Patents by Inventor Karl QUIST
Karl QUIST 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).
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Patent number: 11946260Abstract: A connecting device for connecting a first building element and first building panel, the connecting device including at least one primary connecting means extending in a direction along a primary axis and configured to cooperate with a first mechanical locking system of a first edge of the first building element, to obtain an assembled position therewith, preferably by means of a folding displacement of the connecting device about the primary axis, to thereby lock the connecting device from displacement along a secondary axis and a perpendicular tertiary axis each being orthogonal the primary axis. The connecting device includes secondary connecting means extending in a direction along the tertiary axis and configured to cooperate with a second mechanical locking system of respective first and opposite second edges of the first and preferably second building panel, wherein the connecting device further includes tertiary means for cooperating with the first panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Roger Ylikangas, Karl Quist
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Patent number: 11834845Abstract: Building panels, such as a floor panels or wall panels, which include 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 a folding motion. The panels further include 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: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: VÄLINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Roger Ylikangas, Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist
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Publication number: 20230383542Abstract: A set containing a first building element, a first building panel a second building panel and a coupling element for assembling the first building panel and the second building panel to the first building element. The coupling element has a locking portion configured to cooperate with a first mechanical locking device of a first edge or of a second edge of the first building element. The coupling element also has a connecting portion configured to cooperate with a second mechanical locking device of an edge of a building panel. The second mechanical locking device is configured for locking the first and second building panels and including a locking tongue and a tongue groove having a locking strip with an upper surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventor: Karl QUIST
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Patent number: 11781324Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Roger Ylikangas, Karl Quist, Anders Nilsson, Caroline Landgård
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Publication number: 20230279671Abstract: Building panels, such as a floor or wall panels. The panels include a first mechanical locking system include a first locking strip at one of the third edge or fourth edge configured to cooperate for horizontal locking with a first locking groove at the other of the third or fourth edge of an adjacent building panel, preferably by means of a folding motion, and a second locking system including a second locking strip at one of the first edge or second edge, configured to cooperate for horizontal locking with a second locking groove at the other of the first or second edge of an adjacent building panel. The thickness of the second locking strip, in a thickness-direction of the building panel, exceeds the thickness of the first locking strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2022Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Väling nnovatiom ABInventors: Roger YLIKANGAS, Anders NILSSON, Karl QUIST
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Publication number: 20230258002Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Caroline LANDGÅRD, Robin MELLBY, Fredrik BOO, Rickard RITTINGE, Christian BOO, Karl QUIST
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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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Publication number: 20230147355Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Karl QUIST, Anders NILSSON
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Patent number: 11591804Abstract: Building panels, such as a floor or wall panels. The panels include a first mechanical locking system include a first locking strip at one of the third edge or fourth edge configured to cooperate for horizontal locking with a first locking groove at the other of the third or fourth edge of an adjacent building panel, preferably by means of a folding motion, and a second locking system including a second locking strip at one of the first edge or second edge, configured to cooperate for horizontal locking with a second locking groove at the other of the first or second edge of an adjacent building panel. The thickness of the second locking strip, in a thickness-direction of the building panel, exceeds the thickness of the first locking strip.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Roger Ylikangas, Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist
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Patent number: 11578495Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 4, 2019Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Karl Quist, Anders Nilsson
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Publication number: 20220298802Abstract: Building panels, such as a 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: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Roger YLIKANGAS, Anders NILSSON, Karl QUIST
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Publication number: 20220298803Abstract: A set of panels each including a main surface, a first edge, an opposite second edge, a third edge which is adjacent to the first edge and a fourth edge which is opposite to the third edge. The set includes a mechanical locking device which is configured to lock the first edge to the second edge. The locking device includes a flexible tongue. The flexible tongue includes a central part configured to cooperate with a tongue groove for locking. A first edge part and the tongue groove are configured such that when in the locked position a force P? is applied adjacent the first edge and the third edge of the first panel and another force P is applied adjacent the second edge and the third edge of the second panel, the first edge part is pushed towards a bottom surface of an insertion groove which allows a disassembling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Fredrik BOO, Anders NILSSON, Karl QUIST
