US 12,227,014 B2
Automatic desktop personalization device for booklet documents
Peter Puehler, Roedermark (DE); and Markus Schaefer, Dieburg (DE)
Assigned to SURYS GMBH, Dieburg (DE)
Appl. No. 18/003,848
Filed by SURYS GMBH, Dieburg (DE)
PCT Filed Jul. 23, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/070688
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/023209, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 3, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 20187956 (EP), filed on Jul. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0249472 A1, Aug. 10, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 1/04 (2006.01); B41J 2/44 (2006.01); B41M 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 2/442 (2013.01) [B41M 3/14 (2013.01); H04N 1/0057 (2013.01); H04N 2201/0096 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automatic desktop personalization device, for personalization of security booklet documents comprising a spine, the personalization device comprising:
a casing;
a camera;
an inkjet printing module, comprising a moveable printing head mounted on a fixed printing bridge, and configured to print within a printing zone;
a laser marking module, comprising a laser marking head, configured to mark within a marking zone;
a chip encoding module; and
a security booklet document transport mechanism, configured to automatically transport a security booklet document along a Y-axis linear direction, from an entrance to an exit of the automatic desktop personalization device, through printing positions and a marking position, which is different from the printing positions, wherein the entrance and the exit are the same,
wherein the printing head is movable alongside an X-axis linear direction, which is perpendicular to the Y-axis linear direction, and
wherein:
the inkjet printing module comprises the security booklet document transport mechanism,
the laser marking head is adjacent to the printing bridge, such that the marking zone and the printing zone are at least partly combined, and
the laser marking module is located above, piled up with, the inkjet printing module, such that the laser marking zone is located within the inkjet printing module and at least partly overlaps, is coincident with, the inkjet printing zone.