EP2304697B1 - Sensoreinrichtung zur spektral aufgelösten erfassung von wertdokumenten und ein diese betreffendes verfahren - Google Patents

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EP2304697B1
EP2304697B1 EP09765541.9A EP09765541A EP2304697B1 EP 2304697 B1 EP2304697 B1 EP 2304697B1 EP 09765541 A EP09765541 A EP 09765541A EP 2304697 B1 EP2304697 B1 EP 2304697B1
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    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D7/00—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency
    • G07D7/06—Testing specially adapted to determine the identity or genuineness of valuable papers or for segregating those which are unacceptable, e.g. banknotes that are alien to a currency using wave or particle radiation
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  • a method and a device for checking luminescent value documents, in particular bank notes, with a luminescence sensor are described.
  • the value document to be tested is irradiated to excite luminescence radiation, and the luminescence radiation emanating from the value document is detected spectrally resolved.
  • a lighting surface is, which extends in the transport direction, an effective measurement of value documents is possible, emit only very little luminescence.
  • a sensor device according to the preamble of claim 1 is described.
  • the property of the reference radiation as well as the detection radiation in general is understood to mean a property that can be represented by at least one numerical value.
  • Adjustment also referred to as adjustment, is understood as meaning a change in the sensor device by which the deviation between a value corresponding to the detected property of the reference radiation and a predetermined, preferably known value for the characteristic of the reference radiation is reduced as far as possible.
  • the reference radiation device can have as a source for the reference radiation an edge-emitting laser diode with a wavelength-selective optical resonator, in particular a resonator with high quality.
  • the resonator has a natural frequency which corresponds to the desired wavelength.
  • the reference radiation device as a source for the reference radiation a surface emitting laser diode.
  • the reference radiation is then preferably generated by means of at least one surface emitting laser diode.
  • the use of such a laser diode offers several advantages.
  • such laser diodes have a very narrow emission spectrum, so that preferably no filter or no reference substance is necessary between the reference radiation device and the detection device in order to limit the spectral bandwidth of the reference radiation.
  • the location of the tape is relatively insensitive to temperature effects as compared to laser diodes of another type, so that no temperature stabilization is necessary.
  • the radiation emitted by surface emitting laser diodes is not very divergent.
  • the reference radiation device is designed and arranged such that the reference radiation illuminates a value document located in the detection area and that the radiation emanating from the illuminated area, i. Reflected or reflected back from the value document reference radiation is coupled into the detection beam path.
  • This alternative can be offered if, for reasons of space, the sensor device is to be arranged only on one side of the transport path.
  • the reference radiation is at least partially directed to a transport path of the value document, so that it is suitable for detecting a movement and / or a position of the value document relative to the detection area, and that before the detection of the property of the reference radiation and / or for the subsequent detection of the spectral property of a value document by the radiation formed reference radiation is detected and for detecting the movement and / or the position of the document of value relative to the detection area and / or a document of value is at least partially in the detection area, or to determine whether and / or when a value document enters the coverage area is used.
  • the control and evaluation device can be designed in such a way that, after detecting a value document entry into the detection area after a predetermined time interval, it illuminates the value document in the detection area with optical illumination radiation in a predetermined spectral illumination area switches to an operating state, and preferably switches on exit of the value document from the detection area in an idle state.
  • the predetermined time interval may in particular be selected such that the property of the reference radiation can be detected during the time interval and / or a predetermined range of the value document can be detected with the sensor device after the time interval has expired.
  • the duration of the time interval can be selected as a function of the transport speed.
  • the central control and evaluation device 30 determines in a test signal evaluation, whether the value document is recognized as true according to a predetermined authenticity criterion for the test signals or not.
  • the examination device 24 comprises a sensor device for the spectrally resolved detection of optical detection radiation emanating from a value document 12 transported in the predefined transport direction T.
  • the detection radiation is luminescence radiation in the invisible region of the optical spectrum.
