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US 12,497,495 · App. 18/540,886 · Granted Dec 16, 2025

Core flooring layer of a light-foamed SPC floor and a light-foamed SPC floor

Inventor: Min Yu (Xuancheng, CN)
Assignee: ANHUI OMI VINYL CO., LTD.
C08J9/0066B32B5/18B32B27/065B32B27/20B32B27/304C08J9/0052C08J9/08C08J9/103C08J9/105E04F15/105E04F15/107C08J2327/06C08K2003/265
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Patent No.
US 12,497,495
App. No.
18/540,886
Granted
Dec 16, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

Provided in the present disclosure are a core flooring layer of a light-foamed SPC floor and a light-foamed SPC floor. Based on the total weight of the core flooring, the core flooring of the present disclosure contains 65.0˜75.0 wt % of calcium carbonate, 18.0˜25.0 wt % of polyvinyl chloride resin, 2.2˜3.0 wt % of a foaming regulator, 2.5˜3.3 wt % of a stabilizer, 0.10˜0.20 wt % of a plasticizer, 0.10˜0.15 wt % of an external lubricant, 0.1˜0.40 wt % of an ADC foaming agent, and 0.5˜1.0 wt % of an NC foaming agent. The present disclosure can greatly reduce the density of a SPC floor while improving the static bending strength, flexural elastic modulus and peeling strength, and reducing heating warpage.

Claims (41)

1 . A core flooring used as a core flooring layer of a light-foamed stone plastic composite (SPC) floor, wherein the core flooring contains, based on its total weight, 65.0-75.0 wt % of calcium carbonate, 18.0-25.0 wt % of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) resin powder, 2.2-3.0 wt % of a foaming regulator, 2.5-3.3 wt % of a stabilizer, 0.10-0.20 wt % of a plasticizer, 0.10-0.15 wt % of an external lubricant, 0.1-0.40 wt % of an ADC foaming agent, and 0.5-1.0 wt % of an NC foaming agent;

wherein the core flooring does not contain a separately added internal lubricant;

wherein the calcium carbonate contains, based on the total weight of the core flooring, 10-13 wt % of 700-800 mesh calcium carbonate and 57-62 wt % of 300-500 mesh,

wherein the NC foaming agent comprises sodium bicarbonate in a content of 50-70 wt %, zinc stearate in a content of 5-15 wt %, p-toluenesulfonyl semicarbazide in a content of 5-15 wt %, silicon dioxide in a content of 5-15 wt %, magnesium stearate in a content of 5-10 wt %, and sodium acetate in a content of 2-3 wt %, based on the total weight of the NC foaming agent; and

the ADC foaming agent comprises azodicarbonamide in a content of 99.4-99.8 wt %, urea in a content of 0.1-0.3 wt %, polyacrylamide in a content of 0.1-0.2 wt %, and sodium cyanate in a content of 0.04-0.07 wt %, based on the total weight of the ADC foaming agent.

2 . The core flooring of claim 1 , wherein:

the foaming regulator is a PVC foaming regulator; and/or

the stabilizer is selected from one or more of metal soap stabilizers, composite stabilizers, and organic tin stabilizers; and/or

the external lubricant is selected from one or more of polyethylene (PE) wax or oxidized PE wax; and/or

the plasticizer is oxidized PE wax.

3 . The core flooring of claim 2 , wherein:

the foaming regulator is an acrylic processing aid; and/or

the stabilizer is a calcium zinc stabilizer, or is calcium stearate or zinc stearate or a combination of calcium stearate and zinc stearate.

4 . The core flooring of claim 1 , wherein:

the core flooring contains 10-13 wt % of 800 mesh calcium carbonate and 57-62 wt % of 350 mesh calcium carbonate based on the total weight of the core flooring; and/or

the content of polyvinyl chloride is 19-24.5 wt %, 19-21 wt % or 23.5-24.5 wt %, based on the total weight of the core flooring; and/or

the content of the foaming regulator is 2.4-3.0 wt % based on the total weight of the core flooring; and/or

the content of the stabilizer is 2.6-3.2 wt % based on the total weight of the core flooring; and/or

the content of the external lubricant is 0.10-0.15 wt % or 0.10-0.13 wt % based on the total weight of the core flooring; and/or

the content of the plasticizer is 0.15-0.18 wt % based on the total weight of the core flooring.

