Shutter and blade driving system and transmission device thereof and blade angle control method used in the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11047168-B2
Application number	US-201916353478-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2019
Priority date	Mar 16, 2018
Publication date	Jun 29, 2021
Grant date	Jun 29, 2021

Abstract

A shutter including a frame, a first blade set, a second blade set, a power source and a blade driving system is provided. The frame has a frame body. The first blade set and the second blade set are disposed on the frame body of the frame. The power source is disposed in the frame body. The blade driving system connects the power source, the first blade set and the second blade set for rotating the first blade set and/or the second blade set to rotate.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A shutter, comprising:
a frame having a frame body;
a first blade set and a second blade set both disposed on the frame body of the frame;
a power source disposed in the frame body; and
a blade driving system comprising a first rack, a second rack and a transmission device disposed in the frame body, wherein the first rack is connected to the first blade set, the second rack is connected to the second blade set, and the transmission device is connected to the first rack and the second rack for driving the first rack and/or the second rack, a first part of the transmission device is connected to the power source and the first blade set for rotating the first blade set independent of the second blade set, and a second part of the transmission device is connected to the power source, the first blade set and the second blade set for rotating the first blade set and the second blade set.

2. The shutter according to claim 1 , wherein the first part of the transmission device comprises:
a first gear connected to the power source; and
wherein the second part of the transmission device comprises:
a second gear engaged with the first gear;
a clutch comprising a third gear disposed adjacent to the second gear, wherein when the second gear is coupled with the third gear, a power is transmitted to the third gear via the second gear;
a fourth gear engaged with the third gear;
a fifth gear disposed adjacent to the fourth gear;
a friction plate coupled or slipped between the fourth gear and the fifth gear; and
a sixth gear engaged with the fifth gear;
wherein the first gear and the first rack are connected, and the sixth gear and the second rack are connected.

3. The shutter according to claim 2 , wherein the clutch further comprises a drive shaft and a control valve, the third gear is disposed on the drive shaft, and the control valve is for driving the drive shaft to control the second gear to be coupled with or separated from the third gear.

4. The shutter according to claim 3 , wherein the control valve is an electromagnetic valve.

5. The shutter according to claim 4 , wherein when a rotation resistance of the sixth gear is smaller than a friction of the friction plate, the friction plate is coupled between the fourth gear and the fifth gear, when the rotation resistance of the sixth gear is larger than the friction of the friction plate, the friction plate slips between the fourth gear and the fifth gear.

6. The shutter according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a first angle detection unit for detecting an angle of the first blade set;
a second angle detection unit for detecting an angle of the second blade set; and
a controller for determining rotation angles of the first blade set and the second blade set.

7. The shutter according to claim 1 , wherein the first blade set and the second blade set are arranged in a staggered manner.

8. The shutter according to claim 1 , further comprising at least a solar panel disposed on one or both of the first blade set and the second blade set.

9. A blade angle control method used in the shutter according to claim 1 , comprising:
rotating the first blade set towards a direction inverse to a first direction when the second blade set does not reach a first angle;
rotating the first blade set and the second blade set towards the first direction;
determining whether the second blade set reach the first angle; and
rotating the first blade set towards the first direction when the second blade set reaches the first angle.

10. A blade angle control method used in the shutter according to claim 1 , comprising:
reading angles of the first blade set and the second blade set;
rotating the first blade set and the second blade set towards a first direction;
determining whether the angle of the first blade set is equivalent to a first angle when the second blade set reaches the first angle; and
rotating the first blade set towards the first direction when the angle of the first blade set is not equivalent to the first angle.

11. The blade angle control method according to claim 10 , wherein when the angle of the second blade set is not equivalent to the first angle, the method further comprises:
detecting whether the angle of the first blade set is equivalent to a critical angle when the first blade set is blocked by the second blade set at a position in the critical angle, and rotating the first blade set towards a direction inverse to the first direction when the angle of the first blade set is equivalent to the critical angle.

Assignees

• Lite On Electronics Guangzhou
• Lite On Technology Corp

Inventors

• Hsu Wei-Ting

Classifications

• F16H1/22

  with a plurality of driving or driven shafts; with arrangements for dividing torque between two or more intermediate shafts · CPC title

• E05F15/70

  with automatic actuation · CPC title

• E06B7/092 Primary

  operable in two or more distinct sets · CPC title

• E05F15/00

  Power-operated mechanisms for wings (motor-operated accessories in locks for completing closing or initiating opening of a wing E05B17/00) · CPC title

• E06B7/096

  operated or interconnected by gearing (wing operators with gearing in general E05F11/00) · CPC title