Floor Panel Embossed Substrate Scraped Wood Imitation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current floor panels struggle to accurately imitate the appearance of scraped wood due to limitations in embossment depth and realism, particularly with embossments confined to the laminate layer, which results in a superficial effect.
Innovation Solution
The floor panel design incorporates embossed portions that extend into the substrate, providing deeper embossments and a more realistic imitation of scraped wood, with features like sunk edge areas and sloping edge portions, and the use of embossed patterns that integrate visual edge effects to enhance the appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If embossments are confined to the laminate layer only, then the manufacturing process is simpler, but the imitation of scraped wood is superficial and not realistic
Solution Approach 1:
The embossments extend from the laminate layer into the substrate layer below, adding a vertical dimension to the embossment depth. This multi-layer embossing approach creates deeper, more realistic scraped wood effects while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through integrated press plate design
2Manufacturing precision
If embossment depth is increased to improve realism, then the imitation of scraped wood becomes more convincing, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The press plate is divided into distinct functional zones: an upper embossing surface for creating embossments in the laminate layer, and a lower embossing surface positioned closer to the substrate for creating deeper embossments. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each embossing stage while maintaining overall manufacturing efficiency
3Manufacturing precision
If deeper embossments extending into the substrate are applied, then the imitation of scraped wood is more realistic, but the production time may increase
Solution Approach 1:
The press plate geometry is pre-designed with optimally positioned embossing surfaces and appropriate pressing forces to achieve the desired deep embossment effects in a single pressing operation. This preliminary design optimization eliminates the need for multiple sequential pressing steps, maintaining high production speed while achieving realistic scraped wood imitation
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AI summary
Floor panel, more particularly a laminate floor panel, which, at least at two opposite edges (2-3-4-5), is provided with coupling parts (6-7-8-9), whereby this floor panel (1), at its decorative side, forms an imitation of wood, from which, by means of a tool, wood portions have been removed from the surface, more particularly forms an imitation of so-called scraped wood, and whereby this floor panel (1) comprises a decor (10) representing a wood pattern (18), a top layer (11) on the basis of synthetic material (12), and an underlying substrate (13), whether or not composed of several layers or parts, characterized in that the floor panel (1), in the surface over which the decor (10) extends, is provided with embossed portions (19 and/or 20) continuing up into the aforementioned substrate (13), whereby these embossed portions (19 and/or 20) are at least applied in order to imitate the aforementioned removed wood portions.