Abrégé

A security element includes a structured layer with a base surface, recesses or protrusions that are recessed or elevated relative to the base surface, and a reflector layer arranged on the structured layer. The recesses or protrusions are designed as color-generating nanostructures based on their dimensions along the base surface, their vertical extension perpendicular to the base surface, and their arrangement on the base surface, which are formed as color-generating nanostructures. The structured layer includes areas in which the vertical extension of the recesses or protrusions varies along a direction according to a function that does not have a constant value so that a mixed color is visible in each of the areas in the top view.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/405 - Marquage

Abrégé

A security element for a value document includes: a first concealed motif region having a first luminescence layer with at least one first excitation wavelength in the UV-A range; and a second concealed motif region having a second luminescence layer with at least one second excitation wavelength in the UV-A range that is different from the at least one first excitation wavelength.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/387 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière ultraviolette
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques

Abrégé

A device and a method for testing flat samples, include an optical sensor module which for optically testing the flat sample captures a measurement signal of the flat sample when the flat sample is located in the target measurement plane or at least approximately in the target measurement plane. A window is arranged between the sensor module and the flat sample at a window distance from the target measurement plane. The sensor module is arranged at a module distance from the target measurement plane. The module distance is selected to be sufficiently small for a signal variation of the measurement signal of the flat sample as a function of the measurement distance deviation in the region of the target measurement plane to be reduced by the retroreflection effect of the window compared to a signal variation occurring without the retroreflection effect.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/121 - Appareil caractérisé par les détails du détecteur

Abrégé

A sensor element is for testing a planar data carrier with a spin resonance feature. The sensor element includes a magnetic core having an air gap into which the planar data carrier can be inserted for testing purposes, a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, and a resonator device for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested in the air gap. The resonator device has at least two stripline resonators positioned at different positions in the air gap. The polarization device generates an in-homogeneous magnetic flux in the air gap so that the static magnetic flux has a first field strength at the position of a first stripline resonator and a second, different field strength at the position of a second stripline resonator.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique
• G01R 33/34 - Détails de structure, p. ex. résonateurs

Abrégé

A sensor element is for testing a flat data carrier having a spin resonance feature. The sensor element includes a magnetic core having an air gap, which is delimited by two pole surfaces of the magnetic core and into which the flat data carrier can be inserted in order to be tested, a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, and a resonator device for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested in the air gap. The resonator device has a signal source and a plurality of stripline resonators which are simultaneously fed from the signal source, and the stripline resonators are formed in a planar manner with a main extension plane which is plan-parallel to at least one of the pole surfaces of the magnetic core.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique
• G01R 33/44 - Dispositions ou appareils pour la mesure des grandeurs magnétiques faisant intervenir la résonance magnétique utilisant la résonance magnétique nucléaire [RMN]

Abrégé

A flat document of value has a surface area having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and which is provided with a luminescence feature in the surface area. The luminescence feature includes a first luminescence marker in a first subarea and a second luminescence marker in a second, different subarea. The first and second luminescence markers are able to be excited to luminesce at the same wavelength and luminesce, after excitation, essentially in the same emission band in the infrared spectral range. The first and second luminescence markers have spectrally similar infrared emission spectra, namely infrared emission spectra that have a spectral difference between 0.5% and 15%. The first and second subarea are arranged so as to overlap one another in the surface area in projection onto the longitudinal direction and/or in projection onto the transverse direction.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/328 - Grilles de diffractionHologrammes
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque

Abrégé

A filling apparatus and to a method are for filling containers with document-of-value stacks, and to a document-of-value processing apparatus. The filling apparatus is designed for filling containers with document-of-value stacks, for example document-of-value stacks that are set down by a document-of-value processing machine in a delivery region of the document-of-value processing machine. The filling apparatus has a feed interface, a delivery interface and a transport path along which the containers can be transported from the feed interface to the delivery interface, and a filling region in which in each case one container that has been fed to the filling apparatus can be positioned in order to be filled with document-of-value stacks by means of a gripping device.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/16 - Manipulation des papiers de valeur
• B65H 31/30 - Dispositions pour enlever les piles achevées

Abrégé

A gripper is for holding and depositing a stack of sheet material at a depositing location, and has at least one first gripping element, which comprises or forms a first contact surface for contact with the stack, and at least one second gripping element, which includes a second contact surface for contact with the stack. The first and second contact surfaces are designed for contact with the stack on both sides. The gripping elements are guided adjustably with respect to one another so that the contact surfaces can be moved with respect to one another in the direction of the surface normals that are respectively associated with the contact surfaces to hold the stack between the contact surfaces. The first gripping element is mounted to pivot about a pivot axis so it can pivot between a gripping position, and a release position.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65G 47/90 - Dispositifs pour saisir et déposer les articles ou les matériaux
• B65H 5/00 - Transfert des articles retirés des pilesAlimentation des machines en articles
• B65H 7/00 - Commande de l'alimentation en articles, de l'enlèvement des articles, de l'avance des piles ou d'appareils associés permettant de tenir compte d'une alimentation incorrecte, de la non présence d'articles ou de la présence d'articles défectueux

Abrégé

A sensor element for testing a flat-surface data carrier has a spin resonance feature. The sensor element includes a magnetic core with an air gap, into which the flat-surface data carrier can be inserted for testing, a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, and a resonator device for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested in the air gap. The resonator device contains at least two stripline resonators, which are designed and configured to be operated at different excitation frequencies.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01R 33/345 - Détails de structure, p. ex. résonateurs du type guide d'ondes
• G01R 33/36 - Détails électriques, p. ex. adaptations ou couplage de la bobine au récepteur
• G01R 33/60 - Dispositions ou appareils pour la mesure des grandeurs magnétiques faisant intervenir la résonance magnétique utilisant la résonance paramagnétique électronique
• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique

Abrégé

A sensor element is for testing a planar data carrier that has a spin resonance feature. The sensor element includes: a magnetic core having an air gap into which the planar data carrier can be inserted for testing purposes; a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap; and a resonator device for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested in the air gap. The resonator device has a stripline resonator and a supply structure for the stripline resonator and is designed to generate a high-frequency field with circular polarization owing to the geometry of the stripline resonator and/or the geometry of the supply structure.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01N 24/08 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de la résonance magnétique nucléaire, de la résonance paramagnétique électronique ou d'autres effets de spin en utilisant la résonance magnétique nucléaire

Abrégé

A method for forming sheet stacks in a dispensing region of a sheet processing apparatus, involves: a) stacking sheets by a stacker wheel onto a sheet stack located on a lifting platform, b) introducing a deposition platform into the dispensing region, c) stacking further sheets by the stacker wheel onto the deposition platform arranged underneath the stacker wheel, d) introducing a gripping device into the dispensing region to take up, by the gripping device, the sheet stack formed on the lifting platform, e) removing the sheet stack formed on the lifting platform from the dispensing region, and, after the removal of the sheet stack, f) raising the lifting platform up to the deposition platform, and g) transferring the further sheet stack formed on the deposition platform onto the lifting platform and moving the deposition platform away out of the dispensing region.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 29/40 - Éléments tournant autour d'un axe perpendiculaire au sens du déplacement des articles, p. ex. des croisillons formés par des éléments en S
• B65G 47/90 - Dispositifs pour saisir et déposer les articles ou les matériaux
• B65H 31/08 - Récepteurs de piles avec support d'extrémité mobile disposé pour reculer au fur et à mesure que la pile se forme les articles étant empilés les uns sur les autres
• B65H 31/30 - Dispositions pour enlever les piles achevées
• G07D 11/12 - Récipients pour les papiers de valeur
• G07D 11/16 - Manipulation des papiers de valeur
• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A sensor element for testing a flat-surface data carrier having a spin resonance feature. The sensor element includes a magnetic core with an air gap, into which the flat-surface data carrier can be inserted for testing, a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, a resonator device for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested in the air gap, having at least one stripline resonator fed by a signal source, and a modulation device for generating a time-varying magnetic modulation field in the air gap parallel to the static magnetic field. The modulation device has a plurality of modulation coils, which are designed and configured for generating different modulation frequencies so that the modulated magnetic field generated by the modulation device, together with the polarization device, has different modulation frequencies at different locations within the air gap.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique
• G01N 24/10 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de la résonance magnétique nucléaire, de la résonance paramagnétique électronique ou d'autres effets de spin en utilisant la résonance paramagnétique électronique

Abrégé

An apparatus for producing an electrode stack from electrode stack elements is provided. A stacking wheel has at least one stacking wheel disc, which can be rotationally driven about an axis of rotation and which has compartments for receiving the electrode stack elements. A stripper strips the electrode stack elements from the compartments during a rotation of the stacking wheel. A shelf is provided for the electrode stack elements stripped from the stacking wheel. A conveyor conveys the electrode stack elements into the compartments. The conveyor comprises a transfer device for transferring the electrode stack elements into the compartments and a feeding device for feeding the electrode stack elements to the transfer device. A method for producing an electrode stack using the apparatus is also provided.

Classes IPC  ?

