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US 12,168,878 B2Granted
Decorative panel, and decorative floor covering consisting of said panels
Assigneei4F Licensing NV
InventorEddy Alberic Boucké
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Abstract
In the field of decorative floor coverings, decorative panels are known having a MDF (Medium Density Board) or HDF (High Density Board) based core layer on top of which a decorative substrate is attached to provide the panels a desired appearance. The invention relates to a panel, in particular a decorative panel, a floor panel, a ceiling panel or a wall panel. The invention also relates to a floor covering consisting of a plurality of mutually coupled panels.
Claims19
A decorative panel, comprising:
- a core provided with an upper side and a lower side,
- a decorative top structure affixed on said upper side of the core,
- a first panel edge comprising a first coupling profile, and a second panel edge comprising a second coupling profile being designed to engage interlockingly with said first coupling profile of an adjacent panel, both in horizontal direction and in vertical direction,
- wherein said core comprises an alloy of a polymer matrix and/or a magnesium cement based matrix and elastic particles dispersed in said matrix, wherein the elastic particles are bond to the polymer matrix and/or the magnesium cement based matrix by means of a covalent bond, and
- wherein the polymer matrix comprises polyethylene (PE), and/or polypropylene (PP) and/or polybutylene.
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