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US 10,421,308 · App. 15/518,794 · Granted Sep 24, 2019

Optical anti-counterfeiting component and optical anti-counterfeiting product

Inventors: Baoli Zhang (Beijing, CN); Kai Sun (Beijing, CN); Weiwei Zhang (Beijing, CN)
Assignee: ZHONGCHAO SPECIAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD
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Patent No.
US 10,421,308
App. No.
15/518,794
Granted
Sep 24, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention discloses an optical anti-counterfeiting component and an optical anti-counterfeiting product. The optical anti-counterfeiting component comprises: a substrate; a sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and an optical reflection facet formed on an upper surface of the substrate; and a multi-layer structured coating formed on the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and the optical reflection facet. In the case where the same multi-layer structured coating is used, a contrasting optical characteristic is formed between the region in which the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and the multi-layer structured coating lie and the region in which the optical reflection facet and the multi-layer structured coating lie, so that the optical anti-counterfeiting component or the optical anti-counterfeiting product that includes the optical anti-counterfeiting component can be identified easily and has high anti-counterfeiting capability.

Claims (17)

1. An optical anti-counterfeiting component, comprising:

a substrate;

a sub-wavelength surface micro structure and an optical reflection facet, wherein at least part of an upper surface of the substrate is covered by the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and the optical reflection facet; and

a multi-layer structured coating formed on the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and the optical reflection facet, wherein, the multi-layer structured coating forms a Fabry-Perot resonant cavity or a hollowed-out pattern.

2. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 1 , wherein, the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and the optical reflection facet overlap with each other partially.

3. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 1 , wherein, the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure is an one-dimensional grating or a two-dimensional grating; a groove shape of the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure is sinusoidal, rectangular, or zigzag shape, or a shape joined or combined from at least two of sinusoidal, rectangular, and zigzag shapes.

4. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 3 , wherein, a groove depth of the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure is 10 nm-500 nm.

5. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 4 , wherein, the groove depth of the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure is 50 nm-300 nm.

6. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 1 , wherein, a characteristic dimension of the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure in a two-dimensional plane in which the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure lies is 50 nm-500 nm.

7. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 6 , wherein, the characteristic dimension of the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure in a two-dimensional plane in which the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure lies is 200 nm-400 nm.

8. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 1 , wherein, a characteristic dimension of the optical reflection facet in at least one dimension of a two-dimensional plane in which the optical reflection facet lies is 1 μm-300 μm.

9. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 8 , wherein, the characteristic dimension of the optical reflection facet in at least one dimension of a two-dimensional plane in which the optical reflection facet lies is 3 μm-100 μm.

10. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 9 , wherein, the characteristic dimension of the optical reflection facet in at least one dimension in a two-dimensional plane in which the optical reflection facet lies is 5 μm-30 μm.

11. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 1 , wherein, at least one of diffraction optical variable feature, micro-nano structural feature, printing feature, fluorescent feature, and magnetic, optical, electrical, or radioactive feature for machine reading is formed on at least one of the substrate, the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure, and the optical reflection facet.

12. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 11 , wherein, the hollowed-out pattern has a registration relationship with the sub-wavelength surface micro-structure and/or the optical reflection facet.

13. The optical anti-counterfeiting component according to claim 1 , wherein, the multi-layer structured coating consists of at least two of an absorbing layer, a dielectric layer, and a reflecting layer, or the multi-layer structured coating consists of dielectric layers.

14. An optical anti-counterfeiting product, comprising the optical anti-counterfeiting component of claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 5, 2017
From: ZHANG, BAOLI; ZHANG, WEIWEI; SUN, KAI
To: ZHONGCHAO SPECIAL SECURITY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD; CHINA BANKNOTE PRINTING AND MINTING CORP.
Reel/Frame 042896/0530 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2014 1 0548750 · Oct 16, 2014 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170239972A1 · Aug 24, 2017
Cited By (1)
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