• H01M 10/04 - Structure ou fabrication en général
• H01M 10/0585 - Structure ou fabrication d'accumulateurs ayant uniquement des éléments de structure plats, c.-à-d. des électrodes positives plates, des électrodes négatives plates et des séparateurs plats

Abrégé

A device and a method are for stacking value documents. The device includes a stacker unit for receiving the value documents and a conveyor unit for conveying the value documents into the stacker unit. The stacker unit has a rotatable stacker wheel for receiving the value documents, wherein the rotatable stacker wheel has a plurality of deflectable stacker wheel segments which are provided along the circumference of the rotatable stacker wheel in a mutually spaced manner. Each of the deflectable stacker wheel segments defines a respective receiving region for receiving at least one of the value documents. The device additionally has a deflecting unit which is designed to deflect each stacker wheel segment individually to thus modify the size of the respective receiving region associated with the stacker wheel segment.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 29/40 - Éléments tournant autour d'un axe perpendiculaire au sens du déplacement des articles, p. ex. des croisillons formés par des éléments en S
• G07D 11/16 - Manipulation des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A method for producing value documents and a sensor system for quality control during the production of value documents, wherein a first optical radiation emanating from a first semi-finished product is captured with a first sensitivity and a first resolution and is tested on the basis of a first test criterion. If the first test criterion is satisfied, the following steps are carried out: introducing and/or applying at least one feature substance into and/or onto the first semifinished product, wherein a value document or a second semifinished product is obtained; capturing a second optical radiation emanating from the value document or the second semifinished product with at least one second sensitivity and at least one second resolution; and testing the second optical radiation on the basis of at least one second test criterion.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/41 - Marquage par rayonnement électromagnétique
• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales

Abrégé

A banknote processing device, includes a banknote compartment configured to receive a plurality of banknotes to be processed and a drive unit configured to move the banknotes out of the banknote compartment such that a filling state of the banknote compartment changes over time. The banknote processing device has an acquisition unit configured to acquire a present filling state of the banknote compartment, the present filling state being representative for an amount of banknotes located within the banknote compartment, wherein the acquisition unit is configured to generate an output signal based on the present filling state of the banknote compartment. A method is provided for monitoring a filling state of a banknote processing device.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/23 - Moyens de mesure ou de détection pour mesurer la quantité de papiers de valeur dans des récipients
• G07D 11/34 - Surveillance du contenu des dispositifs, p. ex. de la quantité de papiers de valeur

Abrégé

An electrode-stacking wheel designed to receive and convey planar electrode elements, includes: a spindle designed for the rotating of the electrode-stacking wheel; a plurality of stacking fingers, which are radial to the spindle and which are arranged circumferentially around the axis of rotation; a plurality of intermediate spaces, which are formed between the respective stacking fingers, each intermediate space being designed to receive at least one of the electrode elements; and an electrode-clamping element formed in each of the intermediate spaces, each electrode-clamping element being designed such that, in the clamping state, the electrode-clamping element applies clamping force to a main surface of one of the electrode elements and presses the electrode element in question against the stacking finger in question by means of the force application.

Classes IPC  ?

• H01M 10/04 - Structure ou fabrication en général

Abrégé

A luminescent printing ink for security printing includes a fluorescent substance and a phosphorescent substance which each luminesce in the visible spectral range when excited with non-visible excitation light. The printing ink contains one or more capsule luminescent pigment varieties, each of which has a core, a shell encapsulating the core and a luminescent substance present in the core. The fluorescent substance and the phosphorescent substance are each present as a luminescent substance in the core of one or more of the capsule luminescent pigment varieties so that the capsule luminescent pigments form fluorescent capsule luminescent pigments and/or phosphorescent capsule luminescent pigments. The luminescences of the fluorescent and the phosphorescent capsule luminescence pigments have the same light-fastness and the same chemical stability, and their luminescences visually produce a substantially matching colour impression.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09D 11/50 - Encres sympathiques, encres changeant de couleur ou encres similaires
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/382 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière infrarouge
• B42D 25/387 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière ultraviolette
• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• C09K 11/02 - Emploi de substances particulières comme liants, revêtements de particules ou milieux de suspension
• C09K 11/58 - Substances luminescentes, p. ex. électroluminescentes, chimiluminescentes contenant des substances inorganiques luminescentes contenant du cuivre, de l'argent ou de l'or
• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales

Abrégé

An optically variable surface pattern which is designed to provide a multi-color representation when viewed from at least one predefined viewing angle and includes a multiplicity of surface elements which are provided with relief structures, at least one of the relief structures having nanostructures that act as color filters. The relief structures are selected from a set of at least four relief structures that differ from one another, each of which generating a color impression corresponding to a predefined monochromatic color when viewed from the predefined viewing angle, and each of the monochromatic colors corresponding to a different basic color. The surface elements are dimensioned such that, in at least one subregion of the surface pattern, when viewed from the at least one predefined viewing angle, a color impression corresponding to a mixed color that differs from the predefined basic colors can be generated.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques

Abrégé

A platelet-shaped magnetic effect pigment for use in a printing ink, includes a layer construction with a magnetic layer and at least one optical functional layer. The magnetic layer is based on elongate nanomagnets that do not touch one another and have a substantially uniform preferred magnetic direction arranged perpendicular to the platelet plane of the effect pigment.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• B41M 3/00 - Procédés d'impression pour des travaux imprimés d'un genre particulier, p. ex. motifs
• B41M 3/14 - Impression de papiers-valeurs
• B41M 7/00 - Traitement ultérieur des travaux imprimés, p. ex. chauffage, irradiation
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/378 - Encres spéciales
• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• C09D 11/101 - Encres spécialement adaptées aux procédés d’imprimerie mettant en œuvre la réticulation par énergie ondulatoire ou par radiation de particules, p. ex. réticulation par UV qui suit l’impression
• C09D 11/50 - Encres sympathiques, encres changeant de couleur ou encres similaires

Abrégé

A sensor and a method for checking documents of value are provided with a radiation source for applying electromagnetic radiation to a document of value and a detector for position-resolved recording of the electromagnetic radiation emerging from the document of value in at least two different spectral ranges. A first feature of the document of value is checked with the aid of the detector signals generated for at least one first spectral range, and a second feature is checked while taking into account the detector signals generated for at least one second spectral range. The electromagnetic radiation recorded by the detector, or the detector signals of the detector, are attenuated color channel-specifically, an attenuation being performed in the first spectral range relative to the second spectral range. A sensor system and a document of value processing device are provided employing the sensor and/or method.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales

Abrégé

The filling of value documents cassettes involves a cassette receiving device for receiving a value document cassette and a gripping device for transporting a value document stack from a value document container into the value document cassette. The apparatus optionally has a formatting device for the automatic alignment of a value document stack removed from the value document container before the stack is inserted in the value document cassette. A finger element is attached to the transport device of the gripping device, and besides the gripping device, the finger element is guided into the value document cassette before the value documents are inserted.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/12 - Récipients pour les papiers de valeur
• B25J 9/02 - Manipulateurs à commande programmée caractérisés par le mouvement des bras, p. ex. du type à coordonnées cartésiennes
• B65H 5/08 - Transfert des articles retirés des pilesAlimentation des machines en articles par pinces, p. ex. des pinces à ventouses
• B65H 29/00 - Délivrance ou progression des articles à la sortie des machinesProgression des articles vers ou dans les piles
• G07D 11/16 - Manipulation des papiers de valeur
• G07D 11/17 - Alignement

Abrégé

A cover device for retaining a plurality of value documents in a compartment space. The cover device comprises a base unit extending in a main longitudinal direction, as well as a retaining element. A coupling element defines a hinge axis that allows the retaining element to pivot relative to the base unit between a closed position and an opened position. The hinge axis is inclined with respect to the main longitudinal direction. The invention further relates to a system and a banknote stacking module.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 31/30 - Dispositions pour enlever les piles achevées
• B65H 31/02 - Récepteurs de piles avec support d'extrémité fixe contre lequel la pile s'entasse
• G07D 11/14 - Orifices d’entrée ou de sortie

Abrégé

A device is provided for illuminating value documents to a sensor for testing value documents, and to a value document-processing system. The device has a support element and multiple radiation sources which are arranged in a row on the support element, and which are designed to emit electromagnetic radiation in order to illuminate a value document. The support element is equipped with a recess which is arranged at a distance to the radiation sources arranged in the row and which ex-tends over a first section of the row, wherein the support element has a heat-transfer capability in a support element region lying on the first section of the row, said heat-transfer capability being reduced in comparison to a support element region lying on another section of the row.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/12 - Lumière visible, rayonnement infrarouge ou ultraviolet
• G07D 11/12 - Récipients pour les papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A security feature for safeguarding a document of value, includes an organometallic luminescent substance which, on excitation with radiation in the UV-A range, has emission of radiation in the visible wavelength range, especially with green and/or red light, wherein the luminescent substance is based on a polynuclear, heteroleptic lanthanoid complex of the formula (I) [Mx(NN ligand)a(OO ligand)b] (I) where x, a and b are natural numbers, where x≥2, a≥2 and b≥6; M is a lanthanoid selected from the group consisting of Eu and Th; the OO ligand is a ligand that coordinates via oxygen atoms and the NN ligand is a nitrogen ligand having a phenanthroline base skeleton.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• C09D 11/50 - Encres sympathiques, encres changeant de couleur ou encres similaires
• C09K 11/06 - Substances luminescentes, p. ex. électroluminescentes, chimiluminescentes contenant des substances organiques luminescentes

Abrégé

An optically variable representation element with a reflective surface region generates a respective three-dimensional representation for at least two different observation directions. The reflective surface region contains a respective multiplicity of reflective facets in a first and a second partial region, which at least partially overlap one another. The reflective facets are oriented such that the facets in the first partial region generate a first three-dimensional representation from the first observation direction and the facets in the second partial region generate a second three-dimensional representation from the second observation direction. The facets of the reflective surface region are provided at least regionally with sub-wavelength structures which generate the different colors of the three-dimensional representations in the overlap region.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• G02B 17/00 - Systèmes avec surfaces réfléchissantes, avec ou sans éléments de réfraction

Abrégé

A sheet material holder for holding sheet material for a gripping system is arranged to bear on the sheet material by means of a first surface when the sheet material holder is holding the sheet material. The first surface includes at least a first opening and the sheet material holder is designed such that a fluid can be discharged through the first opening along a first predetermined discharging direction in the direction of the sheet material when the sheet material holder is holding the sheet material. A gripping system and a set-down system with the sheet material holder, and a method for setting sheet material down is also made available.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 31/30 - Dispositions pour enlever les piles achevées
• B33Y 80/00 - Produits obtenus par fabrication additive

