Patents by Inventor Marc Tempel

Marc Tempel 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: 20170343127
    Abstract: In the case of a valve-actuating device (1) having a first valve (3) and a second valve (38), it is provided to form, on the first valve (3), a pressure chamber (14), which can be filled with a pressure from a first inflow (16) via a filling opening (15), wherein the first valve (3) separates the first inflow (16), in a closed position, from a first outflow (19), and wherein the pressure chamber (14) can be emptied into the first outflow (19) via an outflow opening (18), and the outflow opening (18) can be opened and closed by a closure element which can be activated by an operating element (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventors: Yichao Bian, Holger Schurle, Marc Tempel, Martin Fangmeier
  • Publication number: 20170198461
    Abstract: A jet regulator (1) is provided including a jet regulator housing having an interior in which there is provided a perforated plate (5) with a plurality of throughflow holes (6) for dividing up the water that flows through, of which at least one of the throughflow holes (6), at least in an outflow-side hole portion, widens in a tapered or conical or stepped manner toward an outflow side. On the outflow side of the perforated plate (5) and at a distance therefrom, there is provided an encircling impingement chamfer (19) which narrows a clear housing cross section in a region of the impingement chamfer progressively in the flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Publication number: 20170184212
    Abstract: A sanitary fixture (1), including a flow regulator unit (5) and a movable adjustment element (6) that adjusts a flow rate and has a control connection to a temperature-sensitive control element (8). The invention provides arranging a return spring (13) on a same side of the flow regulator unit (5) as the control element (8), with respect to the flow direction, and/or designing the control element (8) to assume at least one intermediate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: 9677680
    Abstract: A sanitary fixture (1), including a flow regulator unit (5) and a movable adjustment element (6) that adjusts a flow rate and has a control connection to a temperature-sensitive control element (8). The invention provides arranging a return spring (13) on a same side of the flow regulator unit (5) as the control element (8), with respect to the flow direction, and/or designing the control element (8) to assume at least one intermediate position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: 9639095
    Abstract: In the case of a sanitary fixture (1), it is provided that at least one covering surface (7), by way of which at least one flow opening (4) of a flow element (3) is openable and at least partially closable in a temperature-dependent manner, is formed on a covering element (6) made of a temperature-sensitive material (cf. FIG. 1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventors: Holger Schurle, Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: 9637896
    Abstract: A jet regulator (1), having a perforated plate (5) arranged therein with throughflow holes (6) extending through the perforated plate for dividing the water flowing therethrough, including a central, non-perforated impingement surface (14) on the perforated plate (5), which non-perforated impingement surface is surrounded by a first annular wall (15), which has passage openings (16) that are oriented in a radial direction and extend through the first annular wall, wherein a respective throughflow hole (6), which extends through the perforated plate (5) and is connected to the respective passage opening (16), is provided on the side of each passage opening (16) arranged in the impingement surface plane. The annular wall (15) is surrounded by an annular ring chamber (29) on the outer circumferential side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Publication number: 20160319527
    Abstract: A sanitary outlet insert which can be mounted on the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting, comprising a flow limiter that has an adjusting element which regulates or limits the flow area in cooperation with a counter element. The flow area of the flow limiter can be preselected or varied by an axial change of the relative position of the adjusting element and the counter element; in that additionally a handle is provided on the outlet end face of the outlet insert, said handle being designed as a pushbutton; and in that an adjusting movement on the handle can be converted into a relative axial movement of the adjusting element and the counter element by means of a pushbutton mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: 9416522
    Abstract: A sanitary outlet insert (1) which can be mounted on the water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting, comprising a flow rate regulator (2) or a flow limiter that has an adjusting element (3) which regulates or limits the flow area in cooperation with a counter element (3?). The aim of the invention is to easily adapt said outlet insert to the prevailing on-site water pressure and/or to the corresponding application in a simple manner. According to the invention, this is achieved in that the flow area of the flow rate regulator (2) or the flow limiter can be preselected or varied by an axial change of the relative position of the adjusting element (3) and the counter element (3?); in that additionally a handle is provided on the outlet end face (7) of the outlet insert (1), said handle being designed as a pushbutton; and in that an adjusting movement on the handle can be converted into a relative axial movement of the adjusting element (3) and the counter element (3?) by means of a pushbutton mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Publication number: 20160010759
    Abstract: A sanitary fixture (1), including a flow regulator unit (5) and a movable adjustment element (6) that adjusts a flow rate and has a control connection to a temperature-sensitive control element (8). The invention provides arranging a return spring (13) on a same side of the flow regulator unit (5) as the control element (8), with respect to the flow direction, and/or designing the control element (8) to assume at least one intermediate position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Publication number: 20160002897
    Abstract: A jet regulator (1), having a perforated plate (5) arranged therein with throughflow holes (6) extending through the perforated plate for dividing the water flowing therethrough, including a central, non-perforated impingement surface (14) on the perforated plate (5), which non-perforated impingement surface is surrounded by a first annular wall (15), which has passage openings (16) that are oriented in a radial direction and extend through the first annular wall, wherein a respective throughflow hole (6), which extends through the perforated plate (5) and is connected to the respective passage opening (16), is provided on the side of each passage opening (16) arranged in the impingement surface plane. The annular wall (15) is surrounded by an annular ring chamber (29) on the outer circumferential side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Publication number: 20150354182
    Abstract: In the case of a sanitary fixture (1), it is provided that at least one covering surface (7), by way of which at least one flow opening (4) of a flow element (3) is openable and at least partially closable in a temperature-dependent manner, is formed on a covering element (6) made of a temperature-sensitive material (cf. FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Schurle, Marc Tempel
  • Publication number: 20150355648
    Abstract: In a sanitary installation part (1) which, along with a functional unit (7), forms a flow volume regulator, it is proposed that a regulating element (13), which can be adjusted along an adjustment path, be coupled to a temperature-sensitive drive unit (15) such that different regulating positions of the regulating element (13) are set in dependence on the temperature of the medium flowing through the installation part (1), wherein the different regulating positions realize in each case different volume-flow dependencies (11, 12, 45, 48) and/or flow resistances (cf. FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Tempel, Christoph Weis
  • Publication number: 20150102133
    Abstract: A jet regulator (100) including a jet regulator housing (2) is disclosed, in the housing interior of which a perforated plate (5) is provided with a plurality of flow-through holes (6) for dividing the through-flowing water. The jet regulator described is characterised in that at least one flow-through hole (6) extends conically towards its outflow side in at least one outflow-side hole section. It is also possible for flow obstacles to be provided on the outflow side of the perforated plate (5) in the jet regulator housing (2) and/or on the outflow front face of the jet regulator housing, which are arranged or concentrated there in a central or middle region and which deflect the through-flowing water into an outer annular zone. This jet regulator (100) enables an aerated and thereby sparkling-soft water jet to be generated even with low flow-through performance and low water pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Applicant: NEOPERL GMBH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: D688774
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: D689168
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: D728740
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: D732140
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: D738173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: D752710
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel
  • Patent number: D779298
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Neoperl GmbH
    Inventor: Marc Tempel