EP2964470A1 - Document de sécurité comportant un élément de sécurité pouvant être authentifié au moyen de micro-ondes - Google Patents

Document de sécurité comportant un élément de sécurité pouvant être authentifié au moyen de micro-ondes

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EP2964470A1
EP2964470A1 EP14708249.9A EP14708249A EP2964470A1 EP 2964470 A1 EP2964470 A1 EP 2964470A1 EP 14708249 A EP14708249 A EP 14708249A EP 2964470 A1 EP2964470 A1 EP 2964470A1
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Edward Springmann
Malte Pflughoefft
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Bundesdruckerei GmbH
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
    • B42D25/20—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof characterised by a particular use or purpose
    • B42D25/29—Securities; Bank notes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B42—BOOKBINDING; ALBUMS; FILES; SPECIAL PRINTED MATTER
    • B42D—BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS
    • B42D25/00—Information-bearing cards or sheet-like structures characterised by identification or security features; Manufacture thereof
    • B42D25/30—Identification or security features, e.g. for preventing forgery
    • B42D25/36—Identification or security features, e.g. for preventing forgery comprising special materials
    • B42D25/378—Special inks
    • B42D25/391—Special inks absorbing or reflecting polarised light
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/06—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using wave or particle radiation
    • G07D7/10—Microwaves
    • B42D2033/46—

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a security document with a security element that can be verified using microwave radiation, a method for its production, a verification method and an apparatus for verifying such a security document.
  • security documents include, for example, identity cards, passports, driver's licenses, access cards, and the like, to name but a few.
  • common to these security documents is that they have at least one feature which makes unauthorized imitation, falsification and / or manufacture difficult or impossible.
  • a security feature is called a security feature.
  • Such a security feature may also be used to verify the authenticity of a present security document.
  • Security features can be visually inspected, i. using light in the visible, ultraviolet or infrared wavelength range.
  • light in the visible, ultraviolet or infrared wavelength range.
  • DE 10 2006 055 680 A1 discloses a security element for security papers, documents of value and the like with a substrate and a metallization arranged on the substrate.
  • the metallization comprises a first opaque metal layer and a second opaque metal layer arranged above the first metal layer, and the two metal layers have substantially the same color shade in the visible spectral range.
  • the authenticity feature includes at least one region having a periodic conductive surface element which exhibits resonance effects in a predetermined frequency range of incident electromagnetic radiation.
  • a fiber composite and a process for the preparation of a fiber-containing metal fiber composite, in particular for the paper industry are known.
  • the method provides that the metal fibers with a water-soluble binder be treated such that an agglomerate of fibers and binder is formed, in which the metal fibers are surrounded by the binder,
  • Agglomerate is mixed with non-metallic fibers and water; and b) the aqueous dispersion is applied to the wet web in web form during manufacture of the fiber web.
  • Security documents to integrate a variety of possible different security elements in a security document or to integrate particularly difficult to replicate and unique security features in a security document.
  • a novel security feature or security element for a security document which comprises a wave-like elongate conductive element which is integrated into a flat document body of a security document so that the wave-like deflections of the elongate element transversely a longitudinal extension of the elongate element and at the same time are oriented transversely to an upper side and a lower side of the document body.
  • the wave-like structure of the elongated element thus lies in a plane which is oriented transversely to the top and bottom of the security document.
  • Such a structure results, for example, on or in a document body that is conductive
  • elongated element is attached by means of a prestrike seam. This results in a non-closed conductive structure.
  • Such an elongate structure which is at the same time formed wave-shaped transversely to the longitudinal extent, can be excited by means of suitable microwave radiation, which is linearly polarized and directed.
  • a security document having such a wavy elongated conductive element can thus be verified by placing it in a test region into which linearly polarized directional microwave radiation is irradiated. With a microwave receiver is examined whether in the test area
  • Microwave radiation is emitted, which is based on an excitation of
  • Electron vibrations in the undulated elongated conductive element is due. Depending on the detected microwave signal, a verification decision is then made.
  • An elongated element is an element which in a direction of expansion has a substantially greater length than respectively locally oriented in two orthogonal thereto
  • the cross-sectional area transverse to the one extension direction of the elongate member is preferably constant.
