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Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique Et De Microtechnique Sa Recherche Et Developpement

Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co Kg

Csem Centre Suisse D'electronique Et De Microtechnique Sa

I-property Holding Corp.

Bundesdruckerei Gmbh

November Aktiengesellschaft Gesellschaft Fur Molekulare Medizin

Basf Se Corporation

Hueck Folien Ges.m.b.h.

Secutech International Pte. Ltd.

Nano-4-u Ag

Hueck Folien Ges .m.b.i.i.

November Ag

Syngenta Participations Ag

Kurz Digital Solutions Gmbh & Co. Kg

Harald Walter

Alexander Stuck

Wayne Robert Tompkin

Marc Schnieper

Georg Bauer

Stefan Klocke

Hans Tobler

Ludwig Brehm

René Staub

Olga Kulikovska

Ralph Domnick

Andre Leopold

Corrado Fraschina

Andreas Schilling

Clemens Lamberth

Philippe Bugnon

Camilla Corsi

Rene Staub

Wolf Bertling

Jörg Fischer

Hans Reichert

Sebastian Mader

Ronald Zeun

Friedrich Kastner

Martin Bergsmann

Philipp Schuler

Lukas Bürgi

Ross Stanley

Valéry Petiton

Rainer Stahl

Raphaël Pugin

Robert Beer

Klaus Weber

André Leopold

Alexandre Noizet

Jörg Hassmann

Rouven Spiess

Uwe Frieser

Josef Ehrenfreund

Christian Schulz

Nicolas Blondiaux

Anja Cathomen

Eser Alper Unal

Juri Attner

Hans Kosak

Gilbert Gugler

Benno Schmitzer

Marcus Arnold

Jürgen Söchtig

Adrian Von Mühlenen

Reto Pfeiffer

Christian Zschokke

Thomas Gering

Radoslav Maksimovic

Björn Graβl

Marc Pauchard

Jürgen Keplinger

Mickaël Guillaumee

André Josten

Ulrich Gubler

Mark Schnieper

Eser Alper ÜNal

Gina Oberbossel

Urs Neuenschwander

Hendrik Von Prince

Angélique Luu-dinh

A method for producing a film intermediate product (), a film intermediate product (), as well as a product produced hereby. The film intermediate product () is here formed by means of depositing one or more film elements (to), which is or are formed in each case of a cutout of one or more donor films (to).

Method for producing a film intermediate product, film intermediate product and method for producing a product

A see-through security element (), a security document () and a method for producing a see-through security element (). The see-through security element has a first element with one or more transparent first partial areas and at least one reflective second partial area. The see-through security element has a second element with one or more first partial areas, which in each case in transmission form a color filter matched to a respectively assigned color, and has at least one second partial area, which is formed colorless, in particular colorless transparent, or in transmission and/or reflection forms a color filter which is matched to a color which is not assigned to any of the one or more first partial area of the second element. The first partial areas of the first element and the first partial areas of the second element at least partially overlap.

See-through security element

A method for producing a hologram (), () for security elements () and/or security documents (). One or more virtual hologram planes () are arranged in front of and/or behind one or more virtual models () and/or one or more virtual hologram planes () are arranged such that they intersect one or more virtual models (). One or more virtual light sources () are arranged on one or more partial regions of the surface () of one or more of the virtual models (). One or more virtual electromagnetic fields () are calculated starting from at least one of the virtual light sources () in one or more zones () of the one or more virtual hologram planes (). In the one or more zones (), in each case, a virtual total electromagnetic field () is calculated on the basis of the sum of two or more, of the virtual electromagnetic fields () in the respective zone (). One or more phase images () are calculated from the virtual total electromagnetic fields () in the one or more zones (). A height profile () of the hologram () is calculated from the one or more phase images () and the height profile () of the hologram () is incorporated into a substrate () to provide the hologram ().

Method for producing a hologram, and security element and a security document

A security element with one or more first microstructures, wherein the first microstructures are provided in each case in one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections or in one or more sections of a track which are curved at least in sections, and/or in each case run along one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections or along one or more sections of a track which are curved at least in sections, and a method, wherein at least one file containing image points of one or more image elements is provided, which includes the locational arrangement of the image points, and one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections or one or more sections of one or more tracks which are curved at least in sections are determined from the locational arrangement of the image points, and in the one or more tracks or sections of tracks in each case one or more first microstructures are provided which, when illuminated, provide a first item of optically variable information.

Security element, and method for producing a security element

A method and a security element with a front side and a rear side lying opposite the front side, wherein the security element has two or more security features, wherein a first security feature of the two or more security features has one or more first layers and a second security feature of the two or more security features has one or more second layers, wherein the first security feature and the second security feature are in particular arranged in register with each other, wherein the first security feature generates at least one first optically variable effect and the second security feature generates at least one second optically variable effect, wherein the at least one first optically variable effect has a first color and the at least one second optically variable effect has a second color, wherein the first color and the second color differ from each other, as well as a method for producing a security element.

The present invention relates to a verification method of tablets, in particular pharmaceutical tablets. It further relates to an invisible secure marking or information which is a part of such tablet. The invention further relates to tablets suitable for such verification method, to processes for manufacturing such tablets and methods for reading the information.

