Patents Assigned to Flooring Technologies Ltd.
  • Patent number: 12578268
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining the adhesive penetration into at least one porous coating material which is pressed with at least one carrier plate and at least one adhesive layer arranged on the carrier plate. The adhesive penetrates or rises into the at least one porous coating material during the pressing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Norbert Kalwa
  • Patent number: 12508800
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Joachim Hasch
  • Patent number: 12504367
    Abstract: Provided is a method for determining the resin penetration into at least one porous coating material which is pressed with at least one carrier board and at least one resin layer arranged on the carrier board. During the pressing process the resin penetrates or rises into the at least one porous coating material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Joachim Hasch, Norbert Kalwa, Jinming Zhang
  • Patent number: 12487174
    Abstract: Provided is a method for the simultaneous determination of parameters, in particular of at least two, three or four parameters, of at least one resin layer applied to at least one carrier material by recording and evaluating at least one NIR spectrum in a wavelength range between 500 nm and 2500 nm, preferably between 700 nm and 2000 nm, more preferably between 900 nm and 1700 nm, and particularly advantageously between 1450 nm and 1550 nm, using at least one NIR measuring head, in particular at least one NIR multimeter head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Norbert Kalwa
  • Patent number: 12403677
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a wooden material having a supporting plate and at least one first, non-external veneer and a second veneer on a first surface of the supporting plate, wherein the supporting plate, the first and the at least second veneer are connected to one another by synthetic resin. In order to create a cost-effective wooden material board with a veneered surface, a liquid synthetic resin is applied, in excess, in relation to the quantity required for gluing purposes, to the supporting plate and/or to the first veneer and/or the at least second veneer, the synthetic resin applied in excess is dried but not cured, a stack of material to be pressed comprising the supporting plate, the first, non-external veneer and the at least second veneer is assembled, and the stack of material to be pressed is compressed in a high-pressure press to form a wooden material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Norbert Kalwa
  • Publication number: 20250256425
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2025
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Applicant: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Jens Siems
  • Patent number: 12385261
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Marcel Zorn
  • Patent number: 12311404
    Abstract: It is provided a method for producing an abrasion- and water-resistant multilayer panel, in particular an abrasion- and water-resistant flooring panel, including the steps: providing at least one plastic carrier plate, in particular a PVC carrier plate; applying at least one base coat to the surface of the plastic carrier plate; printing the plastic carrier plate by direct printing to form a decorative layer; applying at least one first cover layer to the printed decorative layer; uniformly scattering abrasion-resistant particles onto the at least one cover layer applied to the decorative layer; applying at least one second covering layer to the layer of scattered abrasion-resistant particles; optionally, introducing a structure into the at least second cover layer, applying at least one lacquer layer, and curing the layer structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Ingo Lehnhoff, Norbert Kalwa, Frank Oldorff
  • Publication number: 20250162291
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a stabilized veneer without a carrier board, a stabilized veneer and a veneered board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Bernd Stiewe, Joachim Hasch, Norbert Kalwa
  • Patent number: 12296499
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: FLOORING TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
    Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Jens Siems
  • Patent number: 12267475
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Sebastian Dicke
  • Patent number: 12257802
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Torsten Kopp
  • Patent number: 12258486
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Andreas Gier
  • Patent number: 12194757
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Sebastian Dicke
  • Patent number: 12083769
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Joachim Hasch, Bernd Stiewe
  • Patent number: 11992967
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Norbert Kalwa
  • Patent number: 11976470
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Marcel Zorn
  • Patent number: 11884097
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Norbert Kalwa, Ingo Lehnhoff
  • Patent number: 11872837
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Christoph Schumacher, Stefan Zick
  • Patent number: 11876946
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Flooring Technologies Ltd.
    Inventor: Sebastian Dicke