Abstract: In an apparatus for testing sheet material, at least one sensor unit is provided with a memory in which data records of a plurality of sheets can be managed. Each data record is provided with areas in which data from at least one other sensor unit can be stored. The sensor unit preferably has a measuring unit and an evaluation unit, the memory of the sensor unit being provided in the evaluation unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for testing sheet material includes an illumination device which illuminates the sheet material continually and in the total spectral region to be tested, and a receiving device having at least two linear parallel CCD arrays. A filter transmitting a certain spectral region is mounted on each CCD array. The individual filters are selected so that at least one transmits in the visible spectral region and one in the invisible spectral region. For detection of the light diffusely reflected or transmitted by the sheet material, the individual CCD arrays produce electric signals from the received light which are then processed in an evaluation device and compared with reference data for testing the sheet material.

Abstract: A circuit unit having an insulating substrate (1) on which a conductive, flat coil (3) is located. The coil (3) can consist of a plurality of coil layer sections (9, 17) separated by insulating layers (11). To interconnect the individual coil layer sections (9, 17) into a coil, at least one opening (13) is provided in each of the insulating layers (11). The connection between the first coil ends (15, 19) of the coil (3) and an integrated circuit (7) or a module (23) containing the integrated circuit (7) can be formed solely by the coil ends (15, 19) and the connection points (27) of the integrated circuit (7) or the contacts (25) of the module (23) touching. The individual turns of the coil (3) can be disposed and dimensioned so as to permit embossing of the circuit unit without restriction within an area (37, 38) conforming with the standard.

Abstract: A data carrier in the form of a write-once or rewritable compact disc (CD) includes a circular CD body with an information-carrying layer and a chip integrated in the CD body, the CD further including at least one CD coupling element for noncontact transfer of data between the chip and a data processing device, and of power from the data processing device to the chip. The CD coupling element can be implemented as a coil, an electrostatic coupling surface, or an optical coupling element. For reading out the information applied to the information-carrying layer of the CD, the CD can be inserted into a CD drive. The CD drive has a drive coupling element which, in correspondence with the CD coupling element, is likewise formed as a coil, an electrostatic coupling surface, or an optical coupling element and sends data to the CD coupling element or receives data therefrom.

Abstract: The apparatus positions an area on the sheet material, the area being detected with high resolution. For this purpose a reflection device with a plurality of reflectors is provided for deflecting the light emitted by the area of the sheet material in the direction of a sheet material axis in the direction of a detector axis. An adjusting device is used to change the position of at least two reflectors for fixing the position of the area on the sheet material relative to the detection device. The reflectors are disposed so that the length of the optical path of the emitted light from the sheet material to the detection device is equal in the total area of the sheet material and at least in a plurality of positions of the reflection device adjustable by the adjusting device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a data carrier, in particular bank note, paper of value, identity card or the like, having a security element disposed on the surface thereof. The data carrier is provided in at least one partial area with a background layer containing at least one authenticity feature. The optically variable element is applied to this background layer such that it overlaps the latter at least partly but does not completely cover it.

Abstract: A data carrier with an optically variable structure is described having an embossed screen which is combined with a coating contrasting with the surface of the data carrier in such a way that different optically variable effects occur at different angles. Embossed screen and/or coating are executed in such a way that especially striking or additional effects occur which are suitable for determining the authenticity of the data carrier but cannot be reproduced, or reproduced true to the original, with the help of copying machines.

Abstract: An antifalsification paper having a security element in the form of a thread or band that consists of a translucent plastic film with an at least partly opaque coating. The coating has translucent areas in the form of visually and/or machine readable characters or patterns that form first information. In addition second information in the form of visually and/or machine readable characters or patterns is disposed on the plastic film, differing from the first information with respect to its size and/or visual impression.

Abstract: The apparatus for determining the stiffness of sheet material is provided with mechanical means which periodically touch the sheet material, causing it to vibrate. The sounds produced by the vibration are detected by a detector. From the detected sounds an evaluating device determines the stiffness of the sheet material. The sheet material is held or guided in a transport device such that it can yield to the mechanical action within certain limits in the area of contact without being irreversibly deformed.

