Patents Assigned to Välinge Innovation AB
  • Publication number: 20230311471
    Abstract: A method to produce a laminated substrate with an embossed structure, including: providing a polymer based film printed by at least one gravure cylinder, applying the polymer based film on a substrate including a polymer based material, pressing said polymer based film to the substrate, thereby forming a laminated substrate, and embossing the laminated substrate by an embossing device such that the laminated substrate obtains an embossed structure, wherein a circumference of said at least one gravure cylinder exceeds a perimeter of the embossing device, and wherein the circumference of said at least one gravure cylinder divided by the perimeter of the embossing device substantially corresponds to an integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Per NYGREN, Per JOSEFSSON, Filip SKÖLD, Christoffer NILSSON
  • Publication number: 20230313823
    Abstract: A set of panels including a first panel and a second panel configured to assume a locked state in which a first main plane of the first panel is arranged at an angle of between 30° and 150° relative to a second main plane of the second panel. A separate tongue arranged in an insertion groove provided in a groove of the first panel is configured to cooperate with a locking portion of the recess provided in the edge section of the second panel for locking the panels in a first direction perpendicular to the first main plane, and the edge section is configured to cooperate with the groove for locking the panels in a second direction parallel to the first main plane. The locking portion is disposed at a locking angle below 45° with respect to the second main plane and/or the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Thomas MEIJER
  • Publication number: 20230313541
    Abstract: A vertical joint system for substrates is formed with joints and which engaged by relative motion in a direction perpendicular to major surfaces and of the substrate. The joints are configured to enable relative rotation of up to 3 degrees while maintaining engagement of the joints. The joints and are further configured to form two locking planes one on each of the inner and outer most sides of the joint. Engagement about the locking planes is provided by transverse outward extending surfaces. At least one surface in each pair of engaging surfaces is smoothly curved. The joints and can be further arranged to provide a third locking plane parallel to and between the locking planes. The joints are disengaged by combination of a downward rotation of one joint relative the other then application of a downward force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Richard William Kell
  • Patent number: 11738540
    Abstract: A method to produce a veneered element, the method including applying a first layer on a substrate, applying a second layer on a veneer layer, applying the veneer layer with the second layer applied thereto on the first layer, such that the second layer is facing the first layer, pressing the first layer, the second layer and the veneer layer together to form a veneered element, thereby material originating from the second layer permeates into the veneer layer, and wherein, after pressing, the first layer is visible through a crack, cavity, hole and/or knot of the veneer layer. Also, a veneered element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Göran Ziegler, Rickard Rittinge
  • Publication number: 20230258002
    Abstract: A floor panel assembly including a first and a second panel. A first edge portion of the first panel includes an upwardly extending locking element and a second edge portion of the second panel includes a downwardly open locking groove configured to cooperate with the locking element for horizontally locking the first and second edge portions to each other. The floor panel assembly further includes a connecting device configured to be at least partially arranged in the locking groove in a locked state of the first and second edge portions. The connecting device includes a positioning member configured to extend along a third edge portion of the first panel in the locked state, wherein the first and third edge portions join each other at a corner portion of the first panel. Also, a corresponding connecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Caroline LANDGÅRD, Robin MELLBY, Fredrik BOO, Rickard RITTINGE, Christian BOO, Karl QUIST
  • Publication number: 20230258003
    Abstract: A set of panels includes first and second panels, and a mechanical locking device for locking by vertical relative displacement of the panels. A locking strip extends from a first edge of the first panel in a direction parallel to first and second panel surfaces of the first panel. The locking strip includes a locking element configured to cooperate with a locking groove at a second edge of the second panel for locking in a direction parallel to the first panel surface. Opposite edges respectively include cooperating tongue and tongue groove for vertical locking. The locking strip includes a flexing groove extending from the second locking strip surface into the locking strip, to increase a flexibility of the locking strip during the assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO
  • Patent number: 11725394
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • Patent number: 11725395