Abrégé

A sensor element for testing a planar data carrier having a spin resonance feature. The sensor element comprises a magnetic core having an air gap, and at least one dividing gap, along which the magnetic core is divisible into two or more parts. The sensor element includes a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap. The magnetic core has at least one magnetic potentiometer switchable between two states. A first state has a first magnetic reluctance and, in the first state of the magnetic potentiometer, the sensor element is set up for a measurement on a spin resonance feature of a data carrier introduced into the air gap, A second state has a second, different magnetic reluctance and, in the second state of the magnetic potentiometer, the sensor element is set up for a division of the magnetic core along the dividing gap.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01N 24/10 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de la résonance magnétique nucléaire, de la résonance paramagnétique électronique ou d'autres effets de spin en utilisant la résonance paramagnétique électronique
• G01R 33/383 - Systèmes pour produire, homogénéiser ou stabiliser le champ magnétique directeur ou le champ magnétique à gradient utilisant des aimants permanents
• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique

Abrégé

The invention relates a banknote compartment module, includes a base unit having a support structure, a first banknote compartment coupled to the support structure and configured to receive a stack of banknotes, and a subunit coupled to the support structure and arranged adjacent the first banknote compartment. The subunit is movable with respect to the first banknote compartment between a first configuration and a second configuration. The first banknote compartment provides a first space dimension for receiving the stack of banknotes when the subunit is in the first configuration and provides a second space dimension for receiving the stack of banknotes when the subunit is in the second configuration. The first space dimension is greater than the second space dimension.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/40 - Architecture des dispositifs, p. ex. construction modulaire
• B65H 31/00 - Récepteurs de piles
• G07D 11/18 - Dérivation vers des trajets ou récipients différents

Abrégé

A method for producing a data carrier includes a luminescent security element having at least two subregions, which at least do not completely overlap one another.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/387 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière ultraviolette
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque

Abrégé

A display element having a substrate having a plurality of optical elements. The optical elements of a first grid consist of a first type of optical elements and the optical elements of a second grid consist of a second type of optical elements. The first type of optical elements is different from the second type of optical elements. In the event of tilting of the display element, the light spots 5 of the concave and convex mirror surfaces in this case move synchronously in opposing directions in the direction of the arrows, such that an observer 4 observes a particularly pronounced dynamic floating effect.

Classes IPC  ?

• G02B 30/56 - Systèmes ou appareils optiques pour produire des effets tridimensionnels [3D], p. ex. des effets stéréoscopiques l’image étant construite à partir d'éléments d'image répartis sur un volume 3D, p. ex. des voxels en projetant une image aérienne ou flottante
• G02B 5/10 - Miroirs à surfaces courbes

Abrégé

A security element for safeguarding of articles of value, has a motif layer based on a liquid-crystalline material intended and destined to form a latent motif. The security element includes a first embossing varnish layer disposed on a carrier film, a partial motif layer based on a nematic liquid-crystalline material, and a single- or multilayer second embossing varnish layer present over the full area. The first embossing varnish layer has been provided with an embossment having at least two regions with alignment structures of different orientation for formation of a second latent motif. The motif layer, in the form of a first latent motif, is disposed in regions directly atop the first embossing varnish layer and in an overlapping arrangement with the regions that form the second latent motif.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/364 - Cristaux liquides
• B41M 3/14 - Impression de papiers-valeurs
• B42D 25/23 - Cartes d’identité
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs

Abrégé

A device for stacking flat items has stacking wheels which have stacking fingers and, located between the stacking fingers, compartments for receiving flat items to be stacked, a conveying device for conveying the flat items into the compartments of the stacking wheels, a stripper for removing the flat items from the compartments of the stacking wheels, a support for receiving the flat items removed from the compartments of the stacking wheels and for forming a stack of flat items, in which at least one first stacking wheel mounted on a first shaft and at least one second stacking wheel mounted on a second shaft are provided.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 29/40 - Éléments tournant autour d'un axe perpendiculaire au sens du déplacement des articles, p. ex. des croisillons formés par des éléments en S
• B65H 29/70 - Pliage ou raidissage des articles

Abrégé

An automated payment method for a payment from a customer to a seller for a sequence of multiple purchase transactions, includes: a) checking in the customer for the sequence of multiple purchase trans-actions, b) receiving items of billing data for each of the purchase transactions, c) checking out the customer for the sequence of purchase transactions; d) adding up the purchase revenues, and e) generating payment data from the added-up purchase revenues and from payment service provider data of the customer. In step c), the checking-out of the customer triggers at least step e), and the customer is checked out depending on previously stored seller-specific and/or customer-specific checking-out base data. The checking-out is performed automatically by determining in advance a checking-out time at which the checking-out will be performed.

Classes IPC  ?

• G06Q 20/20 - Systèmes de réseaux présents sur les points de vente
• G06Q 20/32 - Architectures, schémas ou protocoles de paiement caractérisés par l'emploi de dispositifs spécifiques utilisant des dispositifs sans fil

Abrégé

A security element for documents of value or the like, has a substrate which has been coated with a heat-sealing adhesive that is non-tacky at room temperature and suitable for applying the security element to a substrate of a document of value. The heat-sealing adhesive contains a radiation-crosslinkable component and a reactive diluent.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/455 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches en utilisant la chaleur
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/46 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches en utilisant la pression
• B42D 25/47 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches en utilisant des substances chimiques ou adhésives en utilisant des substances adhésives
• C09J 7/35 - Adhésifs sous forme de films ou de pellicules caractérisés par la composition de l’adhésif activés par chauffage
• C09J 11/06 - Additifs non macromoléculaires organiques

Abrégé

A device for separating value documents, in particular banknotes, includes a receiving device which is designed to receive a stack of value documents, a rotatable separating element which is designed to act temporarily on in each case one value document of the stack and to withdraw the same from the stack, and a drive device which is designed to set the separating element into rotation, and a control device which is designed to control the drive device such that the rotational speed of the rotation, into which the separating element is set by the drive device, is changed, in particular temporarily, during each revolution of the separating element. A method corresponds to the device and to a value document processing system comprising such a device.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 3/06 - Rouleaux ou séparateurs rotatifs analogues
• B65H 1/06 - Supports ou magasins pour les piles dans lesquelles on prélève des articles adaptés pour supporter les articles en position sensiblement horizontale, p. ex. pour les enlever en partant du haut de la pile pour les enlever en partant du bas de la pile

Abrégé

An optically variable security element has a motif region including a plurality of differently oriented first facets and a plurality of differently oriented second facets arranged in the motif region. Each of the first and second facets defines a normal vector having a first orientation component and a second orientation component. The color impression of the at least one motif is determined by the first orientation components. The representation of the at least one motif is defined by the second orientation components. The first orientation components of the first facets and the second facets are different from one another.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/328 - Grilles de diffractionHologrammes

Abrégé

A method is provided for generating templates for checking value documents of a predefined value document type having at least two predefined production elements that optionally partially overlap, as well as digital training images of training value documents of the predefined value document type. The method involves: for each of the training images, determining position data sets having position coordinates in a coordinate space each describing the positions of the production elements on the value document at least relative to one another; forming at least two position sub-regions of the coordinate space, each comprising at least one predefined number of position data sets. The position subregions contain no common position data sets; for each of the position sub-regions, determining a template using training images of the value documents; storing the template and position sub-region data describing the position and extent of each position sub-region.

Classes IPC  ?

• G06V 30/41 - Analyse du contenu de documents
• G06T 7/73 - Détermination de la position ou de l'orientation des objets ou des caméras utilisant des procédés basés sur les caractéristiques
• G06T 11/60 - Édition de figures et de texteCombinaison de figures ou de texte
• G06V 10/774 - Génération d'ensembles de motifs de formationTraitement des caractéristiques d’images ou de vidéos dans les espaces de caractéristiquesDispositions pour la reconnaissance ou la compréhension d’images ou de vidéos utilisant la reconnaissance de formes ou l’apprentissage automatique utilisant l’intégration et la réduction de données, p. ex. analyse en composantes principales [PCA] ou analyse en composantes indépendantes [ ICA] ou cartes auto-organisatrices [SOM]Séparation aveugle de source méthodes de Bootstrap, p. ex. "bagging” ou “boosting”
• G06V 30/14 - Acquisition d’images
• G06V 30/148 - Découpage de zones de caractères
• G06V 30/42 - Reconnaissance des formes à partir d’images axée sur les documents basées sur le type de document
• G07D 7/20 - Vérification de motifs des papiers

Abrégé

A method for producing a luminescent printing ink of a desired target spectral locus in which: Z) the desired target spectral locus is specified using standard chromaticity coordinates x, y; L) at least two luminescent pigments are specified by their luminescence spectra; B) from the luminescent spectra of the luminescent pigments, from spectral value functions, and from the specified target spectral locus, proportions by weight of the at least two luminescent pigments are determined, and M) the at least two luminescent pigments are mixed in the proportions by weight deter-mined in step B) in order to obtain a luminescent printing ink having a luminescence of which the spectral locus under illumination with non-visible excitation light corresponds substantially to the target spectral locus.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• B41M 3/14 - Impression de papiers-valeurs

Abrégé

A sensor for verifying value documents is designed to determine a luminescence characteristic of a value document that is moved past the sensor for verification purposes, and the provision of a velocity correction of the luminescence characteristic of the value document in the sensor, resulting in a distortion of the measured luminescence intensities. A reference sensor is used to determine an average velocity dependency of the luminescence characteristic of a reference medium, said average velocity dependency being averaged over both opposite directions of movement and being used to determine a velocity dependency of a corrective factor for the luminescence characteristic. Said determined velocity dependency is used to determine the corrective factor for the luminescence characteristic, said corrective factor applying to the velocity of the movement of the value document during the verification process, and the luminescence characteristic is then corrected by said corrective factor.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/121 - Appareil caractérisé par les détails du détecteur
• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales

