US 12,222,737 B2
Expansion material element for a thermostatic mixing valve
Ole Benedikt Kostorz, Menden (DE); Björn Riedel, Bochum (DE); and Jens Reunert, Witten (DE)
Assigned to GROHE AG, Hemer (DE)
Appl. No. 17/912,193
Filed by Grohe AG, Hemer (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 19, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/054176
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/185529, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 23, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 102020107422.0 (DE), filed on Mar. 18, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2024/0295887 A1, Sep. 5, 2024
Int. Cl. G05D 23/02 (2006.01)
CPC G05D 23/022 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An expansion material element (1) for a thermostatic valve or a thermostatic mixing valve (2), having an expansion material (3) comprising at least one additive (4) from the group below:
synthetic graphite,
highly conductive graphite having a thermal conductivity of at least 350 W/(m×K), and boron nitride,
wherein a mass fraction of the at least one additive (4) in the expansion material (3) is 50% to 80%.