EP0860844A1 - Handbediente Einrichtung zur Fernsteuerung elektrischer Geräte - Google Patents

Handbediente Einrichtung zur Fernsteuerung elektrischer Geräte Download PDF

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EP0860844A1
EP0860844A1 EP98420030A EP98420030A EP0860844A1 EP 0860844 A1 EP0860844 A1 EP 0860844A1 EP 98420030 A EP98420030 A EP 98420030A EP 98420030 A EP98420030 A EP 98420030A EP 0860844 A1 EP0860844 A1 EP 0860844A1
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Jean-Louis Garnier
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H9/00—Details of switching devices, not covered by groups H01H1/00 - H01H7/00
    • H01H9/02—Bases, casings, or covers
    • H01H9/0271—Bases, casings, or covers structurally combining a switch and an electronic component
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B47/00—Circuit arrangements for operating light sources in general, i.e. where the type of light source is not relevant
    • H05B47/10—Controlling the light source
    • H05B47/175—Controlling the light source by remote control
    • H05B47/19—Controlling the light source by remote control via wireless transmission

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  • the present invention relates to a device for manual, remote control of electrical devices such as lighting fixtures, this invention particularly applicable to household equipment, but can also interest all buildings, premises and installations, whatever their configuration and their destination.
  • the radio transmitter must be associated with a manual control unit, which is in practice a push button, this term designating here as well as a classic button, to be pressed, that a rocking key or a large key of the like "palette".
  • a manual control unit which is in practice a push button, this term designating here as well as a classic button, to be pressed, that a rocking key or a large key of the like "palette”.
  • the transmitter is incorporated into a special control unit, designed either as a portable case or as a fixed case, but still particularly voluminous.
  • the present invention aims to eliminate these disadvantages, by providing a control device manual, remote, of electrical devices, including "transmitter” part is made particularly compact and adapted to allow its accommodation in a switch box of existing type, in particular a built-in box, which provides a simple solution, economical, aesthetic and universal use.
  • the invention essentially has for object a manual remote control device, electrical devices such as appliances lighting, such as using a radio link between a radio transmitter with electric power source autonomous, associated with a push button, and a receiver radio which controls, in particular through a relay, the power supply of the device concerned, such as a lighting lamp, the device being characterized in that the radio transmitter is presented as a small, flat, thin box, incorporating the autonomous electric power source, and having a contour allowing its accommodation towards the bottom a push-button box, in particular a box built-in, the transmitter thus taking place inside of this case, behind the push button.
  • the outline of the small box constituting the radio transmitter has an oblong shape defined by two large straight and parallel sides, two short oblique, rectilinear and parallel sides, and two short curvilinear sides.
  • Such a conformation is optimal, to allow housing of the same transmitter at the interior of all existing built-in boxes, in especially the standard square boxes, hexagonal or round, taking into account the space occupied by the fixing elements of this case and / or the pushbutton.
  • the invention thus makes it possible to produce a device radio remote control using a usual push button, not only by its appearance outside but also by the feeling it gives to the user, when activated. We arrive thus total homogeneity of the control gear, from the point of view of appearance and use, whether they are conventional switches or push buttons associated with radio transmitters.
  • the antenna of the radio transmitter is constituted by a metal wire embedded in the housing of this transmitter, following the outline of this box.
  • the antenna is thus protected and concealed, and it does not increase the size of the transmitter.
  • the autonomous electric power source of the radio transmitter is advantageously an electric battery flat, housed in the housing of this transmitter.
  • the transmitter may be provided with means for measuring the voltage of this battery, which in case of insufficient voltage will cause the emission of a characteristic signal, detected by the radio receiver which is provided with signaling means insufficient battery voltage, indicating that this must be checked or replaced.
  • the receiver radio may still include manual control of emergency to power on or off the device affected electric such as lighting lamp, when the transmitter is out of service due to failure of the battery or for any other reason.
  • Figure 1 partially shows the interior of a residential building or other 1, with a room or a room 2 and a technical sheath 3, in which is housed a modular electrical panel 4 for general supply of the building.
  • a lighting fixture 5, such as a simple lamp, is suspended from the ceiling 6 of the room or local 2.
  • the invention applies, in this example, to the remote control for switching on and off the lighting fixture 5, from a housing 7 to push button, recessed into a wall or partition 8 of room or room 2, for example near a door 9 of this room or room 2.
  • the command to distance is done here wirelessly, by radio link, the box 7 containing a radio transmitter 10, while a radio receiver 11 tuned to transmitter 10 is provided on the electrical panel 4.
