Abstract: A method for manufacturing an embossing device or injection mold including the steps of providing a hard coated embossing roller having a cylindrically-shaped core and a hard-coating layer, the hard-coating layer having a thickness of equal or less than 30 ?m, and performing laser ablation to the hard-coated cylinder to remove material from the hard-coating layer to form opening, a surface of the opening forming a structural feature into the hard-coating layer, to form a structured hard-coated cylinder.

Abstract: A method and device of embossing individually light-reflecting areas on a foil material, the method and device comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a first roller and a second roller, providing each of the first roller and second roller at their respective surfaces at least in a determined perimeter, respectively with a plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections and a plurality of negative projections complementary to the positive projections, whereby the plurality of positive projections are arranged according to a 2-dimensional grid. The plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections seamlessly and gaplessly join with those corresponding negative projections at the intended embossing of the foil material, hence enabling a homogeneously jointed embossed polyhedron-like shape in the foil.

Abstract: A method and device of embossing individually light-reflecting areas on a foil material, the method and device comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a first roller and a second roller, providing each of the first roller and second roller at their respective surfaces at least in a determined perimeter, respectively with a plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections and a plurality of negative projections complementary to the positive projections, whereby the plurality of positive projections are arranged according to a 2-dimensional grid. The plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections seamlessly and gaplessly join with those corresponding negative projections at the intended embossing of the foil material, hence enabling a homogeneously jointed embossed polyhedron-like shape in the foil.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a structured embossing cylinder for embossing system including the steps of providing a hard-coated embossing roller having a cylindrically-shaped core and a hard-coating layer on the cylindrically-shaped core, the hard-coating layer having a thickness in a range between 1 gm and 10 gm, and having a surface-roughness value RA of less than 100 nm, depositing a masking layer on the hard-coating layer, the masking layer having a thickness of equal or less than 100 nm, removing material from the masking layer to form at least one opening, and etching to remove material at the at least one opening of the masking layer from the hard-coating layer to form a surface cavity in the hard-coating layer at the at least one opening, the surface cavity forming a structural embossing feature into the hard-coating layer, thereby forming the structured embossing cylinder.

Abstract: An engraved solid piece carries data comprising specific information on a surface of the engraved solid piece. The surface is covered by a plurality of block structures, comprising at least a first block structure. Each block structure is a spatially restricted collection of modulated features and base features, which are spread over the surface of the engraved solid piece. Each modulated feature and each base feature has respectively a three-dimensional modulated-feature profile and a three-dimensional base-feature profile. Each of the modulated-feature profiles is the result of applying a corresponding modulation to one of the three-dimensional base-feature profiles, according to a specific, corresponding information. Each modulated feature further is a symbol, which is a transcription of a character of an alphabet. The alphabet is a collection of characters, which are distinct objects of well-defined elementary data.

Abstract: A method for embossing a first grating in a planar material, by means of an embossing body and a counter embossing body, having each a hard surface, the first grating to be embossed comprising alternating substantially parallel and straight ridges and recesses, whereby the top surfaces of the ridges are intended to weaken a direct angular reflection of light by diffuse omnidirectional reflection, thereby producing a visible contrast between the ridges and the recesses.

Abstract: An embossing system, comprising an embossing frame, and an embossing cassette. The embossing cassette comprises at least 2 rollers, and a body configured to hold the at least 2 rollers, whereby the at least 2 rollers are removably mounted in the body. The embossing frame is configured to removably house the embossing cassette, and the embossing frame comprises an embossing-frame positioning means configured to cooperate with a corresponding body-positioning means of the embossing cassette at a time when the embossing cassette is housed in the embossing frame, to position the embossing cassette in a predetermined position inside of the ossing frame.

Abstract: An embossing method allowing to emboss a material on both sides comprises feeding the foil material into a roll nip between a pair of a first roll and a second roll, providing the first roll and the second roll each with a plurality of positive projections and a plurality of negative projections of identical shaped polyhedral structures, a first subset of the plurality of positive projections being disposed with a first periodicity on a first grid in axial direction and a second periodicity on the first grid in circumferential direction on the first roll, and a second subset of the plurality of negative projections being disposed with the first periodicity in axial direction and the second periodicity in circumferential direction on the first grid intertwined with the positive projections, in axial and circumferential directions respectively, and projections complementary to the first grid, on the second roll, each of the positive projections and the negative projections on the first roll during operation of

Abstract: A set of thin foil surfaces configured to achieve a joint among the foil surfaces, the joint being arranged to be without discontinuity, comprising at least a first portion of surface dedicated to achieve the joint; pixelized type embossings on the first portion of surface; and at least a second portion of surface dedicated to achieve the joint. The second portion of surface is shaped to correspond to the first portion of surface for making the joint between the first portion of surface and the second portion of surface through contact.

Abstract: A method of embossing individually light reflecting areas on a foil material, the method comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a motor roller and a counter roller, providing each of the motor roller and counter roller at least in a determined perimeter with a plurality of positive and negative projections on a checkered layout whereby positive and negative projections alternate in axial and radial directions.

