Patents Assigned to Giesecke & Devrient
  • GOLD-COLORED THIN-FILM ELEMENT WITH MULTILAYER STRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20120242075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thin-film element (30) with multilayer structure for security papers, value documents and the like, which, upon viewing in incident light, appears gold-colored and which as at least two semitransparent mirror layers (34, 38) and at least one dielectric spacer layer (36) arranged between the at least two mirror layers, so that, upon measuring the transmission of unpolarized light in the blue wavelength range from 420 nm to 490 nm, there is found a resonance with a full width at half maximum of 70 to 150 nm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Hans Lochbihler
  • Portable data carrier
    Patent number: 8272573
    Abstract: A portable data carrier (1) comprising a contact pad (2) according to ISO 7816-2 as a physical interface for communication has a contactless interface device (7) for communication with an end device according to a contactless communication protocol via a preset activated contact assignment of the contact pad (2), and at least one contact interface device (4, 5, 6) for communication according to a contact-type communication protocol via a further activated contact assignment of the contact pad (2). In an initialization phase of the data carrier (1) a control device (3) activates a second contact interface device (4, 5, 6), besides an already activated contact interface device (4, 5, 6), only when the former does not use a contact assignment of the contact pad (2) that collides with the contact assignment of the contactless interface device (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Eglof Hartel
  • SOLID PARTICLES HAVING A SILICATE COATING
    Publication number: 20120237668
    Abstract: A method for producing solid particles having a silica coating, by: dispersing the solid particles to be coated in an aqueous medium to produce a solid particle dispersion, adjusting the pH of the solid particle dispersion by a buffer system to produce a buffered solid particle dispersion, and adding an alkaline silicate solution to the buffered solid particle dispersion to form the silica coating on the solid particles during a coating period. The amounts of buffer system and alkaline silicate solution are selected such that the pH of the buffered solid particle dispersion before the addition of the alkaline silicate solution is at least 7.0 and after completion of the addition of the alkaline silicate solution is at most 11.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Kecht, Stephan Steinlein
  • SECURITY ELEMENT HAVING A MICROSTRUCTURE
    Publication number: 20120228860
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security element for security papers, value documents and the like with at least one microstructure which has a visual appearance that is viewing angle-dependent in transmission, whereby the at least one microstructure is formed from an arrangement of a multiplicity of structure elements with a characteristic structure spacing of 1 ?m or more. According to the invention it is provided that the security element contains at least one motif image which, through the viewing angle-dependent visual appearance of the microstructure, is visible in transmission from certain viewing angles, and invisible in transmission from other viewing angles, and that the microstructure and the motif image together have a thickness of 50 ?m or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Rauch, Michael Rahm, Manfred Heim, Christian Fuhse
  • Value document
    Patent number: 8262134
    Abstract: This invention relates to a value document, in particular a bank note, having a value document substrate and at least two different feature substances for checking the value document. According to the invention, a first feature substance is incorporated into the volume of the substrate of the value document. A second feature substance is formed by a luminescent substance which is applied to the value document substrate in the form of a coding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Schwenk, Thomas Giering, Gerhard Stenzel, Wittich Kaule
  • Data carrier with security element and method for the production thereof
    Patent number: 8251404
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a data carrier, especially a value document, such as a banknote, an identification card or the like, having a security element (20) that exhibits a print image (22) and a laser marking (24) at least partially overlapping the print image (22). According to the present invention, the security element (20) further exhibits, at least partially overlapping the print image (22), a laser modification area (26) that is in register with the laser marking (24) and in whose overlap area (28) with the print image (22) the visual appearance of the print image (22) is modified by the action of a laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Depta, Karlheinz Mayer
  • System consisting of bank note processing machines, bank note processing machine and associated operating method
    Patent number: 8251196
    Abstract: A system of banknote processing machines, a banknote processing machine and a method for operating same are provided wherein data necessary for operation of the banknote processing machines are exchanged between the banknote processing machines and a service center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Dietz, Christoph Mätzig
  • Portable data storage medium for biometric user identification
    Patent number: 8255699
    Abstract: A portable data carrier (1) comprises an executable training module (8) which provides in a memory (4, 5) of the data carrier (1) a reference model (10; M) for the biometric recognition of a user of the data carrier (1) by a recognition module (9), whereby a biometric comparison vector (16) which lies within the acceptance range (A) of the reference model (10; M) is accepted by the recognition module (9) as coming from the user. In so doing, the training module (8) defines the reference model (10; M) by model nodes (P, P0-P4) which are formed from biometric reference vectors (17; N) in each case coming from the user, whereby a new model node (P, P0-P4) is added to the reference model (10; M) when the associated reference vector (17; N) lies outside the acceptance range (A) of the reference model (10; M).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Tagscherer
  • Device and method for monitoring the separation of a sheet product
    Patent number: 8251365
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for monitoring the separation of a sheet product, particularly of banknotes. The invention is based on a device and a method for monitoring the separation of a sheet product, particularly of banknotes, by means of a separator (1, 2, 3) having a drive (4, 7) and a controller (8) for monitoring and controlling the angular speed (w) of the separator, and is based on monitoring of the angular speed of the separator by the controller for changes and the determination of faulty separation, if the change of the angular speed is greater than a permitted deviation, or if the angular speed falls below a threshold value (S).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Reuter
  • Device and method for checking banknotes
    Patent number: 8245831
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for checking bank notes wherein measuring values of the bank note to be checked are obtained and a classification of the bank note is carried out by evaluation of the measuring values in a plurality of checking steps, whereby the classification distinguishes in particular at least the classification categories, counterfeit, suspect and genuine bank notes, or acceptable or redispensable, and a linkage of a plurality of measuring values is formed at least in one checking step for deciding whether the checked bank note corresponds to a given classification category and this linkage term is compared with a corresponding tolerance range during evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Holl, Wolfgang Rapf, Helmut Karl Reinisch, Dieter Stein