  • the sensor device 24, designated below by the reference numeral 24, is shown in FIG Fig. 2 shown in more detail. It comprises an illumination device 36 for illuminating at least part of a flat detection region 38 in the transport path 22, into which value documents 12 to be examined via the transport path 22 pass, and a detection device 40.
  • a control device, in particular for controlling the illumination device 36, and an evaluation device, In particular for the processing and evaluation of detection signals of the detection device 40 are in a control and evaluation device 42, in the example of a programmed Data processing device, summarized in this example, a processor, not shown, and a memory, not shown, in which a program executable by the processor for controlling the illumination device 36 and for evaluating the detection signals of the detection device 40 is stored.
  • the control and evaluation device 42 is connected via a signal connection with the central control and evaluation device 30.
  • the illumination radiation is deflected by a deflecting element 50 of the detection device 40, in the example a Directed dichroic beam splitter, which is reflective to the illumination radiation, to a focusing optics 52, which focuses the illumination radiation on the detection area 38. If there is a value document 12 in it, the section located in the detection area is illuminated with a corresponding illumination pattern.
  • a deflecting element 50 of the detection device 40 in the example a Directed dichroic beam splitter, which is reflective to the illumination radiation, to a focusing optics 52, which focuses the illumination radiation on the detection area 38.
  • the detection optics 54 have along a detection beam path first the focusing optics 52, which images the detection area to infinity, i. from the detection range 38 coming detection radiation into a parallel beam, and the selectively transmissive deflection element 50, which is transparent to radiation in the predetermined spectral detection range.
  • the detection optics 54 further comprises a condensing optics 60 for focusing the parallel detection radiation on an inlet opening or an entrance slit of the spectrographic device 56.
  • a filter 62 for filtering unwanted spectral components from the detection beam path, in particular Wavelength range of the illumination radiation
  • a deflection element 64 in the example a mirror, for deflecting the detection radiation by a predetermined angle, in the example 90 °, arranged.
  • the spectrographic device 56 has an entrance aperture 66 with an aperture opening which is slit-shaped in the exemplary embodiment and which represents an entrance slit and whose longitudinal extent extends at least approximately orthogonally to the plane defined by the detection beam path.
  • Detecting radiation entering through the aperture is bundled into a parallel bundle by an achromatic collimation and focusing optics 68 of the spectrographic device 56 in the example.
  • the collimating and focusing optics 68 like the other optics, are shown only symbolically as lenses in the figures, but in fact will often be embodied as a combination of lenses. Assuming that this optics is achromatic is understood to be in the wavelength range in which the spectrographic device 56 operates with respect to chromatic Aberrations is corrected. A corresponding correction in other wavelength ranges is not necessary.
  • the entrance aperture 66 and the collimation and focusing optics 68 are arranged so that the aperture is at least in good approximation in the entrance aperture side focal surface of the collimating and focusing optics 68.
  • the spatially dispersing device 70 is a reflection grating with a line structure whose lines run parallel to a plane through the longitudinal direction of the aperture opening and an optical axis of the collimating and focusing optics 68.
  • the line spacing is chosen so that the detection radiation can be spectrally decomposed in the predetermined spectral detection range, in the example in the infator.
  • the Dispersing device 70 is aligned so that the separate spectral components, in the example, the first diffraction order by the collimating and focusing optics 68 on the detection means 58, more precisely the detector array 72 are focused.
  • the line-shaped detection elements 74 are formed so that their signals are independently readable, preferably in parallel.
  • the dispersing device 70 is inclined in two directions with respect to the detector arrangement 72 and the direction of the incident detection radiation between the collimating and focusing optics 68 and the dispersing device 70.
  • the direction of the detection radiation between the collimating and focusing optics 68 and the dispersing device 70 is parallel to the optical axis of the collimating and focusing optics 68, firstly the plane reflection grating 70 and thus also its line structure with respect to the optical axis O of the collimation and focusing optics 68 inclined in the plane of the detection beam path.
