# US 10,870,305 B2 · Security element as well as value document having such a security element > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,870,305 B2 - Document ID: US10870305B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 13/807,814 - Filed: 2011-06-29 - Published: 2013-04-25 - Granted: 2020-12-22 - Earliest claimed: 2010-07-01 - Assignees: Giesecke+Devrient Currency Technology GmbH - Applicants: Christian Fuhse; Michael Rahm; Andreas Rauch - Inventors: Christian Fuhse; Michael Rahm; Andreas Rauch - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10870305B2 ## CPC - B42D 15/00: Printed matter of special format or style not otherwise provided for - B42D 25/324: Reliefs - B42D 25/328: Diffraction gratings; Holograms - B42D 25/342: Moiré effects - B42D 25/351: Translucent or partly translucent parts, e.g. windows - B42D 25/355: Security threads - B42D 25/373: Metallic materials - B42D 25/45: Associating two or more layers - B42D 2035/44 - B44F 7/00: Designs imitating three-dimensional [3D] effects - B42D: BOOKS; BOOK COVERS; LOOSE LEAVES; PRINTED MATTER CHARACTERISED BY IDENTIFICATION OR SECURITY FEATURES; PRINTED MATTER OF SPECIAL FORMAT OR STYLE NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; DEVICES FOR USE THEREWITH AND NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; MOVABLE-STRIP WRITING OR READING APPARATUS - B44F: SPECIAL DESIGNS OR PICTURES ## Abstract A security element for a security paper, value document or the like, having a carrier which has a motif region that includes a visually perceptible motif with a first and a second motif part, wherein the motif region includes a first micro-optic representation arrangement which presents at least two different images in viewing angle-dependent fashion as a first motif part, and a second micro-optic representation arrangement which presents a reflective surface as a second motif part, which surface appears bulged relative to the actual macroscopic spatial form of the second micro-optic representation arrangement. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A security element for a security paper or value document comprising: a carrier comprising a motif region which provides a visually perceptible motif having a first and a second motif part, wherein the motif region comprises a first micro-optic representation arrangement which presents at least two different images in viewing angle-dependent fashion as a first motif part, and a second micro-optic representation arrangement which presents a reflective surface as the second motif part, said reflective surface imitating a bulge relative to the actual macroscopic spatial form of the second micro-optic representation arrangement, wherein the second micro-optic representation arrangement has embossed microscopic structures which are furnished with a reflection enhancing coating, and wherein the first micro-optic representation arrangement comprises microstructures and micro-imaging elements to image the microstructures in magnified form, the microstructures being provided both in a region of the first motif part and in a region of the second motif part. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the two motif parts are arranged to be contiguous. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein one of the two motif parts at least partly surrounds the other of the two motif parts. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the two motif parts either or both at least partly overlap and are at least in certain regions nested into each other. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the first micro-optic representation arrangement presents the at least two different images such that the images at least in certain regions either or both overlap and are nested into each other. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the first micro-optic representation arrangement presents different views of the same object as the at least two different images. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the first micro-optic representation arrangement presents the at least two different images such that for a viewer there results a stereographic representation of an object with absolute depth information. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the first micro-optic representation arrangement is configured as a hologram. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the first micro-optic representation arrangement produces an orthoparallactic representation. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the second micro-optic representation arrangement presents the reflective surface in a reliefed impression. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the second micro-optic representation arrangement has a multiplicity of reflective facets that have different orientations with respect to each other. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the second micro-optic representation arrangement has a reflective Fresnel structure with varying grating period. ### Claim 13 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the second micro-optic representation arrangement has asymmetric diffraction structures or matt-structure grating images. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the micro-imaging elements of the first micro-optic representation arrangement and the microscopic structures of the second micro-optic representation arrangement are embossed in a same embossing lacquer layer. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The security element according to claim 1, wherein the security element is configured as a multilayer layered composite. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) A value document comprising the security element as recited in claim 1.