Methods for manufacturing decorative laminate panels

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11511562
APP PUB NO 20210155032A1
SERIAL NO

16965378

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A method for manufacturing a personalized or customized decorative surface (103) having decorative laminate panels (119) including the steps of: segmenting a digital image of the personalized or customized decorative surface (103) into a plurality of decorative laminate panel images (108), wherein each decorative laminate panel image (108) is sized to fit on a decorative laminate panel (119); assigning a positioning code (109) to a decorative laminate panel image (108) for identifying its position in the digital image of the personalized or customized decorative surface (103); creating a non-staggered digital layout (110) of the plurality of decorative laminate panel images (108); inkjet printing the non-staggered digital layout (110) on a substrate (112); heat pressing the inkjet printed substrate with a protective layer (115) into a decorative laminate (113); dividing the decorative laminate (113) into decorative laminate panels (119), wherein the front side of a decorative laminate panel (119) includes one of the plurality of inkjet printed decorative laminate panel images (108) and the back-side of decorative laminate panel (119) includes the positioning code (109) of the decorative laminate panel image (108) inkjet printed on the front side of the decorative laminate panel (119).

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AGFA NV2640 MORTSEL

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  • 2019 Application Filing Year
  • B41M Class
  • 654 Applications Filed
  • 393 Patents Issued To-Date
  • 60.10 % Issued To-Date

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Frings, Peter Mortsel, BE 11 29
Lamproye, Rudi Mortsel, BE 8 6

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