Abrégé

An optically variable security element has a motif region. A plurality of differently oriented facets are arranged in the motif region. A pattern includes visible pattern elements is visible in the motif region to a viewer at least at a first viewing angle. The visible pattern elements are designed differently to portray a motif to the viewer. The motif is a three-dimensional motif. The pattern elements are designed differently such that they portray a perspective of the three-dimensional motif to the viewer.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/364 - Cristaux liquides

Abrégé

An apparatus for checking value documents, more particularly banknotes, includes at least one image-capturing device, which is designed to capture at least one image of each of a plurality of value documents. The images are each composed of a plurality of pixels. The apparatus includes an evaluation device, which is designed to determine, in the captured images of different value documents, one or more positions of pixels at which a plurality of the captured images of the different value documents deviate from a predefined reference image. A method and a system correspond to the apparatus for processing value documents.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/206 - Mise en correspondance de motifs types
• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

An optically variable security element contains a motif region, and has a main motif shape that is visible to a viewer in the motif region at at least a first viewing angle. The optically variable main motif includes substructures that are visible to the viewer. The substructures are sub-motifs that are visible to the viewer and have a sub-motif shape. The sub-motifs have the same sub-motif shape, and the sub-motif shape corresponds to the main motif shape.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/36 - Caractéristiques d’identification ou de sécurité, p. ex. pour empêcher la falsification comprenant des matériaux spéciaux

Abrégé

An optically variable security element contains a motif region. An optically variable main motif has a contour that is visible to a viewer in the motif region at at least a first viewing angle, and the optically variable main motif includes substructures that are visible to the viewer. The visible substructures are visible along the contour of the main motif. The substructures are sub-motifs that are visible to the viewer, and each of the sub-motifs are provided with a contour.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage
• G02B 5/09 - Miroirs à facettes multiples ou polygonales

Abrégé

A method for detecting an object in a search image, includes: a) providing a pattern vector which describes the object by means of coordinates of characteristic pixels; b) shifting the pattern vector over different positions of the search image; c) determining a success value at each of the different positions; and d) detecting the object at the position on the basis of the success value, wherein each characteristic pixel is assigned a first direction and a second direction that differs from the first direction. The first and second overall intensity values of one-dimensionally arranged pixels are determined in the first and second directions, respectively. A difference value between the first and second overall intensity values is determined in each case, and the success value is determined on the basis of the respective difference values.

Classes IPC  ?

• G06V 10/75 - Organisation de procédés de l’appariement, p. ex. comparaisons simultanées ou séquentielles des caractéristiques d’images ou de vidéosApproches-approximative-fine, p. ex. approches multi-échellesAppariement de motifs d’image ou de vidéoMesures de proximité dans les espaces de caractéristiques utilisant l’analyse de contexteSélection des dictionnaires
• G07D 7/00 - Vérification spécialement adaptée à la détermination de l’identité ou de l’authenticité de papiers de valeur ou pour discriminer ceux qui sont inacceptables, p. ex. qui ne correspondent pas à une monnaie

Abrégé

A method is provided for producing a luminescent security marking on a substrate of a predetermined substrate type. The security marking includes a layer sequence applied on top of the substrate in a part region and formed from a diffuse reflectance printing ink applied on top of the substrate and from a luminescent printing ink applied on top of the diffuse reflectance printing ink, or a mixture of a diffuse reflectance printing ink and a luminescent printing ink. The layer sequence or the mixture exhibit visible luminescence after excitation. The layer sequence or the mixture are printed with a chosen layer thickness onto a substrate of the predetermined substrate type, in order to obtain a luminescent security marking, the luminescent spectrum of which matches the calculated combination spectrum in the part region on illumination with the excitation light. The invention also relates to an associated luminescent security marking.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/45 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches
• B41M 3/14 - Impression de papiers-valeurs
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/378 - Encres spéciales

Abrégé

A sensor element for checking the authenticity of a planar data carrier, in particular a banknote, has a spin resonance feature. The sensor element contains a magnetic core having an air gap, into which the planar data carrier can be inserted for authentication and which defines an axial direction extending between the adjoining surfaces of the magnetic core, a polarization device for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, a modulation device for generating a time-varying magnetic modulation field in the air gap, and a resonator for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be checked. The modulation device is formed by at least one planar coil arranged in the air gap, which planar coil has one or more turns about the axial direction of the air gap in one plane. The disclosure also relates to a checking device having such a sensor element.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique
• G01R 33/36 - Détails électriques, p. ex. adaptations ou couplage de la bobine au récepteur

Abrégé

An optically variable security element is provided for safeguarding articles of value. The security element has a feature layer containing, in a common plane, first and second feature regions arranged so as to accurately fit together. The first feature regions contain a first embossing lacquer layer of a first embossing lacquer into which an embossed structure that creates a first optical effect has been embossed. The second feature regions contain a second embossing lacquer layer of a second embossing lacquer into which an embossed structure that creates a second, different optical effect has been embossed. The first and second embossing lacquers have different solidification properties and different optical properties. A production process is provided for such an optically variable security element, and to embossing arrangements comprising a semi-finished security element product and means of impressing an embossed structure.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/36 - Caractéristiques d’identification ou de sécurité, p. ex. pour empêcher la falsification comprenant des matériaux spéciaux

Abrégé

A system and to a method for processing documents of value, in particular banknotes, includes: at least one processing device which is designed to process documents of value at a specifiable processing rate and to feed the documents of value to in each case one of at least two banding devices; at least two banding devices which are designed to provide at least one stack, which is formed by the documents of value respectively fed to a banding device, with a band, wherein the banding devices are each characterized by a maximum banding rate which specifies the maximum number of documents of value that can be banded in the respective banding device per unit time; and a control device for specifying the processing rate.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/18 - Dérivation vers des trajets ou récipients différents
• G07D 11/28 - Fixation de paramètresMises à jour logicielles
• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A method is provided for producing an electrode stack with flat electrode elements, including: a) providing a first electrode element; b) inserting the first electrode element into an intermediate space formed by stacking fingers of a stacking wheel which rotates about a rotation axis; c) transporting the first electrode element with the stacking wheel; d) removing the first electrode element from the intermediate space; e) arranging the first electrode element in a stacking position; f) providing a second electrode element; g) inserting the second electrode element into a further intermediate space different from the intermediate space and formed by stacking fingers of the stacking wheel; h) removing the second electrode element from the further intermediate space; and i) arranging the second electrode element in the stacking position and producing the electrode stack. The first electrode element is moved to a lateral target position by a movable alignment element.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 29/40 - Éléments tournant autour d'un axe perpendiculaire au sens du déplacement des articles, p. ex. des croisillons formés par des éléments en S
• B65H 31/34 - Dispositifs pour aligner des articles empilés
• H01M 10/04 - Structure ou fabrication en général

Abrégé

A sensor element for testing a flat data carrier, in particular a banknote, has a spin resonance feature. The sensor element contains a magnetic core having an air gap, into which the flat data carrier can be inserted for testing, an element for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, and a resonator for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be tested. The resonator is formed by a microstrip line resonator which is arranged in the air gap of the magnetic core and comprises a flat carrier having an upper side and a conducting structure which is arranged on the upper side of the carrier with a characteristic length.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01R 33/34 - Détails de structure, p. ex. résonateurs
• G01N 24/08 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de la résonance magnétique nucléaire, de la résonance paramagnétique électronique ou d'autres effets de spin en utilisant la résonance magnétique nucléaire
• G01R 33/345 - Détails de structure, p. ex. résonateurs du type guide d'ondes
• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique

Abrégé

A method for producing a security element for security papers, valuable documents or the like, includes a carrier having on its top side micro-imaging elements and on its underside structures which, together with the microimaging elements, image a motif in front of the top side of the carrier; the position of the motif being is dependent on the viewing angle.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/342 - Effets moirés
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage
• B42D 25/445 - Marquage par enlèvement de matière en utilisant des moyens chimiques, p. ex. l’eau-forte

Abrégé

A sensor for verifying value documents and designed to determine the luminescence time constant of a value document that is moved past the sensor for verification purposes, and the provision of a velocity correction of the luminescence time constant of the value document in the sensor. The relative movement between the value document and the sensor causes movement effects, resulting in a distortion of the intensity curve from which the luminescence time constant is derived. The luminescence time constant is corrected using a sensor-specific corrective factor ascertained for the velocity of the movement of the value document during the verification process. For this purpose, different sensor-specific corrective factors are used for different examples of sensors that are nominally identical in design and are part of the same sensor production series.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales
• G07D 7/121 - Appareil caractérisé par les détails du détecteur
• G07D 7/20 - Vérification de motifs des papiers

Abrégé

The invention relates to a security element, preferably in the form of a security strip, security thread or security patch, having a machine-readable coding, which is based on substances absorbent in the infrared spectral range, wherein the machine-readable coding comprises first and second code areas, which are arranged spatially separated from one another. The substances absorbent in the infrared spectral range include at least one first substance, which is not detectable by means of magnetic field measurement, and at least one second substance, which is detectable by means of magnetic field measurement, wherein the at least one first substance is introduced into at least one of the first code areas and the second substance is introduced into at least one of the second code areas. A method is provided for checking the authenticity of such a security element.

Classes IPC  ?

• G06K 19/06 - Supports d'enregistrement pour utilisation avec des machines et avec au moins une partie prévue pour supporter des marques numériques caractérisés par le genre de marque numérique, p. ex. forme, nature, code
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/355 - Fils de sécurité
• B42D 25/364 - Cristaux liquides
• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• B42D 25/382 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière infrarouge

Abrégé

A method and a device for stacking flat items in order to form stacks with a predefined number of flat items by means of a stacking wheel has the following steps: a) introducing flat items into compartments of the stacking wheel, b) transporting the flat items in the compartments of the stacking wheel, c) removing the flat items from the compartments of the stacking wheel and forming a stack with the predefined number of flat items, and d) removing the stack with the predefined number of flat items, wherein, after introduction of the predefined number of flat items into the compartments of the stacking wheel, no flat item is introduced into at least one subsequent compartment of the stacking wheel, and repeating steps a) through d).

