CN1208542C

CN1208542C - Awning opening & closing device

Info

Publication number: CN1208542C
Application number: CNB018176151A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 埃米利奥·彼得戈洛
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2000-10-19
Filing date: 2001-10-19
Publication date: 2005-06-29
Anticipated expiration: 2021-10-19
Also published as: EP1332268A1; CN1469963A; AU2001295345A1; WO2002033211A8; WO2002033211A1; CA2323843A1; US20040035535A1

Abstract

An opening and closing device (D) for operating an awning retracting and extending mechanism comprises a casing (14) and a motor (22) therein, an elongated member (10) extending from the casing and adapted to be removably connected at a distal end thereof to the awning retracting and extending mechanism, and a handle (16) also extending from the casing (14). Therefore, upon rotation of the motor (22), the motor (22) is adapted to rotatably drive the elongated member (10); also, upon actuation of the handle (16), the elongated member (10) is caused to rotate. The elongated member (10) and the handle (16) extend from opposite sides of the casing (14). The motor (22) is connected to the elongated member (10), and the handle (16) is fixedly secured to the casing (14). The motor (22) is powered by at least one battery.

Description

The opening and closing device of awning

Background of invention

1. invention field

The present invention relates to a kind of auto-sunroof, relate in particular to a kind of by dismountable, the awning that the elongated control lever that rotation drives opens and closes.

2. the description of prior art

As everyone knows, the manual unlocking and close awning with having the elongate rod of hook is progressively to move awning to desired location by rotating this elongate rod.This action need is with a lot of circles of bar rotation, and in order to open and close awning, a kind of automatic system is developed thus.For example, this dynamical system is connected on the spool, and by wall type switch or the control of similar switch, can omit bar fully thus.

For example, on October 7th, 1986 is disclosed, and the invention people discloses a kind of auto-sunroof for the U.S. Pat 4615371 of Clauss, and the rotatable spool of this awning is connected on the motor drive shaft.

On the other hand, on February 22nd, 1904 is disclosed, and the invention people discloses a kind of device that is used for rotatably driving the awning control lever for European patent EP-0101009-A2 of Potrongele.In this system, motor is arranged on the end of elongate rod rotatably to drive elongate rod.

On May 17th, 1932 is disclosed, the invention people discloses a kind of mechanism that is used to operate folding motor vehicle top for the U.S. Pat 1858624 of Hess etc., wherein be provided with manually and automatic device to carry out blocked operation, automatic device lost efficacy when hand gear is operated.In this system, the rotation of handle causes handle and bar engagement, and this bar moves on axle subsequently, and this is the Power Drive Unit of standard, and with the top of operating motor vehicle, clutch components has also been omitted in the motion of bar.

On February 16th, 1999 is disclosed, and the invention people discloses a kind of manually operated Hoisting System for the U.S. Pat 5871069 of Carmitchel, and this system is selectively by Motor Drive.In fact, the Handle axis of operation capstan winch comprises slidably coupling, and this coupling is suitable for and engagement, also is suitable for release handle and meshes with actuating unit.

On September 15th, 1970 is disclosed, the invention people discloses a kind of mechanism that is used for around the transverse axis rotation rotating turret of support frame for the U.S. Pat 3528320 of Maniker etc., this mechanism comprises power and man-operated mechanism, be used for position, and replacedly and selectively drive rotating turret according to clutch.

On March 24th, 1981 is disclosed, the invention people discloses a kind of automatic window driving mechanism for the U.S. Pat 4257192 of Bartholomew, this mechanism comprises motor drive and handle drives device, and described each device all is suitable for cooperating with the window drive system.Start manual mode by the handle that moves axially, thereby when driven wheel did not rotate with the axis, handle meshed together with axle, make the handle rotation thus, and need not be subjected to the obstruction and the interference of drive motor with mobile window along axle.

On February 11st, 1964 is disclosed, the invention people discloses a kind of battery of using as the surgery of power source drill for the United States Patent (USP) 3120845 of Horner, it has the handle that is used to drive drill, when the fault of power-driven mechanism, rotary handle, because clutch and driving shaft do not mesh, hand gear and driving shaft are irrelevant.

