SECURITY DOCUMENT INCLUDING AN RFID DEVICE

• US 20100025477A1
• Filed: 02/27/2008
• Published: 02/04/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arjowiggins Security Integrale Solutions
• Original Assignee: Arjowiggins Security Integrale Solutions
• Inventors: Vicentini, Frederic, Deloche, Manuel
• Granted Patent: US 8,292,186 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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.

2. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said fiber layer presents dimensions such that at least one margin of the final document is devoid of fiber layer.

3. A security document according to claim 2, wherein said margin of the final security document that is devoid of fiber layer presents a width lying in the range 0.5 mm to 3 mm.

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

5. 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.

6. A security document according to claim 5, wherein said document comprises at least two adhesive layers of different type.

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

8. A security document according to claim 7, wherein said adhesive layer is cross-linked under the action of radiation.

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

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

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

12. 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.

13. A security document according to claim 1, wherein the fiber layer comprises at least one zone that is completely devoid of fibers, forming a window.

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

15. A security document according to claim 13, wherein the fiber layer includes at least one strip at least partially transparent, at least one of the faces of said fiber layer comprising zones devoid of fibers overlying said strip.

16. A security document according to claim 1, wherein the fiber layer includes printing.

17. A security document according to claim 51, wherein the fiber layer includes a photograph presenting regions of reduced thickness.

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

19. A security document according to claim 18, wherein said perforations form a pattern.

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

21. 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.

22. 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.

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

24. 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.

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

26. A security document according to claim 1, wherein said security document includes 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.

27. A security document according to claim 26, wherein said opaque zone is situated on a face of said at least one inner layers of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device.

28. A security document according to claim 26, wherein said opaque zone is situated on a face of an outer layer of transparent thermoplastic material.

29. A security document according to claim 26, wherein said opaque zone is situated at least in part overlying the RFID device.

30. A security document according to claim 29, wherein said opaque zone entirely covers the RFID device.

31. A security document according to claim 26, wherein said opaque zone is made by printing.

32. A security document according to claim 26, wherein said opaque zone is white in color.

33. A security document according to claim 26, wherein said opaque zone also presents colored printing.

34. A security document according to claim 2, 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.

35. A security document according to claim 34, wherein said at least one compensation layer comprises transparent plastics material.

36. A security document according to claim 34, wherein said at least one compensation layer includes a security element.

37. A security document according to claim 1, wherein the final document presents a maximum thickness lying in the range 0.2 mm to 3 mm.

38. 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.

39. A method of fabricating a security document as described in claim 1, the method comprising the following steps:

a) assembling together a fiber layer including at least one security element and at least one layer of transparent or translucent material including an RFID device;

b) personalizing the fiber layer by printing;

c) assembling together the fiber layer and said at least one layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID devices with recto and verso outer layers of transparent thermoplastic material, the recto outer layer being assembled with the fiber layer and the verso outer layer being assembled with said at least one layer of transparent or translucent thermoplastic material including the RFID device.

40. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein assembly step a) of the inner fiber layer and the layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device together is performed by means of an adhesive layer.

41. A fabrication method according to claim 40, wherein said adhesive layer is deposited on the layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device.

42. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein assembly step a) is performed cold.

43. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein assembly step a) is performed hot.

44. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein assembly step c) of the outer layers of the assembly comprising the fiber layer and of said at least one layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device is performed by means of at least one adhesive layer.

45. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein assembly step c) is performed cold.

46. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein assembly step c) is performed hot.

47. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein the outer layers of transparent thermoplastic material are each covered in an adhesive layer.

48. A fabrication method according to claim 40, wherein at least one adhesive layer comprises a cross-linking agent.

49. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein the recto and verso outer layers are made on a single sheet of transparent plastics material, said sheet being folded in half during assembly step c) along a fold line situated in the middle of said sheet.

50. A fabrication method according to claim 39, wherein after the inner fiber layer and the layer of transparent or translucent material including the RFID device have been assembled together, said layers are cut to their final format.

51. A security document according to claim 16, wherein the fiber layer includes a photograph.

52. A security document according to claim 19, wherein said perforations form an alphanumeric pattern and/or a design and/or a symbol.

53. A fabrication method according to claim 42, wherein assembly step a) is performed by cold pressing.

54. A fabrication method according to claim 43, wherein assembly step a) is performed by hot pressing.

55. A fabrication method according to claim 45, wherein assembly step c) is performed by cold pressing.

56. A fabrication method according to claim 46, wherein assembly step c) is performed by hot pressing.

57. A fabrication method according to claim 48, wherein at least one adhesive layer comprises a cross-linking agent which can be cross-linked under the action of radiation.