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 29/40 - Éléments tournant autour d'un axe perpendiculaire au sens du déplacement des articles, p. ex. des croisillons formés par des éléments en S
• B65H 31/30 - Dispositions pour enlever les piles achevées
• B65H 33/12 - Formation de lots comptés dans les piles ou dans le courant de délivrance des articles en créant des intervalles dans le courant de délivrance

Abrégé

Proposed is a security element, preferably in the form of a security stripe, security thread, or a security patch, comprising a machine-readable code and an optically variable security feature, which has a visual appearance that depends on the viewing angle. The machine-readable code is a magnetic encoding, which is produced by printing at least one opaque magnetic printing ink containing magnetic pigments, with the magnetic printing ink being incorporated or applied in at least one defined code region such that the visual appearance of the optically variable security feature is determined at least in part by the at least one incorporated or applied magnetic printing ink. The optically variable security feature comprises a micro-optical micro-lens arrangement, which covers the at least one code region in which the at least one magnetic printing ink has been incorporated or applied.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• B42D 25/342 - Effets moirés
• B42D 25/355 - Fils de sécurité
• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage

Abrégé

The invention relates to a security element having an optically variable security feature and a machine-readable security feature, which are at least partially arranged one above the other, wherein the security element is transparent or translucent in the region of the visible light and the machine-readable security feature forms a code. The machine-readable security feature is a combination of at least two different substances, a first IR substance and a second IR substance, wherein the first IR substance is arranged in a first areal region of the security element and the second IR substance is arranged in a second areal region of the security element, and wherein the first IR substance absorbs in a first IR wavelength region and the second IR substance absorbs in a second IR wavelength region. The invention also relates to a value document which has such a security element.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/382 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière infrarouge

Abrégé

The invention relates to a mask exposure method comprising the following steps: —the providing of a carrier substrate; the print application of a radiation-crosslinkable washable dye layer to the full area of the carrier substrate; —the exposure of the radiation-crosslinkable washable dye layer in defined regions to radiation by means of a radiation mask, such that the washable dye is cured in the defined regions; —the applying of a metallization over the full area; —the removing of the non-radiation-exposed washable dye outside the defined regions together with the metal present thereon with the aid of a solvent, such that the resultant carrier substrate has cured washable dye with metal applied thereto only in defined regions.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/41 - Marquage par rayonnement électromagnétique
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/445 - Marquage par enlèvement de matière en utilisant des moyens chimiques, p. ex. l’eau-forte

Abrégé

A sensor element for checking the authenticity of a flat data carrier, in particular a banknote, with a spin resonance feature, includes a magnetic core with an air gap into which the flat data carrier is insertable for authenticity checking, an element for generating a static magnetic flux in the air gap, a modulation coil for generating a time-varying magnetic field in the air gap, and a resonator for exciting the spin resonance feature of the data carrier to be checked and for capturing the signal response of the spin resonance feature. The magnetic core of the sensor element is at least partially formed of an eddy current damping magnetic material.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01R 33/38 - Systèmes pour produire, homogénéiser ou stabiliser le champ magnétique directeur ou le champ magnétique à gradient
• G01N 24/10 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de la résonance magnétique nucléaire, de la résonance paramagnétique électronique ou d'autres effets de spin en utilisant la résonance paramagnétique électronique
• G01R 33/383 - Systèmes pour produire, homogénéiser ou stabiliser le champ magnétique directeur ou le champ magnétique à gradient utilisant des aimants permanents
• G07D 7/04 - Test des propriétés magnétiques des matériaux de ces papiers, p. ex. par détection d’empreinte magnétique

Abrégé

A method is provided for manufacturing pigments of defined size and shape, and to pigments manufactured accordingly. The method has the steps of: a) producing a three-dimensional surface structure on a substrate, where surface regions are formed each having a gradient extending obliquely to a base level of the surface structure, and are arranged in columns which are offset relative to one another; b) applying a pigment material layer on the surface structure; c) releasing the pigment material layer from the surface structure and producing pigments.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09C 1/00 - Traitement de substances inorganiques particulières, autres que des charges fibreuses Préparation du noir de carbone
• B81C 1/00 - Fabrication ou traitement de dispositifs ou de systèmes dans ou sur un substrat
• B82B 3/00 - Fabrication ou traitement des nanostructures par manipulation d’atomes ou de molécules, ou d’ensembles limités d’atomes ou de molécules un à un comme des unités individuelles

Abrégé

A method for manufacturing the security element transfer material, a method for the register-accurate transfer of security elements from the security element transfer material to a value document substrate, and a value document which was equipped with a security element while employing the security element transfer material, wherein the security element transfer material has a temporary carrier material and a plurality of security elements and a plurality of register mark elements which are arranged on a main area of the temporary carrier material and have a layered composite structure. Each register mark element represents a register mark or contains a register mark, and each register mark is assigned to at least one security element. Apart from the security elements and the register mark elements, the temporary carrier material is free from layered composite material.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/46 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches en utilisant la pression
• B42D 25/00 - Cartes ou structures de type feuille portant des informations caractérisées par leurs éléments d’identification ou de sécuritéLeur fabrication
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/455 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches en utilisant la chaleur
• B42D 25/47 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches en utilisant des substances chimiques ou adhésives en utilisant des substances adhésives
• B42D 25/328 - Grilles de diffractionHologrammes

Abrégé

The invention relates to a sensor for verifying value documents, which has a plurality of fibres that are distributed over the value document and have a characteristic optical or magnetic signal. The sensor has an image capture device for spatially resolved detection of optical or magnetic signals of the value document, which device is designed to capture a value document image of the value document. Furthermore, the sensor has an analysis device which, for the purpose of analysing the value document, is designed to locate the fibres in the value document image and determine at least one local fibre characteristic value for one or more different locations of the value document image in each case and classify the value document as suspected counterfeit on the basis of the local fibre characteristic value. If the value documents are processed automatically, the suspected counterfeit value document can then be automatically rejected.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/202 - Vérification de motifs des papiers en utilisant la mise en correspondance de motifs
• G06V 20/00 - ScènesÉléments spécifiques à la scène
• G06T 7/73 - Détermination de la position ou de l'orientation des objets ou des caméras utilisant des procédés basés sur les caractéristiques
• G06V 30/42 - Reconnaissance des formes à partir d’images axée sur les documents basées sur le type de document

Abrégé

A method is provided for producing a green paper for producing a gas diffusion layer (GDL) for a fuel cell. A use is described of an accordingly produced gas diffusion layer (GDL) in a fuel cell. A first paper web is loaded with metal powder and/or metal fibers, and a microporous layer (MPL) is in the form of at least one coating is applied onto the paper web. The paper web is then subjected to a binder removal process, a sintering process, a coating process, atomic layer deposition (ALD) using thermal ALD methods, and optionally additional process steps in order to obtain the final GDL. After the sintering process, all of the organic components of the green paper are pyrolyzed and thus no longer contained in the GDL, and the GDL consists virtually exclusively of a metal framework.

Classes IPC  ?

• H01M 4/88 - Procédés de fabrication
• D21F 11/08 - Procédés de fabrication de longueurs continues de papier ou de carton, ou de nappe humide pour la production de panneaux de fibres, sur des machines à papier du type à forme ronde papier ou carton composé de plusieurs couches
• D21H 27/02 - Papier avec des dessins
• D21H 27/38 - Papier particulier non prévu ailleurs, p. ex. obtenu par des procédés multi-étapes à plusieurs jets au moins une des feuilles ayant une composition fibreuse différente de celle des autres feuilles
• D21H 27/40 - Papier particulier non prévu ailleurs, p. ex. obtenu par des procédés multi-étapes à plusieurs jets au moins une des feuilles n'étant pas plane, p. ex. crêpée
• D21H 23/52 - Addition au papier formé par contact du papier avec un dispositif portant le matériau
• D21H 23/50 - Pulvérisation ou projection
• D21H 19/82 - Papier comprenant plusieurs couches superposées
• D21H 17/67 - Composés insolubles dans l'eau, p. ex. charges ou pigments
• H01M 8/0245 - Composites sous forme de produits en couches ou enrobés
• H01M 8/0232 - Métaux ou alliages
• H01M 8/0243 - Composites sous forme de mélanges
• H01M 8/0239 - Résines organiquesPolymères organiques
• H01M 4/92 - Métaux du groupe du platine
• H01M 8/0258 - CollecteursSéparateurs, p. ex. séparateurs bipolairesInterconnecteurs caractérisés par la configuration des canaux, p. ex. par le champ d’écoulement du réactif ou du réfrigérant
• H01M 8/1004 - Éléments à combustible avec électrolytes solides caractérisés par les ensembles membrane-électrodes [MEA]

Abrégé

A method is provided for producing platelet-shaped pigments, including the steps of: providing a film structure which has a carrier substrate, a water-soluble release layer and a pigment material layer; mechanically disrupting the pigment material layer, which is present in the film structure, at specific locations; soaking the film structure with aqueous solution; subjecting the film structure to a mechanical force so that the pigment material layer is detached from the carrier substrate as a plurality of pigments according to the ruptures present at the specific locations.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09C 3/04 - Traitement physique, p. ex. broyage, traitement par des vibrations ultrasoniques
• B32B 43/00 - Opérations spécialement adaptées aux produits stratifiés et non prévues ailleurs, p. ex. réparationAppareils pour ces opérations
• C09C 1/00 - Traitement de substances inorganiques particulières, autres que des charges fibreuses Préparation du noir de carbone

