Security element for producing value documents

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10682878
APP PUB NO 20170217242A1
SERIAL NO

15329496

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A security element for manufacturing value documents provides at least one image, formed by a grating structure which has a plurality of trough-shaped microcavities. The microcavities have a structure width from 0.5 μm to 3 μm and an aspect ratio of 0.4 or greater, a metal-containing coating is applied to the grating structure, and in the grating structure the trough-shaped microcavities are separated from each other respectively by strips which are planar and respectively more than 200 nm and maximally 1,200 nm wide.

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GIESECKE+DEVRIENT CURRENCY TECHNOLOGY GMBHPRINZREGENTENSTRASSE 161 MUNICH 81677

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Lochbihler, Hans München, DE 12 199

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