Patents by Inventor Franz Wanner

Franz Wanner 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: 20040016816
    Abstract: A thermostatic valve for sanitary fittings contains an extensible material element, which is exposed to the temperature of the mixed water resulting from the mixing of hot and cold water. The extensible material element is operatively connected to two closing bodies each associated with a valve and which move simultaneously when the mixed water temperature changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Gerhard Ginter, Andreas Ginter, Franz Wanner
  • Patent number: 6676025
    Abstract: A temperature-controlled mixer valve contains a disk control for determining the quantity of mixed water flowing out of the valve. To the disk control is connected a regulating unit, which determines the mixed water temperature. The control disk is movable with respect to the fixed distributor disk in a first degree of freedom for determining the mixed water quantity. By control disk movement in a second degree of freedom, the desired temperature of the thermostatic valve is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: Hansgrohe AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Ginter, Andreas Ginter, Franz Wanner
  • Publication number: 20030173410
    Abstract: A temperature-controlled mixer valve contains a disk control for determining the quantity of mixed water flowing out of the valve. To the disk control is connected a regulating unit, which determines the mixed water temperature. The control disk movable with respect to the fixed distributor disk can be moved in a first degree of freedom for determining the mixed water quantity. During the control disk movement in a second degree of freedom, the desired temperature of the thermostatic valve is modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2002
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Gerhard Ginter, Andreas Ginter, Franz Wanner
  • Patent number: 6585167
    Abstract: A thermostatic valve contains a hollow cylindrical valve element, each of whose two ends form an inlet port for hot or cold water. The mixed water formed by mixing hot and cold water strikes a temperature sensor which, as a function of the temperature, displaces the valve element to a greater or lesser extent. Within the valve element is located a mixing device, which divides the inflowing hot water into several flows, namely two radially directed flows and an axial flow flowing round the end of a sleeve. The radial parts of the hot water flow are encountered by an axial cold water flow. This leads to a particularly intimate mixing of hot and cold water before the temperature sensor is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Hansgrohe AG
    Inventors: Helmut Wolber, Stephan Gruhler, Franz Wanner, Werner Lorch
  • Publication number: 20020066794
    Abstract: A thermostatic valve contains a hollow cylindrical valve element, each of whose two ends form an inlet port for hot or cold water. The mixed water formed by mixing hot and cold water strikes a temperature sensor which, as a function of the temperature, displaces the valve element to a greater or lesser extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Helmut Wolber, Stephan Gruhler, Franz Wanner, Werner Lorch