Identification plate for equipment, especially data-processing equipment

• US 5,163,711 A
• Filed: 06/27/1991
• Issued: 11/17/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Christophe Latour, Frederick Philips
• Original Assignee: Christophe Latour, Frederick Philips
• Inventors: Philips, Frederick, Latour, Christophe
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, Paul A.
• Application Number:
  US07/722,144
• Time in Patent Office: 509 Days
• Field of Search: 283/81, 283/101, 283/95, 283/96, 283/108
• US Class Current: 283/101
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 3/0292 tamper indicating labels
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/00 Signs, name or number plates, letters, numerals, or symbols vehicle registration number plates B60R13/10; Panels or boards show-cards G09F1/00; indicating arrangements for variable information G09F9/00, G09F11/00; illuminated signs G09F13/00; boards for notices or posters G09F15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 7/18 Means for attaching signs, plates, panels, or boards to a supporting structure

Abstract

Equipment identification plate, carries, in a first zone of one of its faces, an identification number, and in a second zone, information relating to the identification authority to which it is appropriate to apply in order to obtain particulars relating to the holder of the identification number. The other face of the plate is adhesive, and bears an inscription transferable by adhesive bonding onto a wall of the equipment to be identified during the fitting of the plate, and is capable of appearing unalterably should the plate be torn off so as to indicate the theft of the equipment.

Claims

1. An identification plate, comprising:

a plate having a front face and a rear face;

a first zone defined on said front face of said plate, said first zone having an identification number thereon;

a second zone defined on said front face of said plate, said second zone containing identification authority information thereon;

a first adhesive on said rear face of said plate for bonding said plate to a piece of equipment to be identified; and

a film bearing an inscription disposed on said rear face of said plate;

a second adhesive for bonding said film to the piece of equipment to be identified when said plate is bonded to the piece of equipment, said second adhesive being stronger than said first adhesive such that said film will remain on the piece of equipment and show said inscription if said plate is subsequently removed from the piece of equipment.

2. The identification plate of claim 1, wherein said identification number in said first zone and said identification authority information in said second zone are both a vapor-phase deposit on said front face of said plate.

3. The identification plate of claim 1, wherein said rear face of said plate has two laterally spaced zones and said adhesive on said rear face is a double-faced adhesive provided in said zones.

4. The identification plate of claim 3, wherein said rear face of said adhesive plate further has a central zone between said two laterally spaced zones with said film bearing said inscription thereon.

5. The identification plate of claim 4, wherein said film bearing said inscription comprises a plastic film fastened to said rear face of said plate.

6. The identification plate of claim 5, wherein said inscription on said plastic film comprises characters laser printed back to front on said plastic film.

7. The identification plate of claim 6, wherein said second adhesive for bonding said plastic film to the piece of equipment to be identified is a cyanoacrylate glue in gel form.

8. The identification plate of claim 4, wherein both said first zone and said film bearing said inscription further have owner identification information and a bar code provided thereon.

9. An identification plate, comprising:

a plate having a front face and a rear face;

a first zone defined on said front face of said plate, said first zone having an identification number thereon;

a second zone defined on said front face of said plate, said second zone containing identification authority information thereon;

adhesive on said rear face of said plate for bonding said plate to a piece of equipment to be identified; and

a film fastened to said rear face of said plate having an inscription thereon, said film having a second adhesive on a side thereof facing away from said plate for bonding said film to the piece of equipment to be identified wherein said second adhesive provides a stronger bond for said plastic film than the first said adhesive provides for said plate.

10. The identification plate of claim 9, wherein said film is located between two zones of the first said adhesive.

11. The identification plate of claim 10, wherein said second adhesive is a cyanoacrylate glue in gel form.