Commonplace object with a surface that comprises a data track

• US 20050116046A1
• Filed: 09/30/2002
• Published: 06/02/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: tesa scribos GmbH (Leonhard KURZ Stiftung & Company KG)
• Original Assignee: tesa scribos GmbH (Leonhard KURZ Stiftung & Company KG)
• Inventors: Mayer, Michael, Scheibenstock, Steffen, Dietrich, Christoph, Schulte-Wieking, Kay, Noehte, Steffen, Gerspach, Matthias, Stadler, Stefan, Kresse, Tobias, Leiber, Jorn, Thomann, Robert, Borgsmueller, Stefan
• Granted Patent: US 7,048,189 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 235/487
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2203/00 Decoration means, markings, information elements, contents indicators
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/00 Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for closure-securing elements B65D45/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/0807 Coatings
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 25/00 Details of other kinds or types of rigid or semi-rigid containers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 7/0025 with cylinders or cylinder-like carriers or cylindrical sections or flat carriers loaded onto a cylindrical surface, e.g. truncated cones

Abstract

The invention relates to a commonplace object with an outer surface (4) that encircles the commonplace object (2) and with at least one cylindrical section (6) of the surface (4), in which the technical problem of specifying a commonplace object to whose surface a relatively large amount of information can be applied is solved in that the cylindrical section (4) of the surface (6) consists of a material which can be changed optically, and in that a data bit sequence is written along at least one track (8) on the cylindrical section (4).

Claims

1. A commonplace object

with an outer surface that encircles the commonplace object and

with at least one cylindrical section of the surface,

a data bit sequence being written along at least one track on the cylindrical section, wherein

at least the cylindrical section of the surface consists of a material which can be changed optically.

2. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the material of the cylindrical section consists of a polymer film.

3. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the track runs substantially tangentially with respect to the surface curvature of the cylindrical section.

4. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the track extends over more than one circumference of the cylindrical section, and in that the track is designed in the form of a helix.

5. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the track is closed over one circumference of the cylindrical section.

6. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cylindrical section of the surface is written on directly.

7. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the cylindrical section of the surface consists of a coating comprising the track.

8. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the track has a structure which is smaller than 10 μ

m, preferably smaller than 5 μ

m and in particular smaller than 3 μ

m.

9. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the track has a structure which comprises the coded information in the form of pits and lands.

10. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein the data bit sequence comprises information which has a binary, gray-value, colored or analog code.

11. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least two different tracks with data bit sequences at different distances from the axis of rotation of the cylindrical section are provided.

12. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 11, wherein the at least two tracks are written in a layer of the cylindrical section.

13. The commonplace object as claimed in claim 11, wherein the at least two tracks are written in different layers of a multilayer structure of the cylindrical section.