Patents by Inventor Darko Pervan

Darko Pervan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220143718
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other and configured such that the protrusions can obtain a vertically unlocked position where they match the cavities and a vertically locked position where the protrusions overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Niclas HAKANSSON, Mattias SJOSTRAND, Christian BOO, Agne PALSSON
  • Patent number: 11326636
    Abstract: Panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a separate and flexible tongue allowing connection with a snap action. An outer edge part of the separate flexible tongue includes a guiding protrusion for disassembly of the panels and that is deformed during locking and/or unlocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Patent number: 11318726
    Abstract: A building panel with a surface layer including a wood veneer, a wood fibre based core and a sub-layer between the surface layer and the core. The sub-layer includes wood fibres and a binder. The surface layer has surface portions including material from the sub-layer. The surface portions including material from the sub-layer extend into the wood veneer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Goran Ziegler
  • Patent number: 11313123
    Abstract: A method of forming a building panel or a surface element, including providing a substrate, applying a sub-layer on the substrate, applying a mesh structure on the sub-layer, and applying heat and pressure to the mesh structure such that the sub-layer at least partially fills meshes of the mesh structure. Also, to such a building panel and a surface element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Peter Wingårdh, Göran Ziegler, Thomas Meijer
  • Patent number: 11285508
    Abstract: A method of forming a digital print on a surface by applying powder of dry ink including colourants on the surface, bonding a part of the dry ink powder to the surface by a digital heating print head such that the digital print is formed by the bonded dry ink colourants and removing non-bonded dry ink from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
  • Patent number: 11274453
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system that may be locked with a vertical displacement of a first panel against a second panel. The locking system includes a first rigid and a second flexible joint edge section with different locking functions. The first edge section provides a horizontal locking and the second section provides a vertical locking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Patent number: 11261608
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible tongue in a displacement groove. The flexible tongue may be formed from the core material of the floor panels and inserted during production into the displacement groove. The locking system may be locked with vertical folding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Publication number: 20220042320
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system that may be locked with a vertical displacement of a first panel against a second panel. The locking system includes a flexible strip that during locking bends upwardly or downwardly. The locking system includes a first and a second joint edge section with different locking functions. One section provides a horizontal locking and another section provides a vertical locking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventor: Darko PERVAN
  • Publication number: 20220032594
    Abstract: A method for forming of a building panel with a surface including a thermosetting resin such that tension created during curing of the surface is reduced or eliminated. Method for producing a panel with a wood based core and a surface layer including a thermosetting resin wherein the method including: curing and connecting the surface layer to the core while applying heat and pressure in a first main pressing step, thus raising a temperature of the surface layer above an initial temperature; applying a bending force on the panel after the first main pressing step to bend the panel such that an uppermost surface of the panel is convex an a lowermost surface of the panel is concave while the panel is still above the initial temperature; and releasing the bending force such that the panel springs back to an essentially flat shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
  • Patent number: 11235565
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a building panel, including mixing wood fibre particles and a binder to form a first mix, applying the first mix, while the first mix is in powder form, on a core for forming a sub layer on the core, applying a surface layer on the sub layer, wherein the surface layer comprises a second mix of wood fibre particles and a binder, pressing the core, the surface layer, and the sub layer, under increased pressure and temperature, and forming them into a building panel. A building panel formed by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Jan Jacobsson, Kent Lindgren, Goran Ziegler, Niclas Hakansson, Eddy Boucke
  • Publication number: 20220025657
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long and short edges allowing installation with vertical folding and where the long edge locking system prevents separation of the short edges during the folding action. Floor panels with mechanical locking systems with a flexible and displaceable tongue allowing easy installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Darko PERVAN
  • Publication number: 20210379907
    Abstract: A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colourants on a surface of a panel, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. The method of forming a digital print on a surface of a panel includes displacing the panel under a digital drop application head, applying a liquid binder with the digital drop application head on the surface; applying colourants on the liquid binder and the surface; bonding a part of the colourants to the surface with the liquid binder; removing non-bonded colourants from the surface such that a digital print is formed by the bonded colourants; and applying heat and pressure on the panel, the surface and the bonded colorants such that the colourants are permanently bonded to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
