EP0360684A1 - Drehknopfhandbetätigte Schalteranordnung - Google Patents

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EP0360684A1
EP0360684A1 EP89402560A EP89402560A EP0360684A1 EP 0360684 A1 EP0360684 A1 EP 0360684A1 EP 89402560 A EP89402560 A EP 89402560A EP 89402560 A EP89402560 A EP 89402560A EP 0360684 A1 EP0360684 A1 EP 0360684A1
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Francis Orillard
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H19/00—Switches operated by an operating part which is rotatable about a longitudinal axis thereof and which is acted upon directly by a solid body external to the switch, e.g. by a hand
    • H01H19/005—Electromechanical pulse generators
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H19/00—Switches operated by an operating part which is rotatable about a longitudinal axis thereof and which is acted upon directly by a solid body external to the switch, e.g. by a hand
    • H01H19/005—Electromechanical pulse generators
    • H01H2019/006—Electromechanical pulse generators being rotation direction sensitive, e.g. the generated pulse or code depends on the direction of rotation of the operating part
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T74/00—Machine element or mechanism
    • Y10T74/20—Control lever and linkage systems
    • Y10T74/20576—Elements
    • Y10T74/20732—Handles
    • Y10T74/20834—Hand wheels
    • Y10T74/2084—Knob or dial