    Abstract: A method of assembling resilient floorboards is disclosed that includes the step of bending an edge of a floorboard during the assembling. The bending reduces the force required for connection of the edge to another edge of a juxtaposed floorboard. The floorboards may be provided with a mechanical locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of two adjacent floorboards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Mats Nilsson, Per Nygren
  • Patent number: 11718083
    Abstract: A method for producing a building element, including providing a substrate, applying a thermosetting binder on the substrate or on a wood veneer layer, arranging the wood veneer layer on the substrate with the thermosetting binder intermediate the substrate and the wood veneer layer, arranging an elastic or formable sheet including a polymeric material between the wood veneer layer and a press surface of a pressing device, applying heat and pressure by the pressing device on the elastic or formable sheet, the wood veneer layer, the thermosetting binder, and the substrate, thereby forming a building element including the substrate and the wood veneer layer attached to the substrate by the thermosetting binder, after applying heat and pressure, removing the elastic or formable sheet from the wood veneer layer. Also, a pressing device for embossing a wooden surface and a method of embossing a wooden surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Andreas Slottemo, Göran Ziegler
  • Publication number: 20230235571
    Abstract: A set of rectangular building panels have a frontside and a backside and a mechanical locking device at opposite first and second edge portion configured for plane locking of similar panels in an assembled position by means of displacement of a plane with a second edge portion of a second panel in an engagement direction towards a first edge portion of an adjacent first panel. The first edge portion includes a first locking element configured to cooperate for plane locking with a first locking groove at the second edge portion. The first edge portion has a first front edge portion adjacent the frontside of the first panel and a first sub edge portion between the first front edge portion and a flexible tongue in an insertion groove, the insertion groove being arranged between the backside of the first panel and the first sub edge portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Lucas LARSSON, Caroline LANDGÅRD
  • Publication number: 20230220680
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system on long and short edges allowing installation with vertical snap folding that could be accomplished automatically without tools and where the short edge locking system has a tongue made in one piece with the panel. The floor panels may have a first and a second connector at the long edges that are configured to obtain a minimum of friction facilitating a displacement, by a spring back force from the bending of a short edge locking strip, of a new panel in a horizontal direction along the long edge during the vertical snap folding action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Marcus Nilsson STÅHL
  • Publication number: 20230182461
    Abstract: A method to produce a panel. The method includes providing a core having a first surface, providing a surface layer including a substantially uncured amino resin, applying an hydrolysable adhesive on the first surface of the core and/or on a surface of the surface layer adapted to face the core, arranging the surface layer on the first surface of the core, pressing the surface layer to the core to form a panel by applying heat and pressure in a press, thereby adhering the surface layer to the core by the hydrolysable adhesive and curing the amino resin of the surface layer. Also such a panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Pontus GAMSTEDT, Per JOSEFSSON, Christoffer NILSSON
  • Publication number: 20230175260
    Abstract: A set of building panels, each building panel has a decorative surface and a mechanical locking device for horizontal and vertical locking of similar or essentially identical building panels in an assembled position. An upper edge portion of a side edge of a first building panel and an upper edge portion of a side edge of a second building panel are, in the assembled position, juxtaposed to form a joint seal. The mechanical locking device includes a locking surface at the upper edge portion of the side edge of the first building panel configured to cooperate with a locking surface at the upper edge portion of the side edge of the second building panel. The two locking surfaces are configured to lock the side edge of the first building panel and the side edge of the second building panel in a direction parallel to the extension of the decorative surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Christian BOO, Per Nygren, Peter DERELÖV
  • Publication number: 20230158781
    Abstract: A method to produce a veneer element, including defects and dense portions. The method includes providing a substrate, providing a sub-layer, including a binder and colored filler particles, applying the sub-layer on a first surface of the substrate, applying a veneer layer on the sub-layer, and applying pressure, preferably heat and pressure, to the veneer layer and/or the substrate, thereby forming a veneer element wherein, after pressing, the sub-layer is visible through a defect of the veneer element such as crack, cavity, hole and/or knot of the veneer layer. Also, a veneer element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Anette Hedlund, Sofia NILSSON
