Giesecke+devrient Epayments Gmbh

Peter Tarantino

Josef Riedl

Thomas Tarantino

A card-shaped data carrier includes an electronic chip module having at least one chip and a contact structure; and a card body having an arrangement region for receiving the chip module. The chip module is arranged in the arrangement region of the card body. The card-shaped data carrier has at least a first wood layer and at least a second wood layer. The card-shaped data carrier can be bent out of a rest position into a bent position by the application of an external force; at least one restoring element for increasing the restoring force of the card-shaped data carrier is arranged between the first wood layer and the second wood layer. The restoring element is designed such that the card-shaped data carrier can be automatically returned from the bent position to the rest position when the external force is no longer applied.

Card-shaped data carrier comprising wood

A method for producing a film for a card-shaped data carrier, includes the following steps: providing at least one first material in an extruder of an extrusion apparatus; heating the first material to form a melt; extruding the melt through a nozzle outlet gap of the extrusion apparatus; conveying the extruded melt on a roller arrangement that is adjacent to the nozzle outlet gap and includes at least one cooling roller; providing at least one transfer film; supplying the transfer film to the extruded melt on the cooling roller is so the security element contacts a surface of the extruded melt on the surface of the transfer film; transferring the security element from the surface of the transfer film onto the surface of the extruded melt; cooling the extruded melt comprising the security element to form the film.

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