On May 2nd, 2000 is disclosed, and the invention people is the spool annex that the U.S. Pat 6056219 of Barkley discloses a kind of fishing rod, and it comprises the motor that can be used to replace handle selectively or help handle, and this handle is connected on the spool.On the axle that motor is connected to spinning reel, also be provided with switch, when touch switch, it is suitable for moving and is positioned at its terminal rope and bevel gear, thus described bevel gear further with the axle that is installed in spinning reel on the bevel gear engagement.

On July 29th, 1980 is disclosed, the invention people discloses a kind of winding cylinder mechanism that is used for awning for the U.S. Pat 4214621 of Wessels etc., and this mechanism is by having hook at its end, common separable handle drives.

October 3 nineteen fifty is disclosed, and the invention people discloses the operator of another awning for the U.S. Pat 2524508 of Barnes.

Summary of the invention

Purpose of the present invention is for providing a kind of new control lever that is used to open and close awning, and this control lever is selectively by power drive or by manual drives.

Thus according to the present invention, a kind of opening and closing device that is used to operate awning withdrawal and development mechanism is provided, it comprises shell and is positioned at the motor of shell, an elongated member stretches out from described shell, and in the withdrawal and development mechanism that are suitable for making its end be detachably connected to awning, handle also stretches out from described shell, wherein on described electric motor driven basis, motor is suitable for rotatably driving described elongated member, and on the basis of described handle drives, also make described elongated member rotation.

Especially, described elongated member and described handle stretch out from the opposite side of described shell.

Usually, described motor is connected on the described elongated member, described handle is fixed on the described shell, described thus motor is suitable for directly driving described elongated member with the electric operating pattern of this device, otherwise, in the manual operation mode of described device, handle is suitable for making shell and elongated member together to rotate according to its rotation.

Described motor preferably is positioned at the powered battery of shell by at least one, especially, described battery is a rechargeable battery, and described device has a battery charger, and this device is suitable for connecting separatably on the battery charger of described battery charge.

Description of drawings

Feature of the present invention has been done below with reference to accompanying drawings, to be described in detail by most preferred embodiment after the general description, wherein:

Fig. 1 is that shown device is equipped with battery charger according to the front elevation drawing of the opening and closing device of awning of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the partial enlarged drawing that installs among Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is the partial exploded view of installing among Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is the partial cross section view of installing among Fig. 1.

The description of most preferred embodiment

Fig. 1～Fig. 4 shows the opening and closing device D of auto-sunroof, and this device D is combined as a whole the advantage of common opening and closing control lever and the convenience of Power Drive Unit.Thus, awning can adopt this device to open and close (as launching and withdrawal) with automatic and manual pattern.

Especially, device D comprises elongated control lever 10 that has hook 12 that is positioned at its end and the shell 14 that is positioned at control lever 10 near-ends, and one handle 16 extends out from the near-end of shell 14.This device D also comprises the battery charger 18 as auxiliary equipment.Usually, when handle 16 rotations, substitute the motor that is arranged in shell 14 in some way, rotatably drive control lever 10 and its hook 12 thus, to open or close awning selectively.This awning also comprises wall cribbing (not shown), and when application apparatus D not, awning can be clipped on the support.In this case, battery charger can be connected or be integrated into integral body with the support electronics, thereby is installed on the support by installing D, and charger becomes and can automatically be connected to charge with device D electronics.

As mentioned above, shell 14 comprises the DC power supply motor 22 that is suitable for by multi-position switch 20 startups, and this multi-position switch is used to make control lever 10 to be rotated around one of two opposite directions of its Y, to open or close awning respectively.

Can adopt multiple alternative apparatus to make handle 16 substitute motor 22.For example, device D can be according to handle 16 for the enough rotation initial velocity of shell 14, and are transformed into manual mode from automatic mode automatically.On the contrary, also can be provided with switch so that device is changed by shell 14 between automatic and manual mode, as handle 16 being connected on the control lever 10 effectively by releasing motor 22, thereby handle 16 rotatable control levers 10, and do not have any resistance of not expecting or interference from motor.

