Abstract: An apparatus for folding and receiving book documents comprises a main conveying device arranged and adapted to convey unfolded book documents in a main conveying direction and a secondary conveying device arranged and adapted to receive the book documents conveyed by the main conveying device and to convey them in a secondary conveying direction and/or against the secondary conveying direction, wherein the secondary conveying direction is transverse to the main conveying direction. Further, the apparatus comprises a receiving device arranged at a spatial distance from the first and/or the second conveying surface and configured to receive folded book documents. The device folds the conveyed book documents respectively with a movement in the secondary conveying direction and/or against the secondary conveying direction. Furthermore, a lifting device is arranged to convey the folded book documents from the main conveying device and/or from the secondary conveying device into the receiving device.

Abstract: A device for handling components that is designed and equipped to handle components with multiple lateral surfaces and/or edges of the lateral surfaces. The device has at least one receiving tool, which is arranged on a turning device, for a respective component of the components, where the receiving tool is designed and equipped to receive the respective component on one of the component cover surfaces. The turning device is designed and equipped to rotate the receiving tool on a turning plane about a turning axis, and in the process optionally convey a component located on the receiving tool from a receiving position to one or more orientation positions, optionally one or more inspecting positions, a setting-down position, and optionally an ejecting position. The device also has a holding and supplying device, which faces the receiving position, for a component supply, and a discharge device.

Abstract: An apparatus for printing on one or both sides of flat objects. The apparatus includes a loop-shaped conveying path for the flat objects; a feed conveyor configured to feed the objects to be printed into a first section of the conveying path; a printer configured to print the objects one at a time; a first discharge conveyor configured to discharge the objects to be printed one at a time downstream of the printer from the first section towards a second section; a first collector configured to collect the objects downstream of the first discharge conveyor at the second section discharged from the first discharge conveyor in a stack; a stack conveyor configured to convey a (partial) stack of the objects along the second section; and a second collector configured to receive at least one (partial) stack and feed the objects upstream to the printer into the first section.

Abstract: A device for recording information in a data carrier, comprising a data carrier receptacle for partially receiving the data carrier in a planar manner; a data carrier cover arranged relative to the data carrier receptacle, which is designed for holding the data carrier between the data carrier receptacle and the data carrier cover; a laser source for the controlled emission of a laser beam designed to effect irreversible changes of the data carrier with the laser beam; and a mount that receives the data carrier receptacle to be pivotable about a pivot axis. The data carrier receptacle has two or more positions, that allow the data carrier receptacle to be received in the mount in such a way that the data carrier receptacle can be repositioned about the pivot axis in a pivotable manner.

Abstract: A card-marking system is provided for personalizing plastic cards such as chip cards or identity cards by laser marking. A corresponding method for automated detection of an optimized setting includes a vision sub-system setting process for setting a vision sub-system of the card marking system and a subsequent marking sub-system setting process for setting a marking sub-system of the card-marking system. The card-marking system is designed to carry out the above method fully or semi-automatedly and to this end can include a corresponding computer program controlling the method.

Abstract: A document carrier device is provided for supporting and transporting a document in a document processing system. The device includes a workpiece carrier having a support surface for receiving a document; a heating device having a heat conducting element for transferring heat generated; and an actuator for causing relative movement between the heat conducting element and the workpiece carrier to change between a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation. In the first mode of operation, the heat conducting element extends, without thereby being in mechanical contact with the workpiece carrier, through one or more recesses in the workpiece carrier in the region of the support surface to be able to transfer heat generated by the heating device, at least in part, to a document received. In the second mode of operation, the heat conducting element has a distance from the support surface which is increased.

