Patents by Inventor Tony Pervan
Tony 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).
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Patent number: 10596837Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Publication number: 20200079114Abstract: A method of forming a digital embossing on a surface by bonding hard press particles to a carrier. A liquid binder pattern is applied on the carrier by a digital drop application head. Hard press particles are applied on the carrier and the binder pattern such that some hard press particles are bonded to the carrier by the liquid pattern and non-bonded press particles are removed. The carrier with the bonded hard press particles is pressed to the surface and an embossing is formed when the carrier with the hard press particles is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
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Patent number: 10556447Abstract: Building panels, especially floor panels, and a method of forming embossed in register surfaces with a digital ink head that applies a curable ink on the panel surface or on an upper side of a foil as a coating and forms an ink matrix that is used to create a cavity in the surface by applying a pressure on the ink matrix.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2016Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Publication number: 20190345348Abstract: A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colourants on a surface of a panel, bonding a part of the colourants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colourants from the surface. The method of forming a digital print on a surface of a panel includes displacing the panel under a digital drop application head, applying a liquid binder with the digital drop application head on the surface; applying colourants on the liquid binder and the surface; bonding a part of the colourants to the surface with the liquid binder; removing non-bonded colourants from the surface such that a digital print is formed by the bonded colourants; and applying heat and pressure on the panel, the surface and the bonded colorants such that the colourants are permanently bonded to the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
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Patent number: 10471678Abstract: Disclosed is a method for making a decorative groove between joint edges on a laminate floorboard. The floorboard includes an upper layer and an underlying layer. The method involves fixing the floorboard between at least one chain and at least one band, displacing the floorboard relative to a milling machine, and removing at least a part of the upper layer, so that a surface of the underlying layer is uncovered, by a tool that performs machining between the at least one chain. The surface of the underlying layer defines at least a portion of a visible width of the decorative groove.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: VALINGE INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Publication number: 20190284819Abstract: Building panels, especially floor panels and a method to produce such building panels that include a decorative surface and a transparent protective layer, which is applied by a digital coating. Also, a vision control system that may be used to adapt a digital print or a digital embossing to a specific panel surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony Pervan
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Publication number: 20190277041Abstract: Floor panels and floor elements therefore are made of sheet-shaped cores which are formed with sealing means for preventing or counteracting changes in the properties of the floor panels caused by moisture. A floor panel, including a body having a core, in which floor panel at least two opposite parallel joint edge portions are provided with connectors for mechanical joining of the floor panel in the horizontal direction with similar floor panels, the connectors having active locking surfaces for cooperation with corresponding active locking surfaces of adjacent floor panels after the floor panel has been joined therewith, the core having an upper surface layer, wherein a material seal of a resilient surface layer covers the upper surface layer of the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: September 12, 2019Applicant: Valinge Innovation ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Patent number: 10384471Abstract: A method and equipment to form a digital print by applying dry colorants on a surface of a panel, bonding a part of the colorants with a binder and removing the non-bonded colorants from the surface. The method of forming a digital print on a surface of a panel includes displacing the panel under a digital drop application head, applying a liquid binder with the digital drop application head on the surface; applying colorants on the liquid binder and the surface; bonding a part of the colorants to the surface with the liquid binder; removing non-bonded colorants from the surface such that a digital print is formed by the bonded colorants; and applying heat and pressure on the panel, the surface and the bonded colorants such that the colorants are permanently bonded to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Patent number: 10369814Abstract: A method of forming a digital embossing on a surface by bonding hard press particles to a carrier. A liquid binder pattern is applied on the carrier by a digital drop application head. Hard press particles are applied on the carrier and the binder pattern such that some hard press particles are bonded to the carrier by the liquid pattern and non-bonded press particles are removed. The carrier with the bonded hard press particles is pressed to the surface and an embossing is formed when the carrier with the hard press particles is removed.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATIONS ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Publication number: 20190169859Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
