Patents Assigned to Flooring Technologies Ltd.
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Publication number: 20250162291Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a stabilized veneer without a carrier board, a stabilized veneer and a veneered board.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2023Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Bernd Stiewe, Joachim Hasch, Norbert Kalwa
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Patent number: 12267475Abstract: The invention provides a method and an apparatus for adopting analogue decor templates in decor printing, including the similarity comparison between at least one of 1 to n hyperspectral digital reference images of the analogue decor template and at least one of 1 to n hyperspectral digital actual images of a substrate with decor. A decor-specific profile target is adjusted such that the digital template of the analogue decor template can be output on a substrate by way of an output medium in such a way that the colour deviation between at least one of 1 to n reference images of the analogue decor template and at least one of 1 to n actual images of the substrate with decor is below a specified target value.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Sebastian Dicke
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Patent number: 12257802Abstract: The disclosure relates to a press plate for creating deep structures in panel-like products, for example in wood-based boards or laminates made of resin-coated papers, composed of a metallic base body, in which strip-shaped and/or frame-like webs, which have a higher thermal conductivity than the base body, are inserted in depressions provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Torsten Kopp
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Patent number: 12258486Abstract: A composition for sealing/coating the edges of wood-fibre boards is provided. The composition includes at least one compound of general formula R1aSiX(4-a) (I), and/or their hydrolysis products. X is H, OH or a hydrolyzable group selected from alkoxy-, aryloxy-, and acyloxy-, R1 is an organic radical selected from the group including alkyl, aryl, and cycloalkyl, and R1 has at least one functional group Q1 selected from a hydroxy, amino, monoalkylamino, carboxy, mercapto, alkoxy, aldehyde, acrylic, acryloxy, methacrylic, methacryloxy, cyano, isocyano and epoxy group, and a=0, 1, 2, 3, The composition also includes at least one compound of general formula R2bSiX(4-b) (II), and/or their hydrolysis products. X has the above meaning, R2 is a non-hydrolyzable organic radical selected from alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, and cycloalkenyl, and b=1, 2, 3, or 4. The composition also includes at least one aqueous polymer dispersion.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Andreas Gier
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Patent number: 12194757Abstract: Provided is a method for producing at least one carrier material provided with a print decoration. The print decoration is applied to the at least one carrier material by means of digital printing. The water-soluble CRYK ink used for the digital printing has the following composition: Colour component C: at least one cyan pigment; Colour component K: at least one black carbon pigment; Colour component Y: at least one yellow pigment; or a mixture of at least two different yellow pigments or a mixture of at least one yellow pigment and at least one red pigment; and Colour component R: at least one red pigment, or a mixture of at least two different red pigments or a mixture of at least one red pigment and at least one yellow pigment.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Sebastian Dicke
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Patent number: 12083769Abstract: Provided is method for producing a support material provided with at least one anti-fingerprint coating including the steps of applying at least one layer of at least one powdered resin to at least one side of the support material; melting on the at least one applied layer of the one powdered resin; applying at least one acrylate-containing dispersion to the melted-on resin layer; and drying and curing the layered structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Joachim Hasch, Bernd Stiewe
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Patent number: 11992967Abstract: The invention relates to a device for depositing veneers on a carrier board. In order to create a device and a method by which veneers can be applied to a carrier board particularly easily, quickly and precisely, provided in the region of an upper end of a transporting device is a veneer magazine, with at least two compartments which are designed to store and supply veneer strips, and with means for transferring the veneer strips from the compartments to the transporting device, wherein the transporting device extends from an upper end obliquely downwards in the direction of a lower end in the region of a transporting plane for the carrier board and is designed to transport at least two individual adjacent veneer strips from the upper end to the lower end and to deposit them on the carrier board.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Norbert Kalwa
