Motorized installation for maneuvering a screen and associated screen device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10072460-B2
Application number	US-201415028672-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 13, 2014
Priority date	Oct 11, 2013
Publication date	Sep 11, 2018
Grant date	Sep 11, 2018

Abstract

The invention relates to a screen device ( 10 ) comprising a screen ( 16 ) movable between a retracted position and a deployed position, bearing on a load bar ( 12 ), and motorized by an installation comprising at least two winding units ( 24 ), each comprising a winding coil ( 26 ) associated with a driving gear motor ( 28 ), the winding coils ( 26 ) being guided to rotate relative to the box ( 18 ) mechanically independently from one another. A control circuit ( 32 ) synchronizes the two winding units ( 24 ) by driving each gear motor ( 28 ) so as to ensure the horizontal position of the load bar. To that end, the control circuit ( 32 ) is connected to one or more sensors ( 34 ), for example accelerometers, delivering a signal representative of the levelness of the load bar.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A motorized installation for maneuvering a screen having a first mobile end and a second opposite end, including;
at least two winding units positioned at the same one of the first or second end of the screen, wherein each of the two winding units includes a winding drum associated with a driving gear motor, the winding drums being guided so as to rotate mechanically independently of each other; and
an electronic control circuit including means for synchronizing the two winding units
wherein the control circuit controls each gear motor so as to ensure an horizontality of a reference axis of the first mobile end of the screen, and
wherein the control circuit is connected to one or several sensor delivering a signal representative of the horizontality of the reference axis.

2. The motorized installation of claim 1 ,
wherein the reference axis coincides with an axis of rotation of at least one of the winding drums or of one of the gear motors.

3. The motorized installation of claim 1 ,
wherein the reference axis is a longitudinal axis of a load bar bound to the first mobile end of the screen or to a portion of the first mobile end of the screen.

4. The motorized installation of claim 1 ,
wherein the control circuit is able to detect a rotation of each gear motor.

5. The motorized installation of claim 1 ,
wherein each winding drum is a winding coil for a flexible connection independent of the screen, including a first end attached to the winding coil and a second end intended to be directly or indirectly attached to a dormant structure or to a load bar.

6. The motorized installation of claim 5 , wherein the winding coils rotatable around a common longitudinal reference axis.

7. The motorized installation of claim 5 ,
wherein the winding coils are rotatable around two parallel axes distant from each other.

8. The motorized installation of claim 1 ,
further including a box defining two housings for the gear motors of the two winding units.

9. The motorized installation of claim 8 ,
wherein the two winding units are positioned at two longitudinal ends inside the box of the installation.

10. The motorized installation of claim 8 , further including at least one battery positioned between one of the gear motors and a longitudinal end of the box closest to said gear motor.

11. The motorized installation of claim 10 ,
wherein the coils are positioned outside the box and in a longitudinal extension of the box.

12. The motorized installation of claim 8 ,
wherein the box is a body of a load bar of the screen.

13. The motorized installation of claim 12 ,
wherein the load bar has a center of gravity located below the common reference axis of rotation of the coils.

14. The motorized installation of claim 13 ,
wherein the load bar is a winding drum for the screen.

15. The motorized installation of claim 1 ,
wherein each drum is a winding drum for winding a portion of the screen.

16. The motorized installation of claim 15 ,
wherein a median portion of the screen is not wound on any of the winding drums.

17. The motorized installation of claim 15 ,
wherein each winding unit is bound to a different pendulum.

18. The motorized installation of claim 15 ,
wherein the two winding units are bound to a common pendulum.

19. The motorized installation of claim 6
wherein the load bar has a center of gravity located below the common reference axis of rotation of the coils.

Assignees

• Somfy Sas

Inventors

• Cavarec Pierre-Emmanuel
• Lemaitre Sebastien

Classifications

• E06B9/68 Primary

  Operating devices or mechanisms, e.g. with electric drive · CPC title

• E06B9/322 Primary

  Details of operating devices, e.g. pulleys, brakes, spring drums, drives ({operating devices E06B9/68} ; devices of general interest specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material B65H75/34) · CPC title

• E06B9/64

  with lowerable roller · CPC title

• E06B9/72

  comprising an electric motor positioned inside the roller · CPC title