Abstract: A device for transferring components from a first carrier to a second carrier. A first receptacle receives the first carrier so that components carried by the first carrier are oriented towards a second receptacle. A separating device separates the components from the first carrier for transfer to the second carrier. A first conveyor moves the first receptacle transverse to the conveying direction of the second carrier. A second conveyor moves the separating device transverse to the conveying direction of the second carrier. A first inspection device detects one of the components in its position relative to a storage position on the second receptacle guiding the second carrier. A second inspection device is arranged upstream of the storage position and detects one of the subassemblies on the second carrier relative to the second receptacle and signals the position of the subassembly to a controller.

Abstract: A device for coding HF transponders moving along a conveyor device. The device includes a first machining station, arranged and designed to identify a respective HF transponder being guided past the first machining station, and a second machining station with an HF antenna. The HF antenna has a transmission region that is arranged and designed to simultaneously detect a plurality of the HF transponders being guided past the second machining station by the conveyor device. The second machining station is additionally designed to select a respective HF transponder detected in the transmission region of the HF antenna for transmission of data and to transmit data to the selected HF transponder, where the transmitted data is ascertained on the basis of the identification of the selected HF transponder by the first machining station.

Abstract: An inspection system is provided for the inspection of a lateral surface of a three-dimensional test object. The inspection system includes a conveying structure; (ii) a facet mirror; and (iii) an optical inspection device. In this context, the inspection system is arranged to rotate the conveying structure and the facet mirror in a coordinated manner and in opposite directions of rotation in such a way that each of a plurality of object carriers, as they pass through an inspection area, is imaged onto the inspection device by exactly one of the facets of the facet mirror. A corresponding method for inspection is also provided.

Abstract: A method for rendering visible security information of a digitally stored image which has a plurality of pixels and at least one piece of digitally coded information comprises at least the following steps: allocating at least some of the pixels to at least one image region; determining an average color value of the pixels allocated to the image region; determining two mutually complementary color values whose average color value is at least approximately identical to the determined average color value of the pixels allocated to the image region; depicting the image region and at least part of the digitally coded security information in a visually perceptible manner. The depicted image region thereby has a first of the mutually complementary color values. The part of the digitally coded security information is depicted within the image region and has a second of the mutually complementary color values.

Abstract: According to several embodiments, the invention relates to a device and a method for stacking card-like data carriers. The device includes a conveying device for transporting individual card-like data carriers downstream along a conveying path and a stacking unit for selectively transferring and stacking card-like data carriers conveyed along the conveying path. The conveying device is arranged to convey the card-like data carriers in such a way that they are fixed to it in a hanging mode of transport. The stacking unit is arranged to selectively release certain ones of the card-like data carriers conveyed along the conveying device from the latter in order to transfer them directly into a card magazine and to stack them therein.

Abstract: A milling device for milling an antenna structure out of the metal layer of a flexible product, while the product is being passed through a milling gap between a milling cutter and a die, using a light emitter to output a light strip that crosses through the milling gap in or transversely to a running direction of the product, wherein the light strip is dimensioned, and the milling cutter and the die are intended to be arranged, such that the milling cutter and the die shadow the light strip at the two longitudinal edges thereof, before a light receiver receives the light strip, and using the light receiver to output a signal that reproduces the width of the milling gap to a controller, and outputting an adjusting signal at least to an adjusting drive that influences the width of the milling gap between the milling cutter and the die.

Abstract: A device is provided for personalizing documents, which includes a personalization device for applying personalization information to a document to be personalized. In addition, the device has a conveying device which includes at least two movable document carrier devices, each of which is configured: to receive a document to be personalized at a transfer position of the device that is the same for all document carrier devices; to move the document received, into the operating region of the personalization device, for the purpose of being personalized; and to move the document received, after its personalization, back to the transfer position and to discharge it there. The conveying device is configured, during its operation, to convey each of the document carrier devices along a respective associated path curve in the shape of a closed loop between the transfer position, the operating region and, in turn, the transfer position.

