Commonplace object with a surface that comprises a data track

US7048189B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• TESA SCRIBOS GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Stefan Borgsmueller · Heidelberg, DE
• Christoph Dietrich · Herborn, DE
• Matthias Gerspach · Heidelberg, DE
• Tobias Kresse · Heidelberg, DE
• Jorn Leiber · Hamburg, DE
• Robert Thomann · Heidelberg, DE
• Michael Mayer · Heidelberg, DE
• Steffen Noehte · Weinheim, DE
• Steffen Scheibenstock · Stuttgart, DE
• Kay Schulte-Wieking · Heidelberg, DE
• Stefan Stadler · Hamburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 30, 2002
• Grant date: May 23, 2006
• Expiry date: Sep 30, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G11B7/0025
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a commonplace object with an outer surface (4) that encircles the commonplace object (2) and with at least one cylindrical section (6) of the surface (4), in which the technical problem of specifying a commonplace object to whose surface a relatively large amount of information can be applied is solved in that the cylindrical section (4) of the surface (6) consists of a material which can be changed optically, and in that a data bit sequence is written along at least one track (8) on the cylindrical section (4).