  • Patent number: 11193283
    Abstract: Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is moulded and provided with bendable protrusions. A building panel having an edge portion provided with a groove, in which a tongue formed as a separate part is received, wherein the tongue includes at least two bow shaped protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue, and wherein the protrusions are arranged bendable in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Agne Palsson
  • Publication number: 20210363760
    Abstract: Building panels, especially laminated floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system and several core grooves at the rear side in order to save material and decrease weight. Building panels, each having a surface layer on a front side, a backing layer on a rear side and an intermediate core, wherein the intermediate core and the surface and the backing layer all comprise wood fibres and thermosetting resins, the building panels are provided with a locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of a first edge of a first building panel to an adjacent second edge of a second building panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventor: Darko PERVAN
  • Patent number: 11173722
    Abstract: Water-based ink including a pigment mix and a method to form a digital print on a substrate with a pigment mix having large pigments and a Piezo ink head equipped with an ink circulation system, the method including: providing a water-based ink including an aqueous pigment mix including settling pigments, a binder including an acrylic resin dispersion, and a viscosity increasing substance including glycol and/or glycerin, providing a steric stabilization of the pigments and adapting the size of the pigments and the viscosity of the water-based ink such that a settling velocity of the pigments exceeds about 0.001 mm/min at 25° C., circulating said water-based ink within said at least one Piezo print head, and printing a digital image with said at least one Piezo print head by applying ink drops of said water-based ink on the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Patent number: 11174646
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system that may be locked with a vertical displacement of a first panel against a second panel. The locking system includes a flexible strip that during locking bends upwardly or downwardly. The locking system includes a first and a second joint edge section with different locking functions. One section provides a horizontal locking and another section provides a vertical locking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Publication number: 20210348396
    Abstract: Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including an extruded flexible tongue in a sidewardly open groove which during a vertical folding motion is bent horizontally. A tongue adapted for being received in a sidewardly open groove of a floor panel, wherein the tongue, which is an elongated extruded section, when received in the groove is bendable in a plane substantially parallel with a front face of the floor panel, such that the tongue is at least partially resiliently displaceable inside said sidewardly open groove in said plane during locking of the floor panel with another floor panel and wherein a vertical protrusion, serving as a friction connection between the tongue and the groove, is arranged at an upper or lower part of the tongue, wherein a total width of tongue varies in a longitudinal direction of the tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Niclas HÅKANSSON, Per NYGREN
  • Patent number: 11135814
    Abstract: A method of producing a building panel, including: providing a core, applying a balancing layer having a first moisture content on a first surface of the core, the balancing layer comprising a sheet impregnated with a thermosetting binder, applying a surface layer having a second moisture content on a second surface of the core, the surface layer comprising a thermosetting binder, adjusting the first moisture content of the balancing layer such that the first moisture content of the balancing layer is higher than the second moisture content of the surface layer prior to curing, and curing the surface layer and the balancing layer by applying heat and pressure. Also, a semi-finished product adapted to be cured for forming a building panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Niclas Hakansson, Hans Persson, Marcus Bergelin
  • Patent number: 11131099
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long and short edges allowing installation with angling of long edges and where the short edge locking system has a displaceable tongue that is displaceable essentially in one direction from an inner unlocked position to an final locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Patent number: 11130352
    Abstract: A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colourants on a surface of a panel, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. The method of forming a digital print on a surface of a panel includes displacing the panel under a digital drop application head, applying a liquid binder with the digital drop application head on the surface; applying colourants on the liquid binder and the surface; bonding a part of the colourants to the surface with the liquid binder; removing non-bonded colourants from the surface such that a digital print is formed by the bonded colourants; and applying heat and pressure on the panel, the surface and the bonded colorants such that the colourants are permanently bonded to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan