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US 11,858,281 B2Granted
Plastic card with enhanced durability colored machined characters
AssigneeEntrust Corporation
InventorsRoman Knipp, Utpal Vaidya
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Abstract
A material that is curable by radiation is applied over or included in colored material on non-printed machined characters formed on a plastic card. After applying the colored material and the radiation curable material to the machined characters, radiation is used to cure the radiation curable material. The colored material has improved durability due to the radiation cured material.
Claims19
A plastic card personalization system, comprising:
- a first mechanism that is configured to form non-printed machined characters on a plastic card by deforming a substrate material of the plastic card;
- a second mechanism that is positioned relative to the first mechanism to receive the plastic card with the non-printed machined characters, the second mechanism is configured to apply radiation curable material to the non-printed machined characters;
- a curing mechanism that is positioned relative to the second mechanism to receive the plastic card with the radiation curable material applied to the non-printed machined characters, the curing mechanism is configured to generate and apply radiation to the non-printed machined characters to cure the radiation curable material.
A method of personalizing a plastic card, comprising:
- forming non-printed machined characters on the plastic card in a first mechanism by deforming a substrate material of the plastic card;
- thereafter transporting the plastic card to a second mechanism and applying radiation curable material to the non-printed machined characters in the second mechanism;
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- thereafter transporting the plastic card to a curing mechanism and curing the radiation curable material that is applied to the non-printed machined characters in the curing mechanism.
1 more element
A plastic card, comprising:
- a plastic card body;
- a plurality of embossed characters formed on the plastic card body, each embossed character having a tip;
- a colored material and a radiation-cured material on the tip of each one of the embossed characters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.