and supplemented - M. : Publishing group “BDS-Press, 1999, p.35).

However, such hard stamps contain information about the issuer (trademark or logo of affiliation), but do not carry specific personal information, including information about the validity period of the card.

Identification cards with an embossed (squeezed out at the base of the card) validity period are known (A. Kirilenko, A. Zvezdochkin. Local discount systems, J. “Card World No. 10/96, p. 17).

However, such cards for applying the validity period on them require the use of special and, as a rule, expensive equipment (embossers), which does not allow promptly and without significant costs to put validity periods directly at the points of issue of cards to customers.

A known identification card base having an opening occupying 30-50% of the card area (DE 4224011 op. 19.08.93, B42 D 15/04). This hole is intended for placement in it of an information carrier in the form of a mirror-wrapped negative.

The basis of an identification card with a section for posting photographs is known. The base consists of two layers: a transparent first layer and an intermediate layer placed under it. In the upper layer or in the intermediate layer, image spots having different absorption are burned with a laser (WO 3.95 / 31338 op. 23.11.95.0420 15/10).

The basis of an identification card is known, containing a recess, at the bottom of which a three-dimensional image is created with a configuration that carries data confirming the card holder (SN 681795 A5, op. 28.05.93, B42 D 15/10).

However, all known fundamentals contain elements that indicate the location of information to identify the cardholder, and not about the duration of its validity. The validity period of the card is either embossed or applied by indent printing or graphic printing, which does not allow quickly and without special equipment to apply the validity period of the card.

actions can be quite simply resolved if, in a well-known identification card that includes a base with at least one element that determines the validity period of the card, the element that determines the validity period is a stamp (label), protected from falsification, and attached to the base.

This allows you to quickly and without the use of embossers and special graphic printers designed for printing on cards, to make a reliable (since the mark is protected from falsification) visually distinguishable card expiration.

The mark can be applied to the base of the card manually or with the help of an etiquette gun, and its authenticity is easily determined visually with the naked eye, or using a special device.

Another difference is that the brand is attached to the base in a specific place. This allows you to determine the validity period of the card with the help of a stamp, which in itself does not contain specific information, or contains only part of the information about the period or date. The specific validity period is determined by the place of accession of the brand.

The difference is also that the brand is attached to the base with glue. This eliminates the use of any devices for applying the validity period of the card.

The difference is that the brand is protected from reuse. This eliminates the possibility of redefining the validity period of this card or determining the validity period of another card using the same brand.

The difference is also that the mark is made in such a way that when disconnected from the base, its violation becomes obvious. This implementation makes it obvious the unauthorized transfer of the stamp once applied from one place to another or from one card to another.

Another difference is that the brand is an element of personalization. The ability to apply numbering to the brand, the use of end-to-end numbering can further increase the degree of control over the use of brands. It may coincide with the numbering of the cards themselves, supplement or replace it. The possibility of applying alphanumeric information to the brand allows it to be used as a carrier of specific personal information (surname and name of the holder, validity period of the card, etc.).

The existing problem of reducing the time and cost for applying reliable visually distinguishable information about the validity period of the card can be solved quite simply if the known basis of the identification card containing at least one element indicating the location of personal information contains elements corresponding to calendar periods or dates that determine place of joining the brand.

Another difference is that the elements corresponding to different calendar periods or dates, determining the place of attachment of the brand, are located on the basis along at least one line in chronological order. This arrangement of these elements makes it convenient to stick several brands at once, combined together, for example, in the form of a block (or marks in the form of a tape). The location of these elements, for example, along a closed line increases the clarity when determining the validity period of a card, demonstrating the cyclical nature of the change of calendar periods, for example months (when moving from year to year).

This basis allows you to quickly, without unnecessary loss of time and the use of expensive equipment, attach (for example, using glue) a mark to the appropriate place to indicate the validity of the card.

from falsification, and determining the validity of these cards.

In FIG. 6 shows the basis of an identification card with the fields for gluing stamps plotted on it graphically.

In FIG. Figure 7 shows an identification card with already pasted stamps, protected from counterfeiting and reuse, defining a specific period during which it is valid.

In the simplest case, the identification card includes a base 1, which is a piece of rectangular plastic, and a stamp 2, which is protected from a fake (Fig. 1).

Grade 2 can be attached to the base 1, for example, by means of an adhesive, an adhesive layer or a thermo-adhesive layer by hot stamping. In this case, the mark determines the validity of the identification card.

A trademark protected from falsification explicitly or implicitly refers to the issuer, as it contains protected information in the form of a name, trademark, logo or any image that directly or indirectly indicates its specific origin. Such a stamp, protected from forgery, essentially fulfilling the identification function of the card, being pasted (glued) onto the card of another issuer, allows implementing joint card projects with this issuer.

