Patents by Inventor Jan De Rick

Jan De Rick 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).

  • Patent number: 11939777
    Abstract: A wall or ceiling panel, which, on one side edge, comprises a male coupling part and, on an opposite side edge, comprises a female coupling part. The male coupling part comprises a tongue and the female coupling part comprises a groove. The groove is bordered by a front lip and a rear lip, with the characteristic that the panel forms a ceiling-high wall panel and/or has a length of at least 2400 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: UNILIN, BV
    Inventor: Jan De Rick
  • Publication number: 20240093506
    Abstract: A panel including a substrate and a top layer. The top layer has a decor layer and a wear layer. The panel is provided with a first pair of opposite edges; and optionally with a second pair of opposite edges. At least one edge of the first pair of opposite edges is provided with a grout imitation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jan DE RICK, Benny SCHACHT, Bryan ROLLIER, Lieven VANGHELUWE
  • Publication number: 20240068242
    Abstract: A set of floor panels that are elongate rectangular and include a pair of long edges and a pair of short edges. Both the long and the short edges are provided with mechanical coupling parts which allow the floor panels to be coupled together in such a way that a herringbone pattern may be produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20240052644
    Abstract: A floor element for forming a floor covering. The floor element has a support layer which is provided with coupling elements on at least a first pair of opposite sides. The coupling elements on the first pair of opposite sides are in the form of a tongue extending along a length of the first edge and a groove extending along a length of the second edge. The tongue is provided with a first locking surface and the groove is provided with a second locking surface, the first and second surfaces being intended to prevent two joined elements from drifting apart in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the joined edge. The first locking surface extends along a portion of the first edge length and/or the second locking surface extends along only a portion of the second edge length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20240011304
    Abstract: A floor, wall or ceiling panel comprises a core and a decorative top layer provided on the core. The core comprises a magnesium oxide-based board material, and wherein the aforementioned panel, on at least two opposite edges, is provided with coupling means allowing that two of such panels can be interlocked at the respective edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20240003139
    Abstract: A wall or ceiling panel assembly includes: at least one panel of rectangular or oblong shape provided with coupling means on at least two opposite long sidewalls of the panel. The length of the panel is greater than 1200 mm. The panel includes: at least a base layer having a mineral-based filler, and a decorative layer on top of the base layer, a coupling means on at least one long sidewall and a complementary coupling means on the opposite long sidewall. The panel further has a stiffening member adjacent to one of the long sidewalls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin CLEMENT, Laurent MEERSSEMAN, Jan DE RICK, Benny SCHACHT, Bruno VERMEULEN, Lieven VANGHELUWE, Jonas DEMAN
  • Patent number: 11859394
    Abstract: A floor, wall or ceiling panel comprises a core and a decorative top layer provided on the core. The core comprises a magnesium oxide-based board material, and wherein the aforementioned panel, on at least two opposite edges, is provided with coupling means allowing that two of such panels can be interlocked at the respective edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventor: Jan De Rick
  • Patent number: 11858165
    Abstract: A cutting device for a continuous milling machine for the profiling of one or more edges of panels has a slide shoe or pressure shoe, which has a sliding surface or sliding surfaces for guiding a surface of a panel to be milled over it or them. The aforementioned slide shoe or pressure shoe is provided with at least one cutting blade for machining the panel; the cutting blade maintains a fixed position during this machining. The slide shoe or the pressure shoe is provided in order to support the surface of the panel to be milled by means of its sliding surface or sliding surfaces on a rotating milling cutter that carries out a milling operation on the edge of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventor: Jan De Rick
  • Publication number: 20230417064
    Abstract: A rectangular panel has long and short edges, such that on each long edge and on each short edge, the panel has a coupling part, which allows the panel to be coupled to another similar panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Benny SCHACHT, Jan DE RICK
  • Patent number: 11834843
    Abstract: A rectangular panel has long and short edges, such that on each long edge and on each short edge, the panel has a coupling part, which allows the panel to be coupled to another similar panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Benny Schacht, Jan De Rick
  • Patent number: 11788300
    Abstract: A wall or ceiling panel, which, on one side edge, comprises a male coupling part and, on an opposite side edge, comprises a female coupling part. The male coupling part comprises a tongue and the female coupling part comprises a groove. The groove is bordered by a front lip and a rear lip, with the characteristic that the panel forms a ceiling-high wall panel and/or has a length of at least 2400 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventor: Jan De Rick
