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Granted Patent B2
US 12,197,987 · App. 17/434,545 · Granted Jan 14, 2025

Laminate, and card body and booklet body manufactured using same

Inventor: Takumi Motoi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
G06K19/07722B42D25/387
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Patent No.
US 12,197,987
App. No.
17/434,545
Granted
Jan 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

To provide a laminate which makes it possible to prevent the time deterioration of the thermal transfer image effectively and to enhance the light resistance, and which is used to produce a card body for an ID card and the like and a booklet body such as a data page of a passport. A laminate according to the present invention is characterized by including a front substrate, a laser coloring substrate, a thermal transfer image layer, a white layer, and a back substrate, wherein the laser coloring substrate contains a light resistance improving material.

Claims (20)

1. A laminate comprising a front substrate, a laser coloring substrate, a thermal transfer image layer, a white layer, and a back substrate, the laser coloring substrate containing a light resistance improving material and a laser coloring material,

wherein the light resistance improving material comprises an ultraviolet absorber, and

the laser coloring material develops black color by a laser irradiation to the laser coloring substrate, and

the ultraviolet absorber is at least one of selected from the group consisting of a benzophenone-based compound, a salicylate-based compound, a benzotriazole-based compound, a cyanoacrylate-based compound, a titanium oxide, a zinc oxide, a selenium oxide, and a ceric oxide.

2. The laminate according to claim 1 , wherein a fluorescent image layer is provided on the laser coloring substrate side of the front substrate, and the front substrate contains no light resistance improving material.

3. The laminate according to claim 1 , further comprising an interlayer containing a polycarbonate-based resin between the thermal transfer image layer and the white layer.

4. The laminate according to claim 1 , further comprising an IC module retention layer between the white layer and the back substrate.

5. A card body produced from a laminate comprising a front substrate, a laser coloring substrate, a thermal transfer image layer, a white layer, and a back substrate, the laser coloring substrate containing a light resistance improving material and a laser coloring material,

wherein the light resistance improving material comprises an ultraviolet absorber, and

the laser coloring material develops black color by a laser irradiation to the laser coloring substrate, and

the ultraviolet absorber is at least one of selected from the group consisting of a benzophenone-based compound, a salicylate-based compound, a benzotriazole-based compound, a cyanoacrylate-based compound, a titanium oxide, a zinc oxide, a selenium oxide, and a ceric oxide.

6. A booklet body produced from a laminate comprising a front substrate, a laser coloring substrate, a thermal transfer image layer, a white layer, and a back substrate, the laser coloring substrate containing a light resistance improving material and a laser coloring material,

wherein the light resistance improving material comprises an ultraviolet absorber, and

the laser coloring material develops black color by a laser irradiation to the laser coloring substrate, and

the ultraviolet absorber is at least one of selected from the group consisting of a benzophenone-based compound, a salicylate-based compound, a benzotriazole-based compound, a cyanoacrylate-based compound, a titanium oxide, a zinc oxide, a selenium oxide, and a ceric oxide.

7. The laminate according to claim 2 , further comprising an interlayer containing a polycarbonate-based resin between the thermal transfer image layer and the white layer.

8. The laminate according to claim 2 , further comprising an IC module retention layer between the white layer and the back substrate.

9. The laminate according to claim 3 , further comprising an IC module retention layer between the white layer and the back substrate.

10. The laminate according to claim 7 , further comprising an IC module retention layer between the white layer and the back substrate.

11. The laminate according to claim 1 , wherein the laser coloring material comprises a carbon.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 4, 2021
From: MOTOI, TAKUMI
To: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 057689/0825 →
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20220138521A1 · May 5, 2022
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