  • the maximum dimensions in the cross-sectional area transverse to the one extension direction are preferably 2 orders of magnitude, more preferably 3 or 4 orders of magnitude smaller than the length along the one extension direction.
  • An elongated wave-shaped member is an elongate member formed in a plane and having one extension direction extending in the middle along a longitudinal extension direction of the elongated wave-shaped member, the elongate member being alternately deflected transversely to the longitudinal direction.
  • the elongate element thus shows a wave-like course in a plane.
  • This plane in which the deflections are formed around the longitudinal extension direction of the elongated wave-like elongated element, is referred to as a deflection plane or structure plane.
  • Structured conductive surfaces, in particular of light-diffracting elements, are not considered to be undulated elongated elements, even if formed in the form of a hologram filament, hologram strip or the like.
  • an attachment of an elongate member to a substrate layer is referred to, in which the elongated member first penetrates the substrate from top to bottom, with a portion along the bottom of the substrate layer parallel to a seam direction, the material layer of the Penetrated underside to the top and then guided with a section parallel to the seam direction along the top, and then again recurrently penetrate the substrate layer from top to bottom, to be guided along the bottom, to be guided from the bottom to the top and along the
  • the elongated element is attached to the substrate as a whole along the seam direction.
  • the seam direction agrees with the
  • the substrate penetrating portions of the elongate member are also referred to as penetration portions.
  • the stitch length refers to the distance between two adjacent penetration points of the substrate at which the elongated element penetrates the substrate in the same direction, for example from the top to the bottom, following the elongated element of its longitudinal extension.
  • the terms top stitch length and undercut length are defined here, wherein the top stitch length indicates a distance between the penetration points, between which the elongate element is guided on the upper side of the substrate layer or extends.
  • the undercut length is that section of a stitch in which the elongated element is guided below the substrate. In the event that the elongated element is guided in each case perpendicular to a substrate plane through the substrate, the stitch length results from a sum of the top stitch length and the undercut length. In other cases, the sum of the top and bottom stitch length may differ from the total stitch length.
  • a wavy elongate member is created whose deflection plane or structural plane is formed transversely to the substrate layer in which the pre-stitched seam is formed.
  • Deflection plane or structure plane in the form of a rectangular curve or a sinusoidal curve. Trajectories that are parallel to each other are penetrating portions (i.e., portions perpendicular to
  • Leksssehtrecknichtung which are connected by arcs or circular sections or to the penetration portions angled portions alternately above and below the penetrated by the penetration portions of material layer.
  • the pairwise adjacent penetration portions are preferably oriented parallel to each other, but need not necessarily be oriented parallel to each other.
  • microwave radiation electromagnetic dipole radiation whose frequency is in the range of 3 GHz to about 400 GHz.
  • Wavelengths in vacuum are 10 cm to 0.75 mm. We prefer
  • microwave radiation As directed microwave radiation microwave radiation is understood, which propagates around a preferred direction in a limited solid angle range.
  • Preferred direction is referred to as propagation direction.
  • Directed microwave radiation is radiated into a volume, so gives the
  • a preferred embodiment of a method for producing a security document comprises the steps of providing at least one extensively extended substrate layer, forming a pre-stitched seam with an at least partially conductive elongated element, such that a plurality of sections of the elongated element penetrating the substrate layer transversely to their areal extent are conductive. In this way, a simple security feature is formed, which enables verification via irradiation and detection of scattered microwave radiation.
  • the at least one planarized substrate layer has at least one material thickness of 100 ⁇ m.
  • deflections of the elongate element in the structural plane have amplitudes of 200 ⁇ m to 3.2 mm.
  • the sections formed perpendicular to the direction of elongation have lengths of between 100 ⁇ m and 3.2 mm. Even more preferred are vertical sections
  • Section lengths of 200 ⁇ to 700 ⁇ produced and accordingly
  • a corresponding security document has a flat design
  • Document body which has a top and an opposite bottom and on or in the at least partially conductive wave-like
  • elongated member wherein the elongated member has wave-like deflections, which are oriented transversely to a longitudinal direction of the elongate member and transversely to the planar extent of the document body.