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Patent number: 11976470Abstract: Provided is a hard floor panel having a top side and a bottom side and having side edges along the panel sides for floating installation to form a floor panel composite. At least two floor panels are joined together in each case, the opposite side edges being provided with tongue-and-groove profiles, a tongue and a joining surface is provided in a first side edge and a groove and a joining surface is provided in a second opposite side edge. The tongue of the first side edge has an upper side and a lower side. A projection with a contact surface is provided on the lower side of the tongue. The joining surface of the first side edge extends from the upper side of the floor panel towards the upper tongue side and the joining surface is beveled.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Marcel Zorn
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Patent number: 11884097Abstract: A production line for producing an abrasion-resistant wood-composite panel that has a decorative layer, the production line including a first application device for applying a resin layer to an upper and/or lower side of a core board, a scattering device for scattering abrasion-resistant particles controlled by a light barrier and arranged downstream of the first application device in a direction of processing, a first resin drying device arranged downstream of the first application device and scattering device, a second resin application device for applying a second resin layer to an upper and/or lower side of the core board arranged downstream of the first resin drying device, a second resin drying device arranged downstream of the second application device, and at least one short-cycle press.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Ingo Lehnhoff
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Patent number: 11872837Abstract: An abrasion-resistant wood-based panel having a top side and a bottom side, with at least one decorative layer arranged on the top side, in particular with a structure synchronous with the decoration, is disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Christoph Schumacher, Stefan Zick
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Patent number: 11876946Abstract: The invention provides a method and an apparatus for adopting analogue decor templates in decor printing, including a similarity comparison between at least one of (1) to n hyperspectral digital reference images of the analogue decor template and at least one of (1) to n hyperspectral digital actual images of a substrate with decor. A decor-specific profile target is adjusted such that the digital template of the analogue decor template can be output on a substrate by way of an output medium in such a way that the colour deviation between at least one of (1) to n reference images of the analogue decor template and at least one of (1) to n actual images of the substrate with decor is below a specified target value.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Sebastian Dicke
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Publication number: 20230347546Abstract: To provide a method which is intended for producing a veneered board with a simple structure that also makes it possible to improve the properties of the veneer in a simple manner, a method is proposed for producing a veneered board, wherein the veneered board comprises a veneer (4) having an upper face (6) and a lower face (5) and a carrier board (1) having an upper face (2) and a lower face (3), comprising the steps of providing a veneer (4), applying a binder (8) onto the upper face (2) of the carrier board (1) or the lower face (5) of the veneer (4), wherein a PU prepolymer is used as the binder, producing a stack of materials to be pressed comprising the carrier board (1) and the veneer (4) with the binder (8) arranged between the carrier board (1) and the veneer (4) and with the additive (7) arranged between the binder (8) and the veneer (4), pressing the stack of materials to be pressed in order to form a veneered board. The invention additionally relates to a veneered board.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Joachim Hasch
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Publication number: 20230158705Abstract: The invention relates to a device for depositing veneers on a carrier board. In order to create a device and a method by which veneers can be applied to a carrier board particularly easily, quickly and precisely, provided in the region of an upper end of a transporting device is a veneer magazine, with at least two compartments which are designed to store and supply veneer strips, and with means for transferring the veneer strips from the compartments to the transporting device, wherein the transporting device extends from an upper end obliquely downwards in the direction of a lower end in the region of a transporting plane for the carrier board and is designed to transport at least two individual adjacent veneer strips from the upper end to the lower end and to deposit them on the carrier board.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Norbert Kalwa