  • Publication number: 20230150253
    Abstract: A method for producing a floorboard having a topside veneer includes forming a multilayer body which includes a starting carrier plate, a plurality of veneers placed on the starting carrier plate so that a gap is formed between neighboring ones of the veneers, a resin layer including a resin provided between the starting carrier plate and the veneers, and a balancing layer arranged on a bottom side of the starting carrier plate; joining the starting carrier plate, the resin layer, the veneers and the balancing layer by pressing the multilayer body in a press; separating the multilayer body into individual boards between the neighboring veneers in a region of the gap; profiling the individual boards at side borders of the boards; and providing the individual boards with joining means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Guido SCHULTE
  • Publication number: 20230148747
    Abstract: A set including a first panel, a second panel and a mechanical locking device for locking the first panel to the second panel, wherein the first panel includes a first edge surface, the second panel includes a second panel surface, the first edge surface is facing the second panel surface in a locked position of the first and the second panel, the mechanical locking device includes at least one rod-shaped element at the first edge surface, at least one insertion groove at the second panel surface, the rod-shaped element is configured to be inserted into the insertion groove, the rod-shaped element extends at a first angle from the first edge surface, the insertion groove extends into the second panel surface at a second angle from the second panel surface, the mechanical locking device further including at least one locking groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Peter DERELÖV, Johan SVENSSON
  • Publication number: 20230147355
    Abstract: A set of essentially identical subfloor panels including a joint configured to be glued, wherein the joint includes an element at a strip which protrudes from a first joint edge at an edge of a panel and an element groove at an adjacent edge. The joint includes a flexible tongue which is configured to cooperate, in the joined position, with a tongue groove for positioning of the panel relative the adjacent panel in a first vertical direction. The joint is configured for a joining of the edge and the adjacent edge by a vertical motion of the edge relative the adjacent edge. A space above the strip and between the element and the first joint edge is configured to be filled partly or completely with a glue before the edge and the adjacent edge are joined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Karl QUIST, Anders NILSSON
  • Publication number: 20230144018
    Abstract: A set of panels includes first and second panels and a mechanical locking device for assembly by vertical relative displacement of the panels. A locking strip extends from a first edge of the first panel in a direction parallel to first and second panel surfaces of the first panel. The locking strip includes a locking strip edge, and first and second locking strip surfaces respectively extending in directions substantially corresponding to those of the first and second panel surfaces. A locking element of the locking strip cooperates with a locking groove at the second edge of the second panel for locking in a direction parallel to the first panel surface. Opposite edges respectively include cooperating tongue and tongue groove for vertical locking. A flexing groove extends from a first locking strip surface/first edge transition and into the first panel at an angle ? from the first panel surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Roger YLIKANGAS, Anders NILSSON, Thomas MEIJER
  • Publication number: 20230115427
    Abstract: Floorboards provided with a mechanical locking system including a locking strip protruding from a first edge of a first floorboard. The locking strip is provided with a locking element configured to cooperate with a locking groove at a lower side of a second edge of a second floorboard for locking the first edge and the second edge in a horizontal direction. The first edge and the second edge are configured to be assembled by a vertical downward motion of the second edge towards the first edge. The second edge is provided with a calibrating groove adjacent the locking groove. Also, a method for producing a mechanical locking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO
  • Publication number: 20230105946
    Abstract: A connection arrangement for panels including a first panel having a first main plane and a second panel having a second main plane. The first main plane is essentially perpendicular to the second main plane in a connected state. The second panel includes a groove on a first face adapted to receive a first edge of the first panel. The connection arrangement includes an elongate flexible tongue element arranged in an elongate insertion groove in the first panel at an angle of less than 45° relative the first main plane and arranged to cooperate with an elongate tongue receiving groove arranged in the groove of the second panel for connecting the two panels to one another. The elongate insertion groove and the elongate flexible tongue element are configured to extend through the plane of the first face of the second panel when the two panels are in a connected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Mindaugas ZACHARENKO