Abrégé

A device is for checking the authenticity of an areal data carrier having a zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance feature, having one or more excitation coils for producing excitation pulses for the zero-field NMR feature, an array of multiple receiver coils that are independent of the excitation coils and are at least partially arranged adjacent to each other for the spatially resolved detection of the signal response of the zero-field NMR feature, the number of receiver coils in the receiver coil array being greater than the number of excitation coils, and the area covered by the excitation coils at least partially covering the area covered by the receiver coils in the receiver coil array and exceeding the size of said area.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01N 24/08 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'utilisation de la résonance magnétique nucléaire, de la résonance paramagnétique électronique ou d'autres effets de spin en utilisant la résonance magnétique nucléaire
• G01R 33/44 - Dispositions ou appareils pour la mesure des grandeurs magnétiques faisant intervenir la résonance magnétique utilisant la résonance magnétique nucléaire [RMN]
• G01R 33/3415 - Détails de structure, p. ex. résonateurs comprenant des bobines de surface comprenant des ensembles de bobines
• G01R 33/36 - Détails électriques, p. ex. adaptations ou couplage de la bobine au récepteur

Abrégé

A method for processing value documents and to a value document processing system, involve: ascertaining first identification data by means of which the value documents contained in at least one batch of value documents can be identified, in at least one value document processing device; transmitting the first identification data to an external computing device; ascertaining first sorting data in the external computing device by comparing the transmitted first identification data with specified second identification data by means of which value documents can be identified to be removed from circulation and/or remain in circulation; transmitting the first sorting data from the external computing device to the at least one value document processing device; and sorting the value documents contained in the at least one batch in the at least one value document processing device on the basis of the transmitted first sorting data.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/22 - Moyens de mesure ou de détection
• G07D 11/24 - Gestion de l’inventaire de papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A method and a value document processing system for processing value documents include: ascertaining first identification data by means of which the value documents contained in a plurality of different batches can be identified, in at least one value document processing device; generating assignment data; transmitting the first identification data to an external computing device; comparing the transmitted first identification data with specified second identification data by means of which value documents can be identified that are to be removed from circulation and/or are to remain in circulation; and, if the comparison indicates that at least one value document that is to be removed from circulation is contained in the value documents, identifying the batch in which the at least one value document is contained that is to be removed from circulation; and sorting the value documents.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/22 - Moyens de mesure ou de détection
• G07D 11/30 - Suivi ou traçage des papiers de valeur ou des cassettes
• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

The invention relates to a transparent conductive film, comprising a transparent substrate, wherein a conductive metallization is formed on the main surface thereof in the form of a close-meshed, continuous network with a plurality of openings having different geometric shapes, wherein the transparent conductive film is additionally provided with a full-area transparent coating reflecting IR radiation.

Classes IPC  ?

• C23C 14/20 - Matériau métallique, bore ou silicium sur des substrats organiques
• C23C 14/02 - Pré-traitement du matériau à revêtir

Abrégé

A method for checking value documents, in particular with regard to their authenticity and/or with regard to their value-document type, involves the following steps: detecting a first plurality of intensity courses on a value document, combining the first plurality of intensity courses or a second plurality of intensity courses selected from the first plurality into a combined intensity course, determining a time constant τ of the combined intensity course, checking the value document based on the time constant τ of the combined intensity course. A corresponding sensor is provided for checking value documents, and an apparatus enables value-document processing with the aforementioned sensor.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/202 - Vérification de motifs des papiers en utilisant la mise en correspondance de motifs
• G01N 21/64 - FluorescencePhosphorescence
• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales

Abrégé

A green paper is provided for producing a gas diffusion layer (GDL) for a fuel cell. A process is for producing a green paper for producing a gas diffusion layer (GDL) for a fuel cell. The green paper includes at least one first, watermarked paper web. The watermark forms the patterning for the flow field or gas distribution structure of the gas diffusion layer (GDL) produced from the green paper. The first paper web is admixed with metal powder and/or metal fibres. The eventual GDL is formed after debindering, sintering, coating, deposition of atomic layers (ALD—atomic layer deposition) and further operating steps.

Classes IPC  ?

• H01M 8/0243 - Composites sous forme de mélanges
• D21F 11/00 - Procédés de fabrication de longueurs continues de papier ou de carton, ou de nappe humide pour la production de panneaux de fibres, sur des machines à papier
• D21F 11/06 - Procédés de fabrication de longueurs continues de papier ou de carton, ou de nappe humide pour la production de panneaux de fibres, sur des machines à papier du type à forme ronde
• D21F 11/14 - Fabrication de l'ouate de cellulose, du papier filtre ou du buvard

Abrégé

A method is provided for producing a green paper for producing a gas diffusion layer (GDL) for a fuel cell. A first paper web is formed, and a second paper web is formed, which are brought together with and rigidly connected to the first paper web while still wet. The first paper web and the second paper web are mixed with metal powder and/or metal fibers and together form the green paper, optionally together with additional components and/or coatings. The final GDL is provided after a binding-removal process, a sintering process, a coating process, a (thermal) deposition process (atomic layer deposition process, ALD), and optionally additional process steps.

Classes IPC  ?

• H01M 8/0243 - Composites sous forme de mélanges
• D21F 11/06 - Procédés de fabrication de longueurs continues de papier ou de carton, ou de nappe humide pour la production de panneaux de fibres, sur des machines à papier du type à forme ronde
• D21F 11/14 - Fabrication de l'ouate de cellulose, du papier filtre ou du buvard
• D21F 11/00 - Procédés de fabrication de longueurs continues de papier ou de carton, ou de nappe humide pour la production de panneaux de fibres, sur des machines à papier

Abrégé

A method is for processing sheet material, in particular value papers, such as banknotes, checks, etc., in which different groups of sheet material are processed one after the other. The different groups of sheet material are separated for processing. In the processing of different groups of sheets materials, which are separated from one another by separation cards arranged respectively at the beginning of the different groups of sheet material, a first processing, in which separation cards and unrecognized sheet material are sorted out, should be followed by a second processing of the sorted-out separation cards and of the unrecognized sheet material, in which separation cards to which no unrecognized sheet material is assigned are sorted out.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A method is for generating element templates for forming templates when checking value documents of a specified value document type having at least two specified manufacturing elements, which, where applicable, partially overlap each other, and the element templates correspond to the manufacturing elements. Digital training images of training value documents of the specified value document type and a digital reference image of a reference value document of the specified value document type are used, which each have pixels to which pixel data are respectively assigned.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/207 - Mise en correspondance de motifs créés par l’interaction d’une pluralité de couches, p. ex. de motifs de moiré
• G06V 10/75 - Organisation de procédés de l’appariement, p. ex. comparaisons simultanées ou séquentielles des caractéristiques d’images ou de vidéosApproches-approximative-fine, p. ex. approches multi-échellesAppariement de motifs d’image ou de vidéoMesures de proximité dans les espaces de caractéristiques utilisant l’analyse de contexteSélection des dictionnaires

Abrégé

A sensor and a method for checking value documents are provided, each having a luminescent sheet-like substrate and a luminescent feature applied to a partial surface of the substrate, and to a value document processing apparatus. From the spectral vectors obtained for a plurality of measurement points and characterizing the intensity of the luminescent radiation of the value document detected in at least two spectral ranges, substrate intensity values and feature intensity values are determined, based on which a pure substrate mask is determined, which contains only those measurement points which reliably lie outside the feature. From the spectral vectors of the measurement points contained in the pure substrate mask, a mean substrate vector is determined, based on which corrected substrate intensity values and corrected feature intensity values and/or a spectral signature of the substrate and/or of the feature are or is, respectively, determined from the spectral vectors.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales
• G07D 7/20 - Vérification de motifs des papiers

Abrégé

An optically variable security element is provided for securing valuable articles, whose areal expanse defines a z-axis perpendicular thereto, having a reflective areal region that displays at least two appearances that are perceptible from different viewing directions. The reflective areal region includes two relief structures arranged at different height levels in the z-direction and form a lower-lying and a higher-lying relief structure, each of which is furnished with a reflection-increasing coating that follows the course of the relief. The higher-lying relief structure displays a first optically variable effect in a first color, and the lower-lying relief structure is visible through the higher-lying reflection-increasing coating itself, or through grid spaces or gaps in the higher-lying reflection-increasing coating and displays a second optically variable effect in a second, different color. The security element is furnished in an interior layer provided contiguously or in some regions, with at least one machine-readable feature substance.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/328 - Grilles de diffractionHologrammes
• B42D 25/305 - Information sous forme numérique
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/351 - Pièces translucides ou en partie translucides, p. ex. fenêtres
• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/382 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière infrarouge

Abrégé

A value document with a carrier element and a foil element arranged in a partial region of the carrier element. The carrier element has, at least in the partial region, a luminescence marker which is adapted to give off luminescence radiation which has at least a first wavelength and a second wavelength in each case in the infrared spectral region. The foil element has a reflection layer and a spectral selection layer. The selection layer is arranged between the carrier element and the reflection layer. The reflection layer is configured to reflect infrared radiation and the selection layer is configured to spectrally selectively inhibit transmission of infrared radiation. The inhibition of the transmission of the first wavelength and the inhibition of the transmission of the second wavelength differ by at least 10%.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/382 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière infrarouge
• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales
• G07D 7/202 - Vérification de motifs des papiers en utilisant la mise en correspondance de motifs
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/328 - Grilles de diffractionHologrammes
• B42D 25/351 - Pièces translucides ou en partie translucides, p. ex. fenêtres
• B42D 25/355 - Fils de sécurité

Abrégé

A method is provided for checking a substrate with a specified luminescent substance incorporated and/or applied areally. A substrate luminescent characteristic value for the substrate is ascertained, for which purpose a number N of luminescence intensity values are captured at respectively different locations on the value document, and the substrate luminescence characteristic value is ascertained in dependence on a rank order of the luminescence intensity values. It can be checked whether the substrate luminescence characteristic value meets a specified criterion.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/202 - Vérification de motifs des papiers en utilisant la mise en correspondance de motifs
• G07D 7/12 - Lumière visible, rayonnement infrarouge ou ultraviolet
• G07D 7/20 - Vérification de motifs des papiers

