Patents by Inventor Markus WÖHRLE
Markus WÖHRLE 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).
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Patent number: 10822777Abstract: A sanitary fitting including a water conduit channel. The sanitary fitting illustratively further includes an insertion duct extending into the water conduit channel and including a user-accessible insertion opening, and an insertion plate including at least one sanitary utility element and exhibiting, in a flow-through region in which the plate has flow-through capability from its one plate main side (H1) to its other plate main side (H2), a smaller plate thickness (PD) as compared to its lateral plate dimension (PL), the insertion plate being insertable in a lateral insertion direction (SL) into the insertion duct via the insertion opening and extractable from the insertion duct counter the insertion direction. The insertion duct remains stationary in an operating position, when the insertion plate is inserted or extracted, and the insertion opening remains user-accessible in the stationary operating position of the insertion duct.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: Hansgrohe SEInventors: Daniel Philipp Dieterle, Ulrich Kinle, Fabian Melle, Michael Skrypski, Markus Wöhrle
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Publication number: 20190055721Abstract: A sanitary fitting including a water conduit channel. The sanitary fitting illustratively further includes an insertion duct extending into the water conduit channel and including a user-accessible insertion opening, and an insertion plate including at least one sanitary utility element and exhibiting, in a flow-through region in which the plate has flow-through capability from its one plate main side (H1) to its other plate main side (H2), a smaller plate thickness (PD) as compared to its lateral plate dimension (PL), the insertion plate being insertable in a lateral insertion direction (SL) into the insertion duct via the insertion opening and extractable from the insertion duct counter the insertion direction. The insertion duct remains stationary in an operating position, when the insertion plate is inserted or extracted, and the insertion opening remains user-accessible in the stationary operating position of the insertion duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2018Publication date: February 21, 2019Inventors: Joachim Dieterle, Ulrich Kinle, Fabian Melle, Michael Skrypski, Markus Wöhrle
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Publication number: 20170159272Abstract: The invention relates to a sanitary fitting, in particular a washstand faucet or a kitchen faucet, comprising a faucet housing (2) including a water inlet and a water outlet. The sanitary fitting according to the invention comprises a jet selector device (7) which is displaceably held downstream of the water outlet of the faucet housing and includes at least two different jet-forming bodies (6a, 6b, 6c) which are capable of being transferred selectively into or off a fluid communication with the water outlet by an actuation move of the jet selector device. Use for kitchen sink showers, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Klaus Butzke, Daniel Philipp Dieterle, Ulrich Kinle, Sven Kleinwaechter, Markus Woehrle
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Patent number: 9199252Abstract: A shower device according to the invention includes a shower head housing having a jet disk and a multiplicity of jet outlet openings. The jet outlet openings are divided into multiple groups of jet outlet openings. For each group of jet outlet openings, a distinct chamber is formed in the shower head housing. A water inlet can for example be connected by means of a change-over valve to in each case one of the chambers fluidic in parallel. The two chambers are arranged consecutively in the shower head housing. The water exiting the rear chamber as viewed relative to the jet disk can for example pass through the front chamber in a sealed channel or as a jet, which passes through a larger opening of the jet disk.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Hansgrohe SEInventors: Franz Schorn, Klaus Butzke, Markus Wöhrle, Fabian Melle, Juergen Buehler, Sven Kleinwaechter
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Publication number: 20140014743Abstract: A shower device according to the invention includes a shower head housing having a jet disk and a multiplicity of jet outlet openings. The jet outlet openings are divided into multiple groups of jet outlet openings. For each group of jet outlet openings, a distinct chamber is formed in the shower head housing. A water inlet can for example be connected by means of a change-over valve to in each case one of the chambers fluidic in parallel. The two chambers are arranged consecutively in the shower head housing. The water exiting the rear chamber as viewed relative to the jet disk can for example pass through the front chamber in a sealed channel or as a jet, which passes through a larger opening of the jet disk.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Inventors: Franz SCHORN, Klaus BUTZKE, Markus WÖHRLE, Fabian MELLE, Juergen BUEHLER, Sven KLEINWAECHTER
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Patent number: 8534576Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Hansgrohe SEInventors: Klaus Grohe, Hubert Moosmann, Ulrich Kinle, Markus Woehrle
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Publication number: 20110108640Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2010Publication date: May 12, 2011Inventors: Klaus Grohe, Hubert Moosmann, Ulrich Kinle, Markus Woehrle
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Publication number: 20070220670Abstract: A hand shower contains a lamp preferably formed by LEDs that emits light through the jet disk, at least when the hand shower is being used. The power is supplied to the lamp from a battery that is in the handle of the hand shower. In a fixed seat, there is a charger that charges the battery in the hand shower when the hand shower is inserted in the seat. To couple the charger to the battery, there is a coupling device that has one coupling element in the seat and one in the hand shower. The coupling device can function with or without contacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2005Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Markus Woehrle, Franz Schorn, Ulrich Kienle, Helgrid Stoesser, Klaus Butzke