Patents Assigned to Valinge Innovation AB
  • Publication number: 20240309651
    Abstract: Building panels including a locking system for locking of a first edge portion to an adjacent second edge portion. The locking system includes a tongue and a tongue groove configured to cooperate for vertical locking. The tongue groove includes an upper and a lower lip protruding horizontally beyond the upper lip. In a locked state of the building panels an outer end portion of a lower vertical locking surface of the tongue is provided horizontally closer than an outer end portion of an upper vertical locking surface of the upper lip to a locking element provided on a strip extending beyond an upper portion of the first edge portion. Alternatively, or additionally, an inner end portion of a lower vertical locking surface of the lower lip is provided horizontally closer than an inner end portion of an upper vertical locking surface of the tongue to the locking element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO
  • Publication number: 20240293954
    Abstract: A method to recycle waste wood-based material, including collecting a waste wood-based material resulting from sawing and/or machining in a wood-based material, separating the waste wood-based material by particle size, without prior grinding, by screening the waste wood-based material through at least one first screen to separate a first fraction of particles from the waste wood-based material, wherein the at least one first screen has apertures having an aperture width of 3000 ?m or less, subsequently screening a remainder of the waste wood-based material through at least one second screen to separate a second fraction of particles from the waste wood-based material, wherein the at least one second screen has apertures having an aperture width exceeding 50 ?m, and wherein a third fraction of particles is formed by particles from the waste wood-based material passing through the at least one second screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Sofia BERGENDAL
  • Patent number: 12077967
    Abstract: A building panel, such as a floor panel or wall panel, has a first mechanical locking device at a respective first edge 11 and an opposite second edge, such as long edges, for horizontal and vertical locking of similar or essentially identical building panels in an assembled position. The building panel further has a second mechanical locking device at a respective third edge and an opposite fourth edge for horizontal and vertical locking of similar building panels or essentially identical building panels in an assembled position. The first mechanical locking device includes, at the first edge, a tongue groove 111 configured to receive a first locking tongue at the second edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian Boo
  • Patent number: 12071769
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to building panels, such as floor panels, including a locking device. The locking device includes a protrusion and a groove configured to cooperate for vertical locking of a first edge portion of a first building panel to an adjacent second edge portion of a second building panel. The locking device further includes a separate tongue arranged in an insertion groove and a recess configured to cooperate for horizontal locking of the first and the second edge portions. The first and second edge portions are configured to be assembled by a relative essentially horizontal displacement and/or by angling. The insertion groove is provided vertically below at least one horizontal plane extending along a vertical locking surface provided in a third edge portion of the first building panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Caroline Landgård, Marcus Ståhl, Darko Pervan
  • Patent number: 12070873
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a building panel. The method includes applying a first binder and free lignocellulosic or cellulosic particles on a first surface of a carrier for forming a first layer, applying a second binder and free lignocellulosic or cellulosic particles on the first layer for forming a second layer, wherein the first binder is different from the second binder, and applying heat and pressure to the first and second layers to form a building panel. Also, such a building panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Kent Lindgren, Hans Persson, Göran Ziegler
  • Patent number: 12065828
    Abstract: Building panels, especially floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system that is configured to lock the adjacent edges by angling and that have a tongue and a strip on the same edge, and a method to divide a board and produce such building panels. A method for dividing a floor element, into a first floor panel and a second floor panel, said floor element including a core provided with a decorative surface layer and a balancing layer, wherein the method includes the step of forming, through the balancing layer or the decorative surface layer, a second groove by displacing the floor element past a fixed tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Agne Palsson
  • Patent number: 12065840
    Abstract: A set of decking boards including a first and a second decking board and being provided with a connecting system including a connecting device. The first board is configured to be connected to a support element and the second board is configured to assume a vertically locked state with respect to the first board in which the connecting device cooperates with the first and second boards, there is a vertical gap between a portion of the second lip of the first decking board and a portion of the second lip of the second decking board, and there is a horizontal space between a first lip of the first board and the second lip of the second board. Also, other aspects of a set of decking boards and connecting devices as well as methods for demounting decking boards and replacing them with new decking boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Marcus Bergelin, Nils-Erik Engström
  • Publication number: 20240271429
    Abstract: A set of panels configured to be locked together by a flexible tongue which includes a flexible element and an opposite flexible element, wherein an end of the flexible element and an end of the opposite flexible element are connected to a connecting part, wherein an outer end of the flexible element and an outer end of the opposite flexible element each includes a protruding part, wherein the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element are configured to cooperate during assembling of the first panel and the second panel with a guiding surface of the first panel such that the protruding part of the flexible element and the protruding part of the opposite flexible element are pushed towards a bottom surface of the insertion groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Thomas MEIJER
  • Publication number: 20240271423
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method to produce a wear resistant layer and a method to produce a building panel including a wear resistant layer. The wear resistant layer includes a thermoplastic material. The wear resistant layer is provided with portions having different gloss levels. The disclosure also relates to such a building panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Niclas HÅKANSSON, Göran ZIEGLER, Christer LUNDBLAD
  • Publication number: 20240263457
    Abstract: A set of panels including a first panel and a second panel. A first edge of the first panel and a second edge of the second are configured to be locked together and assembled by a vertical displacement of the second edge relative the first edge. The first edge includes a locking element configured to cooperate with a locking groove at the second edge for locking in a horizontal and in the vertical direction. The first edge includes a tongue configured to cooperate with a tongue groove at the second edge for locking in a vertical direction. An upper part of the first edge includes a first guiding surface, and a lower edge of the lower lip includes a second guiding surface. An upper part of the locking element includes a third guiding surface, and a lower edge of the locking groove includes a fourth guiding surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO
  • Patent number: 12053905
    Abstract: A method to produce a veneered element, including providing a first layer of a first powder and applying a second layer of a second powder above the first layer. Further the method includes applying a veneer layer above the second layer. Thereafter heating and pressing the first layer, the second layer and the veneer layer together to form the veneered element and forming a bevel at least partly along at least one side portion of the veneered element, where the first layer, the second layer and the veneer layer are at least partly exposed in the bevel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Magnus Nilsson, Sofia Nilsson
  • Patent number: 12053090
    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 of a groove is configured to cooperate with a tongue groove provided in an edge section of the second panel for locking the first and second panels to each other in a first direction perpendicular to the first main plane, and the edge section is configured to cooperate with the groove for locking the first and second panels to each other in a second direction parallel to the first main plane. A bottom portion of the groove includes an elevated portion arranged at least in an outer section of the groove along the second direction, wherein an area of the elevated portion is at least 3% of an area of a rectangular bounded region extending along boundaries of the bottom portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Thomas Meijer
  • Publication number: 20240254768
    Abstract: A connection arrangement for panels includes a first panel having a first main plane, 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 protruding edge. The groove has a longitudinal recess on a side for receiving a flexible locking element, the protruding edge has a longitudinal insertion recess on one side of the protruding edge for holding the flexible locking element. The groove includes a first groove section and an adjacent groove section connected by an intermediate groove section. The first edge includes a first protruding section and an adjacent protruding section, wherein the first groove section is configured to cooperate with the first protruding section, and the adjacent groove section is configured to cooperate with the adjacent protruding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO
  • Publication number: 20240251941
    Abstract: A cabinet includes two side panels, a top panel, a bottom panel, and a back panel. The cabinet further includes a rectangular front face frame, wherein a side of the front face frame is facing a front facing edge of each of the two side panels, top panel, and bottom panel. Each front facing edge includes an integrally formed and elongate protruding section. The rectangular front face frame includes elongate grooves, each groove is configured for mechanical locking with one of the elongate protruding sections, wherein each of the elongate grooves includes a longitudinal recess on a side of each groove for receiving a flexible locking element, wherein each of the protruding sections includes a longitudinal insertion recess for holding a flexible locking element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO
  • Publication number: 20240247496
    Abstract: A set of essentially identical panels, such as building panels, provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue arranged in a displacement groove having a first opening at a first edge of a first panel. The tongue is configured to be displaced in the displacement groove along a displacement axis to attain a locking state wherein a first portion of the tongue cooperates with a first tongue groove having a second opening at a second edge of an adjacent second panel, for vertical locking of the first and the second edge. A second portion of the tongue is configured to cooperate with the second edge of the adjacent second panel via an elongated element for vertical unlocking of the first and the second edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Roger YLIKANGAS, Karl QUIST, Anders NILSSON, Caroline LANDGÅRD
  • Publication number: 20240246322
    Abstract: A building panel, including a core, a sublayer arranged above the core, where the sublayer includes at least one paper sheet. The building panel further includes a wood veneer layer arranged above the sublayer. The wood veneer layer includes at least one open structure. The building panel has a bevel arranged at least partly along at least one side portion. A first section of the sublayer is at least partly exposed in said bevel, where a second section of the sublayer is at least partly exposed in said at least one open structure of the wood veneer layer, and where the colour of said first section differs from the colour of said second section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Göran Ziegler
  • Patent number: 12036784
    Abstract: A method for modifying the degree of gloss of a surface. The method including the steps of a) providing an object; b) applying to at least one surface of the object, a powder composition comprising a thermosetting binder; c) applying onto the at least one surface of the resulting object in b), a fluid composition; and d) applying heat and pressure to the resulting surface from c) with a press plate in a pressing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Melker Ryberg, Disa Wigblad, Andreas Slottemo, Göran Ziegler
  • Patent number: 12038029
    Abstract: A set including a first panel with a first main plane, a second panel with a second main plane and a mechanical locking device configured for locking the first panel to the second panel is described. The first main plane is arranged essentially perpendicular to the second main plane in a locked position of the first panel and the second panel. The mechanical locking device includes a first tongue and a groove surface at a first panel surface, and a locking groove and an edge surface at a second edge. The first tongue includes a first locking surface, the locking groove includes a second locking surface, the first locking surface is configured to interact with the second locking surface in the locked position, wherein the first tongue and/or the locking groove is/are flexible for facilitating locking of the first panel to the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian Boo
  • Patent number: 12038028
    Abstract: A set for a furniture product includes a panel, an adjacent panel and a locking device. The panel includes a groove and at least one hole connected to the groove via an opening. The adjacent panel includes a first edge that is configured to be arranged in the groove of the panel. The locking device is configured to lock the first edge of the adjacent panel in the groove of the panel. The locking device includes a cylinder and a lever connected to the cylinder. The cylinder is configured to be arranged in the hole in the panel. The cylinder is configured to be displaceable in the hole between a first mounting position and a second locking position by rotation of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Marko Sostar
  • Publication number: 20240229844
    Abstract: A set including a first panel, a second panel and a mechanical locking device for locking the first panel to the second panel. 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 a rod-shaped element at the first edge surface and an insertion groove at the second panel surface, the rod-shaped element is configured to be inserted into the insertion groove. A first locking groove at the first edge surface and a second locking groove at the second panel surface and a locking part, where the locking part is configured to be inserted into the first locking groove and the second locking groove. The locking part is configured to apply a locking force between the first and the second panel in an oblique direction in relation to the second panel surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Peter DERELÖV, Johan SVENSSON