Abstract: Methods and a device are provided for conditioning, in particular smoothing, a data carrier constructed as a card-like and multi-layer laminate, in particular an RFID or NFC ticket, for a subsequent application of data, in particular by printing thereon. A simultaneous heating of the data carrier and application of pressure to a first main surface of the card-like data carrier takes place while the second main surface opposite the first main surface is in contact with an at least substantially flat support surface, to cause a reduction or elimination of a curvature of the data carrier which may have existed previously.

Abstract: A security inlay having optically recognizable characters for an identity document comprises a first transparent layer and a second transparent layer. A color coating is situated on the first transparent layer. Furthermore, a first UV color coating, which reflects at least UV light at least in a first wavelength range, is situated on the first layer and/or on the color coating. The first and second transparent layers are connected to one another. A first portion of the optically recognizable characters is formed by blackened sections in at least one of the layers. A second portion of the optically recognizable characters is formed by the color coating. A third portion of the optically recognizable characters is formed by the UV color coating. The first and the second portions of the optically recognizable characters reflect visible light. The third portion of the optically recognizable characters reflects UV light.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for sorting disc-shaped objects, in particular coins. The device comprises a conveying device configured to convey individual disc-shaped objects along a conveyor path. A discharge unit comprising a pivotable diversion element serves to selectively discharge individual objects which are being conveyed along the conveyor path. The objects are discharged according to a previously determined classification for each object, in a classification system which differentiates between good parts and defective parts. In order to discharge an object, the diversion element is designed to be pivoted by means of a drive into the conveyor path such that, by means of the pivoting movement, the diversion element transfers a mechanical impulse to the object to be discharged. The impulse has, with respect to the direction of movement of the object at the time of the impulse transfer, both a perpendicular and an antiparallel impulse component.

Abstract: A component-handling device for removing components from a structured component supply and for depositing the removed components at a receiving device. A first turning device having a plurality of receiving units receives a component from the structured component supply at a dispensing point, to turn the received component by a first predetermined angle about the longitudinal or transverse axis of the received component, and to convey the same to a transfer point. A second turning device having a plurality of receiving units receives the component at the transfer point from a receiving unit of the first turning device, to turn the received component by a second predetermined angle about the longitudinal or transverse axis of the received component, and to convey the same to a depositing point.

Abstract: A receiving device for components. The receiving device is designed to be adjusted in a controlled manner relative to a deposit point at least partly along a first, second, and/or third axis by at least one linear drive and/or move a support guided by the receiving device along one of the first and/or second axes by a drive. The receiving device has a position sensor which is paired with a component deposit point in order to detect a component which has only been partly deposited in a pocket of the support at the component deposit point, where the position sensor is connected to the receiving device laterally of the support such that the position sensor is moved directly together with the receiving device.

Abstract: A system for monitoring a person, for example a traveler, who is moving through a facility or a building and carries a biometric travel document and various electronic devices, for example mobile telephones, laptops, tablet computers, e-readers, notebooks, wireless headphones, smartwatches, or fitness trackers. An electronic controller communicates with an input device for inputting contents of the biometric travel document and for forwarding the contents for further processing. An electronically operated database generates a feature space in which the device characteristics are entered by the transceivers as a digital imprint of the traveler and which identifies the traveler with a particular probability resulting from the ratio of a weighted sum of the individual entries in the feature space to the maximum possible sum.

Abstract: A device for aligning and optically inspecting a semiconductor component arranged on a receiving tool that is arranged on a turning mechanism. The device aligns the semiconductor component in relation to a center of the receiving tool in at least one axis direction and/or a direction of rotation. The turning mechanism is designed to rotate about a turning axis and to move the semiconductor component out of a receiving position into an offset position, with two slides that can be moved towards and away from each other and comprise slide sections, the two slide sections coming to rest on two lateral surfaces of the semiconductor component, at least in sections, in order to align the semiconductor component arranged on the receiving tool, the slide being defined such that it slides and/or rotates the semiconductor component into an inspection position, while the receiving tool holds the semiconductor component.