Decorative Panels With Collagen Layers for Stable Image Quality
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing decorative panels made from synthetic materials like PVC struggle to achieve high-quality image reproduction and panel stability while being environmentally friendly, and alternatives such as cork are expensive and impractical.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a collagen-based intermediate layer, derived from non-human sources like cow or buffalo leather, which provides adhesion, flexibility, and acoustic dampening, and is cost-effective, combined with a decorative top structure and transparent protective layers to enhance panel quality and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If cork layer is used to bear printed décor image instead of PVC film, then environmental friendliness is improved, but manufacturing cost increases and image quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a printed decorative layer that copies the appearance of natural materials (wood grain patterns) on a PVC film substrate. This allows the panel to achieve the aesthetic quality of natural materials while maintaining the manufacturing advantages and stability of synthetic materials, resolving the contradiction between environmental friendliness and image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a composite structure combining PVC film with a printed decorative layer and transparent protective layer. This composite approach allows each layer to perform its specific function - the PVC provides stability and durability, the printed layer provides aesthetic quality, and the protective layer provides surface hardness - thereby achieving high image quality without relying on expensive natural materials like cork.
2Manufacturing precision
If PVC film is used to bear decorative image, then manufacturing cost is reduced and image quality is improved, but environmental friendliness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent modifies the PVC film properties by adding a printable surface layer and applying specific surface treatments that enable high-quality digital printing. This allows PVC to achieve image quality comparable to or exceeding natural materials while maintaining its environmental advantages through recyclability and lower cost, effectively changing the parameters of the PVC system to resolve the environmental-quality contradiction.
3Manufacturing precision
If digital printing technique is used on PVC film, then image quality is improved, but environmental friendliness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses digital printing to copy natural wood grain patterns with high precision on the PVC film surface. This copying technique achieves realistic aesthetic quality while allowing the use of environmentally friendly ink formulations and enabling the recyclability of the PVC substrate, thereby resolving the contradiction between high-quality image reproduction and environmental friendliness.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a decorative panel, in particular a floor panel, ceiling panel or wall panel. The invention also relates to a decorative panel covering, such as a decorative floor covering, decorative ceiling covering or decorative wall covering, comprising a plurality of panels according to the invention, wherein the panels are preferably interconnected.