If the mark is protected from reuse and is made in such a way that when it is disconnected from the base, its violation becomes obvious, then such a mark can protect the card for a certain period of time from counterfeiting.

The use of a security mark to indicate the validity period allows you to simultaneously protect the card itself from counterfeiting.

cpoicH the actions of cards are often not known in advance, and this can lead to unjustified losses and excessive material costs in the manufacture of stamps.

Information about the validity period of a particular card, as well as other personal information, can be imprinted in an already finished brand (label) when it is still on the frame (a sheet of paper with a release layer) using a suitable printing device.

Specific dates can be stamped and stamped, or in the process of stamping cards with an etiquette gun, I have the ability to affix digital information.

However, affixing (imprinting) information to the brand in any way after its production often does not provide the required level of protection of this information from forgery, as well as its physical safety in the process of using the card.

To eliminate these shortcomings, the mark 2 attached to the base can pre-contain only a part of the information about the period (see Fig. 2) or about the date (see Fig. 3), which becomes specific, thanks to the element 3 made on it, determining the place of the mark .

Or, to determine the validity period of a card, you can use a stamp that in itself does not contain any information about the expiration date.

In this case, the validity period of the card (or its expiration date) is determined only by the place of adherence of one or several brands 2 to base 1 (see Fig. 4 and Fig. Z). In this case, the brand 2, protected from counterfeiting, can be made in the form of a cutting tape, for example, as in figure 4. The calendar periods (months) determining the place of accession can be set by numbers, as in FIG. 5.

The validity period of all the described cards (see Fig. 1-5) can, if necessary, be extended by attaching additional marks to the base (gluing).

from reuse and in such a way that when you try to disconnect them from the base, their violation becomes apparent. They may contain the name (logo) of the issuer and continuous numbering, which allows keeping their records. Such grades are convenient to use if they are delivered on a tape with a release layer, cutting off strips from it with the number of grades necessary for gluing.

Such identification cards can be used, for example, as club or discount cards, which give the right to receive discounts or benefits when servicing cardholders. The number of such a card, which is necessary when issuing a slip slip to certify the fact that the discount was provided and to account for it, can be affixed on the basis of the card by the method of embossing even at its manufacture.

The procedure for issuing (selling) and renewing such cards comes down to simply sticking a specific number of stamps. The cardholder’s name, if required, is recorded in the issuer's accounting registers when it is issued, and, if necessary, is determined by the card number.

In addition, such a card may include a strip for the owner’s signature and other traditional elements that additionally protect it from falsification.

In most cases, based on 1 card, they are preliminarily performed (for example, graphically) determining the place of attachment of the brand (s) 2 elements (fields) 3, corresponding to generally defined calendar periods or dates.

These fields 3 can be located on the basis of 1 in any visual way, for example, in chronological order, along one (including a closed f along the perimeter of a rectangle, etc.) or along several lines.

In FIG. 6 shows the basis 1 of an identification card, with a maximum validity of one year. Fields 3, corresponding to the calendar period of one month, are divided in half so that the stamps can be glued with an offset, so

as shown in FIG. 7. Thereby it becomes possible to set the validity period of the card starting from the middle of any month.

D.11. The card validity in months, equal to the number of stamps pasted, in this example is five months (from mid-October 1998 to mid-March 1999). Information about a specific year, in this case, is displayed on the stamps in numbers, although it could be determined implicitly, for example, by the color of the stamps (the material from which they are made) or the form of their cutting.

The use of such a framework with a linear arrangement of calendar fields allows you to quickly and conveniently stick several stamps at once, combined together in the form of a block (or stamp in the form of a tape) to specify the period of validity of the card, as well as during its extension.

It can be seen from the examples that the claimed ideftification card and the basis for it allow quickly and without the use of expensive special equipment to put visually distinguishable information about the validity period of the card. Moreover, this information is reliably protected from falsification.

Claims (9)

1. An identification card, including a base with at least one element that determines the validity of the card, characterized in that the element that determines the validity of the card is a mark (label), protected from falsification and attached to the base.  2. The identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the mark is attached to the base in a specific place.  3. The identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the mark is attached to the base with glue.  4. The identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the mark is protected from reuse.  5. The identification card according to claim 4, characterized in that the mark is made in such a way that when disconnected from the base, its violation becomes apparent.  6. The identification card according to claim 4, characterized in that the mark is an element that protects the card from counterfeiting.  7. The identification card according to claim 1, characterized in that the brand is an element of personalization.  8. The basis of an identification card containing at least one element indicating the location of personal information, characterized in that it contains elements corresponding to calendar periods or dates that determine the place of attachment of the brand to indicate the validity of the card. 9. The basis of the identification card according to claim 8, characterized in that the elements corresponding to different calendar periods and dates are located on the basis along at least one line in chronological order.