Hueck Folien Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Banque De France

Sonja Landertshamer

Marco Mayrhofer

Barbara Stadlober

Klaus Schmidegg

Stephan Trassl

Anita Fuchsbauer

Dieter Nees

Roger Vilcot

Fabrice Capiez

Michel Blanc

Olivier Martin

Stefan Trassl

Stephan TRAßL

A security element and a value document having such a security element in the form of a strip having a first and second polymer layer are shown, having a visually recognizable halftone printed image, which is luminescent under UV radiation, between the first and second layer, wherein the halftone printed image has an opacity and forms at least one imprint area having a boundary contour within the security element. To increase the forgery protection, it is proposed that at least one of the two polymer layers have an opacity at least in the region of the boundary contour of the imprint area and be adapted in its opacity to the opacity of the imprint area, in order to diminish the visual recognizability of the boundary contour of the imprint area of the luminescent halftone printed image on the security element.

Security element and value document having this security element

A value document having a security element in the form of a strip with a first polymer layer which comprises at least one embossed diffraction structure, having at least one reflection layer which visually interacts with the diffraction structure in order to form a reflection hologram as the first visually recognisable security feature, and having at least one imprint which is luminescent under UV radiation and which forms a second security feature that is visually recognisable under UV light, wherein the reflection hologram comprises at least one see-through region on the second security feature. In order to increase the level of protection against forgery of the security element, the luminescent imprint comprises a halftone print image, and the see-through region is formed by at least one recess in the reflection layer and by the polymer layer which is free in this region of the recess from the diffraction structure at least above the halftone print image of the imprint.

Security element and value document having said security element

A method for producing a security element with a metallized optical diffraction structure in an embossed coating layer in which a coating layer is applied onto a support, then embossed and cured; structural depressions, structural elevations, and an optical diffraction structure are produced by embossing the coating layer, then a reflective layer is provided on the structural depressions and structural elevations of the embossed coating layer by means of metallization, and after that, this reflective layer is selectively demetallized. The optical diffraction structure is embossed into at least one structural elevation and the selective demetallization includes a bonding of at least the metallized structural elevation that has the optical diffraction structure to a transfer support and then a separation of this structural elevation bonded to a transfer support both from the support and from at least one metallized structural depression adjoining this structural elevation through removal of the transfer support from the support.

Method for producing a security element

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Linz, Austria

Sonja Landertshamer