Patents by Inventor Werner Reinhart
Werner Reinhart has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7940159Abstract: The invention relates to a security element in the form of a flexible, multilayer film body and to an identification system comprising a security element of this type. The security element has a receiving unit (61) for receiving an electromagnetic verification signal (7) containing a specific coding from a verification device, an output unit (66) for outputting an enable signal, and an electronic release system (63, 64, 65) having active and/or passive organic components. The electronic release system (63, 64, 65) checks whether or not a signal received by the receiving unit contains the specific coding, and drives the output unit (66) for outputting the enable signal if the signal received by the receiving unit (61) contains the specific coding.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2005Date of Patent: May 10, 2011Assignees: PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG, Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KGInventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Walter Fix, Andreas Ullmann, Werner Reinhart, Beate Reinhart, legal representative
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Patent number: 7823928Abstract: The invention concerns a value-bearing document and a process for the production of a value-bearing document. The value-bearing document comprises a carrier of a paper material and a laminating film which is applied to the carrier and which has a carrier film and a decorative layer arrangement including one or more security features and/or one or more components with electrical functionalities. The laminating film is provided with predetermined breaking locations the reducing the strength of the laminating film.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KGInventors: Werner Reinhart, Norbert Lutz
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Patent number: 7771629Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the production of a personalised, optically variable element having polarising properties, and a film system for carrying out the process. To produce the optically variable element a film body which comprises two or more layers and which has an LCP layer comprising a liquid crystal material is applied to a substrate body which has an orientation layer for the orientation of liquid crystals. The orientation layer of the substrate body is personalised prior to application of the film body to the substrate body. The film body is then applied to the personalised orientation layer of the substrate body in such a way that the LCP layer of the film body lies on the personalised orientation layer of the substrate body for then orientation of liquid crystals of the LCP layer of the film body.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2004Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KGInventors: Haymo Katschorek, Werner Reinhart, Mathias Seitz
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Patent number: 7654578Abstract: There is proposed a security document comprising a security element, wherein the security element is of such a configuration that it can be determined by means of the sense of human touch. For that purpose either the surface nature of various surface regions can be selected differently so that the configuration and size of the different surface regions can be determined by the human sense of touch. Another possibility is for the substrate of the security document to be provided with suitably shaped openings which can be identified by means of the human sense of touch. A combination of different tactile security elements of that kind is also described.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2004Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KGInventor: Werner Reinhart
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Publication number: 20090237248Abstract: The invention relates to a security element in the form of a flexible, multilayer film body and to an identification system comprising a security element of this type. The security element has a receiving unit (61) for receiving an electromagnetic verification signal (7) containing a specific coding from a verification device, an output unit (66) for outputting an enable signal, and an electronic release system (63, 64, 65) having active and/or passive organic components. The electronic release system (63, 64, 65) checks whether or not a signal received by the receiving unit contains the specific coding, and drives the output unit (66) for outputting the enable signal if the signal received by the receiving unit (61) contains the specific coding.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2005Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Wolfgang Clemens, Walter Fix, Andreas Ullmann, Werner Reinhart
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Patent number: 7560156Abstract: The present invention relates to a security element in the form of a strip. The strip exhibits optical effects which vary, depending on the illumination or viewing direction. The optical effects are provided only in one or more definably delimited, mutually spaced surface regions. The strip outside the visually variable surface regions is transparent or is adapted to the appearance of the surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2003Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Werner Reinhart
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Publication number: 20070224383Abstract: The invention concerns a value-bearing document and a process for the production of a value-bearing document. The value-bearing document comprises a carrier of a paper material and a laminating film which is applied to the carrier and which has a carrier film and a decorative layer arrangement including one or more security features and/or one or more components with electrical functionalities. The laminating film is provided with predetermined breaking locations for reducing the strength of the laminating film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2005Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicant: LEONHARD KURZ GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Werner Reinhart, Norbert Lutz
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Publication number: 20070041067Abstract: The present invention concerns a strip for safeguarding a document, comprising a support on which there is formed in the longitudinal direction of the strip an alternation of generally metallised regions and generally transparent regions, said alternation being capable of establishing a contrast on a scale identified as global at the level of the document to be safeguarded in such a way as to constitute protection against reproduction of the documents with which the strip will be associated, characterised in that the strip also comprises optically active elements in association with the generally metallised regions and/or the generally transparent regions of the strip to produce an optical effect on a scale identified as detail at the level of the document to be safeguarded, said optical effect making it possible to constitute a recognisable sign for identifying said document. The present invention finally concerns a security document incorporating a strip as set forth hereinbefore.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2004Publication date: February 22, 2007Applicants: BANQUE DE FRANCE, LEONHARD KURZ GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Werner Reinhart, Jean-Michel Grimal, Maurice Perron
