Patents by Inventor Gerard De Backer

Gerard De Backer 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).

  • Sanitary element system with a system interface
    Patent number: 7611108
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system of a support element and at least two functional elements which can be used in the sanitary sector, with the support element being able to be coupled to each of the functional elements via a system interface and the system interface having a spigot-shaped element—at the support element side—with an outwardly biased latch element projecting out of said spigot-shaped element transversely to its longitudinal axis and the functional elements each having a tubular element corresponding to the spigot-shaped element and having a cut-out for the latch element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH
    Inventor: Gerard De Backer
  • Sanitary element system with a system interface
    Publication number: 20060022098
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system of a support element and at least two functional elements which can be used in the sanitary sector, with the support element being able to be coupled to each of the functional elements via a system interface and the system interface having a spigot-shaped element—at the support element side—with an outwardly biased latch element projecting out of said spigot-shaped element transversely to its longitudinal axis and the functional elements each having a tubular element corresponding to the spigot-shaped element and having a cut-out for the latch element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2005
    Publication date: February 2, 2006
    Applicant: HEWI Heinrich Wilke GmbH
    Inventor: Gerard De Backer