Verification method

A multilayer body () and a method for producing a security element are described. The multilayer body has a metal layer (). An optically active surface relief is molded at least in areas in a first surface of the metal layer () facing the upper side of the multilayer body or forming the upper side of the multilayer body and/or in a second surface of the metal layer () facing the underside of the multilayer body or forming the underside of the multilayer body. In at least one first area (to) of the multilayer body the surface relief is formed by a first relief structure (). In at least one direction () determined by an allocated azimuth angle, the first relief structure () has a sequence of elevations () and depressions (), the elevations () of which follow on from each other with a period P which is smaller than a wavelength of visible light, wherein the minima of the depressions () lie on a base surface and the first relief structure () has a relief depth t which is determined by the spacing of the maxima of the elevations () of the first relief structure () from the base surface in a direction perpendicular to the base surface. The profile shape and/or the relief depth t of the first relief structure () is chosen such that the colored appearance of the light () incident on the first area (to) at least at a first angle of incidence and directly reflected by the metal layer () in the first area or directly transmitted through the metal layer is modified, in particular is modified by plasmon resonance of the metal layer with the incident light.

Multilayer body and method for producing a security element

A method for producing a multilayer body, with the steps of:

Multilayer body and method for producing same

The invention relates to a security element (), a security document () with at least one security element (), a transfer foil () with at least one security element () as well as a method for producing a security element (), wherein the security element has at least one layer () that is electrically alterable in its optical effect. It is here provided that the at least one layer () that is electrically alterable in its optical effect has liquid crystals () that can be oriented in an electric field, wherein the at least one layer () that is electrically alterable in its optical effect has rod-shaped dye molecules (), and the orientations of the longitudinal axes () of the rod-shaped dye molecules () are alterable depending on the orientations of the longitudinal axes () of the spatially adjacent liquid crystals () that can be oriented in the electric field, and/or wherein the liquid crystals () that can be oriented in the electric field are formed in such a way that the liquid crystals () that can be oriented in the electric field simultaneously act as dye molecules.

Security element

The invention relates to a multi-layer body () and a process for the production thereof. The multi-layer body has a first layer () with a first surface () and a second surface () opposite the first surface (). The first surface () of the first layer () is defined by a base plane spanned by coordinate axes x and y, wherein a large number of facet faces () are molded into the second surface () of the first layer () in a first area (). Each of the facet faces () is determined by one or more of the parameters F, S, H, P, Ax, Ay and Az, wherein the parameters of the facet faces () arranged in the first area () are varied pseudorandomly in the first area () within a variation range predefined in each case for the first area of surface and wherein a reflective second layer () is applied to each of the facet faces.

Multi-layer body

A solid pharmaceutical dosage form has micro- or nanostructures impressed on the surface thereof or an interface thereof. The dosage form includes a suitable quantity and distribution of ingredients, such as one or more dyes, so as to enhance the optical contrast effect caused by the micro- or nanostructures so that the micro- or nanostructures are observable by the human eye and thereby able to provide anti-counterfeiting characteristics to the dosage form.

Manufacturing solid pharmaceutical dosage forms with visible micro- and nanostructured surfaces and micro- and nanostructured pharmaceutical dosage form

An optically variable element has first and second diffraction gratings which are high-frequency and therefore act reflectively into the zero diffraction order. Either a first color is generated by the first diffraction grating at a particular angle of rotation and a particular angle of illumination and simultaneously a second color, different from the first color, is generated by the second diffraction grating or a visible color is generated essentially only by the first diffraction grating at a first angle of rotation and a visible color is generated essentially only by the second diffraction grating at a second angle of rotation.

Optically variable element

The invention relates to a security element () with a first area () that is transparent in transmitted light. The security element () has a substrate () which has, in the first area (), one or more transmissive diffraction structures which display one or more optical security features when observed in transmitted light.

Security element and security document

A decorative element (), in particular in the form of a transfer film, a laminating film or a security thread, as well as a security document with a decorative element and a method for producing same is described. The decorative element () has a microstructure () which generates an optical effect in incident light and/or with light passing through. In a first area (), the microstructure () has a base surface () and several base elements () which have in each case an element surface raised or lowered compared with the base surface () and a flank arranged between the element surface and the base surface (). The base surface () of the microstructure defines a base plane spanned by coordinate axes x and y. The element surfaces of the base elements () in each case run substantially parallel to the base plane. In at least one or more first zones of the first area (), the element surfaces of the base elements () and the base surface () are spaced apart in a direction running perpendicular to the base plane () in the direction of a coordinate axis z by a first distance which is chosen such that a color is generated in the one or more first zones in particular by interference of the light reflected at the base surface and the element surfaces in incident light and/or in particular by interference of the light transmitted through the element surfaces and the base surfaces with light passing through.

Decorative element and security document comprising a decorative element

The invention relates to a security element (). The security element () has a viewing side and a back side that is opposite the latter. The security element comprises at least one luminous layer () that can emit light (), and at least one mask layer () that, when the security element () is viewed from the viewing side, is arranged in front of the at least one luminous layer (). The at least one mask layer () has at least one opaque region () and at least two transparent openings (). The at least two transparent openings () has a substantially higher transmittance than the at least one opaque region () in respect of light () emitted by the at least one luminous layer (), preferably a transmittance that is at least 20% higher, particularly preferably a transmittance that is at least 50% higher.

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