A method is provided for producing banknotes, which include, in each case, at least one integrated circuit. The banknotes are produced from a sheet or from a material web in a production panel. In at least a plurality of these banknotes, or in each of these banknotes, an aperture is created through their substrate. In each case, an integrated circuit is arranged in the relevant aperture. In a first method step, each of the integrated circuits to be arranged in one of the apertures is arranged, with respect to the intended position in each of the banknotes that include an aperture, in the correct position on a band-shaped foil, and, in the second method step, each of these integrated circuits is transferred from this band-shaped foil onto the relevant banknote. Owing to this transfer carried out in the second method step, one integrated circuit in each case, is arranged in the aperture created in the banknotes.

Plastic card processing equipment that provide the ability to test the functionality of a biometric sensor on a plastic card to verify that the biometric sensor is working properly prior to being issued to a card holder. The test can be performed while the plastic card is within the plastic card processing equipment, before or after any processing occurs on the plastic card.

Plastic card processing equipment that provide the ability to test the functionality of a biometric sensor on a plastic card to verify that the biometric sensor is working properly prior to being issued to a card holder. The test can be performed while the plastic card is within the plastic card processing equipment, before or after any processing occurs on the plastic card.

An inlay sheet for a book-like identification document. The inlet sheet may include a first hinge layer comprising polycarbonate and a second hinge layer comprising a flexible material different to polycarbonate, e.g. PET, polyurethane, fabric, mesh. The second hinge layer is attached to the first hinge layer. A first datapage layer and a second datapage layer are attached to the first hinge layer and the second hinge layer, respectively, such that the first and second hinge layers are positioned between the first and second datapage layers for forming a datapage section haying a datapage thickness. The first and second datapage layers form a common datapage inner front edge and the first and second hinge layers extend beyond the common datapage inner front edge such that a hinge section is formed having a hinge thickness smaller than the datapage thickness.

The invention relates to a method for forming and detecting security elements on the surface of a component and/or in a component, in which at least one layer or at least one region that is preferably formed of a magnetic material or of a material different from the component material is formed on the surface of the component and/or in the component that is formed of a magnetic or of a nonmagnetic material in a locally and geometrically defined manner. At least one ablated track, at least one heat-affected region and/or at least one remelted treatment track are/is formed by a locally and geometrically defined ablation of material or input of energy on/at the surface of a component along a predefined contour corresponding to the respective security feature. In the manufacture of the component, a magnetic material different from the material of the component is introduced into the component at at least one predefined position in a locally and geometrically defined manner by way of a generative production process. To detect the security element, a magnetization unit is used to generate at least one magnetic field penetrating into the component or a magnetic flux is produced inside the magnetization unit that penetrates into the component. To check a security element formed in this way, a detection unit is used to detect the magnetic stray fields occurring on the security element as a result of the at least one magnetic field, and the measurement signals captured by the detection unit are transferred to an evaluation unit having an image-processing or pattern-recognition system. Using the evaluation unit having an image-processing or pattern-recognition system, it is checked, by way of the detected magnetic stray fields, whether or not the detected security element corresponds to a specification.

The invention relates to a method for forming and detecting security elements on the surface of a component and/or in a component, in which at least one layer or at least one region that is preferably formed of a magnetic material or of a material different from the component material is formed on the surface of the component and/or in the component that is formed of a magnetic or of a nonmagnetic material in a locally and geometrically defined manner. At least one ablated track, at least one heat-affected region and/or at least one remelted treatment track are/is formed by a locally and geometrically defined ablation of material or input of energy on/at the surface of a component along a predefined contour corresponding to the respective security feature. In the manufacture of the component, a magnetic material different from the material of the component is introduced into the component at at least one predefined position in a locally and geometrically defined manner by way of a generative production process. To detect the security element, a magnetization unit is used to generate at least one magnetic field penetrating into the component or a magnetic flux is produced inside the magnetization unit that penetrates into the component. To check a security element formed in this way, a detection unit is used to detect the magnetic stray fields occurring on the security element as a result of the at least one magnetic field, and the measurement signals captured by the detection unit are transferred to an evaluation unit having an image-processing or pattern-recognition system. Using the evaluation unit having an image-processing or pattern-recognition system, it is checked, by way of the detected magnetic stray fields, whether or not the detected security element corresponds to a specification.

A method includes using a lenticular image having a lens grid composed of a plurality of microlenses and a metallic motif layer arranged spaced apart from the lens grid; the refractive effect of the microlenses defines a focal plane and the metallic motif layer being arranged substantially in the focal plane; a line width is chosen for the demetalized sub-regions to be produced in the metallic motif layer; a marking laser source having a laser wavelength λ is selected such that the resolving power D(λ) of the microlenses of the lenticular image at the selected laser wavelength λ substantially corresponds to the line width of the demetalized sub-regions to be produced; and the metallic motif layer is impinged on through the microlenses with laser radiation of the marking laser source to produce demetalized sub-regions in the metallic motif layer.

A method includes using a lenticular image having a lens grid composed of a plurality of microlenses and a metallic motif layer arranged spaced apart from the lens grid; the refractive effect of the microlenses defines a focal plane and the metallic motif layer being arranged substantially in the focal plane; a line width is chosen for the demetalized sub-regions to be produced in the metallic motif layer; a marking laser source having a laser wavelength λ is selected such that the resolving power D(λ) of the microlenses of the lenticular image at the selected laser wavelength λ substantially corresponds to the line width of the demetalized sub-regions to be produced; and the metallic motif layer is impinged on through the microlenses with laser radiation of the marking laser source to produce demetalized sub-regions in the metallic motif layer.

An optical device includes an array of lenses and a plurality of first and second segments disposed under the array of lenses. At a first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents a first image for viewing without presenting the second image for viewing, and at a second viewing angle different from the first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents for viewing the second image without presenting the first image for viewing. In some examples, individual ones of the first and second segments can comprise specular reflecting, transparent, diffusely reflecting, and/or diffusely transmissive features. In some examples, individual ones of the first and second segments can comprise transparent and non-transparent regions. Some examples can incorporate more than one region producing an optical effect.

An optical device includes an array of lenses and a plurality of first and second segments disposed under the array of lenses. At a first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents a first image for viewing without presenting the second image for viewing, and at a second viewing angle different from the first viewing angle, the array of lenses presents for viewing the second image without presenting the first image for viewing. In some examples, individual ones of the first and second segments can comprise specular reflecting, transparent, diffusely reflecting, and/or diffusely transmissive features. In some examples, individual ones of the first and second segments can comprise transparent and non-transparent regions. Some examples can incorporate more than one region producing an optical effect.