Patents by Inventor Marc Kalmbach

Marc Kalmbach 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).

  • Patent number: 11491498
    Abstract: A shower jet outlet device and a shower head equipped therewith have a jet disk with at least one jet disk opening and a jet outlet element disposed in the jet disk opening. The jet outlet element is pot-shaped with an outlet-side bottom, a side wall and a hollow chamber delimited by the bottom and the side wall. The bottom faces in the jet outlet direction and includes fine jet openings. The bottom and the side wall are made of an elastic material and the jet outlet element is configured to deform by bulging of its bottom and/or its side wall, in response to fluid pressure in the hollow chamber when operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Steffen Erath, Guenter Glunk, Marc Kalmbach
  • Patent number: 11014102
    Abstract: A shower jet generating device for a shower head, illustratively for a sanitary shower head, including a shower jet disk delimiting a fluid chamber on an outlet side and including at least one jet outlet opening leading out of the fluid chamber and at least one overpressure valve opening, and comprising at least one overpressure valve disposed on the overpressure valve opening. The overpressure valve illustratively includes an overpressure outlet opening leading out of the fluid chamber, an immobile valve seat and a valve body capable of movement controlled by a fluid pressure in the fluid chamber and interacting with the valve seat, which valve body, in a normal pressure position, rests against the valve seat, thereby closing the overpressure outlet opening, and, in an overpressure position, is lifted off the valve seat, thereby exposing the overpressure outlet opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Marc Kalmbach, Ulrich Kinle
  • Publication number: 20190224697
    Abstract: A shower jet generating device for a shower head, illustratively for a sanitary shower head, including a shower jet disk delimiting a fluid chamber on an outlet side and including at least one jet outlet opening leading out of the fluid chamber and at least one overpressure valve opening, and comprising at least one overpressure valve disposed on the overpressure valve opening. The overpressure valve illustratively includes an overpressure outlet opening leading out of the fluid chamber, an immobile valve seat and a valve body capable of movement controlled by a fluid pressure in the fluid chamber and interacting with the valve seat, which valve body, in a normal pressure position, rests against the valve seat, thereby closing the overpressure outlet opening, and, in an overpressure position, is lifted off the valve seat, thereby exposing the overpressure outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Marc Kalmbach, Ulrich Kinle
  • Patent number: 10335807
    Abstract: A shower head comprising has a shower base body (2?) and a jet disk structure (3) disposed on the shower base body. The jet disk structure (3) includes plural jet disk elements (4) that are individually and detachably fixable to the shower base body (2) and each forms a partial jet disk surface (5) of a total jet disk surface. Furthermore, the shower base body has a distinct fluid supply (7) for each of the jet disk elements. The structure can be embodied, for example, as a shower-bath shower head, in particular for an overhead, hand-held and/or side shower, for providing a water jet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Marc Kalmbach
  • Patent number: 10267023
    Abstract: A support device useful for holding height-adjustable hand-held showers and other devices includes a support slider (1), displaceable along a support bar (2), having a releasable clamping device (3) for fixing the support slider on the support bar. The clamping device (3) has two clamping jaws (8a, 8b) capable of being expanded elastically from a clamping position reducing the clamping gap to a sliding position increasing the clamping gap, which jaws encompass the support bar (2) at least partially, and define a clamping gap (7) between them. An operating unit (50), in an operative position, retains the clamping jaws in a clamping gap increasing sliding position, while the clamping jaws assume their clamping position in an initial position of the operating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Marc Kalmbach, David Zapf
  • Publication number: 20180178225
    Abstract: A shower jet outlet device and a shower head equipped therewith have a jet disk with at least one jet disk opening and a jet outlet element disposed in the jet disk opening. The jet outlet element is pot-shaped with an outlet-side bottom, a side wall and a hollow chamber delimited by the bottom and the side wall. The bottom faces in the jet outlet direction and includes fine jet openings. The bottom and the side wall are made of an elastic material and the jet outlet element is configured to deform by bulging of its bottom and/or its side wall, in response to fluid pressure in the hollow chamber when operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Steffen Erath, Guenter Glunk, Marc Kalmbach
  • Patent number: 9931650
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spray device having a fluid outlet structure that forms a spray jet, said fluid outlet structure having a plurality of jet outlet units of which at least two are configured as multi-duct jet outlet units having in each case at least one first outlet duct and at least one second outlet duct fluidically separated from the first. Moreover, the spray device has a fluid guide which is designed to conduct a fluid supplied to the spray device selectively to the first outlet ducts or to the second outlet ducts. According to the invention, a minimum spacing (A12) between the outlet ducts of each particular multi-duct jet outlet unit (2) is smaller than a minimum spacing between the outlet ducts of in each case two multi-duct jet outlet units, and/or in at least one multi-duct jet outlet unit, a second outlet duct or a group of a plurality of second outlet ducts is arranged so as to surround a first outlet duct at least around a part of its circumference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Hansgrohe SE
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Marc Kalmbach
  • Publication number: 20170183848
    Abstract: A support device useful for holding height-adjustable hand-held showers and other devices includes a support slider (1), displaceable along a support bar (2), having a releasable clamping device (3) for fixing the support slider on the support bar. The clamping device (3) has two clamping jaws (8a, 8b) capable of being expanded elastically from a clamping position reducing the clamping gap to a sliding position increasing the clamping gap, which jaws encompass the support bar (2) at least partially, and define a clamping gap (7) between them. An operating unit (50), in an operative position, retains the clamping jaws in a clamping gap increasing sliding position, while the clamping jaws assume their clamping position in an initial position of the operating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Marc Kalmbach, David Zapf
  • Publication number: 20170157627
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shower head comprising a shower base body (2?) and a jet disk structure (3) disposed on the shower base body. With the shower head according to the invention as claimed the jet disk structure (3) includes a plurality of jet disk elements (4). The jet disk elements are individually and detachably fixable to the shower base body (2) and each form a partial jet disk surface (5) of a total jet disk surface. Furthermore, the shower base body has a distinct fluid supply (7) for each of the jet disk elements. Use, e.g., as a shower-bath shower head, in particular for an overhead, hand-held and/or side shower, for providing a water jet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Marc Kalmbach
  • Publication number: 20160332173
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spray device having a fluid outlet structure that forms a spray jet, said fluid outlet structure having a plurality of jet outlet units of which at least two are configured as multi-duct jet outlet units having in each case at least one first outlet duct and at least one second outlet duct fluidically separated from the first. Moreover, the spray device has a fluid guide which is designed to conduct a fluid supplied to the spray device selectively to the first outlet ducts or to the second outlet ducts. According to the invention, a minimum spacing (A12) between the outlet ducts of each particular multi-duct jet outlet unit (2) is smaller than a minimum spacing between the outlet ducts of in each case two multi-duct jet outlet units, and/or in at least one multi-duct jet outlet unit, a second outlet duct or a group of a plurality of second outlet ducts is arranged so as to surround a first outlet duct at least around a part of its circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Marc Kalmbach