Wall installation connection box unit

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11643797-B2
Application number	US-202117208450-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 22, 2021
Priority date	Mar 24, 2020
Publication date	May 9, 2023
Grant date	May 9, 2023

Abstract

A wall installation connection box unit, including a box housing body having a rear-side base portion and a sleeve portion projecting forward from the base portion, and a connector body disposed on the base portion. The sleeve portion peripherally surrounds an installation component mounting space, which space is accessible via an open front end face of the sleeve portion. The connector body includes an installation component connection contour facing the installation component mounting space and a conduit connection interface structure accessible on an outer side of the box housing body. Illustratively, the sleeve portion and the base portion of the box housing body are integrally formed from a synthetic foamed material, and the connector body is embedded in the synthetic foamed material of the base portion, wherein the conduit connection interface structure and the installation component connection contour are exposed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wall installation connection box unit, comprising:
a box housing body having a rear-side base portion and a sleeve portion projecting forward from the base portion, which sleeve portion peripherally surrounds an installation component mounting space, which installation component mounting space is accessible via an open front end face of the sleeve portion; and
a connector body disposed on the base portion of the box housing body, which connector body comprises an installation component connection contour facing the installation component mounting space, and a conduit connection interface structure accessible on an outer side of the box housing body;
wherein:
a single integrally formed piece of synthetic foamed material forms both the sleeve portion and the base portion of the box housing body, and
the connector body is embedded in the synthetic foamed material of the base portion, wherein the conduit connection interface structure and the installation component connection contour are exposed.

2. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the connector body has an annular shape and is surrounded by adjacent synthetic foamed material of the base portion on a peripheral outer side.

3. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the base portion has a closed rearward bottom, and the connector body on a rear side adjoins the synthetic foamed material of the bottom.

4. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the connector body on a front side on a boundary region adjoins the synthetic foamed material of the base portion.

5. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the connector body has a closed annular shape, the installation component connection contour is provided on an inner peripheral side of the connector body, and the conduit connection interface structure is formed on an outer peripheral side of the connector body.

6. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the connector body has at least one passage opening extending from an outer side to an inner side, which opening is covered on the outer side by a sealing membrane portion of the synthetic foamed material of the base portion.

7. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 6 , wherein the synthetic foamed material of the base portion comprises a tube insertion port opening which adjoins the sealing membrane portion at an outer side.

8. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the sleeve portion has a radially inwards projecting ridge protrusion on an inner peripheral side.

9. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein at least one connection structure element is embedded into the synthetic foamed material of the base portion.

10. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the synthetic foamed material is a thermoplastic particle foamed material.

11. The wall installation connection box unit according to claim 1 , wherein the wall installation connection box unit is a sanitary wall installation connection box unit.

Assignees

• Hansgrohe Se

Inventors

• GROSS JüRGEN
• Blattner Joachim
• Lehmann Günther
• Schorer Jürgen

Classifications

• H02G3/16

  structurally associated with support for line-connecting terminals within the box · CPC title

• E03C1/042

  Arrangements on taps for wash-basins or baths for connecting to the wall · CPC title

• H02G3/105

  in association with a plinth, channel, raceway or similar · CPC title

• F16L41/03

  comprising junction pieces for four or more pipe members · CPC title

• E03C1/021 Primary

  Devices for positioning or connecting of water supply lines (connection to the tap body E03C1/0403) · CPC title