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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2003
Frank Kappe, Rheda-Wiedenbruk, DE;
Dirk Fischer, Paderborn, DE;
Lothar Fannasch, Bielefeld, DE;
Michael Hennemeyer-Schwenker, Lichtenau-Herbram, DE;
Mathias Schumacher, Borchen, DE;
Orga Kartensysteme GmbH, Paderborn, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates especially to a method for producing a product that is secure against fraud, i.e. a security product. The inventive method for producing a security product with a high degree of protection against fraud or tampering is characterized as follows: in a first step, a non-personalized and/or non-individualized support is provided with a non-personalized and/or non-individualized security element ( ); in a second step and/or in further steps, the non-personalized and/or non-individualized support and the non-personalized and/or non-individualized security element ( ) are personalized and/or individualized; a structure ( ) that is optically effective in the security element ( ) produces at least two especially, color effects; at least one of the color effects ( ) only appears within a certain angular range to a vertical to the surface of the security element, and a personalizable and/or individualizable layer ( ) that is provided in the security element ( ) and/or a personalized and/or individualized layer that is provided in the security element ( ) shows personalization and/or individualization information.