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Publication number: 20190161977Abstract: Building panels, especially floor panels, which are provided with a locking system including several separate strip parts connected to the panel edge. A strip part, configured to lock panels horizontally and to be fixed to a panel edge, including a strip body with an inner part configured to be fixed under the panel edge and an outer part configured to extend outside the panel edge, wherein the inner part comprises a fixing element configured to lock the strip part to the panel edge in a horizontal direction, wherein the outer part including a locking protrusion, located above the strip body and configured to lock the strip part to the panel edge vertically and a locking element configured to lock the panels in a horizontal direction, and wherein the inner part includes a cavity formed in the strip body and located between the fixing element and the locking protrusion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: May 30, 2019Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony Pervan
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Publication number: 20190119928Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges including a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. Building panels provided with a locking system for vertical locking of a first and a second building panel by a vertical displacement of the panels relative each other, a displaceable tongue is in a sidewardly open displacement groove provided at an edge of a first panel, said tongue cooperates with a tongue groove provided at an adjacent edge of a second panel for locking the edge and the adjacent edge vertically.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
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Publication number: 20190119513Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Ceraloc Innovation ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Patent number: 10240349Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Patent number: 10221576Abstract: Building panels, especially floor panels, which are provided with a locking system including several separate strip parts connected to the panel edge. A strip part, configured to lock panels horizontally and to be fixed to a panel edge, including a strip body with an inner part configured to be fixed under the panel edge and an outer part configured to extend outside the panel edge, wherein the inner part comprises a fixing element configured to lock the strip part to the panel edge in a horizontal direction, wherein the outer part including a locking protrusion, located above the strip body and configured to lock the strip part to the panel edge vertically and a locking element configured to lock the panels in a horizontal direction, and wherein the inner part includes a cavity formed in the strip body and located between the fixing element and the locking protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Patent number: 10189281Abstract: A method of forming a digital print on a surface (2) by applying powder of dry ink (15) including colorants (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 colorants (7) and removing non-bonded dry ink (15) from the surface (2).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Patent number: 10180005Abstract: Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical locking system on short edges including a displaceable tongue that is displaced in one direction into a tongue groove during vertical displacement of two panels. Building panels provided with a locking system for vertical locking of a first and a second building panel by a vertical displacement of the panels relative each other, a displaceable tongue is in a sidewardly open displacement groove provided at an edge of a first panel, said tongue cooperates with a tongue groove provided at an adjacent edge of a second panel for locking the edge and the adjacent edge vertically.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2016Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Publication number: 20180298216Abstract: A method of forming a digital embossing on a surface by bonding hard press particles to a carrier. A liquid binder pattern is applied on the carrier by a digital drop application head. Hard press particles are applied on the carrier and the binder pattern such that some hard press particles are bonded to the carrier by the liquid pattern and non-bonded press particles are removed. The carrier with the bonded hard press particles is pressed to the surface and an embossing is formed when the carrier with the hard press particles is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2018Publication date: October 18, 2018Applicant: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko PERVAN, Tony PERVAN
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Patent number: 10035358Abstract: Building panels, especially floor panels, and a method of forming embossed in register surfaces with a digital ink head that applies a curable ink on the panel surface or on an upper side of a foil as a coating and forms an ink matrix that is used to create a cavity in the surface by applying a pressure on the ink matrix.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan
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Patent number: 10029484Abstract: A method of forming a digital embossing (17) on a surface (2) by bonding hard press particles (67) to a carrier (68). A liquid binder pattern (P) is applied on the carrier by a digital drop application head. Hard press particles (67) are applied on the carrier (68) and the binder pattern such that some hard press particles are bonded to the carrier (68) by the liquid pattern and non-bonded press particles (67) are removed. The carrier (68) with the bonded hard press particles (67) is pressed to the surface (2) and an embossing is formed when the carrier (68) with the hard press particles (67) is removed.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Assignee: CERALOC INNOVATION ABInventors: Darko Pervan, Tony Pervan