ARTICLE HAVING PROTECTIVE IMAGE, PRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF, USE OF COMPOUNDS THEREIN AND AUTHENTICATION METHOD Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC G07F7/12 C07F15/02 C07F15/06 C07F5/00 B41M3/14 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: article with an image includes a substrate having a masked or concealed protective image on at least part thereof, which reflects less than 50% of radiation at wavelength 800-900 nm. The protective image contains an infrared radiation absorbing compound selected from:

or salt or polymer thereof, where M is a metal selected from iron, cobalt, nickel, aluminium, scandium, chromium, vanadium, titanium, manganese and lanthanide. R₁ is selected from hydrogen, phosphonate, sulphonate, nitro, halogen, cyano, thiocyano, thioalkyl, thioaryl, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, aryloxy, amine, substituted amines and substituted aryl. One of R₂ and R₃ is oxygen and the other is NO; n is a number corresponding to half the coordination number of metal M; each of L and L' independently denotes a ligand which forms a complex with metal M, and y is a number which corresponds to the coordination number of metal M. The infrared radiation absorbing compound does not form an intensely coloured protective image, and the protective image is pale, colourless or tinted. The invention also discloses a method of making the article with the image, using the compound and a method of authenticating the said article.

EFFECT: obtaining a protective image which can reflect less than half the light at 800-900 nm, and a protective image which is not intensely coloured.

14 cl, 35 ex, 4 tbl