Patents Assigned to Flooring Industries Limited, Sarl
  • Patent number: 11820108
    Abstract: A floor panel with a substrate and a decorative layer of wood veneer with a thickness of 1 millimeter or less and provided on the substrate. The decorative layer is provided on the substrate by means of a glue layer which is situated between the substrate and the decorative layer. The glue layer comprises hard particles with an average particle size which is at least one third of the thickness of the wood veneer. Methods for manufacturing such floor panels are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Christophe Naeyaert, Pieter-Jan Sabbe
  • Publication number: 20230364938
    Abstract: A method may be provided for manufacturing a panel of the type having a support and a top layer. The top layer may have a printed motif and a wear layer disposed above the motif. The wear layer may be fabricated from PVC. The top layer may include an inkjet receiving layer that has less than 10% by weight of water absorbing substances. The method may involve providing a printing substrate, providing the printing substrate with the inkjet receiving layer, and digitally inkjet printing the motif with a set of water based inks. The digital inkjet printing may involve one or more printing operations. Each of the printing operations may be dedicated to print one color. The method may involve one or more ink drying steps. Each of the drying steps may be performed after performing one or more respective printing operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Flooring Industries Limited, SARL
    Inventor: Benjamin CLEMENT
  • Patent number: 11814852
    Abstract: Floor panel for forming a floor covering, where the floor panel includes a carrier on the basis of a thermoplastic material and a top layer provided on the carrier. The thermoplastic material is free from plasticizers or includes a plasticizer in an amount up to maximum 20 phr, where the thermoplastic material is foamed or expanded, and where the carrier is provided with a reinforcement layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED SARL
    Inventors: Kristof Van Vlassenrode, Filip Bossuyt
  • Patent number: 11814851
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a superabsorbing material. Also a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Dieter D'Hondt, Aaron Shaw
  • Publication number: 20230347677
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing a paper or a thermoplastic foil printable with an inkjet printer for use as a decor paper or a decor foil in a laminate panel. The method may involve providing a paper layer or a thermoplastic foil. At least one side of the paper layer or the thermoplastic foil may be coated with an inkjet receiver coating that includes at least a pigment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Flooring Industries Limited, SARL
    Inventors: Benjamin CLEMENT, Michiel BLIEK
  • Patent number: 11795702
    Abstract: A floor panel has a rectangular and oblong shape, and includes a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate and forming a decorative side of the floor panel. The top layer is composed of a print provided on a carrier sheet and a transparent thermoplastic layer situated above the print. The substrate has a thickness from 2 to 10 millimeter and forms at least half of the thickness of the floor panel. The substrate is a polyurethane-based substrate and the transparent thermoplastic layer is polyurethane-based. The floor panel has a length of more than 1.1 meters and has a plurality of reinforcing layers situated outside the center line of the substrate. A reinforcing layer may be provided in combination with the substrate and the top layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED SARL
    Inventors: Laurent Meersseman, Martin Segaert, Mark Cappelle
  • Patent number: 11794460
    Abstract: A method is provided for manufacturing panels with a substrate and a decorative top layer that may include a printed motif and a transparent or translucent protective layer formed there above. The method may involve applying a first and a second finishing layer for forming a first and a second portion of the protective layer. Recesses may be formed at the surface of the second finishing layer. Hard particles may be provided in the first finishing layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Flooring Industries Limited, SARL
    Inventor: Bruno Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 11788568
    Abstract: Composed element, wherein this composed element comprises at least two panel-shaped elements, which substantially are formed from a board material; wherein said panel-shaped elements are interconnected at an angle by means of coupling devices including a tongue and a groove, which coupling devices substantially are made as profiled parts in the board material; and wherein said coupling devices also include locking elements, which, in coupled condition, prevent the moving apart of the tongue and groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED SARL
    Inventors: Luc Maertens, Mark Cappelle, Luc Vanhastel, Luc Deman, Guy Van Hooydonck
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11781326
    Abstract: A panel for forming a floor covering has a substrate including at least a layer of thermoplastic material, where the panel, above the layer, has at least also a printed décor and a translucent or transparent wear layer. The layer also includes at least individual fibers having a length greater than 1 millimeter, where the individual fibers are loose and freely distributed with the layer of thermoplastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Martin Segaert, Christophe Naeyaert