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Patent number: 11623995Abstract: An impregnate with antistatic properties for use in laminates or for coating wood-based panels is disclosed. A resin used for impregnating and/or coating paper may include carbon-based particles, at least one compound of the general formula (Ia) R1aSiX(4-a), R3cSiX(4-c) (II), and inorganic particles. X is methoxy, ethoxy, n-propoxy or i-propoxy. R1 is an organic radical selected from the group including methyl, ethyl, propyl, or vinyl, and has at least one functional group Q1, selected from the group including acrylic, acryloxy, methacrylic, methacyloxy, or epoxy. R3 is a non-hydrolyzable organic radical selected from the group including C1-C10 alky, C6-10 aryl, wherein C is 1, 2, or 3, and the inorganic particles have a size between 2 nm and 400 nm.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Andreas Gier, Norbert Kalwa
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Patent number: 11612911Abstract: It is provided a method for producing a support material provided with at least one anti-fingerprint coating including the steps of: applying at least one layer of at least one powdered resin to at least one side of the support material; melting on the at least one applied layer of the one powdered resin; applying at least one acrylate-containing dispersion to the melted-on resin layer; and drying and curing the layered structure.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Joachim Hasch, Bernd Stiewe
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Patent number: 11597188Abstract: A wood-based panel includes at least one carrier board and at least one resin layer disposed side of the board. The at least one resin layer includes carbon-based particles, at least one compound of the formula R1aR2bSiX(4-a-b), and/or hydrolysis products. X is H, OH, or a hydrolysable moiety selected from the group including halogen, alkoxy, carboxyl, amino, monoalkylamino or dialkylamino, aryloxy, acyloxy, and alkylcarbonyl. R1 is an organic residue selected from the group including alkyl, aryl, and cycloalkyl, which may be interrupted by —O— or —NH—. R1 has at least one functional group Q1 selected from a group containing a hydroxy-, amino, monoalkylamino, carboxy, mercapto, alkoxy, aldehyde, acrylic, acryloxy, methacrylic, methacryloxy, cyano, isocyano and epoxide group, R2 is a non-hydrolyzable organic moiety selected from the group including alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloalkyl, and cycloalkenyl; A is 0, 1, 2, or 3. B is 1, 2, 3, or 4.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Andreas Gier, Norbert Kalwa
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Patent number: 11548274Abstract: The invention relates to a method for online quality control of decorative prints on substrate materials, including similarity comparisons of actual and target images and adjusting decorative prints if deviations of color values are detected. The method may include the steps of: a) producing a hyperspectral digital image of a print decoration; b) calibrating the print decoration via a hyperspectral digital image; c) producing and storing a digital target image of the print decoration; d) creating a first print decoration on a first substrate material; e) producing and storing a digital actual image of the printed decoration on the first substrate material; f) determining color deviations between the digital target image and the digital actual image via a computer program; and g) printing on at least one side of substrate materials so as to form a decorative layer. The invention also relates to a device for carrying out the method.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventor: Ingo Lehnhoff
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Publication number: 20220402161Abstract: A method for producing a veneered board having a veneer and a carrier board, to provide a veneered board having improved use properties. The method includes: providing a veneer having an upper face and a lower face, applying an additive onto the lower face of the veneer, applying a binder onto the lower face of the veneer, heating the binder, producing a stack of materials to be pressed, having a carrier board and a veneer provided with an additive and a binder on its lower face, wherein the lower face of the veneer lies on the carrier board, pressing the stack of materials to be pressed in order to form a veneered board.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Joachim Hasch
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Publication number: 20220388197Abstract: A method for producing a veneered board having a veneer and a carrier board having improved use properties includes the steps of providing a veneer and a carrier board, providing a sheet of paper impregnated with binder, the sheet of paper being arranged in a stack of materials to be pressed between an upper face of the carrier board and a lower face of the veneer, and pressing the stack of materials to be pressed. The sheet of paper is impregnated with a binder, the sheet of paper impregnated with binder is pre-dried so that it is still sticky, at least one additive is applied onto the pre-dried, still sticky binder, and the sheet of paper which is impregnated with binder and provided with an additive is dried to a residual moisture content of up to 8%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2020Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Jens Siems
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Patent number: 11440341Abstract: A method for producing an abrasion-resistant wood-based panel having a top side and a bottom side, with at least one decorative layer arranged on the top side, in particular with a structure synchronous with the decoration, is disclosed herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Christoph Schumacher, Stefan Zick