Patents by Inventor Christian Boo

Christian Boo has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10934721
    Abstract: Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other. A set of floor panel provided with a locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove in a first edge of a first floor panel, cooperating for vertical locking of the edges with a tongue groove in adjacent second edges of a second floor panel, the locking system further including a locking strip with a locking element in one edge which cooperates, for horizontal locking of the edges, with a locking groove in an adjacent edge, the displaceable tongue includes a protrusion and the displacement groove a cavity, the protrusion is slideable against a wall of the cavity to obtain a displacement of the tongue in a first direction perpendicular to the edges and thereby the vertical locking of the edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Christian Boo
  • Publication number: 20200407981
    Abstract: A set of panels including first and second panels. The first and second panels have a first, second and third edge. The first edge of the first panel is configured to be able to be locked together with both the second edge and the third edge of the second panel. The first edge includes a first locking element configured to be able to cooperate with a first locking groove at the second edge and a second locking groove at the third edge for locking in a horizontal direction. The first edge includes a tongue groove configured to cooperate with a tongue at the second edge and a tongue at the third edge for locking in a vertical direction. The first locking element includes a first locking surface configured to cooperate with a second locking surface on the first locking groove, for locking in the horizontal and the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Christian BOO, Marcus Nilsson STÅHL, Anders NILSSON
  • Patent number: 10857711
    Abstract: This invention relates to a handling device for the removal of plastic injection-molded parts, designed as pipette tips, medical reaction vessels or contact-lens molds, from an injection mold tool (11), having a removal gripper having a plurality of receiving positions (1-32; 104, 105) for receiving one injection-molded part from each of the cavities in each instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Waldorf Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Czizegg, Ralf Fuhrmann, Christian Boos
  • Patent number: 10851549
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Christian Boo
  • Patent number: 10844612
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Christian Boo
  • Patent number: 10837181
    Abstract: A method for producing a mechanical locking system for a first panel and a second panel. The method includes providing a tongue, including a first locking surface, at a first edge of the first panel, forming a tongue groove, including a second locking surface, at a second edge of the second panel, the first locking surface and second locking surface are configured to cooperate for locking the first edge to the second edge in a first direction, providing a first guiding surface at the first edge and a second guiding surface at the second edge, wherein the first guiding surface cooperates with the second guiding surface during an assembling of the first edge and the second edge, and working of the first guiding surface and/or the second guiding surface to reduce the coefficient of friction between the first guiding surface and the second guiding surface and/or a surface roughness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Per Josefsson, Christian Boo
  • Publication number: 20200354969
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other and configured such that the protrusions can obtain a vertically unlocked position where they match the cavities and a vertically locked position where the protrusions overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Niclas HAKANSSON, Mattias SJOSTRAND, Christian BOO, Agne PALSSON
  • Patent number: 10830268
    Abstract: A furniture panel is provided, in which a first element and a second element are mechanically locked together. A first tongue is provided at a first edge of the first element, the first tongue cooperating with a first tongue groove provided at a second edge of the second element for locking the first and second elements in a vertical direction, and a second tongue at the second edge of the second element, the second tongue cooperating with a second tongue groove at the first edge of the first element for locking the first and second elements in the vertical direction. A first pair of locking surfaces is provided above the second tongue and the second tongue groove for locking in a horizontal direction, and a second pair of locking surfaces is provided below the first tongue and the first tongue groove for locking in the horizontal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Christian Boo
  • Publication number: 20200337455
    Abstract: A set of panels includes a first panel having a first main plane and a second panel having a second main plane. The panels are provided with a mechanical locking device for locking a first edge of the first panel to a second edge of the second panel. The mechanical locking device includes an edge groove at the first edge, wherein an edge tongue of the second edge is insertable into the edge groove. A flexible tongue is arranged in an insertion groove provided in the edge section groove, and cooperates with a tongue groove provided at the edge section of the second panel. The first and the second panels are locked at a junction plane which is extending between the first main plane and the second main plane. The first edge comprises an edge tongue that extends from the junction plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Christian BOO, Peter DERELOV
  • Patent number: 10808410
    Abstract: A set of panels including first and second panels. The first and second panels have a first, second and third edge. The first edge of the first panel is configured to be able to be locked together with both the second edge and the third edge of the second panel. The first edge includes a first locking element configured to be able to cooperate with a first locking groove at the second edge and a second locking groove at the third edge for locking in a horizontal direction. The first edge includes a tongue groove configured to cooperate with a tongue at the second edge and a tongue at the third edge for locking in a vertical direction. The first locking element includes a first locking surface configured to cooperate with a second locking surface on the first locking groove, for locking in the horizontal and the vertical direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Christian Boo, Marcus Nilsson Ståhl, Anders Nilsson
  • Patent number: 10794065