  • the receiver 11, supplied from this table 4 via a transformer electric supplying a low AC voltage, is associated with a relay which controls the supply of the lighting fixture 5, connected to the panel 4 by wires supply 12 housed in a sheath, itself recessed into the ceiling 6.
  • FIG. 2 gives the block diagram of the radio transmitter 10, which is placed inside the box 7, behind the push button switch 13 of this housing 7 (in a manner described in more detail below).
  • the circuits of the transmitter 10 are supplied with from an electric battery 14, making this transmitter 10 autonomous, and they include: an encoder 15, a oscillator 16 with surface wave resonator 17, one amplifier 18, a low-pass filter 19 and an antenna 20.
  • the operation of transmitter 10 is so the following:
  • Encoder 15 is associated with an RC circuit allowing the impulses from the push button 13, and it provides digital signals which, applied to oscillator 16 and amplifier 18, provide an HF signal. This signal is filtered by the low-pass filter 19, which eliminates harmonics undesirable. The transmitter 10 is thus amplitude modulated.
  • the antenna 20, tuned in quarter wave, allows to radiate HF energy, so as to reach the receiver radio 11.
  • FIG. 3 gives the block diagram of this radio receiver 11, which is of the heterodyne to single type frequency change.
  • the receiver 11 comprises, in addition to its power here not shown: an antenna 21, a 22 surface wave band filter, a preamplifier 23, a mixer and demodulator circuit 24 associated with a filter 25 and to a local oscillator 26, a stage of data filtering and formatting 27, and a stage of decoding and management 28.
  • the operation of the receiver 11 is as follows:
  • the signal received on the antenna 21 is first processed by the input filter 22, which filters the band to be received, and the filtered signal undergoes a preamplification by the preamplifier 23, which allows compensate for insertion losses and improve considerably the sensitivity of the receiver 11.
  • the mixer and demodulator circuit 24 ensures mixing of the signal received from the preamplifier 23 and from the signal from the local oscillator 26, and it provides a signal to a intermediate frequency which is also that of filter 25, thus facilitating the processing of the received signal.
  • the signal at the intermediate frequency forms a demodulated coded signal S, in the form of direct voltage the level of which depends on the form of the envelope signal of the signal received.
  • the filtering and shaping stage of data 27 provides filtering, amplification and reshaping of the demodulated signal. This signal is then available for decoding by stage 28.
  • the latter 28. controls relay 29, through which controlled the power supply to the lighting fixture 5.
  • Figures 4 and 5 show a first form of realization of this housing 7, here produced in the form a waterproof case, intended to be fixed projecting on a wall (not shown), by fixing elements 30, especially for outdoor use.
  • Figure 5 shows the size of the push button mechanism 13, and the position of the transmitter 10, which is housed inside the housing 7, towards the bottom 31 of the latter, parallel to this bottom 31 and behind the push button 13 to which it is connected by two electrically conductive wires 32.
  • the housing 7 here has a square shape, seen from the front.
  • the transmitter 10 presents itself as a small box, relatively flat, whose shape and dimensions allow the housing of said transmitter inside the housing main 7, avoiding the fastening elements 30.
  • Figures 6 and 7 show another form of realization of the housing 7, here shaped into a housing built into a partition, for use in the interior.
  • the push button mechanism 13 is worn by the front closing plate 33 of the housing 7, which here, seen from the front, has a hexagonal shape.
  • the transmitter 10 presents itself as a small case, housed inside the main case 7, towards the bottom 31 of the latter behind the push-button 33.
  • Figure 8 shows a variant of the housing 7, here shaped as a built-in box which, seen from the front, presents a round shape.
  • the small housing, constituting the transmitter 10 is here housed inside the housing main 7, towards the bottom 31 of the latter, behind the pushbutton.
  • the oblong outer shape of the small box constituting the transmitter 10 is chosen from so that the same transmitter can be placed at the interior of any one of the three boxes 7, respectively square, hexagonal and round, previously described.
  • Figures 9 and 10 show, in more detail, such a transmitter 10.
  • the transmitting antenna 20 is produced in the form of a silver-plated copper wire, embedded in the wall of the housing of the transmitter 10, at the junction of the bottom 34 and the cover 35 and around the entire outline of this case, as shown in particular Figure 9 (where the cover 35 is assumed took of).
  • the oblong contour of the transmitter housing 10 breaks down into two large straight and parallel sides 37, two short sides oblique 38, rectilinear and parallel, and two small curvilinear sides 39. This contour is specially studied to allow housing of the same transmitter 10 in square-shaped, hexagonal push-button boxes 7 or round, as previously described.
  • the thickness of the housing the transmitter 10 can be of the order of 5 to 10 millimeters, for example 8.5 millimeters.
  • the transmitter 10 includes means for measuring the voltage from battery 14, which in the event of insufficient voltage emit a coded signal detected by the receiver 11, the latter 11 comprising an indicator light (light-emitting diode) which lights up to indicate that the voltage of battery 14 is insufficient, and that this battery 14 should be checked or replaced.
  • the receiver 11 may also include a manual emergency control, not shown, allowing to power the lighting fixture 5 even if the transmitter 10 is not in working order, for example if the battery 14 is faulty.

