Drive device for a movable furniture part

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9532648-B2
Application number	US-201514861211-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2015
Priority date	Apr 12, 2013
Publication date	Jan 3, 2017
Grant date	Jan 3, 2017

Abstract

A drive device for a movable furniture part includes an ejecting element for moving the movable furniture part from a closed position to an open position, an ejection force accumulator that applies force to the ejecting element, and a locking device for locking the ejecting element by a locking element in a locking section. The locking device can be unlocked by overpressing the movable furniture part from the closed position to an overpressing position in the closing direction. The movable furniture part can be moved in the opening direction by the ejection force accumulator and the ejecting element, and the locking device has a pre-locking section for the locking element. The locking element is moved from the pre-locking section into the locking section via a push-through evasion section by pushing the movable furniture part during closing into a push-through position behind the closing position in the closing direction.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A drive device for moving a moveable furniture part, said drive device comprising:
an ejection element to be connected to the moveable furniture part and configured to move the moveable furniture part from a closed position into an open position;
an ejection force storage member configured to act with force on the ejection element;
a locking device including a locking element for locking the ejection element in a locking portion, said locking device being configured such that, by over-pressing the moveable furniture part from the closed position in a closing direction into an over-pressing position, the locking device is unlocked to allow the moveable furniture part to be moveable in the opening direction by the ejection force storage member and the ejection element, the locking device further includes a pre-locking portion for receiving the locking element, the locking device being further configured such that, by pressing the moveable furniture part upon closing thereof into a through-pressing position behind the closed position in the closing direction, the locking element passes from the pre-locking portion into the locking portion by way of a through-pressing evasion portion; and
a holding element for the locking element arranged or provided in the pre-locking portion.

2. The drive device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the locking portion is different from the pre-locking portion, wherein the pre-locking portion is located behind the locking portion in the closing direction.

3. The drive device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the locking device has a guide path for guiding the locking element, wherein the locking element is configured to be held in the locking portion in a latching region of the guide path.

4. The drive device as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the guide path successively has a stressing portion, a deflecting portion, the pre-locking portion, the locking portion in the form of a latching region, an inclined diversion or unlocking portion and an ejection portion.

5. The drive device as set forth in claim 4 , wherein between the inclined unlocking or diversion portion and the ejection portion, the guide path has a second evasion portion separate from the through-pressing evasion portion for the locking element.

6. The drive device as set forth in claim 4 , wherein the deflecting portion is curved and the latching region is trough-shaped.

7. The drive device as set forth in claim 3 , wherein the guide path is cardioid-shaped, the locking element is pin-shaped, and the latching region is trough-shaped.

8. The drive device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein, in the pre-locking portion, the guide path has a straight contact surface for the locking element, the straight contact surface serving as the holding element.

9. The drive device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the holding element is a moveable damping element.

10. The drive device as set forth in claim 9 , wherein the damping element has a dampedly rotatably mounted gear, wherein the gear is configured such that at least one tooth of the gear can be contacted in the pre-locking portion by the locking element and is dampedly moveable in the direction of the locking portion.

11. The drive device as set forth in claim 9 , wherein the holding element is a rotational damper.

12. The drive device as set forth in claim 1 , wherein the ejection force storage member is loadable by moving the moveable furniture part in the opening direction and/or in the closing direction.

13. The drive device as set forth in claim 12 , wherein the ejection element is lockable in the pre-locking portion by the locking element only after complete loading of the ejection force storage member.

14. The drive device as set forth in claim 1 , further comprising a retraction device for retraction of the moveable furniture part from an open position into the closed position.

15. The drive device as set forth in claim 14 , wherein, when the locking element reaches the pre-locking portion, the moveable furniture part is in an open position and the moveable furniture part is moveable from that open position into the closed position by the retraction device.

16. The drive device as set forth in claim 14 , wherein the locking element is moveable from the pre-locking portion into the locking portion only via the movement of the moveable furniture part by the retraction device into the closed position.

17. The drive device as set forth in claim 16 , wherein the locking element is moveable from the pre-locking portion into the locking portion depending on the retraction device.

18. An article of furniture comprising:
a furniture carcass;
a moveable furniture part moveable relative to the furniture carcass; and
the drive device as set forth in claim 1 for moving the moveable furniture part.

19. The article of furniture as set forth in claim 18 , wherein the drive device is arranged on the moveable furniture part, and the article of furniture further comprises an entrainment portion to be brought into engagement with the ejection element and arranged on the furniture carcass.

Assignees

• Blum Gmbh Julius

Inventors

• Gasser Ingo
• Blum Michael
• Haemmerle Hermann

Classifications

• A47B88/0481

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A47B88/14

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A47B88/0477 Primary

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A47B88/0466

  Human Necessities · mapped topic

• A47B88/16

  Human Necessities · mapped topic