Patents by Inventor Darko Pervan

Darko Pervan 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).

  • Floorboard, system and method for forming a flooring, and a flooring formed thereof
    Patent number: 9970199
    Abstract: A method of producing floor panels is disclosed. The method includes the steps of separating a sheet formed surface material into surface strips and gluing said surface strips to a core with a space between the surface strips. A method of producing floor panels, wherein the method includes the steps of: separating a sheet formed surface layer material into surface strips; and gluing the surface strips to a sheet of core material to be cut into a plurality of floor panels, and providing a space between the surface strips, and cutting the sheet of core material, at the space, into at least two individual floor panels, forming a mechanical locking system in the sheet of core material at the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Per Nygren
  • DRY INK FOR DIGITAL PRINTING
    Publication number: 20180127605
    Abstract: Pigment based particles in powder form intended to be used as colourants in a digital print formed by applying dry colourants on a surface, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. A panel with a surface including a digitally formed print of macro colourants including a particle body and colour pigments attached to the surface of the particle body is also described. The colourants are arranged in patterns with pigments on an upper and lower surface of the particle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
  • MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS
    Publication number: 20180119431
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges comprising a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. The displaceable tongue may be provided in a sidewardly open displacement groove at an edge of a building panel, the displaceable tongue including a main body extending along the edge of the panel and a tongue locking surface located at an upper and outer part of the tongue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
  • DIGITAL THERMAL BINDER AND POWDER PRINTING
    Publication number: 20180111390
    Abstract: A method of forming a digital print on a surface (2) by applying powder of dry ink (15) including colourants (7) on the surface, bonding a part of the dry ink (15) powder to the surface (2) by a digital heating print head (80) such that the digital print is formed by the bonded dry ink colourants (7) and removing non-bonded dry ink (15) from the surface (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
  • PANEL FORMING
    Publication number: 20180080232
    Abstract: Building panels, especially laminated floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system and several core grooves at the rear side in order to save material and decrease weight. Building panels, each having a surface layer on a front side, a backing layer on a rear side and an intermediate core, wherein the intermediate core and the surface and the backing layer all comprise wood fibres and thermosetting resins, the building panels are provided with a locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of a first edge of a first building panel to an adjacent second edge of a second building panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko PERVAN
  • MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS
    Publication number: 20180030737
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system that may be locked with a vertical displacement of a first panel against a second panel. The locking system includes a flexible strip that during locking bends upwardly or downwardly. The locking system includes a first and a second joint edge section with different locking functions. One section provides a horizontal locking and another section provides a vertical locking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko PERVAN
  • MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR PANELS AND METHOD OF INSTALLING SAME
    Publication number: 20180030738
    Abstract: Floor panels are provided with a mechanical locking system including a flexible locking element in a locking groove which during a horizontal motion is displaced vertically. A panel system including a plurality of rectangular panels with long and short edges which are mechanically connectable to each other along at least one pair of adjacent edges, said panels each being provided with a tongue and groove formed in one piece with the panels for mechanically locking together said adjacent edges at right angles to the principal plane of the panels, thereby forming a vertical mechanical connection between the panels, said panels being provided with a first locking element at one first edge formed in one piece with the panel and a locking groove at an opposite second edge, the locking groove being open towards a rear side or a front side of the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko PERVAN
  • Dry ink for digital printing
    Patent number: 9873803
    Abstract: Pigment based particles in powder form intended to be used as colorants in a digital print formed by applying dry colorants on a surface, bonding a part of the colorants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colorants from the surface. A panel with a surface including a digitally formed print of macro colorants including a particle body and color pigments attached to the surface of the particle body is also described. The colorants are arranged in patterns with pigments on an upper and lower surface of the particle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
  • Mechanical locking system for floor panels
    Patent number: 9874027
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges comprising a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. The displaceable tongue may be provided in a sidewardly open displacement groove at an edge of a building panel, the displaceable tongue including a main body extending along the edge of the panel and a tongue locking surface located at an upper and outer part of the tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
  • FIBRE BASED PANELS WITH A WEAR RESISTANCE SURFACE
    Publication number: 20180002934