Fig. 3 and 4 shows in detail another alternative apparatus.

Dismountable control lever 10 and its hook 12 can be made into all lengths, and can promptly disassemble on the shell 14 from automatic system.Control lever 10 (for the ease of depositing compactly and assembling, may be made in one group of divided portion) and its hook 12 make the expansion/retraction mechanism on user's easy operating awning.Shell 14 sealing DC driving force motors 22 (seeing Fig. 3 and 4), and comprise two detachable battery chambeies 23, each can hold one group of rechargeable battery 24 (cover is five batteries 24 in each battery cavities 23 in the present embodiment, and is arranged in L shaped).Shell 14 also is closed with gearbox 26, and the shell of this shell 14 is generally made by plastic material.

Three-position switch 20 is switches of flip-over type, and the off-position in the middle of comprising, " opening " position of pair of end portions, and " opening " position is corresponding to a direction of rotation of motor 22.Thus, two " opening " positions of switch 20 are " forward " and " backward " with respect to the position of motor rotation, i.e. clockwise the and counter clockwise direction of motor 22.

Battery charger 18 also can be directly connected on the wall cribbing, this wall cribbing with formation be suitable for will device D shell 14 be fixed on pedestal or dimple on the wall, to store and to charge.Thus, in this pedestal, be provided with to shell 14 and provide the electric connection (be the part of charger 18 or be connected on the charger 18) of electric current so that battery 24 is charged.Battery charger 18 also comprises transformer 28 (Fig. 1), and this transformer can insert in the common wall type electrical socket, and electric wire 30 is connected to transformer 28 on the above-mentioned electric connection (connecting shell 14).This transformer 28 has the strain unloading function.

Handle 16 offers second kind of selection of user, if desired, but hand-operating device D.In the present embodiment, as described in detail later the same, handle 16 is fixed on the shell 14.

In order to further describe shell 14, we are again with reference to Fig. 3 and 4.In Fig. 3, two double parts of shell 14 are separated in both sides so that its internal construction to be shown, and various parts are clamped by shell 14.Described parts comprise above-mentioned motor 22, battery cavities 23 and rechargeable battery 24, gearbox 26 and switch 20.Safe outer cover can be set hiding switch 20 selectively on shell 14, thereby prevent accidental operation, for example can slide so that the inlet that enters switch to be provided selectively along shell 14 to switch 20.

Thus, as can see from Figure 3, shell 14 comprises the support member 34 of the one group of cross-sectional direction that is contained in its inside, this support member separates setting with interval, and portion is substantially parallel to support motor 22, gearbox 26, support and connection axle 36 and handle fixed block 38 simultaneously within it.

End 40 and fixed block 38 bolt 42 that extend of fixed block 38 by passing handle 16 is fixedly attached on the end 40 of handle 16.Fixed block 38 also is fixedly mounted on the near-end 44 of shell 14.Thus, handle 16 can be fixed on the shell 14.

Connecting axle 36 is connected to control lever 10 on the output shaft 46 of gearbox 26.One group of screw 47, and the screw 48 of receive path and screw base 49 link together two double parts of shell 14.

For application apparatus D, battery charger 18 electronics are connected in the battery cavities 23 of shell 14.Subsequently transformer 28 is inserted suitable electric output.The battery 24 of 18 pairs of devices of charger D is charged.In case charging is finished, and when needs application apparatus D, just pulls down device D from battery charger 18, and hook 12 is connected on expansion/retraction mechanism on the awning.Subsequently, safety guard (if any) is drawn back to expose switch 20, this switch 20 itself acts in two " opening " positions, to make motor 22 along direction rotation forward or backward, to open or close awning selectively.Push switch 20 can also only be selected the direction of rotation of motor 22, and establishes a switching manipulation motor 22 in addition.In either case, motor 22 rotations reach desired location up to awning, as the position of launching or regaining fully fully.Install D and awning subsequently and break away from, and reconnect with charger 18.

