Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Metameric security devices using an active material
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Application No.: US13700761Application Date: 2011-06-03
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Publication No.: US10011140B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Bill Baloukas , Ludvik Martinu
- Applicant: Bill Baloukas , Ludvik Martinu
- Applicant Address: CA Montreal, QC
- Assignee: POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
- Current Assignee: POLYVALOR, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
- Current Assignee Address: CA Montreal, QC
- Agency: Anglehart et al.
- International Application: PCT/CA2011/050341 WO 20110603
- International Announcement: WO2011/150523 WO 20111208
- Main IPC: B42D25/00
- IPC: B42D25/00 ; B42D25/29 ; B42D25/36 ; B42D25/21 ; G02F1/15

Abstract:
An integrated security structure is provided employing an external source of energy to change the appearance of the structure rendering the structure more challenging to duplicate due to its complexity. The security structure includes a substrate forming part of a bank note, identification document, or other security device; an active device within the substrate changing color between at least two colors wherein a color of the substrate surrounding the active device matches one of the at least two colors to form a metameric device. At least one Interference Security Image Structure (ISIS) is configured to be metameric with a bleached state of the active device and is therefore invisible at normal incidence. Another ISIS is metameric with the colored state of the electrochromic device and consequently becomes invisible during coloration. When the whole device is tilted, both ISIS's change color while the rest of the device essentially remains the same.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130147179A1 METAMERIC SECURITY DEVICES USING AN ACTIVE MATERIAL Public/Granted day:2013-06-13
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