    Abstract: Building panels with a homogenous decorative surface having a wear layer comprising fibres, binders and wear resistant particles. A building panel including a surface layer and a core, the core including wood fibres, and the surface layer including a substantially homogenous mix of wood fibres, a binder and wear resistant particles, the substantially homogenous mix of wood fibres including natural resins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Kent LINDGREN, Jan JACOBSSON, Eddy BOUCKÉ, Göran ZIEGLER, Niclas HÅKANSSON
  • MECHANICAL LOCKING SYSTEM FOR FLOOR PANELS
    Publication number: 20180002933
    Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system that may be locked with a vertical displacement of a first panel against a second panel. The locking system includes a first rigid and a second flexible joint edge section with different locking functions. The first edge section provides a horizontal locking and the second section provides a vertical locking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventor: Darko PERVAN
  • Mechanical locking of floor panels with a glued tongue
    Patent number: 9856656
    Abstract: A tongue with edge sections that are used to glue the tongue into a groove of panel. A tongue for connection of a building panel, said tongue is of an elongated shape and made of molded plastic, the tongue including at least two protrusions at a first long edge of the tongue, wherein the protrusions are bendable in a plane parallel to the upper surface of the tongue and extending essentially in the parallel plane and, wherein the tongue has a second long edge, which is essentially straight over substantially the whole length of the tongue and the tongue includes a gluing part configured to be glued into a groove at an edge of the building panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • MECHANICAL LOCKING OF FLOOR PANELS WITH VERTICAL SNAP FOLDING
    Publication number: 20170362834
    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: September 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Välinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Marcus Nilsson STÅHL
  • Panel forming
    Patent number: 9840849
    Abstract: Building panels, especially laminated floor panels are shown, which are provided with a locking system and several core grooves at the rear side in order to save material and decrease weight. Building panels, each having a surface layer on a front side, a backing layer on a rear side and an intermediate core, wherein the intermediate core and the surface and the backing layer all comprise wood fibers and thermosetting resins, the building panels are provided with a locking system for vertical and horizontal locking of a first edge of a first building panel to an adjacent second edge of a second building panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan
  • DIGITAL PRINTING WITH TRANSPARENT BLANK INK
    Publication number: 20170348984
    Abstract: A method, a panel and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry ink (15), preferably including particles of pigment coated wood fibres (61), on a surface (2), bonding a part of the particles with a liquid blank ink drops (57) and removing the non-bonded particles from the surface (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
  • FLOORBOARD, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING A FLOORING, AND A FLOORING FORMED THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170342725
    Abstract: A method of producing floor panels is disclosed. The method includes the steps of separating a sheet formed surface material into surface strips and gluing said surface strips to a core with a space between the surface strips. A method of producing floor panels, wherein the method includes the steps of: separating a sheet formed surface layer material into surface strips; and gluing the surface strips to a sheet of core material to be cut into a plurality of floor panels, and providing a space between the surface strips, and cutting the sheet of core material, at the space, into at least two individual floor panels, forming a mechanical locking system in the sheet of core material at the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: VÄLINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Per NYGREN
  • PANEL FORMING
    Publication number: 20170334184
    Abstract: A method for forming of a building panel with a surface including a thermosetting resin such that tension created during curing of the surface is reduced or eliminated. Method for producing a panel with a wood based core and a surface layer including a thermosetting resin wherein the method including: curing and connecting the surface layer to the core while applying heat and pressure in a first main pressing step, thus raising a temperature of the surface layer above an initial temperature; applying a bending force on the panel after the first main pressing step to bend the panel such that an uppermost surface of the panel is convex an a lowermost surface of the panel is concave while the panel is still above the initial temperature; and releasing the bending force such that the panel springs back to an essentially flat shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
  • Mechanical locking system for floorboards
    Patent number: 9816270
    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.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Agne Palsson
  • MECHANICAL LOCKINGS OF FLOOR PANELS AND A TONGUE BLANK
    Publication number: 20170321433
    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: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: Valinge Innovation AB
    Inventors: Darko Pervan, Christian BOO
  • Mechanical locking system for floor panels
    Patent number: 9803374
    Abstract: Floor panels (1, 1?) are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system that may be locked with a vertical displacement of a first panel against a second panel. The locking system includes a flexible strip (6) that during locking bends upwardly or downwardly. The locking system includes a first (7a) and a second (7b) joint edge section with different locking functions. One section provides a horizontal locking and another section provides a vertical locking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION AB
    Inventor: Darko Pervan