Abrégé

A method for classifying a banknote has at least one luminescent feature, in which the following steps are carried out: a) exciting the luminescent feature; b) recording at least a first intensity value of the excited luminescent feature at a first time and a second intensity value at a second time that is different from the first time; c) determining a decay time of the luminescent feature by approximate integration over the intensity values between the first time and the second time; d) comparing the determined decay time with a reference decay time of the luminescent feature; and e) classifying the banknote based on the comparison.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque

Abrégé

An optical sensor for examining value documents, such that at a point in time before the check of the value documents, a self-test of the optical sensor is carried out, during which the light sources thereof are switched on, and, with the aid of monitor elements, the respective light intensity of the light source assigned to the respective monitor element is detected which impinges on the respective monitor element at the time of the self-test. During the check of a value document following the self-test, the light sources illuminate the value document, and measured values are recorded. The recorded measured values are then corrected with the aid of the light intensities detected by the monitor elements at the time of the self-test to take into account a change in the light intensity emitted by the light sources that occurs in the course of the service life of the light sources.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/121 - Appareil caractérisé par les détails du détecteur
• G01N 21/55 - Réflexion spéculaire

Abrégé

An optically variable security element is provided for protecting objects of value. The reflective area region includes two independent relief structures, which are arranged at different levels in the z-direction and form a lower-level relief structure and a higher-level relief structure. The higher-level relief structure is supplied with a first reflection-enhancing coating following the relief profile, and the lower-level relief structure is supplied with a second reflection-enhancing coating following the relief profile. The first reflection-enhancing coating is formed in the visible spectral range with a reflection and transmission in the visible spectral range, so that the higher-level relief structure shows a first optically variable effect in a first color, and the lower-level relief structure shows a second optically variable effect through the first reflection-enhancing coating, wherein the second optically variable effect shows itself in a second, different color.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/328 - Grilles de diffractionHologrammes
• B42D 25/351 - Pièces translucides ou en partie translucides, p. ex. fenêtres
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage
• G02B 5/08 - Miroirs
• G02B 5/09 - Miroirs à facettes multiples ou polygonales
• G02B 27/06 - Appareils pour regarder ou pour lire avec un effet cinématographique

Abrégé

A semi-finished product method with a liquid crystal security feature includes unrolling and transporting a continuous film in a transporting direction and providing on the film a liquid crystal layer containing a substance whose absorption of polarized light depends on its orientation. The method includes at least one of (A) arranging a lacquer layer on the film and embossing it for a first alignment structure, and at least partly covering it with the liquid crystal layer, the first alignment structure able to cause liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer to align only in a first direction in first regions and only in a second direction, in second regions, and (B) embossing the liquid crystal layer while the liquid crystal layer is uncured providing a second alignment structure to cause liquid crystal molecules to align only in a third direction in third regions and only in a fourth direction, in fourth regions.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/364 - Cristaux liquides
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/351 - Pièces translucides ou en partie translucides, p. ex. fenêtres
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage
• B42D 25/45 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches
• B42D 25/475 - Découpe de cartes
• G02B 5/28 - Filtres d'interférence
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/355 - Fils de sécurité

Abrégé

A platelet-shaped magnetic effect pigment for use in a printing ink, includes a layer construction with a magnetic layer and at least one optical functional layer. The magnetic layer is based on magnetic particles fixed within a solid matrix and having a largely uniform preferential magnetic direction deviating from the platelet plane.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• C09C 1/62 - Pigments ou charges métalliques
• B41M 3/14 - Impression de papiers-valeurs

Abrégé

A feeder device for feeding a stack of value documents to a singler device, and is configured to withdraw individual value documents from the stack. The feeder device includes a stop element having front and back sides; two lateral guide elements provided at the front side of the stop element and configured to guide the stack at two lateral sides of the stack towards the singler device; two support elements, on which the lateral guide elements are mounted; and two or more bearing elements by which the support elements are movably mounted on the stop element to allow the respective positions of the lateral guide elements and/or the distance of the lateral guide elements relative to each other to be changed. The invention further relates to an according method, a singler device, a singler module and a system for processing value documents.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 5/36 - Guides ou lissoirs pour articles, p. ex. mobiles pendant le travail
• B65H 3/06 - Rouleaux ou séparateurs rotatifs analogues

Abrégé

A security element for manufacturing value documents has a structure including first and second motifs which change their appearance when the security element is tilted over a tilting angle range. The structure has first micro-elements, which are arranged with a first pattern and a first motif, and second micro-elements, which are arranged with a second pattern and a second motif. The first and second patterns are nested within each other on an areal region of the security element and have different visual appearances according to the tilting of the securing element.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/328 - Grilles de diffractionHologrammes
• G02B 3/00 - Lentilles simples ou composées
• G02B 5/18 - Grilles de diffraction
• G02B 17/00 - Systèmes avec surfaces réfléchissantes, avec ou sans éléments de réfraction
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/378 - Encres spéciales

Abrégé

A platelet-shaped magnetic effect pigment is provided for use in a printing ink, and includes a layer construction with a magnetic layer and at least one optical functional layer, such that the magnetic layer is based on a magnetic material having a column-shaped nanostructure and the magnetic columns respectively have a largely uniform preferential magnetic direction deviating from the platelet plane.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09C 1/00 - Traitement de substances inorganiques particulières, autres que des charges fibreuses Préparation du noir de carbone
• B41M 3/14 - Impression de papiers-valeurs
• B41M 7/00 - Traitement ultérieur des travaux imprimés, p. ex. chauffage, irradiation
• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• C09D 11/101 - Encres spécialement adaptées aux procédés d’imprimerie mettant en œuvre la réticulation par énergie ondulatoire ou par radiation de particules, p. ex. réticulation par UV qui suit l’impression
• C09D 11/50 - Encres sympathiques, encres changeant de couleur ou encres similaires
• H01F 1/055 - Alliages caractérisés par leur composition contenant des métaux des terres rares et des métaux de transition magnétiques, p. ex. SmCo5
• B42D 25/23 - Cartes d’identité
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque

Abrégé

An assembly and a method for processing value documents such that the assembly has a transport apparatus for value-document receptacles which forms a cyclically circulating transport loop for the value-document receptacles. At least one checking apparatus for checking value documents is connected to the transport apparatus in such a manner that a respective value-document stack, possibly together with its value-document receptacle, can be transported via the respective transport interface from the cyclically circulating transport loop to the respective checking apparatus and/or from the respective checking apparatus to the cyclically circulating transport loop. The cyclically circulating transport loop is self-contained in such a manner that the value-document receptacles can circulate around the cyclically circulating transport loop several times in the same direction of circulation, and thus allows a temporally flexible removal of the respective value-document stack.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/18 - Dérivation vers des trajets ou récipients différents
• B65G 47/52 - Dispositifs pour transférer objets ou matériaux entre transporteurs, p. ex. pour décharger ou alimenter
• B65G 47/90 - Dispositifs pour saisir et déposer les articles ou les matériaux
• G07D 7/181 - Test des propriétés ou de l’état, p. ex. de l’usure ou du déchirement
• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A method is provided for controlling a system or a device for recognizing, checking, counting, accounting and sorting objects of value, which can be automatically adapted to changing delivery and demand conditions. A control controls the transport paths and processing steps within the device with the aid of conveyor plants and corresponding diverters and optimizes them in such a way that the objects of value are transported in a targeted fashion to the processing stages which are necessary for the processing of the objects of value. The control takes into account information about the components of the device as well as the inbound-delivered objects of value and the objects of value to be delivered outbound in order to ensure optimal processing of the objects of value or to deliver ordered packs of objects of value outbound as quickly as possible.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/30 - Suivi ou traçage des papiers de valeur ou des cassettes
• G07D 11/18 - Dérivation vers des trajets ou récipients différents
• G07D 11/40 - Architecture des dispositifs, p. ex. construction modulaire
• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A method for manufacturing an optically variable security element, so that for a viewer of the security element, a first color impression is created through the combination of at least the color effects of a first embossing lacquer layer and the coating, and a second, different color impression is created through the combination of the color effects of at least the first embossing lacquer layer, a second embossing lacquer layer and a coating.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/373 - Matériaux métalliques
• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage
• B42D 25/445 - Marquage par enlèvement de matière en utilisant des moyens chimiques, p. ex. l’eau-forte

Abrégé

The invention relates to a security element for application to a surface of a valuable document or at least partial embedding into a substrate of the valuable document, for example a banknote or a passport, wherein the security element consists of a plastics film. According to the invention, at least one printing ink which is transparent in the infrared wavelength range of electromagnetic radiation (referred to hereinafter as IR-transparent printing ink) and has a first reflectance value and at least one printing ink which is absorbent in the infrared wavelength range of electromagnetic radiation (referred to hereinafter as IR-absorbing printing ink) and has a second reflectance value are applied to the plastics film of the security element, the separation between the first and second reflectance values being at least 40%.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/382 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière infrarouge
• B41M 3/14 - Impression de papiers-valeurs

Abrégé

A method for manufacturing platelet-shaped effect pigments includes the steps of a) providing a carrier substrate; b) applying aqueous washing ink droplets to the carrier substrate in first regions forming a first motif; c) applying a reflective coating to the carrier substrate such that a reflective coating is deposited on the carrier substrate in the form of a regular contiguous grid in second regions forming a second motif outside the first regions forming the first motif, wherein the first regions form the first motif and have the washing ink droplets form regular islands within the regular contiguous grid, and a reflective coating is deposited above the washing ink droplets in the first regions forming the first motif; and d) removing the washing ink droplets in the first regions together with the reflective coating present thereon and isolating the removed reflective coating in the form of platelet-shaped effect pigments.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• C09C 1/00 - Traitement de substances inorganiques particulières, autres que des charges fibreuses Préparation du noir de carbone
• C09C 1/62 - Pigments ou charges métalliques
• C09C 1/64 - Aluminium
• C09D 5/33 - Peintures réfléchissantes
• C09D 11/106 - Encres d’imprimerie à base de résines artificielles contenant des composés macromoléculaires obtenus par des réactions faisant intervenir uniquement des liaisons non saturées carbone-carbone
• C09D 11/14 - Encres d’imprimerie à base d'hydrates de carbone