  • Security container for value documents
    Patent number: 8240663
    Abstract: A security container for storing documents of value in stack form is provided with a stacking pocket for receiving documents of value in a stacked form, a bottom element disposed in the stacking pocket on which rests a fed document of value or a stack of fed documents of value, and an inlet opening leading into the stacking pocket which is disposed such that documents of value fed to the security container fall onto the bottom element. In the transport direction there is disposed at least one closing element with at least one portion which is deflectable from a closing position, in which it prevents a motion of a document of value back into the inlet opening, into a passing position in which it guides the document of value and in which onto the portion there acts a restoring force driving towards the closing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Walter Krämer
  • Method for producing acknowledged transaction data and corresponding device
    Patent number: 8239683
    Abstract: A method and a display preparation unit are proposed for the execution of a transaction during which transaction data are processed which have to be confirmed by a user. The display preparation unit (20) has a converter unit (29) which converts transaction data to be interpreted into pixel values and displays them on a monitor (6), an interface of its own for directly attaching an input unit (7) via which a user confirms displayed transaction data, as well as a crypto unit (31) for generating a signature for a record of confirmed transaction data. In a variant the confirmation can be effected by the crypto unit (31) generating and displaying a random number which has to be inputted by the user via a conventionally attached input unit (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Scherzer, Hans-Jürgen Roth, Michael Baldischweiler
  • Device for outputting and/or receiving ultrasound and ultrasound sensor for inspecting a valuable document
    Patent number: 8230742
    Abstract: An apparatus for emitting and/or receiving ultrasound in a predetermined frequency range comprises at least one ultrasonic converter for converting ultrasound into electrical signals and/or converting electrical signals into ultrasound, and a holder having at least one ultrasonic channel formed therein in which the ultrasonic converter is disposed at least partly and/or through which ultrasound can pass from or to the ultrasonic converter. The holder has at least one non-fibrous surface layer adjacent to at least one portion of the ultrasonic channel, whose impedance is smaller than that of an inside layer of the holder neighboring to the surface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Domke, Joseph Lohner, Hans-Uwe Moosler
  • Card-shaped data carrier
    Patent number: 8226014
    Abstract: A card-shaped data carrier includes a card body provided with a graphical element displayed thereon. The card body is provided with a plastic material for converting irradiated light into secondary light and for retransmitting the secondary light within the plastic material to the graphical element or to a portion of the graphical element. The card-shaped data carrier has a shaped body which is made of the plastic material for displaying the graphical element and is at least partially arranged in at least one cavity of the card body and/or includes a laterally extended area inside which the shaped body exhibits optical properties different from the properties outside the area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Kluge
  • Device and method for verifying valuable documents
    Patent number: 8212205
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for automatically checking sheet-shaped documents of value. According to the present invention a simply constructed measuring apparatus can be obtained, by the measuring apparatus evaluating measuring values e.g. at least two measuring frequencies and the position of one or a plurality of discrete measuring tracks being determined in such a way that at least the presence of two different not visible spectral properties of a predetermined type of authentic documents of value can be checked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Giering, Helmut Steidl, Dieter Stein, Klaus Thierauf
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR TESTING VALUE DOCUMENTS
    Publication number: 20120160632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for checking documents of value which have a security element with several magnetic areas, including at least one high-coercive magnetic area, at least one low-coercive magnetic area and at least one combined magnetic area which contains both the high-coercive and the low-coercive magnetic material. After the magnetization of all magnetic areas in a first direction, first magnetic signals of the security element are detected with a first magnetic detector. After a subsequent second magnetizing, which is effected antiparallel to the first magnetizing and magnetically reverses only the low-coercive magnetic material, second magnetic signals of the security element are detected. For identifying the magnetic areas, the second magnetic signals or a signal derived therefrom are compared with two thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GMBH
    Inventors: Jurgen Schutzmann, Elisabeth Paul, Wolfgang Rauscher
  • METHOD, PORTABLE DATA STORAGE MEDIUM, APPROVAL APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR APPROVING A TRANSACTION
    Publication number: 20120161923
    Abstract: A method, a portable data storage medium, an approval apparatus and a system for approving a transaction using acceleration sensors integrated in a portable data storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2010
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Finkenzeller, Wolfgang Rankl
  • Method for carrying out a secure electronic transaction using a portable data support
    Patent number: 8205249
    Abstract: A method for effecting a secure electronic transaction on a terminal using a portable data carrier is proposed. According to the method a user (30) first authenticates himself vis-à-vis the portable data carrier (20). The portable data carrier (20) at the same time produces quality information about how authentication was done. The authentication is confirmed to the terminal (14). Then the portable data carrier (20) performs a security-establishing operation within the transaction, for example the creation of a digital signature. It attaches the quality information to the result of the security-establishing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Gisela Meister, Nigol Martin
  • ID card comprising a contoured relief structure, and corresponding production method
    Patent number: 8181993
    Abstract: An identification card of plastic, for example PVC or polyester, is introduced, in which tactile symbols in the form of foamed relief structures are clearly visually perceivable. The symbols are outlined by a contour achieved by discoloration of the plastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Erdmann, Günter Endres
  • Method and apparatus for monitoring the singling of sheet material
    Patent number: 8177228
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for monitoring the singling of sheet material, in particular of bank notes. The invention starts out from monitoring the singling of sheet material, in particular of bank notes, by means of a singler having a drive and a control device for a monitoring and controlling of the singler, wherein a monitoring of place, time, orientation and state of the singled sheet material is effected immediately after the singling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Giesecke & Devrient GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Nützel, Frantz Reuter, Rainer Stoll