Abstract: An embossing tool for embossing a combined embossing pattern into a packaging material, the combined embossing pattern including decoratively embossed structure and at least one embossed code, the embossing tool including a male and a female embossing device for cooperating with each other, embossing structures of the male and female embossing device formed to produce the combined embossing pattern into the packaging material in an embossing gap, the embossing structures of the male and the female embossing device include first embossing structures intended for making the at least one embossed code, which are inverse congruent male and female embossing structures having a polyhedral shape, and the decoratively embossed structures and the at least one embossed code produced by the embossing structures are arranged such that the at least one embossed code has a reduced visibility as compared to the decoratively embossed structures.

Abstract: A set of thin foil surfaces configured to achieve a joint among the foil surfaces, the joint being arranged to be without discontinuity, comprising at least a first portion of surface dedicated to achieve the joint; pixelized type embossings on the first portion of surface; and at least a second portion of surface dedicated to achieve the joint. The second portion of surface is shaped to correspond to the first portion of surface for making the joint between the first portion of surface and the second portion of surface through contact.

Abstract: A method and device of embossing individually light-reflecting areas on a foil material, the method and device comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a first roller and a second roller, providing each of the first roller and second roller at their respective surfaces at least in a determined perimeter, respectively with a plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections and a plurality of negative projections complementary to the positive projections, whereby the plurality of positive projections are arranged according to a 2-dimensional grid. The plurality of polyhedron-shaped positive projections seamlessly and gaplessly join with those corresponding negative projections at the intended embossing of the foil material, hence enabling a homogeneously jointed embossed polyhedron-like shape in the foil.

Abstract: A method for adaptively splitting a coherent primary light beam, comprising producing a desired far-field distribution by phase modulating the primary light beam with a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM), the primary coherent light beam being directed to reflect on a display element of the spatial light modulator, thereby avoiding any moving elements to shape the primary coherent light beam, extracting from the primary light beam, after it has passed the spatial light modulator, a monitoring beam and a main beam, measuring the monitoring beam with a camera, directing the desired far-field distribution in the monitoring beam on a sensor surface of the camera.

Abstract: A method of embossing individually light reflecting areas on a foil material, the method comprising feeding a foil material into a roller nip between a pair of rollers, wherein the pair of rollers comprises a motor roller and a counter roller, providing each of the motor roller and counter roller at least in a determined perimeter with a plurality of positive and negative projections on a checkered layout whereby positive and negative projections alternate in axial and radial directions.

Abstract: An embossing tool for embossing a combined embossing pattern into a packaging material, the combined embossing pattern including decoratively embossed structure and at least one embossed code, the embossing tool including a male and a female embossing device for cooperating with each other, embossing structures of the male and female embossing device formed to produce the combined embossing pattern into the packaging material in an embossing gap, the embossing structures of the male and the female embossing device include first embossing structures intended for making the at least one embossed code, which are inverse congruent male and female embossing structures having a polyhedral shape, and the decoratively embossed structures and the at least one embossed code produced by the embossing structures are arranged such that the at least one embossed code has a reduced visibility as compared to the decoratively embossed structures.

Abstract: The embossing device for fine embossing of packaging material has a set of embossing rolls with female embossing and male embossing rolls, in each case the structural elements (ML1) of the female embossing roll (M1) and the structural elements (PL1) of the male embossing rolls (P1) being assigned to each other, and the structural elements of one of the rolls being produced independently of the structural elements of the other rolls. At least one structural element (ML1; PL1) of at least one roll (M1, P1) is provided on its bottom surface (B1) and/or surface (S1) and/or side surfaces and/or in its immediate surroundings with light-scattering elements (DM1, D1), the height (H) of which is 10 ?m to 150 ?m. As a result of the use of light-scattering elements with small dimensions, the contrast of the structural elements can be increased substantially, by which means the overall aesthetic image is improved considerably.

Abstract: A method for embossing optically diffracting microstructures in a thin foil, such as used to pack at least one of the list comprising food, chocolate, chewing gum, gifts, jewellery, clothes, tobacco products, pharmaceutical products, the embossing being produced with an embossing rollers set-up comprising at least one cylindrical embossing roller and a cambered counter roller.

Abstract: A method for embossing a first grating in a planar material, by means of an embossing body and a counter embossing body, having each a hard surface, the first grating to be embossed comprising alternating substantially parallel and straight ridges and recesses, whereby the top surfaces of the ridges are intended to weaken a direct angular reflection of light by diffuse omnidirectional reflection, thereby producing a visible contrast between the ridges and the recesses.

Abstract: The present application relates to a device for the mask projection of femtosecond or picosecond laser beams (2) onto a substrate surface, in which the laser beam (2) consisting of laser beam pulses is, at a location of the optical axis, formed to make laser beam pulses with an expanded laser beam cross section or laser beam pulses with a reduced laser beam cross section and said laser beam (2) has a homogeneous intensity distribution over the laser beam cross section. A stop (6) with a predetermined stop aperture geometry and a mask (7) with a predetermined mask aperture geometry are positioned in succession in the beam (2) path at the location.