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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11511562 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2019

Methods for manufacturing decorative laminate panels

Applicant:

Agfa NV, Mortsel, BE;

Inventors:

Peter Frings, Mortsel, BE;

Rudi Lamproye, Mortsel, BE;

Assignee:

AGFA NV, Mortsel, BE;

Attorney:

Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

Primary Examiner:

Nathan L Van Sell

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B44C 5/04 (2006.01); B32B 3/06 (2006.01); B32B 27/10 (2006.01); B32B 27/30 (2006.01); B32B 27/32 (2006.01); B32B 27/36 (2006.01); B32B 27/40 (2006.01); B32B 37/10 (2006.01); B32B 38/00 (2006.01); B41M 5/00 (2006.01); B41M 7/00 (2006.01); B44C 1/28 (2006.01); B44C 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B44C 5/04 (2013.01); B32B 3/06 (2013.01); B32B 27/10 (2013.01); B32B 27/304 (2013.01); B32B 27/32 (2013.01); B32B 27/36 (2013.01); B32B 27/40 (2013.01); B32B 37/10 (2013.01); B32B 38/0004 (2013.01); B32B 38/145 (2013.01); B41M 5/0047 (2013.01); B41M 5/0064 (2013.01); B41M 7/0027 (2013.01); B44C 1/28 (2013.01); B44C 3/12 (2013.01); B32B 2307/412 (2013.01); B32B 2307/75 (2013.01); B32B 2451/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for manufacturing a personalized or customized decorative surface () having decorative laminate panels () including the steps of: segmenting a digital image of the personalized or customized decorative surface () into a plurality of decorative laminate panel images (), wherein each decorative laminate panel image () is sized to fit on a decorative laminate panel (); assigning a positioning code () to a decorative laminate panel image () for identifying its position in the digital image of the personalized or customized decorative surface (); creating a non-staggered digital layout () of the plurality of decorative laminate panel images (); inkjet printing the non-staggered digital layout () on a substrate (); heat pressing the inkjet printed substrate with a protective layer () into a decorative laminate (); dividing the decorative laminate () into decorative laminate panels (), wherein the front side of a decorative laminate panel () includes one of the plurality of inkjet printed decorative laminate panel images () and the back-side of decorative laminate panel () includes the positioning code () of the decorative laminate panel image () inkjet printed on the front side of the decorative laminate panel ().

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