Film Element
    21.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180164478A9

    公开(公告)日:2018-06-14

    申请号:US14559211

    申请日:2014-12-03

    CPC classification number: G02B5/18 B42D25/20 B42D25/324 B42D25/328 G02B5/1842

    Abstract: The invention concerns a film element having a replication layer (43), wherein an optically active surface structure (27) is shaped in a first surface of the replication layer. The surface structure is formed in at least a first region of the film element (35) by a first diffractive surface relief (46) comprising a plurality of successive elements following a first envelope curve (47), wherein the elements respectively comprise an element surface (48) arranged substantially parallel to a base surface and at least one flank adjoining the adjacent element surface or surfaces, the element surfaces (48) of adjacent elements are spaced in a direction perpendicular to the base plane, with a first optical spacing or a plurality of the first optical spacing, wherein the first optical spacing is between 150 nm and 800 nm, preferably between 150 nm and 400 nm. The first envelope curve (47) has a spatial frequency of between 100 L/mm and 2000 L/mm and an optical depth of more than 450 nm and the relief shape and the spatial frequency of the envelope curve (47) are so selected that the incident light is diffracted into one or more first directions to represent a first item of information, the color value of which is further determined by the first optical spacing.

    Optically variable element
    22.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09798055B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-24

    申请号:US14361098

    申请日:2012-11-28

    Abstract: The invention relates to an optically variable element as well as a method for the production thereof. In a first area the optically variable element has at least one first color region which in the event of illumination generates a color dependent on the angle of observation and/or angle of illumination. The first color region has two or more zones (41 to 47) arranged next to each other. The two or more zones arranged next to each other have in each case a width and/or length dimension of less than 300 μm. In at least one first zone (41) of the zones (41 to 47) of the first color region a thin-film interference filter (15) is provided with at least one interference layer (17). The interference layer (17) of the thin-film interference filter (15) has a first average thickness (d1) in the first zone (41). The first average thickness is chosen such that the thin-film interference filter (15) in the event of illumination at least one particular angle of observation and/or angle of illumination generates, by means of interference, a color which differs from at least one color which is generated in the event of illumination at this angle of observation and/or angle of illumination in at least one of the other zones (42 to 47) of the first color region.

    Security element
    26.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10759212B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-01

    申请号:US15527569

    申请日:2015-12-02

    Abstract: The invention relates to a security element (1), a security document (2) with at least one security element (1), a transfer foil (3) with at least one security element (1) as well as a method for producing a security element (1), wherein the security element has at least one layer (11) that is electrically alterable in its optical effect. It is here provided that the at least one layer (11) that is electrically alterable in its optical effect has liquid crystals (12) that can be oriented in an electric field, wherein the at least one layer (11) that is electrically alterable in its optical effect has rod-shaped dye molecules (13), and the orientations of the longitudinal axes (14) of the rod-shaped dye molecules (13) are alterable depending on the orientations of the longitudinal axes (16) of the spatially adjacent liquid crystals (12) that can be oriented in the electric field, and/or wherein the liquid crystals (12) that can be oriented in the electric field are formed in such a way that the liquid crystals (12) that can be oriented in the electric field simultaneously act as dye molecules.

    Multilayer Body and Method for Producing a Multilayer Body
    28.
    发明申请
    Multilayer Body and Method for Producing a Multilayer Body 有权
    多层体和多层体的制备方法

    公开(公告)号:US20160004950A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-07

    申请号:US14768893

    申请日:2014-02-26

    Abstract: A multilayer body with a carrier and a layer arranged thereon which comprises electrically conductive material in such an arrangement comprises an information area and a background area (18) which are galvanically separated from each other. In each information area a first zone (10) with electrically conductive material is provided, over the entirety of which electrically conductive material is conductively connected to it. In each background area a plurality of second zones with electrically conductive material is provided, which are galvanically separated from each other. Each first zone (10) preferably occupies a surface area that is at least five times larger than each of the second zones. The electrically conductive material is preferably provided with an average surface coverage which varies over all information areas and background areas (18) by less than 25%. A homogeneous appearance of the multilayer body is thereby ensured, and an item of information provided in the information area, provided by the shape, size and/or alignment of the first zone, is not visible without aids, and therefore cannot be copied.

