Method and Device for Marking Objects, Particularly Components of a Motor Vehicle, with an Embossed Hologram and Objects Marked in this Way
AssigneeMann+Hummel GmbH
InventorsRolf Thorsten Striebich, Michael Fasold
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and to a device for marking objects, particularly components (10 of a motor vehicle, preferably filter elements, with an embossed hologram (11) and to objects marked in this way. The object (10) to be marked is provided with an embossing region (12) to be embossed in the soft state. An embossing body (14a) is pressed into the soft embossing region (12) such that the embossed hologram (11) emerges from the negative (16) of the embossing body (14a) in the embossing region (12), and the embossing body (14a) is separated from the embossing region (12) after the same has solidified.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A method for marking a component object (10) of a motor vehicle with an embossed hologram (11), comprising:
- providing said object to be marked (10);
- providing an embossing body (14a;
- 14b) having a surface relief structure as a negative of said embossed hologram (11);
- providing an embossing region (12) that can be embossed when in a soft moldable embossable state;
- pressing said surface relief structure of said embossing body (14a;
- 14b) into said embossing region (12), embossing said embossing region;
- molding said hologram (11) into said soft embossing region (12);
- solidifying said embossing region (12) with said hologram fixed therein;
- and
- separating said embossing body (14a;
- 14b) from said embossing region leaving said hologram embossed in said embossing region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.