Electromotive furniture drive

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9331610-B2
Application number	US-201214114407-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 27, 2012
Priority date	Apr 29, 2011
Publication date	May 3, 2016
Grant date	May 3, 2016

Abstract

An electromotive furniture drive includes an electric motor, the rotational direction of which can be reversed, a motor controller, a manual control, a battery unit, and a mains power supply device. A speed-reducing transmission is connected downstream of the electric motor and a further transmission is connected downstream of each speed-reducing transmission and the battery unit has at least one battery. To enable simple, economical and easy installation, in particular in tight installation spaces, the furniture drive has a coupling device which includes a charging device for charging the at least one battery of the battery unit. The coupling device also has a reference device, which is connected to a charging device The furniture drive is especially suited for slatted bed frames and armchairs.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electromotive furniture drive, comprising:
a motor controller;
a manual control operably connected to the motor controller;
a rechargeable battery unit having at least one rechargeable battery;
a mains power supply device arranged for connection to a mains and configured for adjusting movable furniture components relative to each other, said mains power supply device being configured to transform an input voltage on a mains side into at least one low voltage on an output side and including an isolating transformer or a transformer unit for electrical isolation between a mains-bound input side and the output side for operation of the electromotive furniture drive and for charging the at least one rechargeable battery;
at least one electric motor configured for operation in opposite directions of rotation;
a speed reduction gear arranged downstream of the electric motor;
a gear arranged downstream of the speed reduction gear; and
a coupling apparatus connecting the rechargeable battery unit to the mains power supply device, said coupling apparatus having a charging device for charging the at least one rechargeable battery of the rechargeable battery unit.

2. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , constructed in the form of a seating/reclining furniture drive.

3. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the coupling apparatus comprises a reference device which is connected to the charging device.

4. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 3 , wherein the reference device is connected to at least one current detection device, a rechargeable battery voltage detection device, and a charging supply voltage detection device.

5. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 3 , wherein the reference device comprises a voltage divider.

6. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 5 , wherein the voltage divider comprises at least three resistors which are switched in series.

7. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 6 , wherein the at least three resistors are connected to switching elements configured for changing at least one of the three resistors switched in series.

8. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 6 , wherein at least one of the three resistors is connected to a capacitor for temporarily changing the voltage divider.

9. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the charging device is configured in a manner of a switched-mode power supply unit.

10. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 9 , wherein the charging device is configured for operation as a step-down converter or as a step-up converter.

11. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 9 , wherein the charging device is configured to operate in one of three ways, a first way as a step-down converter for reducing a charging voltage of the at least one rechargeable battery of the rechargeable battery unit while a charging current is kept constant, a second way as a step-up converter with a constant charging current for the at least one rechargeable battery of the rechargeable battery unit until reaching an end-of charge voltage of the at least one rechargeable battery of the rechargeable battery unit with constant charging current, a third way as a step-up converter with a constant charging voltage when reaching the end-of-charge voltage of the at least one rechargeable battery of the rechargeable battery unit.

12. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the coupling apparatus comprises plug-in connections at least for the rechargeable battery unit and the mains power supply device.

13. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the mains power supply device comprises a switched-mode power supply unit.

14. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the mains power supply device comprises a mains isolation device.

15. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the coupling apparatus connects the motor controller to the rechargeable battery unit and the mains power supply device.

Assignees

• Hille Armin
• Dewertokin Gmbh

Inventors

• Hille Armin

Classifications

• H02J7/865

  Battery or charger load switching, e.g. concurrent charging and load supply (H02J7/50 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H02P4/00 Primary

  Arrangements specially adapted for regulating or controlling the speed or torque of electric motors that can be connected to two or more different electric power supplies (vector control H02P21/00) · CPC title

• A47C1/0242

  by electric motors · CPC title

• H02J7/0068

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H02K7/116

  with gears · CPC title