    Abstract translation: 一种具有载体和层叠在其上的层,其中包括具有这种布置的导电材料的信息区域和背景区域(18),它们彼此电气分离。 在每个信息区域中,提供具有导电材料的第一区域(10),整个导电材料与其导电连接。 在每个背景区域中,提供具有导电材料的多个第二区域,它们彼此电流分离。 每个第一区(10)优选地占据比每个第二区至少五倍的表面积。 导电材料优选具有在所有信息区域和背景区域(18)上变化小于25%的平均表面覆盖率。 从而确保了多层体的均匀外观,并且由第一区域的形状,尺寸和/或对准提供的信息区域中提供的信息项目在没有帮助的情况下是不可见的,因此不能被复制。

    Multilayer Body and Method for Producing a Security Element
    29.
    发明申请
    Multilayer Body and Method for Producing a Security Element 审中-公开
    多层体和产生安全元素的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20150298482A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-10-22

    申请号:US14439526

    申请日:2013-11-06

    Abstract: A multilayer body (1, 2, 3) and a method for producing a security element are described. The multilayer body has a metal layer (21). An optically active surface relief is molded at least in areas in a first surface of the metal layer (21) facing the upper side of the multilayer body or forming the upper side of the multilayer body and/or in a second surface of the metal layer (21) facing the underside of the multilayer body or forming the underside of the multilayer body. In at least one first area (31 to 39) of the multilayer body the surface relief is formed by a first relief structure (61). In at least one direction (617) determined by an allocated azimuth angle, the first relief structure (61) has a sequence of elevations (612) and depressions (614), the elevations (612) of which follow on from each other with a period P which is smaller than a wavelength of visible light, wherein the minima of the depressions (614) lie on a base surface and the first relief structure (61) has a relief depth t which is determined by the spacing of the maxima of the elevations (612) of the first relief structure (61) from the base surface in a direction perpendicular to the base surface. The profile shape and/or the relief depth t of the first relief structure (61) is chosen such that the colored appearance of the light (52, 53) incident on the first area (31 to 39) at least at a first angle of incidence and directly reflected by the metal layer (21) in the first area or directly transmitted through the metal layer is modified, in particular is modified by plasmon resonance of the metal layer with the incident light.

    Abstract translation: 描述了多层体(1,2,3)和安全元件的制造方法。 多层体具有金属层(21)。 至少在金属层(21)的面向多层体的上侧的第一表面的区域中形成光学活性的表面浮雕,或者形成多层体的上侧和/或在金属层的第二表面 (21)面向多层体的下侧或形成多层体的下侧。 在多层体的至少一个第一区域(31至39)中,表面浮雕由第一浮雕结构(61)形成。 在由分配的方位角确定的至少一个方向(617)上,第一浮雕结构(61)具有一系列的高度(612)和凹陷(614),其高度(612)彼此相邻,具有 周期P小于可见光的波长,其中凹陷(614)的最小值位于基面上,并且第一浮雕结构(61)具有由最大值的间隔确定的浮雕深度t 第一浮雕结构(61)的垂直于基面的方向从基部表面的高度(612)。 选择第一浮雕结构(61)的轮廓形状和/或浮雕深度t,使得入射在第一区域(31至39)上的光(52,33)的着色外观至少以第一角度 由第一区域中的金属层(21)直接反射或直接透过金属层的入射被改变,特别是通过金属层与入射光的等离子体共振来改变。

    Security Element and Security Document
    30.
    发明申请
    Security Element and Security Document 审中-公开
    安全要素和安全文件

    公开(公告)号:US20150224809A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-08-13

    申请号:US14424678

    申请日:2013-09-03

    Abstract: The invention relates to a security element (2) with a first area (30) that is transparent in transmitted light. The security element (2) has a substrate (21) which has, in the first area (30), one or more transmissive diffraction structures which display one or more optical security features when observed in transmitted light.

    Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种具有在透射光中透明的第一区域(30)的安全元件(2)。 安全元件(2)具有在第一区域(30)中具有在透射光中观察时显示一个或多个光学安全特征的一个或多个透射衍射结构的基板(21)。

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