  • the difficulty for a counterfeiter of such a document is that a wave-like conductive structure, such as may be produced by forming a prestrike seam with a conductive element, is formed in the security document, which is not disposed in a plane parallel to the surface Upper or underside of a flat trained document body is oriented. As a result, a fake effort is significantly increased.
  • Security document comprising the steps of: arranging a A security document in a test region, emitting directional, linearly polarized microwave radiation along a first direction into the test region and detecting microwave radiation exiting the test region, and evaluating the detected microwave radiation and deriving a verification decision. Based on the microwave radiation emerging from the test region, which depends on the presence of an elongate wave-like shaped conductive element in the document body, the verification decision is derived.
  • the irradiation of the directed microwave radiation preferably takes place in such a way that the direction of irradiation is parallel to the longitudinal extension direction of the elongate
  • the irradiation of the directed microwave radiation thus takes place in a plane which is defined by a planar extension of the preferably card-shaped document body.
  • the security document is a lamination body composed of multiple layers or foils, for example in a high-pressure, high-pressure lamination process, then a center plane of the lamination body is a preferred plane defined by the areal extent of the document body and for irradiation of the
  • Microwave radiation is particularly suitable. If, for example, two layers of material of the same layer thickness are laminated to one another, then the bonding surface of the two layers is at the same time also the central plane.
  • the microwave radiation emerging from the test region is detected along a second spatial direction, which is oriented transversely to the first direction and transversely to the oscillation direction of the electric field vector of the irradiated linearly polarized microwave radiation.
  • the second direction is perpendicular to the direction of vibration of the
  • Microwave radiation upon selection of a suitable microwave frequency, is capable of vibrating charge carriers in the wavy shaped elongated conductive element, which in turn causes electromagnetic radiation radiate.
  • This radiated radiation or possibly an attenuation of the microwave radiation along the original first direction caused by the radiation, can be detected as a feature indicating the presence of such a wavy elongated conductive element.
  • a thread having at least one metal wire or a metallic wire is preferably used as the elongated element.
  • the seam is made with a thread having at least one metal wire or a metallic wire as an elongated element.
  • metals or metallic alloys in question which have an electrical conductivity.
  • Particularly suitable here are copper or copper alloys and wires made of precious metals such as silver, gold or platinum.
  • copper has both mechanical and electrical properties which are advantageous for processing in forming the seam.
  • Beam alloys are used.
  • electrically conductive polymers for example polyaniline, or polymers filled with electrically conductive materials, for example metal particles, carbon black or carbon nanotubes, may also be used.
  • the seam is executed in a preferred embodiment with a constant stitch length.
  • similarly formed conductive sections are formed in periodic sections in which electrons can be excited to vibrate when microwave radiation is irradiated. Is the wavelength of the irradiated
  • the electromagnetic waves radiated from the individual periodically repeating sections superimpose each other again constructively, so that an amplified microwave signal generated by the elongated wave-shaped conductive element is produced.
  • Dielectric constant of the substrate material is dependent.
  • Embodiments in which the substrate layer provided with the seam with further substrate layers to form a document body are particularly preferred
  • the elongated wavy conductive element formed by the seam can be integrated into the security document or its document body.
  • the substrate layer provided with the seam is arranged between two further planarly extended substrate layers and joined together with them.
  • such joining takes place by means of a lamination.
  • the substrate layer and the further substrate layers are in preferred embodiments made of a thermoplastic material, such as polycarbonate, PVC or similar materials known in the art, which enable lamination in a high pressure, high temperature process.
  • Plastic material is that a later separation of the
  • a multiplicity of substrate layers, at least the one or more substrate layers through which the original seam is made, as well as the adjacent substrate layers are influenced.
  • a lamination process Namely, a part of the elongate element penetrates into the substrate layers adjacent to the one provided with the seam
  • Individualization of a security document can be achieved by varying the formation of the seam or the resulting wave-shaped elongate conductive element.
  • a modification can be made by varying the stitch length.
  • this is carried out so that the individual stitches of the seam have an identical length and result in a periodic wave-like elongate conductive element.
  • a variation of the period length thus gives a first possibility of variation.
  • a period length is for example in the range of 1 mm to 5 cm.