Abstract: An apparatus for testing sheet material with sensors having one or more components and fastened to the front of a base plate as separate units on one and/or both sides of a sheet material path. The fastening system includes a first fastening device which is operable from the back of the base plate and permits removal of the sensor in the released state. In order to open a gap between at least one component of a sensor and the transport path, this component has second fastening device which is operable from the front of the base plate and permits only motion of the component relative to the transport system in the released state. Removal of the sensor is impossible in the released state of the second fastening means unless the first fastener device is released.

Abstract: An electronic module for data carriers having at least one integrated circuit includes an electrically conductive layer with contact surfaces for communication of the circuit with external devices and having an insulated layer which is connected to the conductive layer and has recesses for electrically connecting the contact surfaces with the circuit. Each recess protrudes partly into the contact surface adjacent the recess. The recesses may be formed in such a way that the area of insulating layer remaining in the center of the module takes up substantially only the integrated circuit surface.

Abstract: A semifinished product for an electronic module includes an integrated circuit and a coil electrically connected with the circuit, the coil being disposed between two carrier layers and the integrated circuit being disposed in a specially provided cavity in the two carrier layers. To achieve plane surfaces of the semifinished product, the remaining cavity between the carrier layers and the integrated circuit is filled with a filling material in such a way that plane surfaces of the semifinished product result in the area of the cavity which are flush with the surfaces of the carrier layers.

Abstract: A method for producing paper pulp containing fibers of annual plants or of secondary raw materials produced therefrom, whereby fiber materials are shortened to a length which permits production of a homogeneous, pumpable suspension of the shortened fiber materials. The fiber materials are subsequently bleached and processed into a homogeneous paper pulp.

Abstract: A data carrier in which an electronic module comprising an integrated circuit and a coil electrically connected with the circuit is disposed in a channel in the data carrier. To permit simple manufacture of the data carrier, at least one opening for forming the channel is provided in at least one card layer, the opening being formed such that the layer is a cohesive layer.

Abstract: A method is described for mounting an electronic module in an opening in a card body using pressure and heat. To avoid the thermal load on the electronic module and the card body during the relatively short heating-up phase in a fixed-cycle production process, the method is divided into several method steps, whereby either the heating of the electronic module and the card body and optionally a thermally-activable adhesive takes place in several method steps, or a thermally activable adhesive is heated selectively in a first method step and the mounting of the electronic module takes place under pressure or under pressure and heat in a second method step.

Abstract: An electronic module to be installed in a data carrier is described, the electronic module having an integrated circuit disposed on a carrier of the module and connected electrically with a coil for noncontacting data exchange. To make such electronic modules easy to produce and more cost-effective, the inventive module dispenses completely with an additional separate substrate for receiving the integrated circuit and coil.

Abstract: A method for making integrated circuits electrically connected to conductive coil elements includes placing integrated circuits in recesses provided at precise locations along a foil carrier web and positioning coils also at designated locations on the foil web so that a coil is associated with each integrated circuit. The web is then cut to produce a planar coil electrically connected to an integrated circuit on a foil element. The integrated circuit and coils may be coated with a casting compound and the coils may be formed using various procedures, including pressing coils into the surface of the foil, sewing the coils to the foil and electrostatically forming the coils on the foil with fusion of the coil material directly onto the foil. Apparatus for carrying out the aforesaid process, including winding of the coils, is described.

Abstract: The apparatus has, along with a magazine in which flat, flexible objects such as cords are stored in a stack, a retaining device for holding the stack in the magazine. Symmetrically disposed retaining elements aligned parallel to the surface of the objects are provided in the retaining device. The form of the retaining elements is selected such that an object of the stack can be singled by being arched past the retaining elements and an object can also be stacked in the magazine by being arched past the retaining elements. A gripping device is provided for moving the objects.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a data carrier which contains a novel pigment composition which is preferably applied to the data carrier in the form of a coding. The pigment composition comprises a dye and a solid resin. The dye is bound in the solid resin. The resin is produced as the reaction product obtained from an oligomerized polyisocyanate and a mixture of polyfunctional compounds with active hydrogen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a single- or multilayer data carrier, such as an identity card, bank card or the like. The data carrier has at least one plastic layer, this plastic layer consisting of a thermally nonrecrystallizing polyester.