    Abstract: Building panels provided with a mechanical locking system including a tongue, at first edge of a first building panel, cooperating with a tongue groove, at a second edge of an adjacent second building panel, for vertical locking of the building panels and a method for producing such building panels. The method includes the step of forming the tongue of material of the first edge. The insertion groove may have a sidewall at a third edge, which is adjacent the first edge, and may be open at a fourth edge, which is opposite the third edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Christian Boo, Stefan Stigert
  • Publication number: 20200121076
    Abstract: A set of panels including a first panel with a first main plane and a second panel with a second main plane. The first and the second panel are provided with a mechanical locking device for locking a first edge of the first panel to a second edge of the second panel at a junction plane, wherein the first main plane is essentially perpendicular to the second main plane and the junction plane is extending between the first main plane and the second main plane. The first edge includes an edge tongue that extends from the junction plane. The second edge includes an edge groove at the junction plane. The edge tongue is configured to cooperate with the edge groove for locking together the first and the second edges in a first direction which is perpendicular to the first main plane. The edge tongue includes a tongue groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Peter DERELOV, Christian BOO
  • Publication number: 20200056379
    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: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Applicant: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO
  • Patent number: 10548397
    Abstract: A set of panels including a first panel with a first main plane and a second panel with a second main plane. The first and the second panel are provided with a mechanical locking device for locking a first edge of the first panel to a second edge of the second panel at a junction plane, wherein the first main plane is essentially perpendicular to the second main plane and the junction plane is extending between the first main plane and the second main plane. The first edge includes an edge tongue that extends from the junction plane. The second edge includes an edge groove at the junction plane. The edge tongue is configured to cooperate with the edge groove for locking together the first and the second edges in a first direction which is perpendicular to the first main plane. The edge tongue includes a tongue groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Peter Derelöv, Christian Boo
  • Patent number: 10526792
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other and configured such that the protrusions can obtain a vertically unlocked position where they match the cavities and a vertically locked position where the protrusions overlap each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Niclas Hakansson, Mattias Sjostrand, Christian Boo, Agne Palsson
  • Patent number: 10506875
    Abstract: A set of panels includes a first panel having a first main plane and a second panel having a second main plane. The panels are provided with a mechanical locking device for locking a first edge of the first panel to a second edge of the second panel. The mechanical locking device includes an edge groove at the first edge, wherein an edge tongue of the second edge is insertable into the edge groove. A flexible tongue is arranged in an insertion groove provided in the edge section groove, and cooperates with a tongue groove provided at the edge section of the second panel. The first and the second panels are locked at a junction plane which is extending between the first main plane and the second main plane. The first edge comprises an edge tongue that extends from the junction plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Christian Boo, Peter Derelov
  • Publication number: 20190376298
    Abstract: Floor panels which are provided with a mechanical locking system including tongue and grooves provided with protrusions and cavities which are displaceable in relation to each other. A set of floor panel provided with a locking system including a displaceable tongue in a displacement groove in a first edge of a first floor panel, cooperating for vertical locking of the edges with a tongue groove in adjacent second edges of a second floor panel, the locking system further including a locking strip with a locking element in one edge which cooperates, for horizontal locking of the edges, with a locking groove in an adjacent edge, the displaceable tongue includes a protrusion and the displacement groove a cavity, the protrusion is slideable against a wall of the cavity to obtain a displacement of the tongue in a first direction perpendicular to the edges and thereby the vertical locking of the edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Valinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Christian BOO
  • Patent number: 10500684
    Abstract: A tool configuration 68, 68? incorporating a preprocessing step 67, 67? and a method incorporating the tool configuration with its preprocessing step, producing an improved locking system of a floor panel 1, 1?. With the special tool configuration, and the preprocessing step changing the properties of the surface layer, certain surfaces are profiled of the joint edge of the floor panel, resulting in decreased tolerances. An equipment having an upper belt or chain guided in a horizontal direction, by an upper guiding device, and configured to press the floor panel vertically towards the lower chain, decreasing the tolerances of the produced floor panel as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Marcus Bergelin, Christian Boo
  • Patent number: 10480196
    Abstract: Building panels provided with a mechanical locking system including a tongue, at an edge of a first panel, cooperating with a tongue groove, at an edge of an adjacent second panel, for vertical locking of the building panels. The edge of the first panel is provided with a displacement groove, which is downwardly open, and includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and an upper wall. The tongue is formed out of the edge of the first panel. A resilient and displaceable and part of the tongue is displaceable into the displacement groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Christian Boo
  • Publication number: 20190323532
    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 and a first panel surface, the second panel includes a second edge surface and 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 an edge groove at the second edge surface, a flexible tongue positioned in the edge 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 edge groove, the rod-shaped element is configured to be inserted into the insertion groove and the rod-shaped element includes a recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventor: Christian BOO