  • an amplitude of the wave-like deflections can be varied. This can be brought about in particular by varying a layer thickness of the substrate layer which is penetrated by the seam or the wave-shaped element. Likewise, it is possible to penetrate not only one substrate layer, but several substrate layers. In this case, a seam can be made on substrate layers that have not yet been joined together or on substrate layers that already have,
  • the conductive element may be or may be passed between the penetration points or points differently densely at the top and / or bottom of the substrate layer or substrate layers. This also leads to the variation of the amplitude of the deflections.
  • Another modification possibility is to change a position at which the seam is executed.
  • the orientation can be changed relative to the orientation of the entire document. This applies, on the one hand, to a seaming direction, ie a longitudinal direction of extension of the elongate element, as well as a plane in which the wave-like deflections occur. If the substrate layer is not penetrated perpendicularly, then a plane in which dike-like deflections of the manufactured wave-like elongated conductive element lie can be varied relative to a plane in which the planarized substrate layer extends, at least in a certain range.
  • the plane in which the wavelike deflections lie need not necessarily be oriented orthogonal to the plane in which the substrate layer extends in a planar manner.
  • the interaction with the irradiated microwave radiation can be influenced in the test region. Assuming that other security features and security elements present in the document body of the security document do not interfere with the security document
  • the microwave radiation radiated from the test region is dependent only on the orientation and formation of the elongate wave-like conductive element in the security document relative to the directed linearly polarized microwave radiation.
  • Insertion position and / or orientation thus leads to the fact that in order to achieve the same interaction with the microwave radiation, a different arrangement and / or orientation of the security document in the test region is required.
  • the orientation and / or position which a security document must assume, for example, in the test region in order to obtain a maximum signal strength of the microwave radiation radiated in the test region can be used to derive a
  • Verification decision be used. Accordingly, by deriving the verification decision, an orientation of the security document relative to the microwave radiation radiated into the test region and a positioning of the security document relative to the microwave radiation radiated into the test region can be included in a verification decision.
  • An embodiment of a verification method therefore provides that a frequency of the irradiated microwave radiation is varied and the microwave radiation radiated from the test region as a function of the irradiated one Microwave frequency is detected.
  • the received signal strength varies depending on the frequency of the irradiated microwave radiation.
  • the frequency of the microwave radiation also changes the wavelength of the irradiated
  • Microwave radiation At a suitable wavelength of the irradiated
  • Microwave radiation is fixed, with a plane together, which through the
  • Stitch length for forming the seam is preferably in the range of 1 mm to 5 cm.
  • suitable microwave radiation which causes a particularly effective excitation, can be produced well.
  • a conductive wave-like structure which parallel to the top and / or Bottom of the document body is oriented.
  • a wave-like conductive structure can be arranged on the substrate layer on which the seam is formed, or a further substrate layer which is connected to this one substrate layer to the document body.
  • a mask may be used to pattern such a conductive structure.
  • the wavelike structures may have different periodicities, amplitudes, etc.
  • the detectable microwave radiation occurs at different wavelengths and possibly with different maximum signal strength. All of these different metrologically detectable features can be used to perform verification of the security document. For example, a ratio of the frequencies at which a maximum signal strength for the
  • a suitable device for verifying a security document with a sheet-like document body on or in which a conductive wave-like elongate element is arranged, wherein the wave-like deflection is oriented transversely to a longitudinal extension direction of the elongated element and transversely to the planar extension of the document body comprises a
  • a microwave transmitter for radiating linearly polarized microwave radiation along a first spatial direction into a test region formed
  • a microwave receiver which is adapted to receive from the test region emitted microwave radiation
  • Control means for effecting microwave radiation of the microwave transmitter and at the same time to detect a received signal of the microwave receiver, and an evaluation device for generating a Verificationssignals, which of the
  • Received signal is derived. Further developments of the device can further
  • microwave receiver and / or other microwave transmitter which are oriented under other spatial directions with respect to the first spatial direction to simultaneously investigate and evaluate an interaction with microwave radiation for different wavy formed conductive elongated structures.