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Publication number: 20070014936Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the production of a personalised, optically variable element having polarising properties, and a film system for carrying out the process. To produce the optically variable element a film body which comprises two or more layers and which has an LCP layer comprising a liquid crystal material is applied to a substrate body which has an orientation layer for the orientation of liquid crystals. The orientation layer of the substrate body is personalised prior to application of the film body to the substrate body. The film body is then applied to the personalised orientation layer of the substrate body in such a way that the LCP layer of the film body lies on the personalised orientation layer of the substrate body for then orientation of liquid crystals of the LCP layer of the film body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2004Publication date: January 18, 2007Inventors: Haymo Katschorek, Werner Reinhart, Mathias Seitz
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Publication number: 20060119096Abstract: There is proposed a security document comprising a security element, wherein the security element is of such a configuration that it can be determined by means of the sense of human touch. For that purpose either the surface nature of various surface regions can be selected differently so that the configuration and size of the different surface regions can be determined by the human sense of touch. Another possibility is for the substrate of the security document to be provided with suitably shaped openings which can be identified by means of the human sense of touch. A combination of different tactile security elements of that kind is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2004Publication date: June 8, 2006Inventor: Werner Reinhart
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Publication number: 20060055169Abstract: The present invention relates to a security element in the form of a strip. The strip exhibits optical effects which vary, depending on the illumination or viewing direction. The optical effects are provided only in one or more definably delimited, mutually spaced surface regions. The strip outside the visually variable surface regions is transparent or is adapted to the appearance of the surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2003Publication date: March 16, 2006Inventor: Werner Reinhart
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Patent number: 6700705Abstract: In order to improve a structure arrangement comprising a plurality of portions having a relief structure with an optical-diffraction effect, in particular for visually identifiable optical security elements for value-bearing documents, for example banknotes, credit cards, passes or cheque documents, or other articles to be safeguarded, in such a way that it can give a viewer an image impression which in particular is more homogenous and more brilliant than is possible with known structure arrangements, it is proposed that a predominant number of the portions is of strip or band configuration.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1997Date of Patent: March 2, 2004Assignees: Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co., Deutsche BundesbankInventors: Werner Reinhart, Jürgen Herrmann
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Patent number: 6508489Abstract: Proposed is a value-bearing document in which the carrier is provided with a window-like opening which is closed by a cover foil which is transparent at least in a region-wise manner, wherein particularly in the region of the window-like opening, the cover foil can be provided with additional security features, for example diffraction structures.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2001Date of Patent: January 21, 2003Assignee: Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co.Inventors: Jurgen Herrmann, Werner Reinhart
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Patent number: 6428051Abstract: Proposed is a value-bearing document in which the carrier is provided with a window-like opening which is closed by a cover foil which is transparent at least in a region-wise manner, wherein in particular in the region of the window-like opening the cover foil can be provided with additional security features, for example diffraction structures.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 1995Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co.Inventors: Jürgen Herrmann, Werner Reinhart
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Publication number: 20020030360Abstract: Proposed is a value-bearing document in which the carrier is provided with a window-like opening which is closed by a cover foil which is transparent at least in a region-wise manner, wherein particularly in the region of the window-like opening, the cover foil can be provided with additional security features, for example diffraction structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Jurgen Herrmann, Werner Reinhart
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Patent number: 5763051Abstract: In order to improve a structure arrangement comprising a plurality of portions having a relief structure with an optical-diffraction effect, in particular for visually identifiable optical security elements for value-bearing documents, for example banknotes, credit cards, passes or cheque documents, or other articles to be safeguarded, with a first group of portions with a first structure having an optical-diffraction effect, which first group is disposed on a surface region of the structure arrangement, and at least one further group of portions with a further structure which has an optical-diffraction effect and which is different from the first structure, in such a way that a given item of information can be imparted to a viewer of the structure arrangement with a high level of intensity and uniformly over the entire extent of a preselected viewing angle range, it is proposed that the structure of the portions of the first and the at least one further group respectively is such that, upon illumination of tType: GrantFiled: January 27, 1997Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co./Deutsche BundesbankInventors: Werner Reinhart, Jurgen Herrmann
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Patent number: 5714231Abstract: Proposed is a decorative layer structure and a hot stamping foil having such a layer structure, wherein provided at the inner surface of a cover lacquer layer at least in a region-wise manner is a spatial structure having an optical-diffraction effect, which in turn is provided in regions with a decorative lacquer layer before a reflecting layer which makes the spatial structure optically clearly visible is applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1995Date of Patent: February 3, 1998Assignee: Leonhard Kurz GmbH & Co.Inventor: Werner Reinhart
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Patent number: 4717615Abstract: In a foil which has a three-dimensional patterning, the patterning effect is provided between two layers of lacquer which, by virtue of the composition thereof, cannot be readily separated from each other by chemical or physical means in order thereby to prevent the patterning from being removed for fraudulent purposes.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1986Date of Patent: January 5, 1988Assignee: Leonard Kurz GmbH & CoInventor: Werner Reinhart