  • the dispersing device 70 more precisely the specular reflection incidence slot, ie here the normal to the plane of the line structure of the reflection grating 70, is at an angle to the direction of the detection radiation or the optical axis O between the collimating and focusing optics 68 and dispersing means 70 so that the first diffraction order is incident on the detector assembly 72.
  • detection radiation emanating from a point on the value document 12 in the detection region 38 is bundled along the detection beam path through the focusing optics 52 into a parallel bundle which passes through the dichroic beam splitter and from the condenser optics 60 is imaged on the entrance panel 66.
  • This is imaged along the detection beam path by the collimating and focusing optics 68 to infinity on the spatially dispersing device 70, which decomposes the radiation incident on them in spectral components.
  • the spectral components of the first diffraction order are again imaged by the collimating and focusing optics 68 on the detector arrangement 72, wherein each detection element 74 corresponds to a wavelength or a wavelength range.
  • the light sensor 44 has as a transmitter 46, a surface emitting laser diode which emits reference radiation in a narrow wavelength range with a half-width (FWHM) of 1 nm, which is within the predetermined spectral detection range. For example, the maximum may be in the range of 760 nm, 808 nm, 948 nm or even 980 nm.
  • the transmitter 46 serves in this embodiment as a reference radiation device and reference radiation source.
  • the laser diode 46 is directed onto the detection area 38 in such a way that, from a section of a value document 12 illuminated by it, in the detection area 38, reflected reference radiation emitted emanates into the detection beam path, ie is coupled in.
  • the reflected portion of the reference radiation reaches the receiver 48, a photodetection element with an upstream diaphragm, which is sensitive in the region of the reference radiation, and outputs corresponding signals upon the impingement of reference radiation.
  • control and evaluation device 42 detects a signal of a transport sensor, not shown, on the transport path, which indicates the arrival of a transported document of value 12, the control and evaluation device 42 displaces the transmitter 46, i. the reference radiation device, in the operating state in which this reference radiation emits in the detection area 38.
  • the illumination device 36 and the detection device 40 are switched off again.
  • the reference radiation device 46 "has as reference radiation source 78 the same surface-emitting laser diode and a deflecting element 80, in the example a mirror which deflects reference radiation emitted by the reference radiation source and couples it into the detection beam path if no document of value is present in the detection region 38
  • the deflection element is arranged on the side of the transport path opposite the detection device 40.
  • the detection device 82 has the focusing optics 52, the deflecting element 50, the condenser optics 60, the filter 62 and the deflecting element 64, but somewhat rotated relative to the position in the first embodiment, which are all formed as in the first embodiment, therefore they are also used the same reference numerals as in the first embodiment.
  • this is at least a suitable component of the spectrographic device movable, preferably free of play, stored.
  • control and evaluation device 92 detects a signal of the transport sensor, not shown, at the transport path, which indicates the arrival of a transported document of value 12, the control and evaluation device 92 places the transmitter 46, ie the reference radiation device, in the operating state in which this reference radiation is transmitted the detection area 38 outputs, and the detection device 82 in its operating state, unless the detection device is operated anyway in continuous operation. From this point in time, the control and evaluation device 92 detects detection signals emitted by the detection device 82.
  • At least one component of the spectrographic device is not moved, but rather the detector arrangement 88 is mounted so as to be linearly movable along its longitudinal direction and coupled to a corresponding actuator for moving the detector arrangement.
  • control and evaluation device 104 controls the surface-emitting laser diode 102 for the actual test after recognition of an entry of the value document into the detection area, while it shuts off the laser diode of the light scanner.
  • control and evaluation device is modified in such a way that, in addition to the spectral characteristic of the reference radiation, it also determines its overall intensity and uses it in the checking, adjustment or determination of correction data.

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