Abrégé

A method for checking value documents involves the steps of: irradiating, by an excitation device, a first side of the value document with excitation radiation for exciting luminescence of a luminescent substance on the value document, such that the first side is a back side of the value document, capturing luminescence radiation which was excited by excitation of the luminescent substance at a front side of the value document by at least a part of the excitation radiation after transmission through the substrate of the value document and exits the value document at least partly at the back side of the value document after transmission through the value document, by a capture device, and checking the value document in dependence on at least one property of the captured luminescence radiation by means of an evaluation device.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 7/121 - Appareil caractérisé par les détails du détecteur
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque

Abrégé

It is disclosed a security element comprising a substantially flat substrate including first and second areas, wherein the first area displays a first motif and generates a first color movement effect to be seen in the first motif while the substrate gets tilted over a first angular tilting range, the second area displays a second motif and generates a second color effect to be seen in the second motif and within a second angular tilting range, the first and second angular tilting ranges are different, and the first area comprises either a micro-mirror structure or a print of magnetically oriented pigments and the second area comprises the other one of the micro-mirror structure and the print of magnetically oriented pigments.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque

Abrégé

A light source driver circuit has a switching regulator including a voltage input, a voltage output, and a regulation input; a current source with a switching element and a voltage-controllable member arranged in series with the light source load. A pulse signal is applied to a control terminal of the switching element to connect, in a first switching state of the switching element, a control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to a voltage source and in a second switching state of the switching element not to connect the control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to the voltage source; and a regulation unit. An optical measuring instrument includes a light source driver circuit, a device checks value documents with the light source driver circuit, and a method is provided for operating a light source load with the light source driver circuit.

Classes IPC  ?

• H05B 45/325 - Modulation de la largeur des impulsions [PWM]
• G07D 7/121 - Appareil caractérisé par les détails du détecteur
• H05B 45/375 - Alimentation du circuit à découpage [SMPS] en utilisant une topologie de dévoltage

Abrégé

A method for checking the coercive field strength of magnetic pigments of an areal sample which are contained in a magnetic region of the areal sample includes: after a magnetization of the areal sample until saturation, a first partial counter-magnetization of the magnetic pigments out by a magnetizing device, and a first measurement of a first magnetization value of the partially counter-magnetized magnetic pigments are carried out. The measured magnetization values are transmitted from the measuring device to a checking device. The checking device checks the magnetization values of the partially counter-magnetized magnetic pigments for ascertaining a check result that relates to the coercive field strength of the magnetic pigments and transmits the check result relating to the coercive field strength to an output device connected to the checking device.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01N 27/72 - Recherche ou analyse des matériaux par l'emploi de moyens électriques, électrochimiques ou magnétiques en recherchant des variables magnétiques
• B42D 25/369 - Matériaux magnétisés ou magnétisables
• H01F 13/00 - Appareils ou procédés pour l'aimantation ou pour la désaimantation
• B42D 25/305 - Information sous forme numérique

Abrégé

Electroconductive paper structure with cellulosic fibrous materials and electroconductive fibers, wherein the electroconductive paper structure has embedded therein a continuous, electroconductive thread for contacting the electroconductive paper structure from one end to the opposite end of the paper structure.

Classes IPC  ?

• D21H 13/48 - Fibres métalliques ou métallisées
• D21H 15/06 - Fibres longues, c.-à-d. fibres excédant la limite supérieure de longeur des fibres à papier conventionnellesFilaments
• D21H 17/67 - Composés insolubles dans l'eau, p. ex. charges ou pigments
• D21H 21/14 - Matériaux non fibreux ajoutés à la pâte, caractérisés par leur fonction, leur forme ou leurs propriétésMatériaux d'imprégnation ou de revêtement du papier, caractérisés par leur fonction, leur forme ou leurs propriétés caractérisés par leur fonction ou leurs propriétés dans, ou sur, le papier
• D21H 27/34 - Matériaux continus, p. ex. filaments, feuilles ou filets

Abrégé

A lens pigment suitable for manufacturing value documents by printing technology, includes a carrier substrate which forms a lens base and which is supplied on its front side with a first plastic having at least one elevation that produces a microlens and with a second plastic leveling the first plastic.

Classes IPC  ?

• B42D 25/378 - Encres spéciales
• B42D 25/324 - Reliefs
• C09D 7/00 - Caractéristiques de compositions de revêtement non prévues dans le groupe Procédés pour l’incorporation d’ingrédients dans des compositions de revêtement
• C09D 5/00 - Compositions de revêtement, p. ex. peintures, vernis ou vernis-laques, caractérisées par leur nature physique ou par les effets produitsApprêts en pâte
• B42D 25/36 - Caractéristiques d’identification ou de sécurité, p. ex. pour empêcher la falsification comprenant des matériaux spéciaux
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• B42D 25/425 - Marquage par déformation, p. ex. gaufrage
• B42D 25/45 - Fabrication associant plusieurs couches
• C09D 7/40 - Adjuvants
• B29D 11/00 - Fabrication d'éléments optiques, p. ex. lentilles ou prismes
• C09D 11/02 - Encres d’imprimerie
• C09D 5/03 - Peintures pulvérulentes

Abrégé

A process for producing pigments having a defined size and shape and also pigments produced by this process. The process has the steps: a) production of a three-dimensional surface structure on a substrate, with surface regions which are in each case partly bounded by a plurality of three-dimensional structural elements and are arranged in gaps being formed; b) application of a pigment material layer to the surface structure; c) detachment of the pigment material layer from the surface structure and production of pigments.

Classes IPC  ?

• C09D 11/037 - Encres d’imprimerie caractérisées par des particularités autres que la nature chimique du liant caractérisées par le pigment
• C09B 67/20 - Préparations à base de pigments organiques
• C09C 3/00 - Traitement, en général, de substances inorganiques, autres que des charges fibreuses, pour améliorer leurs propriétés de pigmentation ou de charge

Abrégé

An apparatus and a method for singling value documents involve a feeding device adapted to feed a respectively uppermost value document of a stack of value documents to a picking device adapted to pick the value document from the stack. A conveying device is adapted to receive the stack and to convey it relative to the feeding device. A distance sensor is adapted to detect at least one distance of the respectively uppermost value document of the stack received by the conveying device relative to the feeding device and generate at least one corresponding distance sensor signal. A control device is adapted to control the conveying of the stack relative to the feeding device and the location of the feeding device relative to the stack based on the distance sensor signal.

Classes IPC  ?

• B65H 1/18 - Supports ou magasins pour les piles dans lesquelles on prélève des articles avec moyens pour faire avancer la pile en vue de présenter les articles à un dispositif d'enlèvement commandés par la hauteur des piles
• B65H 1/14 - Supports ou magasins pour les piles dans lesquelles on prélève des articles avec moyens pour faire avancer la pile en vue de présenter les articles à un dispositif d'enlèvement comportant des dispositifs mécaniques à action directe
• B65H 3/14 - Jets d'air produisant un vide partiel
• B65H 3/48 - Jets d'air agissant sur les bords ou en dessous des articles
• G07D 11/165 - Préhension
• G07D 11/50 - Tri ou comptage des papiers de valeur

Abrégé

A method and an apparatus are provided for further processing and for packing value documents, which were previously processed by a value document processing apparatus and bundled to form bundles. Labels are created for the bundles, which have a machine-readable identification item linked to the respective bundle's visible serial number. Before or after each bundle is labeled, an image of the bundle is detected with the aid of an inspection device to ascertain the actual serial number of the bundle and compare it to the serial number that belongs to the machine-readable identification. In dependence on whether or not the actual visible serial number of the respective bundle matches the visible serial number belonging to the machine-readable identification for the bundle, the respective bundle is further processed (e.g., packed by a packing apparatus) or not processed.

Classes IPC  ?

• G07D 11/235 - Moyens de mesure ou de détection pour surveiller ou indiquer les conditions de fonctionnementMoyens de mesure ou de détection pour détecter les dysfonctionnements
• B65B 13/18 - Détails ou dispositifs auxiliaires des machines à ficeler des objets en paquets
• G06K 1/12 - Méthodes ou dispositions pour marquer les supports d'enregistrement sous la forme numérique autrement que par poinçonnage
• G06V 30/42 - Reconnaissance des formes à partir d’images axée sur les documents basées sur le type de document
• G07D 11/30 - Suivi ou traçage des papiers de valeur ou des cassettes
• G07D 11/32 - Conservation des données
• G09F 3/00 - Étiquettes, fiches ou moyens analogues d'identification ou d'indicationSceauxTimbres-poste ou timbres analogues
• G06K 7/10 - Méthodes ou dispositions pour la lecture de supports d'enregistrement par radiation électromagnétique, p. ex. lecture optiqueMéthodes ou dispositions pour la lecture de supports d'enregistrement par radiation corpusculaire

Abrégé

A value document system, a method for identifying a value document of a value document system, and a luminescent substance set, wherein the value document system includes at least a first value document and a second value document. The first value document has a security feature composed of a combination of at least a first and a second luminescent substance of a first or a second substance class. The second value document has a security feature with at least a first luminescent substance of the first or second substance class. The security feature of the first value document has at least a different intensity ratio of the emission, a different decay time ratio and/or a different decay time sum in two adjacent spectral ranges compared with the security feature of the second value document.

Classes IPC  ?

• G01N 21/956 - Inspection de motifs sur la surface d'objets
• B42D 25/382 - Encres spéciales absorbant ou reflétant la lumière infrarouge
• G01N 21/64 - FluorescencePhosphorescence
• G07D 7/1205 - Test des propriétés spectrales
• B42D 25/29 - Papiers-valeursBillets de banque
• G07D 7/121 - Appareil caractérisé par les détails du détecteur