Abstract: An electronic cover for a passport, booklet or the like includes an electronic device and a layer of cover material that are bonded together by a fill-up adhesive layer, the electronic device preferably being in the form of an RFID inlay that includes a substrate, an antenna coupled to the substrate and an integrated circuit (IC) chip module conductively coupled to the antenna. During manufacture of the cover, the fill-up adhesive layer is applied to at least one of the electronic device and the layer of cover material. Immediately thereafter, the electronic device and the layer of cover material are held spaced apart from one another a predefined distance so as to define a void therebetween. Through a suitable trigger, the fill-up adhesive layer expands to fill in the entire void and subsequently cures to bond the electronic device to the layer of cover material.

Abstract: The invention concerns an embossing plate for a hot-cold-laminating press with a three-dimensional structure based on an essentially flawless metal plate with a hardened surface of appropriate thickness and dimensions and a suitable surface, specifically a highly polished surface, into which or onto which the three-dimensional structure is incorporated by a process with at least two steps. An embossing plate produced by this process is used for the production of documents, specifically security documents, such as personal identity cards, passports, identification cards, credit cards, customer cards, driving licenses and similar sheet and/or card and/or book-like documents by means of hot-cold-lamination and/or embossing and/or item-by-item embossing.

Abstract: The invention concerns an embossing plate for a hot-cold-laminating press with a three-dimensional structure based on an essentially flawless metal plate with a hardened surface of appropriate thickness and dimensions and a suitable surface, specifically a highly polished surface, into which or onto which the three-dimensional structure is incorporated by a process with at least two steps. An embossing plate produced by this process is used for the production of documents, specifically security documents, such as personal identity cards, passports, identification cards, credit cards, customer cards, driving licenses and similar sheet and/or card and/or book-like documents by means of hot-cold-lamination and/or embossing and/or item-by-item embossing.