Patents by Inventor Ulrich Kinle

Ulrich Kinle has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20120024988
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jet outlet element for a sanitary fitting which allows outlet of a defined gushing jet from the sanitary fitting. The sanitary outlet element is configured as a flat element having two compartments, a water inlet compartment and a water outlet compartment. A narrowed section is interposed between the two compartments and accommodates a flow rectifier. Said flow rectifier rectifies the as yet non-directional flow of the water in the inlet compartment and guides it in a controlled manner to the outlet compartment from where it emerges through the slotted outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: Hansgrohe AG
    Inventors: Arno Hahn, Joachim Blattner, Ulrich Kinle, Jochen Armbruster
  • Patent number: 8047457
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jet outlet element for a sanitary fitting which allows outlet of a defined gushing jet from the sanitary fitting. The sanitary outlet element is configured as a flat element having two compartments, a water inlet compartment and a water outlet compartment. A narrowed section is interposed between the two compartments and accommodates a flow rectifier. Said flow rectifier rectifies the as yet non-directional flow of the water in the inlet compartment and guides it in a controlled manner to the outlet compartment from where it emerges through the slotted outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hansgrohe AG
    Inventors: Arno Hahn, Joachim Blattner, Ulrich Kinle, Jochen Armbruster
  • Publication number: 20110108640
    Abstract: A shower head for a hand-held shower attachment, an overhead shower attachment or a side shower attachment contains, in its shower-head housing, a vortex chamber which is of funnel shape with the side wall curved. The funnel begins, at the location of the largest diameter, in a radial plane and then decreases in diameter along a curved contour to an exit, where the walls of the funnel run in the axial direction. At the location of the largest diameter of the vortex chamber, upstream of this tapering region, the water is let in tangentially in the circumferential direction and in the axial direction. The vortex which is generated by virtue of the water being let in tangentially accelerates its speed of rotation in the direction of the spray disc. Arranged at the end of the tapering region is a jet-outlet chamber which is very flat, but is of large diameter in relation to the vortex chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Inventors: Klaus Grohe, Hubert Moosmann, Ulrich Kinle, Markus Woehrle
  • Publication number: 20100276021
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ventilation device forven-tilating shower streams that is configured as an insert, and that may be utilized in a connection of a sanitary fitting, particularly in the connection of a shower head housing. The insert contains at least one water throughput channel (15) connected to a ventilation channel (18, 19, 20,21) such that air is suctioned in through the ventilation channel (18, 19, 20, 21) when a flow passes through the water throughput channel (15), ventilating the water stream. The insert may have a receptacle for a flow restrictor (11). A backflow preventer (13) may be provided in order to prevent water leakage from the exterior end of the ventilation channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Inventors: Fabian Melle, Ulrich Kinle
  • Publication number: 20090307836
    Abstract: A showerhead contains a chamber in connection with a connecting nozzle, said chamber from which the water is discharged from plurality of nipples formed on a membrane formed out of elastomeric material. The nipples feature a duct for the shower water. The nipples penetrate through openings of a perforated disc through the openings slightly larger than the outside diameter of the nipple. By shifting the perforated disc in a plane parallel to the membrane featuring the nipples, the direction of the nipple and thus the direction of the water jets discharged from the nipples will be changed. This adjustment can occur in two directions that are perpendicular to one another. The membrane is preferably approximately plane in shape, so that a front surface of the showerhead is likewise plane in shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Inventors: Joachim Blattner, Ulrich Kinle
  • Publication number: 20080283631
    Abstract: A shower head according to the invention comprises a rotor with a closing plate which bears against a jet disk with jet passage openings and, when the rotor is rotated, alternately opens and closes said jet passage openings. Pulsed massage jets are generated at the outlet of the jet passage openings as a result. A further jet outlet disk with jet out let openings is arranged downstream of said jet disk, with said jet outlet openings being aligned axially opposite the jet passage openings of the jet disk. Ventilation chambers are arranged between the two disks, said ventilation chambers being connected to the outside of the shower head. The pulsed jets are ventilated downstream of the jet passage openings as a result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2006
    Publication date: November 20, 2008
    Inventors: Markus Wohrle, Ulrich Kinle
  • Publication number: 20080073450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jet outlet element for a sanitary fitting which allows outlet of a defined gushing jet from the sanitary fitting. The sanitary outlet element is configured as a flat element having two compartments, a water inlet compartment and a water outlet compartment. A narrowed section is interposed between the two compartments and accommodates a flow rectifier. Said flow rectifier rectifies the as yet non-directional flow of the water in the inlet compartment and guides it in a controlled manner to the outlet compartment from where it emerges through the slotted outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2005
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Inventors: Arno Hahn, Joachim Blattner, Ulrich Kinle, Jochen Armbruster