Giesecke+devrient Currency Technology Gmbh

Giesecke+devrient Mobile Security Gmbh

Kai Herrmann Scherer

Maik Rudolf Johann Scherer

Raphael Dehmel

Christian Fuhse

Michael Rahm

Andreas Rauch

Manfred Heim

Mario Keller

Christoph Mengel

Matthias Pfeiffer

Patrick Renner

Tobias Sattler

Winfried Hoffmüller

Christoph Hunger

Michael Sobol

Giselher Dorff

Daniel Lenssen

Thomas Mang

Sebastian Wetter

Florian Frohlich

Thomas Gegenfurtner

Katalin Szendrei-Temesi

Norbert Vogt

Ivo Quirino

Christine Hettenkofer

Maik Rudolf Scherer

Moritz Höfer

Christian STÖCKL

Harald Lesch

A method is provided for producing platelet-shaped pigments, including the steps of: providing a film structure which has a carrier substrate, a water-soluble release layer and a pigment material layer; mechanically disrupting the pigment material layer, which is present in the film structure, at specific locations; soaking the film structure with aqueous solution; subjecting the film structure to a mechanical force so that the pigment material layer is detached from the carrier substrate as a plurality of pigments according to the ruptures present at the specific locations.

Method for producing platelet-shaped pigments

A process for producing pigments having a defined size and shape and also pigments produced by this process. The process has the steps: a) production of a three-dimensional surface structure on a substrate, with surface regions which are in each case partly bounded by a plurality of three-dimensional structural elements and are arranged in gaps being formed; b) application of a pigment material layer to the surface structure; c) detachment of the pigment material layer from the surface structure and production of pigments.

Production of pigments having a defined size and shape

A method for producing pigments comprises the steps of creating a first layer on a substrate, structuring the first layer and detaching the pigments from the substrate. In the present case, the first layer is a crack-forming layer, so that the first layer is structured by the arising of cracks. Prior to detaching the pigments, a pigment layer is applied onto the first layer structured by the cracks.

Method for producing pigment fragments with a predefined internal and/or external contour using a crack-forming layer, and pigment fragments

A composite glass comprises two glass and/or plastic plates and an intermediate foil arranged between the glass and/or plastic plates. The composite glass, due to the intermediate foil, is configured differently in a side-dependent manner, by appearing to a viewer more transparent from an inner side than from an outer side. The composite glass, due to the intermediate foil, appears to the viewer different in a viewing angle-dependent manner from the outer side.

Composite glass with an intermediate film that changes colour depending on the viewing angle

An optically variable security element has a multicolored, reflective areal region including a first relief structure disposed at a higher level than a second relief structure. The first relief structure has a first ink coating and the second relief structure has a second, different ink coating. The two relief structures overlap in an overlap region. The first ink coating of the first relief structure is disposed at a higher level in the overlap region and has at least one recess the dimension of which is more than 140 &#x3bc;m. The first ink coating comprises an edge region adjoining the recess, and as a bicolor register feature the first relief structure lets the edge region of the first ink coating appear with a first color impression and the second relief structure through the recess lets the second ink coating appear with a second, different color impression in mutual register.

Optically variable security element having reflective surface region

A flat security element has a main plane and microreflector arranged in a microreflector pattern and present at least one motif that, when the security element is tilted, has a motif effect that relates to the main plane. The microreflector pattern causes a first and a second motif effect, wherein the first motif effect occurs during a tilting movement about a primary axis, if the security element is at the same time oriented within a first tilting angle range about a secondary axis, and the second motif effect occurs during the tilting movement about the primary axis, if the security element is at the same time oriented within a second tilting angle range about the secondary axis.

Security element comprising microreflectors

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Kai Herrmann Scherer