Security document including an RFID device

• US 8,292,186 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Arjowiggins Security Integrale Solutions
• Original Assignee: Arjowiggins Security Integrale Solutions
• Inventors: Deloche, Manuel, Vicentini, Frederic
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, THIEN MINH
• Application Number:
  US12/526,461
• Publication Number:
  US 20100025477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,700 Days
• Field of Search: 235/487, 235/492, 235/493, 235/375, 235/435, 235/488
• US Class Current: 235/488
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/07749 the record carrier being capable of non-contact communication, e.g. constructional details of the antenna of a non-contact smart card
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49002 Electrical device making

Abstract

The invention relates to a security document including a fiber inner layer including at least one security element, a recto outer layer and a verso outer layer, the two outer layers being made of a transparent thermoplastic material, and an RFID device, the RFID device being housed within at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material. The invention also provides a method of fabricating the security document.

Claims

1. A security document comprising a fiber inner layer having at least one security element, a recto outer layer, and a verso outer layer, the two outer layers being made of transparent thermoplastic material, and an RFID device, the RFID device being housed within at least one inner layer of a material that is transparent or translucent,

said security document presenting a maximum thickness lying in the range 0.2 mm to 3 mm.

2. A security document according to claim 1, wherein all of the margins of the final security document are devoid of fiber layer.

3. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said document includes at least one adhesive layer situated between the recto outer layer of transparent thermoplastic material and the inner fiber layer, and/or between the inner fiber layer and said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material containing the RFID device, and/or between the inner layer of transparent or translucent material containing the RFID device and the verso outer layer of transparent thermoplastic material.

4. A security document according to claim 3, wherein said document comprises at least two adhesive layers of different type.

5. A security document according to claim 3, wherein said at least one adhesive layer includes a cross-linking agent.

6. A security document according to claim 5, wherein said adhesive layer is cross-linked under the action of radiation.

7. A security document according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the outer layers of transparent thermoplastic material includes a security element.

8. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said outer layers of transparent thermoplastic material are made of the same material.

9. A security document according to claim 1, wherein at least one outer layer of transparent thermoplastic material comprises a polyethylene terephthalate.

10. A security document according to claim 1, wherein the security element of said fiber layer is selected from:

water marks, security threads, security fibers, OVDs, liquid crystals, interference elements, iridescent elements, planchet spots, holograms, magnetic fibers, and combinations thereof.

11. A security document according to claim 1, wherein the fiber layer includes at least one zone that is partially devoid of fibers.

12. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said fiber layer includes perforations.

13. A security document according to claim 12, wherein said perforations form a pattern.

14. A security document according to claim 13, wherein said perforations form an alphanumeric pattern and/or a design and/or a symbol.

15. A security document according to claim 1, wherein the RFID device comprises a chip provided with an antenna.

16. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device is made of a plastics material.

17. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device comprises at least two layers of transparent plastics material in which the RFID device is housed.

18. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device does not present portions of extra thickness.

19. A security document according to claim 1, wherein the RFID device of the inner layer of transparent or translucent material is flush with at least one of the faces of said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material.

20. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device presents the same dimensions as the final security document.

21. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said document is an identity card, a driving license, a page of a passport, an access badge.

22. A security document comprising a fiber inner layer having at least one security element, a recto outer layer, and a verso outer layer, the two outer layers being made of transparent thermoplastic material, and an RFID device, the RFID device being housed within at least one inner layer of a material that is transparent or translucent, said fiber layer presenting dimensions such that at least one margin of the final document is devoid of fiber layer, and said margin of the final security document that is devoid of fiber layer presenting a width lying in the range 0.5 mm to 3 mm.

23. A security document according to claim 22, wherein the margin(s) of the document devoid of fiber layer are provided with at least one compensation layer such that the final security document does not present any reduced thickness at its margins.

24. A security document according to claim 23, wherein said at least one compensation layer comprises transparent plastics material.

25. A security document according to claim 23, wherein said at least one compensation layer includes a security element.

26. A security document comprising a fiber inner layer having at least one security element, a recto outer layer, and a verso outer layer, the two outer layers being made of transparent thermoplastic material, and an RFID device, the RFID device being housed within at least one inner layer of a material that is transparent or translucent,

the fiber layer comprising at least one zone that is completely devoid of fibers, forming a window and including at least one strip that is at least partially transparent, at least one of the faces of said fiber layer comprising zones devoid of fibers overlying said strip.

27. A security document comprising a fiber inner layer having at least one security element, a recto outer layer, and a verso outer layer, the two outer layers being made of transparent thermoplastic material, and an RFID device, the RFID device being housed within at least one inner layer of a material that is transparent or translucent, said security document including an opaque zone situated between said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device and an outer layer of transparent thermoplastic material.

28. A security document according to claim 27, wherein said opaque zone is situated on a face of said at least one inner layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device.

29. A security document according to claim 27, wherein said opaque zone is situated on a face of an outer layer of transparent thermoplastic material.

30. A security document according to claim 27, wherein said opaque zone is situated at least in part overlying the RFID device.

31. A security document according to claim 30, wherein said opaque zone entirely covers the RFID device.

32. A security document according to claim 27, wherein said opaque zone is made by printing.

33. A security document according to claim 27, wherein said opaque zone is white in color.

34. A security document according to claim 27, wherein said opaque zone also presents colored printing.

35. A security document comprising a fiber inner layer having at least one security element, a recto outer layer, and a verso outer layer, the two outer layers being made of transparent thermoplastic material, and an RFID device, the RFID device being housed within at least one inner layer of a material that is transparent or translucent, the fiber layer includes printing and a photograph.

36. A security document according to claim 35, wherein the fiber layer includes a photograph presenting regions of reduced thickness.