5 . The core flooring of claim 1 , wherein the content of the NC foaming agent is 0.50-0.70 wt %, and the content of the ADC foaming agent is 0.15-0.30 wt %, based on the total weight of the core flooring.

6 . The core flooring of claim 1 , wherein the core flooring further contains one or more of colorants, reinforcing materials and flame retardants.

7 . The core flooring of claim 6 , wherein:

the colorant is carbon black;

the reinforcing material is selected from one or more of glass fiber, carbon fiber and nanocarbon fiber; and

the flame retardant is selected from one or more of phosphite flame retardants and perfluorobutane sulfonate flame retardants.

8 . The core flooring of claim 7 , wherein the content of the colorant is 0.01-0.10 wt %, based on the total weight of the core flooring.

9 . The core flooring of claim 1 , wherein:

the core flooring contains 10-12 wt % of 800 mesh calcium carbonate, 57-59 wt % of 350 mesh calcium carbonate, 23-24.5 wt % of PVC resin powder, 2.8-3.1 wt % of the foaming regulator, 2.9-3.2 wt % of the stabilizer, 0.15-0.18 wt % of the plasticizer, 0.10-0.15 wt % of the external lubricant, 0.15-0.25 wt % of the ADC foaming agent, and 0.50-0.60 wt % of the NC foaming agent, based on the total weight of the core flooring; or

the core flooring contains 11-13 wt % of 800 mesh calcium carbonate, 60-62 wt % of 350 mesh calcium carbonate, 18-20 wt % of PVC resin powder, 2.3-2.7 wt % of the foaming regulator, 2.6-2.8 wt % of the stabilizer, 0.15-0.18 wt % of the plasticizer, 0.10-0.15 wt % of the external lubricant, 0.13-0.29 wt % of the ADC foaming agent, and 0.54-0.70 wt % of the NC foaming agent, based on the total weight of the core flooring.

10 . A light-foamed SPC floor comprising the core flooring of claim 1 as its core flooring layer.

11 . The light-foamed SPC floor according to claim 10 , wherein the light-foamed SPC floor further comprises one or more of a wear layer, a decor layer, a bottom layer and UV coating.

12 . The light-foamed SPC floor according to claim 11 , wherein:

the bottom layer of the light-foamed SPC floor is provided with a balancing layer, and a plastic Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) layer is used as the balancing layer;

the UV coating is provided on the surface of the wear layer.

13 . The light-foamed SPC floor according to claim 12 , wherein:

the plastic LVT bottom layer contains 43-48 wt % of PVC resin, 43-48 wt % of calcium carbonate, 1.0-1.5 wt % of a stabilizer, 7-9 wt % of a plasticizer, 0.10-0.20 wt % of an external lubricant, and 0.01-0.10 wt % of a colorant comprising carbon black based on the total weight of the plastic LVT bottom layer; or

the plastic LVT bottom layer contains 44-46 wt % of PVC resin, 44-46 wt % of calcium carbonate, 1.0-1.5 wt % of the stabilizer, 7.5-8.6 wt % of the plasticizer, 0.10-0.20 wt % of the external lubricant, and 0.01-0.06 wt % of the colorant comprising carbon black, based on the total weight of plastic LVT bottom layer.

14 . The light-foamed SPC floor according to claim 12 , wherein:

the core flooring contains 10-12 wt % of 800 mesh calcium carbonate, 57-59 wt % of 350 mesh calcium carbonate, 23-24.5 wt % of PVC resin powder, 2.8-3.1 wt % of the foaming regulator, 2.9-3.2 wt % of the stabilizer, 0.15-0.18 wt % of the plasticizer, 0.10-0.15 wt % of the external lubricant, 0.1-0.2 5wt % of the ADC foaming agent, and 0.50-0.60 wt % of the NC foaming agent, based on the total weight of the core flooring; or

the core flooring contains 11-13 wt % of 800 mesh calcium carbonate, 60-62 wt % of 350 mesh calcium carbonate, 18-20 wt % of PVC resin powder, 2.3-2.7 wt % of the foaming regulator, 2.6-2.8 wt % of the stabilizer, 0.15-0.18 wt % of the plasticizer, 0.10-0.15 wt % of the external lubricant, 0.1-0.29 wt % of the ADC foaming agent, and 0.54-0.70 wt % of the NC foaming agent, based on the total weight of the core flooring.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 15, 2023
From: YU, MIN
To: ANHUI OMI VINYL CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
CN 202310038454.7 · Jan 9, 2023 · national
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