License Plate Packaging Container for Embossing Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Manual errors and manipulation risks occur during the embossing process of license plate boards due to incorrect tool insertion and unauthorized legends, as existing systems lack comprehensive verification mechanisms.

Innovation Solution

A packaging container with uniquely identifiable license plate boards, featuring optoelectronically detectable and encrypted board identifications, which are stored in a container identification. This container identification is read by the embossing press to authenticate and verify the legitimacy of inserted boards, ensuring only permissible boards are used for embossing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual verification methods are used to identify license plate boards, then operational simplicity is maintained, but manual errors and manipulation risks increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveverification accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual visual verification with optoelectronic detection systems that automatically read and verify board identifications. Scanning devices and control units substitute for human operators' manual checking, eliminating manual errors while maintaining operational simplicity through automated processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses encrypted identification data stored in a central database as a reference copy to verify the authenticity of license plate boards. The control unit compares the scanned board identification against the stored encrypted data, creating a verification mechanism that prevents manipulation without requiring complex physical security measures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If encrypted board identifications are implemented, then manipulation prevention is improved, but detection and verification complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveanti-manipulation capabilityVSAvoidverification complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs optoelectronic scanning devices and automated control units to read and decrypt board identifications, replacing manual verification processes. This automation handles the complexity of encrypted data verification, making the process as simple as scanning a code while maintaining high security through cryptographic verification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Reliability

If individual board identifications are verified against a central database, then verification accuracy is improved, but system dependency and operational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveverification accuracyVSAvoidsystem integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent pre-loads encrypted board identification data into the central database before operational needs arise. This preliminary preparation allows the system to perform rapid verification operations without requiring complex real-time database management, reducing operational complexity while maintaining high verification accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The solution significantly reduces manual errors and manipulation attempts by enabling real-time verification of board identities, ensuring only authorized and valid license plate boards are processed, even in offline operations without a central database connection.

Implementation Method 1

each of which is provided with a circuit board identification that uniquely identifies it, which can be detected optoelectronically

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectOptoelectronic detection: Photoelectric Effect

Data Source

PatentEP3374276B2Packaging container for license plates; method for operating an embossing press using the packaging container; and embossing press
Publication Date: 2024.05.15 ERICH UTSCH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a packaging container (10) for receiving license plates (20). Each license plate (20) is provided with a plate identification (21) which uniquely identifies the license plate, which can be detected optoelectronically, and in which information on the license plate (20) is encrypted. According to the invention, at least two license plates (20) are received in the packaging container (10), and the packaging container (10) is provided with a container identification (21) in which the information encrypted in each of the plate identifications (21) of the at least two license plates (20) is at least partly stored. The invention further relates to a method for operating an embossing press (30), which is designed to emboss license plates (20), using such a packaging container (10).