Patents Assigned to Valinge Innovation AB
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Patent number: 11702844Abstract: Building panels including a first and a second panel and including a locking device. The locking device includes a tongue and an edge groove provided in the second panel and the first panel, respectively, wherein the tongue and the edge groove are configured to cooperate with each other for locking a first edge portion of the first panel to a second edge portion of the second panel in a first direction. The locking device further includes a separate tongue provided in an insertion groove and a tongue groove configured to cooperate with each other for locking the first edge portion to the second edge portion in a second direction. A length of the tongue groove along an edge portion may be smaller than a length of the edge portion. A length of the insertion groove along an edge portion may be smaller than the length of the edge portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventor: Johan Svensson
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Patent number: 11703072Abstract: 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 panel includes a first edge surface and a first panel surface, the second panel includes a second panel surface, the first edge surface facing the second panel surface in a locked position of the first and the second panel, the mechanical locking device includes a panel groove at a surface of the second panel, a flexible tongue positioned in the panel groove, a rod-shaped element at the first edge surface and an insertion groove at the second panel surface extending from the second panel surface to the panel groove, the rod-shaped element having a first part at a first end, a second part at a second end and a recess in the second part, and a third part located between the first and second part.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Valinge Innovation ABInventor: Christian Boo
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Patent number: 11702847Abstract: A set of essentially identical floorboards each including a front face and a rear face extending in the horizontal plane, a core, and a surface layer, a mechanical locking system is arranged at least at two opposite edges for connecting a floorboard with an adjacent floorboard in a horizontal and a vertical direction, said mechanical locking system being configured for connecting the floorboard with the adjacent floorboard by vertical folding, wherein one of said opposite edges is provided with a horizontally extending protrusion at an upper edge, and wherein said protrusion is configured to overlap a surface groove at an upper edge of the other of said opposite edges, such that two connected and adjacent floorboards have upper overlapping edges.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Marcus Bergelin, Mats Nilsson
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Publication number: 20230220680Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Marcus Nilsson STÅHL
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Patent number: 11680415Abstract: Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove. The tongue is moulded and provided with bendable protrusions. A building panel having an edge portion provided with a groove, in which a tongue formed as a separate part is received, wherein the tongue includes at least two bow shaped protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue, and wherein the protrusions are arranged bendable in the groove.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Agne Palsson
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Patent number: 11680413Abstract: Building panels, such as floor panels or wall panels. The panels including a first mechanical locking system at respective parallel and opposite third and fourth edges, such as long edges, configured to cooperate for horizontal and vertical locking between two adjacent building panels, preferably by means of a folding motion. The panels further including a second locking system at respective parallel and opposite first and second edges, such as short edges, configured to cooperate for horizontal and vertical locking of two adjacent building panels. An upper edge portion of one of the third edge or fourth edge, preferably the third edge, includes a first lower lip portion configured to cooperate with a first upper lip portion of an upper edge portion of the other of the third and fourth edge of an adjacent panel when the third and fourth edges are arranged in locking engagement.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Roger Ylikangas, Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist
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Patent number: 11680596Abstract: An assembled product includes at least three elements arranged in three different planes. A first element is connected perpendicular to a second element, and a third element is connected perpendicular to the second element. The assembled product includes one or more locking devices, each comprising a flexible tongue arranged in an insertion groove one of the at least three elements. The flexible tongue cooperates with a tongue groove, at an adjacent one of the at least three elements, for locking the one element and the adjacent element together. A second edge of the second element is connected to a second edge of the third element by a first of said locking devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Hans Brännström, Agne Pålsson, Peter Derelöv
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Patent number: 11680595Abstract: A locking rail for locking of a first and a second panel horizontally. The panels each include an essentially vertical panel surface and an essentially horizontal edge surface. The locking rail includes a first and a second locking device which are configured to engage the edge surface of the first and the second panel, respectively, and an interconnecting extension which extends between said first and second locking device. The first and second locking device each includes a first locking tongue which extends essentially perpendicular to the interconnecting extension. The first locking tongue of the first locking device is configured for locking of the first panel in a first horizontal direction and the first locking tongue of the second locking device is configured for locking of the second panel in the first horizontal direction. The locking rail includes a first locking part which extends essentially perpendicular to the interconnecting extension.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Peter Derelöv, Hans Brännström
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Publication number: 20230182461Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Pontus GAMSTEDT, Per JOSEFSSON, Christoffer NILSSON
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Publication number: 20230182456Abstract: A building panel having a substrate and a layer arrangement, arranged on one side of the substrate. The layer arrangement having a surface layer and where the surface layer includes carpet fibres. At least the substrate at least partly includes a mechanical locking device for connecting at least two building panels. Where the substrate and the layer arrangement each includes a polymer of the same type of polymer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Valinge Innovation ABInventors: Per JOSEFSSON, Filip SKÖLD
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Patent number: 11674318Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventor: Christian Boo
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Patent number: 11674319Abstract: Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including an extruded flexible tongue in a sidewardly open groove which during a vertical folding motion is bent horizontally. A tongue adapted for being received in a sidewardly open groove of a floor panel, wherein the tongue, which is an elongated extruded section, when received in the groove is bendable in a plane substantially parallel with a front face of the floor panel, such that the tongue is at least partially resiliently displaceable inside said sidewardly open groove in said plane during locking of the floor panel with another floor panel and wherein a vertical protrusion, serving as a friction connection between the tongue and the groove, is arranged at an upper or lower part of the tongue, wherein a total width of tongue varies in a longitudinal direction of the tongue.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Niclas Håkansson, Per Nygren
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Publication number: 20230175260Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Christian BOO, Per Nygren, Peter DERELÖV
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Patent number: 11660850Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method to produce a coating layer, including applying a coating composition on a surface of a carrier, curing the coating composition to a coating layer, and subsequently applying pressure to the coating layer. The disclosure further relates to a method to produce a building panel, and such a building panel, and to a method to produce a coated foil, and such a coated foil.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Göran Ziegler, Christer Lundblad, Per Josefsson, Anette Hedlund
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Patent number: 11661749Abstract: A vertical joint system for a surface covering panel having an upper and lower surfaces, and a plurality of sides located between the upper and lower surfaces. The joint system has a male part along at least one side and a female part along an opposite side. The female part has a protrusion that extends from the lower surface and an outer most female surface on the protrusion. The male part has a recess that opens onto the lower surface with a portion of the recess forming an inner most male surface. The outer most female surface and the inner most male surface arranged so that when the male part of one surface covering panel is engaged with a female part of a second surface covering panel the outer most female surface overlies the inner most male locking surface at a first location and a second location.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventor: Richard William Kell
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Publication number: 20230158781Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Anette Hedlund, Sofia NILSSON
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Publication number: 20230148747Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Peter DERELÖV, Johan SVENSSON
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Publication number: 20230150253Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventor: Guido SCHULTE
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Patent number: 11649843Abstract: An assembled product, such as an assembled product, such as a furniture component or a furniture, such as a drawer, a cupboard, bookshelves, a wardrobe, a kitchen fixture, or a box for storing or transporting including at least three panels arranged in three different planes. Also, a set of panels for an assembled product and a method of assembling the product.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Peter Derelöv, Hans Brännström, Agne Pålsson
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Publication number: 20230144018Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Roger YLIKANGAS, Anders NILSSON, Thomas MEIJER