Should be appreciated that planetary transmission 26 also rotates when motor 22 rotations, cause output shaft 46 rotations thus, control lever 10 and its hook 12 also rotate.Should also be noted that handle 16 is not connected on the motor 22 in the present embodiment, also be not connected on the gearbox 26.When motor 22 rotations, output shaft of gear-box 46 rotates control levers 10 thus, and handle 16 keeps static with respect to shell 14 simultaneously.

Manual if desired application apparatus D, then a hand is held shell 14 slightly loosely, and the another hand-screw is changed hands handle 16, because handle is fixedly attached on the shell 14, thereby cause shell to rotate, control lever 10 also together rotates with shell 14 and handle 16 simultaneously thereupon.Shell 14 rotates in user's a hand thus.In other words, whole device D and its handle 16 together rotate, thus without any need for clutch to break away from any connection between handle 16 and the motor 22.In addition, when manual application apparatus D, the planetary gear system in the gearbox 26 can provide enough resistance to lock together with control lever 10.This just means, if manually during application apparatus D, control lever 10 will be with respect to gearbox 26 rotations, thereby can eliminate or reduce the desired movement between control lever 10 and the handle 16.Like this, when using handle 16, control lever 10 is locked on the gearbox 26,, locks then whole device D rotation again more again with shell 14 with handle 16.

Motor 22 is 18 volts a standard DC motor, and the voltage of Shi Yonging is 12 volts herein, and the rotating speed with 7500RPM rotates when charging fully.Gearbox 36 provides the output speed of about 300PRM to output shaft 46 and control lever 10.Each joint all is 1.2 volts a rechargeable battery in ten batteries.Minimal torque on the control lever 10 is about 10 feet/pound.Shell 14 is provided with red and green lamp and is charging and finishing charging with pilot cell 24 respectively.Battery cavities 23 is by on the support that is bolted to shell 14, thereby when needs are changed, battery cavities can be broken away from shell.

Claims

1. one kind is used to operate that awning is regained and the opening and closing device of development mechanism, it comprises shell and is positioned at its inner motor, one elongated member, stretch out from this shell, and the end of this elongated member is suitable for removably being connected on awning withdrawal and the development mechanism, one handle, described handle also stretches out from this shell, wherein during actuating motor, then motor drives this elongated member rotatably, during starting handle, then also cause the elongated member rotation, wherein said elongated member and described handle stretch out from the rightabout of shell.

2. device according to claim 1, wherein said motor is connected on the elongated member, described handle is fixed on the described shell, described thus motor is suitable for direct automatic operation mode with described device and drives elongated member, and in the manual operation mode of described device, when handle rotates, cause shell and elongated member together to rotate.

3. device according to claim 1, wherein motor provides power by at least one batteries in the shell.

4. device according to claim 3, wherein said battery are rechargeable battery, and described device wherein is furnished with battery charger, and this device is suitable for removably being connected so that battery is charged with this battery charger.

5. device according to claim 4, wherein it also comprises at least one battery cavities, this battery cavities can hold at least one batteries.

6. device according to claim 5, wherein said battery cavities is removably mounted on the described shell.

7. device according to claim 2, wherein said handle comprises near-end and far-end, and described near-end is suitable for the grasping by the user, and described far-end is fixedly mounted on the near-end of shell.

8. device according to claim 7, wherein said shell comprises the fixed block on the near-end that is fixedly mounted in described shell, the end of described handle is fixed on this fixed block by at least one securing member.

9. device according to claim 7, wherein said near-end handlebar relatively rotate freely.

10. device according to claim 1, has a gearbox that is connected with described motor in the wherein said shell, the output shaft of described gearbox is fixed on from the outwardly directed linkage of shell, described elongated member is suitable for being installed on this linkage, thereby is driven by described output shaft.

Be positioned at its terminal hook 11. device according to claim 1, wherein said elongated member comprise, this hook is suitable for separably withdrawal and the development mechanism engagement with awning.

12. device according to claim 1, wherein said elongated member comprise at least two bar parts, this bar partly is suitable for being installed together removably from beginning to end.

13. device according to claim 1 wherein disposes three-position switch with operating motor on described shell, described switch comprises the free time, forward and backward the position.