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FR2329036A1 (fr) * 1975-10-24 1977-05-20 Radiotechnique Compelec Procede de realisation d'installations electriques fixes et dispositifs de radiocommande pour la mise en oeuvre du procede
FR2449994A1 (fr) * 1979-02-23 1980-09-19 Thionvilloise Immobiliere Telecommande de dispositifs electriques
GB2051440A (en) * 1979-06-14 1981-01-14 Duckworth G H Remote light switch
DE3623805A1 (de) * 1986-07-15 1988-01-28 Merten Gmbh & Co Kg Geb Signaluebertragungssystem zur fernsteuerung bzw. ueberwachung elektrischer oder elektronischer geraete
FR2618242A1 (fr) * 1987-07-15 1989-01-20 Pierron Sa Dispositif emetteur a cellule photovoltaique.
US5239205A (en) * 1991-05-02 1993-08-24 Heath Company Wireless multiple position switching system

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FR2329036A1 (fr) * 1975-10-24 1977-05-20 Radiotechnique Compelec Procede de realisation d'installations electriques fixes et dispositifs de radiocommande pour la mise en oeuvre du procede
FR2449994A1 (fr) * 1979-02-23 1980-09-19 Thionvilloise Immobiliere Telecommande de dispositifs electriques
GB2051440A (en) * 1979-06-14 1981-01-14 Duckworth G H Remote light switch
DE3623805A1 (de) * 1986-07-15 1988-01-28 Merten Gmbh & Co Kg Geb Signaluebertragungssystem zur fernsteuerung bzw. ueberwachung elektrischer oder elektronischer geraete
FR2618242A1 (fr) * 1987-07-15 1989-01-20 Pierron Sa Dispositif emetteur a cellule photovoltaique.
US5239205A (en) * 1991-05-02 1993-08-24 Heath Company Wireless multiple position switching system

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