Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to paper and textile based materials with associated protective coatings or coverings. Many products, such as identification documents, experience wear and tear as they are subsequently used, scratched, exposed to elements or tampered with. This invention provides methods, apparatuses, and systems to protect an element or product, such as an identification document, from wearing, weathering, tampering and other detrimental outside effects through the use of a surrounding coating or covering such a polyolefin based coating, of which in some embodiments, includes ingenious features such as a monobloc structure, multiple layers, a porous matrix, among others.

Abstract: The invention relates to a laminate structure (30) for a chip card (31), comprising a base layer (35), a chip module (32) accommodated at least partially in the base layer, and at least one cover layer (39) that covers the base layer, wherein an intermediate space (61) formed between the chip module and the cover layer as well as between the chip module and the base layer is filled with an adhesive material, wherein the adhesive material generates adhesive forces with respect to the wetted surfaces of the base layer and of the cover layer and generates adhesive forces with respect to the wetted surfaces of the chip module as well.