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Publication number: 20220228372Abstract: A set of panels including first and second panels. The first and second panels respectively include first and second edges. The first edge includes a locking strip with a locking element configured to cooperate with a locking groove at the second edge for locking the first edge to the second edge. The locking element includes a first locking surface at a first angle from a plane parallel to the first panel surface and the locking groove includes a second locking surface at a second angle from a plane parallel to the third panel surface. The first angle is different from the second angle such that the first locking surface converges towards the second locking surface at a cooperation part in a locked position. The first locking surface cooperates with the second locking surface at the cooperation part.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Anders NILSSON, Karl QUIST, Roger YLIKANGAS, Fredrik BOO
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Patent number: 11377858Abstract: A decking system including floor elements and a connecting system including a connecting device for connecting a first and a second floor element, wherein the connecting device is removably connectable to a support member. A first and a second connecting portion of the connecting device are configured to cooperate with a first and a second engagement portion, respectively, of the first and second floor elements for vertically connecting the first and second floor elements. The connecting device further includes a displaceable portion which is horizontally displaceable and is configured to assume a first and a second horizontal state, wherein a horizontal extension of the connecting device in the second horizontal state is smaller than a horizontal extension of thereof in the first horizontal state.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Roger Ylikangas, Marcus Bergelin, Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist, Caroline Landgård
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Publication number: 20220178150Abstract: Building panels, such as a floor panels or wall panels. The panels include 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 include 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: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Roger YLIKANGAS, Anders NILSSON, Karl QUIST
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Publication number: 20220170275Abstract: A connecting device for connecting a first building element and first building panel, the connecting device including at least one primary connecting means extending in a direction along a primary axis and configured to cooperate with a first mechanical locking system of a first edge of the first building element, to obtain an assembled position therewith, preferably by means of a folding displacement of the connecting device about the primary axis, to thereby lock the connecting device from displacement along a secondary axis and a perpendicular tertiary axis each being orthogonal the primary axis. The connecting device includes secondary connecting means extending in a direction along the tertiary axis and configured to cooperate with a second mechanical locking system of respective first and opposite second edges of the first and preferably second building panel, wherein the connecting device further includes tertiary means for cooperating with the first panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Applicant: Välinge Innovation ABInventors: Roger YLIKANGAS, Karl QUIST
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Patent number: 11326353Abstract: A set of panels including first and second panels. The first and second panels respectively include first and second edges. The first edge includes a locking strip with a locking element configured to cooperate with a locking groove at the second edge for locking the first edge to the second edge. The locking element includes a first locking surface at a first angle from a plane parallel to the first panel surface and the locking groove includes a second locking surface at a second angle from a plane parallel to the third panel surface. The first angle is different from the second angle such that the first locking surface converges towards the second locking surface at a cooperation part in a locked position. The first locking surface cooperates with the second locking surface at the cooperation part.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist, Roger Ylikangas, Fredrik Boo
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Patent number: 11208812Abstract: A flooring system including floor panels and a connecting system for connecting the floor panels is provided. The flooring system includes a first and a second floor panel, and a connecting device that includes a first and a second connecting element. The first connecting element is configured to cooperate with the first and second floor panel for horizontally connecting the first and second floor panel. The second connecting element is configured to cooperate with the first connecting element for vertically connecting the first and the second floor panel. A connecting device for connecting a first and a second floor panel is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Marcus Bergelin, Roger Ylikangas, Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist
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Patent number: 11203877Abstract: Building panels, such as a floor panels or wall panels. The panels include 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 include 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: December 21, 2021Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Roger Ylikangas, Anders Nilsson, Karl Quist
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Patent number: D971005Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Inventors: Roger Ylikangas, Karl Quist