Security Document Edge Coating via Lamination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing security and value documents with edge security features are complex and time-consuming to produce, requiring specialized printing devices for the narrow edges, which complicates the manufacturing process.

Innovation Solution

A security document with a coating that extends up to the edge, integrated between the carrier and cover layers, featuring multiple security levels (detectable by eye, with tools, or requiring specialized equipment) and a magnetically readable 'magnetic code' for verification, allowing for simplified production without complex edge printing devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If security features are applied to the edge after lamination using special printing devices, then security features can be formed on the edge, but the production process becomes very complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity feature formationVSAvoidproduction process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The coating for the security feature is applied to the intermediate layer before lamination, rather than after. This preliminary action integrates the security feature formation into the lamination process itself, eliminating the need for separate edge printing operations and special printing devices, thereby reducing production complexity while maintaining security feature reliability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines the coating application step with the lamination process by applying the coating to the intermediate layer before stacking and laminating the layers together. This merging of operations allows the security feature to be formed as part of the lamination structure, eliminating the need for subsequent separate printing steps on the edge

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If special printing devices are used for printing on the narrow edge, then security features can be created, but production time increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesecurity feature precisionVSAvoidproduction speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

By applying the coating to the intermediate layer before lamination, the security feature is formed in advance during the main production process rather than requiring a separate post-processing step. This eliminates the time-consuming edge printing operation while maintaining precise security feature formation through the controlled coating application and subsequent lamination

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The coating application is integrated into the continuous lamination process flow, allowing production to proceed without interruption for separate edge printing. The coating is applied, layers are stacked, and lamination occurs in a continuous sequence, maintaining production momentum and eliminating idle time associated with specialized edge printing operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful 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

Facilitates quicker production of secure documents with enhanced protection against forgery, as the security features are integrated during lamination, reducing the risk of delamination and enabling verification through various means, including X-ray and visible light.

Implementation Method 1

The coating that forms the at least one security feature is introduced between the carrier layer and the cover layer

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLamination: Lamination

Implementation Method 2

the coating comprises a magnetic or magnetizable material or is formed from such a material, which means that there is a magnetically readable security feature on the edge

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMagnetism: Magnetism

Implementation Method 3

which can be excited and/or spectroscopically detected at least in sections. Detailed knowledge is required to detect the security feature formed as a 'Level 3' security feature, which means that it can only be recognized and checked with special laboratory equipment or sensors such as a microscope, a spectrometer or an X-ray device

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectX-ray: X-Ray

Data Source

PatentEP3741580B1Valuable or security document and method for its production
Publication Date: 2022.04.13 BUNDESDRUCKEREI GMBH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a security document (100) comprising a carrier layer (104) forming a bottom surface (102), a cover layer (108) forming a top surface (106), and at least one edge (112) formed by the layers (104, 108) stacked in a stacking direction (110), on which at least one security feature (500) is arranged or formed. The security feature (500) detectable at the edge (112) is formed by a coating (114) that extends at least partially to the edge (112) and is inserted between the carrier layer (104) and the cover layer (108). The invention also relates to a method for producing such a security document (100).