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  • the present invention relates to a manual control device by driving a rotating button.
  • a manual control button generally has a mechanical axis which is driven at one end by the rotation of the button and the other end of which drives a part so as to produce the desired command.
  • the control button is located next to the panel on which it is mounted, the mechanical axis passes through the panel and the part driven by the axis is located on the other side of the panel relative to the button. .
  • the part driven is the potentiometer cursor and the rotation of the button results in an electric signal of variable level taken between the cursor and an end itself connected to a reference potential .
  • the invention applies to such cases and an example of a corresponding application is described below concerning, more particularly, a display device on a flat screen, this device being able to constitute on-board equipment on aircraft.
  • a display device on a flat screen this device being able to constitute on-board equipment on aircraft.
  • the use, for such a device, of a housing which closely follows the shape of the screen does not spare much space for the passage of a conventional control member with a mechanical axis, hence the need for another solution.
  • the object of the invention is to solve such problems by reducing the volume of the control device substantially to the one occupied simply by the control button on the front of the panel.
  • the invention provides a manual control device by driving a rotating button, mounted in a support and comprising the button, an axis integral with the button and controlled in rotation by the button, a given assembly, formed of a wheel with fixed ratchet, coaxial to the axis, with internal teeth, of an electrical contact mounted on the axis and provided with at least one conductive blade forming a pawl for the ratchet wheel and coming to lock in the toothing of the wheel to ratchet for a given direction of rotation of the axis and sliding on the teeth for the direction of rotation of the reverse axis of the given direction, and electrical accesses associated respectively with the axis and with the wheel, and in which the mechanical connection which goes from the wheel to the axle via the support is electrically insulating, characterized in that the contact is mounted so as to slide on the axle when it is blocked by the ratchet wheel and in that the device comprises a reverse assembly formed by a ratchet wheel and a contact, mounted around the axis, next to the
  • Figure 1 shows a button, 1, which is controlled in manual rotation by the operator around the axis of rotation Z.
  • the button 1 has the shape of a cylindrical tube element closed at its upper end.
  • a mechanical axis of rotation 2 is secured to the solid upper part of the button by one of its ends.
  • the remaining part of the manual control device consists of a mechanical device driven by axis 2 and elements of electrical connection to the outside.
  • the mechanical device is essentially arranged inside the cylindrical cavity of the button. It comprises a housing 3 provided with a base at its lower part to ensure that it is held on an annex support panel 33. Inside the housing 3 which has a recessed part to allow the mechanical axis 2 to pass through at the upper part, there is a mounting consisting of two contact blades 4 and 5 and two ratchet wheels 8 and 7 respectively associated with the blades 4,5.
  • Each of the assemblies 4-8 and 5-7 is shown in detail in axial section, in the following figures 2 and 3 respectively.
  • Each wheel has an internal toothing on which one end of the associated blade moves for a direction of rotation.
  • the end of the associated blade will be engaged in the toothing and blocked by the corresponding tooth; this blade thus constitutes a pawl.
  • the mounting of the ratchet wheels and the blades is reversed between FIGS. 2 and 3 so that for a direction of rotation of the axis 2, for example direction F, the blade 4 slides successively in the internal circular toothing carried by the wheel 8.
  • the blade 5 is blocked by the internal toothing of the wheel 7.
  • the wheels 8 and 7 are fixed, made integral with the housing 3 by spacers 9 of cylindrical shape ensuring the wheels in their peripheral part on the housing side.
  • the blades have a spiral shape composed of a single turn with a cylindrical axial part forming one end and winding around the axis of rotation and a rectilinear terminal part which comes to rest on the teeth.
  • the cylindrical part of the blades 4 and 5 does not bear directly on the mechanical axis 2 but by means of a first cylindrical part 10 on which they are frictionally mounted; this part 10 ensures their mechanical strength along the axis Z.
  • the axis 2 and the part 10 are metallic and an insulating sleeve 11 is interposed between these two parts which are integral with the axis of rotation 2 and driven in rotation with this axis in one direction or the other by the control of the button 1.
  • the blades 4 and 5 being mounted in fraction, for a given direction of rotation one of the blades 4 is driven by the part 10 while the other blade, which is blocked, allows the rotation of the part 10 with negligible friction, and vice versa for the other direction of rotation.
  • the device comprises electrical connections respectively connecting the two blades 4 and 5, via the collector 10 and an elastic blade 14, to a common terminal 15 and the two ratchet wheels 7 and 8 which are made of conductive material to two other terminals 16 and 17.
  • the terminals or studs 15, 16 and 17 are located at the bottom of the button and appear in a hollowed-out part of the panel 33 on which the button is mounted.
  • the electrical connection terminals are made integral with the housing by means of a base 36 on which the other end of the mechanical axis 2 terminates.
  • the button 1 drives the mechanical axis 2, which drives for one direction of rotation the blade 4 along the teeth of the wheel 8 and for the other direction of rotation the blade 5 along the teeth of the wheel 7; it follows that if the common point 15 is connected to a DC voltage, the signal supplied by the outputs 16 and 17 is constituted by a chopped signal for one and continuous for the other, and vice versa by changing the direction of rotation.
  • the chopping comes from that of the two blades 4, 5 which slides over the teeth and momentarily interrupts its electrical contact with the wheel with which it is associated during the passage from one tooth to the next.
  • This distinction of signals is used to discriminate the direction of rotation which has been manually imposed on axis 2 by command of button 1 and to produce the desired variation.
  • connection between the contact blades and the terminal 15 is effected by means of an elastic blade 14 at the bottom of the manifold.
  • the blade 14 rubs on the bottom of the collector 10 and allows the electrical connection between the collector 10 and the common contact 15.
  • the control device makes it possible to house a rotary pulse generator device, with discrimination of the direction of rotation, in the volume usually allocated to a simple control button.
  • FIG. 4 represents the circuit electrically connected to terminals 15 to 17.
  • the assembly formed by the two ratchet wheels 7, 8 the blades 5, 4 and the device for driving the two blades, is symbolized by a cam 21 and two switches 22 and 23.
  • the switch 22 is actuated at each passage of a toothing while the switch 23 remains in the indicated position connecting it to a common wire, that is to say say at a DC voltage V cc applied to terminal 15.
  • the output signals taken at 16 and 17 are transmitted to a shaping circuit 24 before being applied to an up-down counter circuit 25.
  • the output of the counter- down-counter is sent to the operating circuits.
  • the action of the button is intended to act on a display on a liquid crystal flat screen 26.
  • the system is managed by a programmed processor 27 connected to the counter 25 and to the display 26 by the via a bus to adjust the display brightness.
  • the processor 27 identifies a corrective action to be carried out in one direction or the other on the display device 26.
  • the processor 27 controls a corresponding amplitude or level variation of the parameter to be modified.
  • FIG. 5 shows the mounting of the rotation control device according to FIG. 1 outside the front face of the display as well as the lack of space between the useful internal profile of the housing 30 and the external profile of the crystal panel liquids 31 protected by a glass 35.
  • This lack of space makes it impossible to install a conventional mechanical connection between an external control button 1 and a controlled member disposed inside.
  • the small space available, however, allows the passage of electrical connections 18.
  • the housing 30 is internally machined to allow the mounting of the liquid crystal 31. Its front face is hollowed out to receive a printed circuit 32 equipped with three contact blades, one of which, 19, is shown. The blades are connected by the wires 18 corresponding to the downstream operating circuit and ensure, through a front frame 33 on which the button is placed, the connection with the contact pads 15, 16 and 17 of the pulse transmitter button .
  • the contact 22 (FIG. 4) is opened intermittently while the contact 23 remains continuously closed.
  • the pulses produced are shaped then, by the link 28, are applied to the up-down counter register 25.
  • the pulses produced are transmitted by the link 29 to the up-down counter circuit 25.
  • the processor 27 resets or resets the counter before each count.

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  • Transmission And Conversion Of Sensor Element Output (AREA)
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  • Switches With Compound Operations (AREA)
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FR8812471A FR2637119A1 (fr) 1988-09-23 1988-09-23 Dispositif de commande manuelle par entrainement d'un bouton en rotation
FR8812471 1989-09-22

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