# US 11,898,334 B2 · Mounting device and installation arrangement > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,898,334 B2 - Document ID: US11898334B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/739,057 - Filed: 2022-05-06 - Published: 2022-11-10 - Granted: 2024-02-13 - Earliest claimed: 2021-05-07 - Assignees: Uponor Innovation AB - Applicants: Uponor Innovation AB - Inventors: Andreas Ross; Paul Bartenstein - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11898334B2 ## CPC - E03C 1/021: {Devices for positioning or connecting of water supply lines (connection to the tap body E03C1/0403)} - E03B 7/095: {Component holders or housings, e.g. boundary boxes} - E03C 1/10: Devices for preventing contamination of drinking-water pipes, e.g. means for aerating self-closing flushing valves (vacuum-breakers in general F16K, F16L) - E04F 19/08: Built-in cupboards; Masks of niches; Covers of holes enabling access to installations ({inspection openings in bathtub aprons A47K3/1615; covers for electrical distribution boxes H02G3/14; movable ceiling parts E04B9/003; removable wall partitions E04B2/74; } clean-out doors of chimneys F23J) - Y10T 137/698: Wall - E03C: DOMESTIC PLUMBING INSTALLATIONS FOR FRESH WATER OR WASTE WATER (not connected to either water-supply main or to waste pipe A47K; devices of the kind used in the ground E03B, E03F); SINKS - E03B: INSTALLATIONS OR METHODS FOR OBTAINING, COLLECTING, OR DISTRIBUTING WATER (drilling wells, obtaining fluids in general from wells E21B; pipe-line systems in general F17D) - E04F: FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS (windows, doors E06B) - Y10T: TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION ## Abstract A mounting device and installation arrangement is provided. The mounting device can be for a water station and can include a mounting frame for attachment to a wall surrounding an opening and can further include a cover for closing the opening. Additionally, a ventilation slot can be provided between the mounting frame and the cover in a closed state for an air flow between the cover and the mounting frame. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A mounting device for a water station, comprising: a mounting frame for attachment to a wall surrounding an opening; and a cover for closing the opening, wherein a length of the cover in a Y-direction is shorter than a length of the mounting frame in the Y-direction; wherein a ventilation slot is formed between the mounting frame and at least one of a transverse side of the cover and a longitudinal side of the cover in a closed state for an air flow between the cover and the mounting frame, and the ventilation slot has a varying width along a perimeter of the cover while the cover is in the closed state, wherein a portion of the ventilation slot between the two longitudinal sides of the cover and the mounting frame forms longitudinal slots and a portion of the ventilation slot between the two transverse sides of the cover and the mounting frame forms transverse slots, and wherein the transverse slots formed between the transverse sides of the cover and the mounting frame are wider than the longitudinal slots formed between the longitudinal side of the cover and the mounting frame. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the cover has two longitudinal sides and two transverse sides, and the ventilation slot is formed between the two longitudinal sides of the cover and the mounting frame and between the two transverse sides of the cover and the mounting frame. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the mounting frame comprises at least a first mounting projection and a second mounting projection, the cover being attachable to the mounting frame at the mounting projections, wherein the ventilation slot is formed between the mounting projections. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the cover is free of ventilation slots. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) An installation arrangement for a water installation, comprising: the mounting device according to claim 1; and the water station arranged in the mounting device and coverable by means of the cover so that, in operation, heat from the water station can be removed from the mounting device with the air flow. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The installation arrangement of claim 5, wherein the water station has a cold water side and a hot water side, the ventilation slot being configured such that, in use, heat is removed with the air flow from the hot water side and conducted away from the cold water side. ### Claim 7 (depends on 5) The installation arrangement according to claim 5, wherein the water station comprises at least one of: a fresh water station, a residential transfer station; and a decentralized domestic water heating station. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein a length of the cover in an X-direction is shorter than a length of the mounting frame in the X-direction. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the mounting frame is free of ventilation slots. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The mounting device according to claim 1, wherein the wider transverse slots allows air flow at top and bottom locations of the mounting device to be greater than air flow at left and right locations of the mounting device, resulting in greater heat dissipation at the top and bottom locations of the mounting device as opposed to the left and right locations of the mounting device.