  • Patent number: 11781325
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a floor panel having a substrate and a top layer. The top layer may have a decorative layer that includes a digital print and a transparent or translucent wear layer. The method may involve providing the substrate with the digital print by jetting one or more inks from a set of inks using a digital inkjet printer. The ink may include a binding agent and/or a primer or adhesion layer may be provided between the digital print and the transparent or translucent wear layer. The digital print may be performed directly on the substrate. The transparent or translucent wear layer may be laminated on top of the printed substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Flooring Industries Limited, SARL
    Inventor: Benjamin Clement
  • Publication number: 20230302774
    Abstract: A decorative panel including a substrate material and decorative top layer, wherein the decorative top layer includes at least one timber layer, wherein the timber layer is a compressed timber layer with a permanent increased density as compared to an original timber layer, wherein the decorative panel is a square or rectangular floor panel which, at, at least one pair of opposite edges, or at both pairs, includes mechanical coupling allowing to couple two of such floor panels to each other such that a locking is created in a vertical direction perpendicular to a plane of the coupled panels, as well as in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a coupled edge and in the plane of the coupled panels, the mechanical coupling being in the substrate material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Flooring Industries Limited, SARL
    Inventor: Peter Chan
  • Publication number: 20230295933
    Abstract: A panel may include at a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate. The top layer may include a motif and a transparent or translucent synthetic material layer provided above the motif. The motif may be a print formed by digitally applying inks on the substrate with the intermediary of one or more primer layers extending underneath the print. The transparent or translucent synthetic material layer may include polypropylene and have a thickness of less than 1 millimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Laurent MEERSSEMAN, Martin SEGAERT, Bernard THIERS, Benjamin CLEMENT, Christophe MAESEN
  • Patent number: 11746540
    Abstract: A floor panel for forming a floor covering, where the floor panel includes a layer-shaped substrate, as well as a decorative top layer situated above the substrate; and where the substrate includes at least a layer which is realized on the basis of a composition including at least a thermoplastic synthetic material being polyester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventor: Martin Segaert
  • Patent number: 11746537
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a super absorbing material. Also, a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Dieter D'Hondt, Aaron Shaw
  • Patent number: 11739540
    Abstract: A set of mutually lockable panels comprises a first panel having an edge including a male part and a second panel having an edge including a female part for receiving the male part of the first panel in unlocked condition of the panels. The male part has an outer side which, in locked condition of the panels, is directed to the second panel in a direction substantially parallel to the front face of the first panel, and an opposite inner side which is provided with a locking surface. The female part comprises a locking member, which is pivotable about a pivot axis that extends substantially parallel to the edge of the second panel and an actuator for rotating the locking member from its unlocked condition to a locked condition of the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Jan Eddy De Rick, Bruno Paul Louis Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 11739537
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a super absorbing material. Also, a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Dieter D'Hondt, Aaron Shaw
  • Patent number: 11739539
    Abstract: A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a superabsorbing material. Also a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Dieter D'Hondt, Aaron Shaw
  • Patent number: 11739538
    Abstract: A set of floor panels includes floor panels that are oblong rectangular and have a pair of long edges and a pair of short edges. The long and the short edges are provided with mechanical coupling parts, which allow coupling the floor panels of the set to each other such that a herringbone pattern can be realized herewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventor: Jan Eddy De Rick
  • Publication number: 20230256774
    Abstract: A method may be provided for manufacturing a panel that may include a substrate and a top layer provided on the substrate. The top layer may have a printed motif and a translucent or transparent synthetic material layer provided above the printed motif. The panel may have a structure or relief at the surface. The method may involve milling profiles into the substrate to obtain mechanical coupling means for coupling together two of the panels. The structure or relief and/or the printed motif may be realized after milling the profiles into the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: FLOORING INDUSTRIES LIMITED, SARL
    Inventors: Benny SCHACHT, Filip TACK