  • the document is arranged in the test region so that the first spatial direction parallel to a surface of the test region
  • Security element is oriented and the document is also oriented so that a longitudinal extension of the elongated wave-like conductive element is oriented parallel to the irradiation direction of the polarized microwave radiation. The document will, if the orientation of the elongated
  • the wavy element is not known, oriented as it would require an expected or assumed orientation of the elongated wave-like element.
  • the polarization direction of the irradiated microwave radiation is preferably oriented perpendicular to the surface of the security document.
  • the elongated undulating member is preferably positioned in the security document so that the undulating deflections lie in a plane which is oriented perpendicular to the surface of the security document.
  • elongated wave-like conductive element is scattered, also linearly polarized, wherein a vibration direction of the electric field is oriented parallel to the oscillation direction of the electric field of the irradiated microwave radiation.
  • an orientation of the security document relative to the emitted microwave radiation and / or positioning of the security document relative to the emitted one
  • Microwave radiation and / or a frequency of the microwave radiation in which a maximum signal strength of the radiated from the test region microwave radiation is included.
  • An embodiment therefore provides that an orientation and / or position of the document in the test region with respect to the first direction and / or the
  • Polarization direction is varied, and an orientation in space and / or position of the security document in the derivation of the verification decision is included.
  • a security document is verified as genuine if a predetermined or a maximum received signal strength is detected at a predetermined orientation and / or positioning of the security document in the test region.
  • a resonant frequency is determined in the transverse, preferably perpendicular, to the respective irradiation direction and transverse, preferably perpendicular, to the polarization direction maximum signal strength are detected and the verification decision depends on the two determined
  • Resonant frequencies is derived.
  • Radiation direction coincides with the first spatial direction and the
  • Microwave receiver has an excellent receiving direction, which is the direction under which an incident standard signal generates a maximum received signal strength, and the excellent receiving direction is oriented orthogonal to the emission direction, and a first polarization direction perpendicular to that of the
  • Direction of emission and the receiving direction spanned plane is oriented.
  • Microwave receiver with another excellent receiving direction so is arranged such that the second receiving direction is oriented perpendicular to the emission direction and perpendicular to the excellent receiving direction of a microwave receiver, wherein the microwave transmitter is adapted to selectively use linearly polarized microwave radiation, either along the first
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic section of a security document
  • Microwave radiation is detectable
  • 2a-2c is a schematic representation of a manufacturing method of a
  • FIG. 3 shows a schematic representation of a further security document with a security feature which can be detected via a microwave interaction
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic representation of an apparatus for verifying a
  • 5a-5i show exemplary sections of waveforms of wave-like
  • the security document comprises a document body 3, which may for example be composed of several substrate layers.
  • the various substrate layers may become one in a lamination process
  • the various substrate layers can all be made on a plastic basis.
  • individual substrate layers which form individual material layers not shown here in the document body, can also consist of other materials, for example cellulose or the like.
  • the security document 1 has a security element 5, which can be verified via an interaction with microwave radiation. This is preferably arranged in the interior of the document body 3.
  • the document body 3 has an upper side 1 1 and an opposite lower side 13, which are both preferably oriented parallel to one another and extended in a planar manner.
  • a coordinate system 21 is shown which has an X-axis 23, a Y-axis 25 perpendicular thereto and a Z-axis 27 perpendicular to the plane spanned by the X-axis 23 and the Y-axis 25 ,
  • the coordinate system 21 is oriented with respect to the security document 1 so that a planar extension of the document body 3 is oriented parallel to the X-Y plane.
  • the top 1 1 and the bottom 13 are oriented parallel to the X-Y plane.
  • An extension or document body thickness 7 is generally smaller than edge lengths of the upper side 1 1 and the lower side 13.
  • a security element 5 that can be verified via microwave interaction is embodied in the security document 1.
  • This has a wave-shaped elongated conductive element 31.
  • This may be, for example, a conductive thread or a conductive wire.
  • a conductive thread may comprise different fibers, one of which is, for example, a conductive wire.
  • conductive wires are in particular metallic wires, which may consist of an elemental metal or an alloy in question.
  • a steel wire or a copper wire is suitable.