  • Publication number: 20230234329
    Abstract: The decorative panel includes a substrate and a top layer. The substrate has at least one of polyvinyl chloride layer. The top layer includes a decorative textile layer providing the surface of the decorative panel. The top layer is laminated onto the substrate by thermal bonding of the top layer onto the substrate; or by a polyvinyl chloride based adhesive layer. The substrate is provided at a first pair of opposite edges with coupling parts, substantially in the form of male coupling parts and female coupling parts, for coupling two such panels to each other at their first pair of opposite edges. The coupling parts are provided with locking means which effects a locking in coupled condition of two such panels in the direction perpendicular to the surface of the coupled panels and/or into the direction perpendicular to the respective edges in the plane of the panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20230228100
    Abstract: Floor panels have coupling parts in the form of a tongue and groove with locking surfaces. In a coupled state of two such panels, an open space is present, viewed vertically, between the tongue and the lower lip, and viewed horizontally, between the contact zone and the contact between the horizontally active locking surfaces. The underside of the tongue in the open space comprises a first face. The top side of the lower lip in the open space comprises a second face parallel to the first face. In the coupled state of two such panels, at least one face is perpendicular to the panel and intersects both the first face of the first coupled panel and the second plane of the panel coupled to the first panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20230212864
    Abstract: A wall or ceiling panel, which, on one side edge, comprises a male coupling part and, on an opposite side edge, comprises a female coupling part. The male coupling part comprises a tongue and the female coupling part comprises a groove. The groove is bordered by a front lip and a rear lip, with the characteristic that the panel forms a ceiling-high wall panel and/or has a length of at least 2400 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20230183987
    Abstract: Panels for floor coverings, wall coverings or ceilings have a first pair of opposite edges and a second pair of opposite edges. The opposite edges are provided with coupling parts that allow opposite edges of such panels to be coupled in a more easy way; and/or that allow that installation patterns can be made using the panels, without requiring a second type or second configuration of panels. The panel is provided with locking elements that create a locking of the so-coupled panels in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the panels; and in the direction parallel with the panels and perpendicular to the coupled panel edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20230075615
    Abstract: A floor, wall or ceiling panel comprises a core and a decorative top layer provided on the core. The core comprises a magnesium oxide-based board material, and wherein the aforementioned panel, on at least two opposite edges, is provided with coupling means allowing that two of such panels can be interlocked at the respective edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20230055973
    Abstract: The floor or wall panel has a substrate and a top layer applied thereon. The substrate consists mainly of a mineral material. The panel is provided, on at least two opposite edges, with coupling means that allow two such panels to be coupled together at the respective edges, wherein in the coupled state there is locking in the vertical direction perpendicular to the plane of the coupled panels and in the horizontal direction perpendicular to the coupled edges and in the plane of the coupled panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jan DE RICK, Benjamin CLEMENT, José MEIRLAEN, Marijn SEYNAEVE
  • Publication number: 20230046217
    Abstract: A floor covering element includes coupling means at two opposite edges. The floor covering element includes one or a combination of two or more of the following features: the top surface and/or the bottom surface is, at the respective edge, provided with a lowered surface, such as a bevel; the coupling means comprise a tongue with one or more elastically bendable portions; the coupling means are configured to allow for a closed connection at only one of the top and bottom surfaces; the coupling means allow for an assembly and/or disassembly by angling in, respectively out, upwardly and downwardly; the groove and/or the tongue are formed by a separate insert; the coupling means have a varying geometry along the respective edge; the floor covering element has a decorative surface at the top surface and at the bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Benny SCHACHT, Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20230003034
    Abstract: A floor panel for forming a floor covering, such that the floor covering includes floor panels, which, on at least one pair of edges, are provided with coupling parts. The coupling parts are substantially manufactured from the material of the floor panel. The coupling parts are configured such that two floor panels, at the pair of edges, can be installed and locked to each other by a downward movement and/or by using a fold-down principle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK
  • Publication number: 20220412101
    Abstract: A panel, which is rectangular and has long and short edges, includes a coupling part on each long edge and on each short edge, which allows coupling of the panel to another such panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Jan DE RICK