  • the elongated wave-like conductive element 31 extends along a longitudinal extension direction 35, which in the illustrated embodiment runs with its longitudinal extension direction 35 parallel to the X-axis 23 of the coordinate system 21. Transverse to the longitudinal extension direction 35, the elongated wave-like conductive element 31 has deflections 33, which form the wave-like structure of the
  • the elongated wave-like conductive element 31 is thus formed in a deflection or structural plane 34, which transversely, preferably orthogonal, oriented to the top 1 1 and bottom 13 of the surface extended document body 3. If a microwave radiation 51 is more suitable
  • Wavelength that is polarized in the X-Z plane and irradiated along the X direction is interacted with the security document 1, so in the elongated wave-like conductive member 31, carriers are excited to vibrate.
  • the irradiated microwave radiation 51 is polarized in the illustrated case so that an electric field vector in a
  • Polarization plane 53 vibrates, which coincides with the X-Z plane.
  • a polarization plane 53 coincides with the deflection plane or structural plane 34 of FIG
  • elongated wave-like conductive element 31 together or is oriented parallel to this.
  • charge carriers are thus excited to oscillate by the electric field vector, so that the elongate wave-like conductive element 31 in turn emits microwave radiation 71 due to the oscillating charge carriers.
  • a maximum radiation intensity is radiated in the X-Y plane, so that an outgoing microwave radiation 71 under a second spatial direction 75, which is preferably orthogonal to the first spatial direction 35 and perpendicular to the
  • radiated microwave radiation 71 is also referred to as scattered microwave radiation.
  • Microwave radiation detectable security element 5 another over
  • Microwave radiation detectable security element 9 which consists of a further conductive wave-like structure 41, which is formed in a plane which is oriented parallel to the planar extension of the document body, ie parallel to the top and / or bottom.
  • this further wave-like conductive structure 41 is formed by a printed conductive substance
  • the further elongated wave-like structure 41 is formed in a structural plane 44 which is parallel to the upper side 1 1 and transversely, preferably perpendicular, to the structural plane 34 of the elongated wave-like element 31.
  • another longitudinal extension direction 45 of the further wave-like conductive structure is oriented parallel to the longitudinal extension direction 35 of the elongate wave-like conductive element 31.
  • Further microwave radiation 61 which is linearly polarized and whose polarization plane 63 is oriented parallel to the structural plane 44 of the further conductive wave-like structure 41, is capable of vibrating charge carriers in the further conductive wave-like structure 41 and of scattering radiation from the other Microwave radiation 81 through this further wave-like conductive structure 41 to cause.
  • the oscillation of the charge carriers takes place in the X-Y plane, so that a maximum radiation takes place in the X-Z plane, for example along the Z-axis.
  • a variation of the generated microwave scattering at constant irradiation of the microwave radiation 51 and other microwave radiation 61 can be achieved.
  • Differences in the period lengths 39 of the wave structure of the elongated conductive member 31 and the period length 49 of the wave-like conductive pattern 41 cause maximum scattering of the microwave radiation 51, 61 by the wave-like elongated member 31 and the other wave-like conductive pattern 41 at different frequencies and due to the different structural levels 34, 44 at different
  • Polarization directions occurs. If the longitudinal orientation of the longitudinal extension directions 35, 45 is also different, the result is a further orientation dependence of the document body 3 relative to the directed microwave radiation 51 or further microwave radiation 61.
  • One possibility for encoding is to form the structural plane 34 of the wave-like elongate conductive element 31 and the structural plane 44 of the other wave-like conductive structure 41 orthogonal to one another and to determine the frequency or wavelength corresponding to the microwave radiation 51 and the further microwave radiation 61 at which a maximum Microwave scattering orthogonal to the plane of polarization 53, 63 of each irradiated microwave radiation 51 and other microwave radiation 61 is observed. If the orientations of the structural planes 34, 44 are oriented differently relative to one another, that is the
  • Microwave radiation 51 and the other microwave radiation 61 a crucial role.
  • an irradiation direction of the microwave radiation 51 or further microwave radiation 61 can be changed. It is also possible, only the polarization plane 53 of the
  • Microwave radiation 51 to change so that it gradually or continuously merges into the further microwave radiation 61.
  • the Einstrahlraum can be varied in the test region 100.
  • a microwave transmitter and a corresponding microwave receiver are each aligned with each other so that the microwave receiver optimally receives scattered microwave radiation emerging from the test region 100, which is oriented perpendicular to the polarization plane 53 of the microwave radiation 51 irradiated by the microwave transmitter.
  • FIGS. 2 a to 2 c schematically show a production of a document body similar to that of FIG. 1. First, a substrate layer 1 1 1 or become
  • a conductive thread 131 is in the form of a pre-stitching on the one substrate layer 1 1 1 or the plurality
  • the thread 131 is along an upper side 121 of the
  • Substrate layer 1 1 1 out then penetrates these from the top 121 to the bottom 123, is guided along the bottom 123 along the substrate layer 1 1 1 along a seam direction 141 and then penetrates the substrate layer 1 1 1 again from the bottom 123 to top 121th The thread 131 is then further along the
  • the thread 131 is, for example, a metallic conductive wire or a thread formed of different fibers, at least one fiber of which is conductive, e.g. a metallic wire is.
  • the stitch length 151 is a distance between two
  • Penetration points 152, 153 of the material layer is located at which the elongated conductive member 31 and the thread 131 penetrates the material layer 1 1 1 in the same direction 159.
  • the portion along which the thread is guided on the underside 123 is referred to as undercut length 155.
  • the section along which the thread 131 is guided along the upper side 121 is called the upper stitch length 156.
  • upper stitch length 156 and lower stitch length 155 are of equal length for all stitches formed in the pre-stitched seam 150 thus formed.
  • Illustrated is an example of a penetration perpendicular to the surface 121 of the material layer 1 1 1.
  • the penetration direction 159 has an angle with respect to a surface normal 129.
  • FIG. 4 schematically shows an embodiment of a seam 150 in which the penetration plane 154 and thus the structural plane 34 forms an angle deviating from the normal 129 to the upper side 121 of the substrate layer 11.
  • the further conductive wave-like structure 41 can be printed on a further substrate layer 161, as shown in FIG. 2b.
  • Other forms of application are possible, for example in the form of a
  • Substrate layer 121 optionally the further substrate layer 161 and additional substrate layers 162, 163 are stacked on top of one another and joined together to form a document body 3.
  • the substrate layer 1 1 1 and the optional further substrate layer 161 are arranged so that they are inner substrate layers. This ensures that neither the further conductive structure 41 nor the elongate wave-like conductive element 31 can be manipulated from the outside in the finished document body 3.
  • the further conductive structure 41 is also formed on an upper or lower side of the document body or the wave-like elongated conductive structure extends as far as an upper side and / or a lower side of the document body 3.
  • the further substrate layer 161 and the further wave-like conductive structure 41 are shown in dashed lines in order to indicate that these are optional.
  • Fig. 2c of the finished laminated document body 3 is shown.
  • the further conductive structure in the interior of the document body 3 is again shown in dashed lines to
  • FIG. 3 schematically shows an apparatus for verifying a security document 1 for interaction with microwave radiation 51.
  • the device 200 comprises a microwave transmitter 201 which emits linearly polarized microwave radiation along a first spatial direction 35.
  • the microwave transmitter 201 is indicated by a dipole antenna structure whose orientation is at the same time a
  • Polarization direction 21 1 of the microwave radiation 51 indicates.
  • the coordinate system 21 having an X-axis 23, a Y-axis 25 and a Z-axis 27 is oriented such that a first spatial direction 35 coincides with the X-axis and the polarization plane 53 of the microwave radiation coincide with the orientation of the transmitter 201 or the dipole-like antenna is oriented parallel to the XZ plane.
  • a document body 3 of a security document 1 is arranged, which comprises on the one hand a wave-like elongated conductive element 31 and at the same time another wave-like conductive structure 41.
  • the elongated wave-like conductive element 31 is structured in a plane of articulation 34 formed parallel to the XZ plane
  • the further conductive wave-like structure 41 is wave-structured in a structural plane 44 which is parallel to the XY plane is.
  • the device comprises a microwave receiver 221, which is indicated via a receiving antenna.
  • the microwave receiver 221 is oriented with respect to the microwave transmitter 201 so that it is optimal
  • Receive microwave radiation 71 from the inspection area 100 which is orthogonal to the first spatial direction, i. to the X direction, is radiated and whose plane of polarization perpendicular to the polarization plane 53 of the irradiated
  • Microwave radiation 51 is.
  • Microwave radiation 71 is thus preferably oriented parallel to the Y-Z plane.
  • a control unit 231 controls the microwave emission and at the same time the detection of a reception signal of the microwave receiver 221.
  • the microwave emission controls the microwave emission and at the same time the detection of a reception signal of the microwave receiver 221.
  • Control device 231 an evaluation device 241, which evaluates the received signal of the microwave receiver 221 and derives therefrom a verification decision.
  • the control device 231 is designed such that it continuously changes a frequency of the emitted microwave radiation 51 and the evaluation device 241 is designed such that it determines the wavelength or frequency at which a maximum signal strength of the scattered microwave radiation 71 is detected.
  • it can be ascertained here whether an elongated wave-like conductive element 31 is present in the document body 3 under the predetermined orientation and at the same time whether it is designed in accordance with the specifications with regard to its wave-like structure. In a very simple
  • Verification process is only checked, if scattered at all
  • Microwave radiation is detectable for one of the frequencies.
  • Orientations in the test area is orientable.
  • a document holder 251 may be provided, which manually or via one or more Drives 271, 272 connected to the control device 241 can be driven in order to bring the document into different positions and orientations in the test area 100.
  • the microwave wave radiation 51 can now be used to excite the further wave-like conductive structure 41 for microwave dispersion. Since it has a different period length 49 than the elongated wave-like conductive element 31, maximum scattering occurs in a different one
  • Microwave wavelength or frequency of the irradiated radiation Microwave wavelength or frequency of the irradiated radiation.
  • the microwave radiation can also be included in the verification decision, depending on the orientation of the document body 3 in the test area 100.
  • the orientation can be detected via measuring sensors 275-277 on the document holder 251, and the detected position or orientation information can also be evaluated by the evaluation device.
  • the microwave transmitter 201 is formed so that the polarization plane 53 of the linearly polarized microwave radiation 51 is pivotable.
  • the microwave receiver with the test area 100 is also pivoted at the same time, so that it is always perpendicular to the
  • Polarization plane 53 and 53 'of the irradiated microwave radiation 51, 51' "looks". With apostrophe designated reference numerals apply to the "rotated state”.
  • another microwave receiver 321 may be disposed adjacent to the test area 100, wherein the microwave receiver 221 and the further microwave receiver 321 are preferably configured to optimally detect radiation from directions orthogonal to each other.
  • the verification process can be configured in a variety of ways to accommodate the individual different microwave scattering
  • a document can be verified as real or not real. Also, verification is possible in such a manner that the document is classified into one of various groups depending on a detected maximum frequency at which optimal dispersion occurs. Even such a classification is considered as verification here.
  • FIGS. 5a to 5i show, by way of example, progress curves of wave-like elongate elements which are formed by a pre-stitched seam through a substrate layer 11. The structural level can be seen in each case.

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L'invention concerne un document de sécurité comportant un élément de sécurité pouvant être authentifié en mettant en œuvre un rayonnement de micro-ondes, un procédé permettant de le fabriquer, un procédé d'authentification ainsi qu'un dispositif permettant d'authentifier un tel document de sécurité. L'invention fournit un document de sécurité comportant un corps de document qui est réalisé sous une forme plane, qui comporte une face supérieure et une face inférieure située à l'opposé et qui est pourvu d'un élément conducteur s'étendant en longueur et étant réalisé sous une forme ondulée, l'élément s'étendant en longueur comportant ainsi des ondulations dont l'orientation est transversale par rapport à la direction longitudinale de l'élément s'étendant en longueur et transversale par rapport à l'étendue plane du corps de document. Pour effecteur l'authentification, on met en œuvre un rayonnement incident qui est constitué de micro-ondes à polarisation linéaire et qui sera diffusé par l'élément conducteur s'étendant en longueur à condition que sa fréquence et son orientation d'incidence et de polarisation soient en adéquation. Les micro-ondes diffusées sont le cas échéant détectées pour ainsi authentifier le document de sécurité.
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