EP1649126B1 - Power-operated screen control method and device therefor - Google Patents

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EP1649126B1
EP1649126B1 EP04744056.5A EP04744056A EP1649126B1 EP 1649126 B1 EP1649126 B1 EP 1649126B1 EP 04744056 A EP04744056 A EP 04744056A EP 1649126 B1 EP1649126 B1 EP 1649126B1
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
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    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05F—DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION; CHECKS FOR WINGS; WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
    • E05F15/00—Power-operated mechanisms for wings
    • E05F15/70—Power-operated mechanisms for wings with automatic actuation
    • E05F15/71—Power-operated mechanisms for wings with automatic actuation responsive to temperature changes, rain, wind or noise
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS AND DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION, CHECKS FOR WINGS AND WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
    • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME RELATING TO HINGES OR OTHER SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS AND DEVICES FOR MOVING WINGS INTO OPEN OR CLOSED POSITION, CHECKS FOR WINGS AND WING FITTINGS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, CONCERNED WITH THE FUNCTIONING OF THE WING
    • E05Y2900/00—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
    • E05Y2900/10—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for buildings or parts thereof
    • E05Y2900/106—Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof for buildings or parts thereof for garages
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
    • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
    • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
    • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
    • E06B9/68—Operating devices or mechanisms, e.g. with electric drive
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    • E06B2009/6863—Control using sensors sensing wind speed

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  • the invention relates to a control method of a motorized screen type roller shutter, garage door, or blind, which can be operated at different speeds. It further relates to a device for implementing such a method.
  • the screen may consist in particular of a shutter, a garage door or a blind.
  • These devices called motorized screens include an actuator for driving the screen. They also include a control command transmitter and a control command receiver controlling the actuator.
  • the command transmitter allows a user or an operator to control the actuator.
  • the patent is known US 6,084,231 a motorized venetian blind device integrated in a system for regulating the illumination caused by a window in a room.
  • the venetian blind includes a variable speed motor. It allows to maneuver the blind at slow speed to make adjustments and operate the blind at a fast speed to reduce the adjustment time when larger displacements are required.
  • Patent is also known US 5,663,621 a similar device whose blades can be oriented at different speeds. The rotation of the slow speed blades is intended to avoid the jumps of the awning when it is controlled by an automatism.
  • Patent is known US 4,887,660 a motorized curtain device.
  • the curtain is maneuvered at high speed all the way except when approaching the end positions where it is maneuvered at slow speed. Switches are used to detect the position of the curtain and to control the speed of maneuver thereof accordingly.
  • a motorized sun protection device comprising an acceleration sensor placed on the load bar of the device. This sensor communicates by radio link with a motor control unit to control the movement of the device according to the forces applied to it and in particular the forces due to the wind.
  • the object of the invention is to propose a control method that overcomes the problem cited and improves the methods known from the prior art.
  • the invention provides a motorized screen control method for managing emergency situations and better meeting the requirements of users.
  • the invention also proposes a device for implementing the method.
  • the method according to the invention makes it possible to use a default mobile screen maneuvering motor below its capacity in terms of drive speed while allowing, on occasion or if necessary, its use at a higher speed. .
  • the speed slower than that which could be provided given the power of the engine, thus becomes the nominal operating speed over the entire run of the screen on a single command (up, down, up to a predefined intermediate position) of a user.
  • the motorized screen device embodying the method is characterized in that it comprises at least one command transmitter, one command receiver and an actuator capable of operating at different speeds connected to the command receiver, the command transmitter (s) and / or the command receiver comprising means for detecting simple commands from a user on a transmitter orders and order events.
  • the appended drawing represents, by way of example, a device for implementing the method according to the invention.
  • the figure 1 is a diagram of a motorized screen device for implementing the method according to the invention.
  • FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams of different phases of execution of the method according to the invention.
  • the motorized screen device 1 shown in FIG. figure 1 mainly comprises a screen 5 such as a shutter, driven by an actuator 2.
  • the actuator 2 is connected to a command receiver 6 communicating with one or more issuers of control commands 4 via wired links or without son.
  • the different issuers of orders can be intended to issue orders following actions performed manually by the user on them and / or to issue orders generated automatically according to external parameters such as wind, sun and time, from data measured by sensors.
  • the motorized screen device also comprises a sensor 7 for example for measuring the wind speed and directly transmitting the measured values to the command receiver 6.
  • the actuator 2, the sensor 7 and the command transmitters 4 are connected to sources of power supply 3.
  • the actuator is capable of operating at two speeds, a slow speed V L which is its nominal speed and a fast speed V R.
  • the screen 5 can in this way be driven at two speeds.
  • a control event that may consist of a particular sequence of actions on one of the issuers of orders, in a particular duration of actions on this issuer or in a particular order automatically generated by the issuer of orders is symbolized by an arrow A1.
  • This event causes the screen to move at a fast speed while the screen is normally moved at slow speed.
  • This gear change is punctual. It only affects the operation of the screen controlled by the event.
  • the actuator drives the screen at its nominal speed, that is to say at the slow speed.
  • a normal maneuver of the screen implemented by a simple command of rise or fall on the issuer of orders, would have started at a date S1 and would be completed at a date E1.
  • the setting of the default control mode of this method in which the nominal speed is the slow speed can be realized during the manufacture of the product or during the installation of the screen device, in particular during the learning.
  • the default command mode can then be changed by the user, by entering the learning mode again, from an order transmitter and / or the command receiver.
  • the order transmitters 4 of the device include automatisms that can send orders in a conventional manner as measured functions, for example sun, wind, rain. These commands are executed by the actuator at the nominal speed, that is to say at the slow speed, except in certain special cases called emergency.
  • the speed change information can be either contained in the order issued by the automation or contained in the command receiver 6 and validated by a type of order received.
  • a user may, for example, wish his blind to be folded down at a slow speed if wind is detected by a sensor above a first threshold and at a fast speed if wind is detected beyond a critical threshold. It can then be memorized, at the level of the automation or at the level of the actuator, that a wind detection beyond this critical threshold must automatically generate a fallback order of the blind if it is deployed, this order containing or activating gearshift information, from nominal speed to faster speed.
  • the wind detection information is transmitted to the command receiver which determines if the blind must be folded and, if so, how fast it must be.
  • the gearshift information can also be used if the critical wind threshold is detected during the operation of a blind to control a fast-speed fold.
  • the automatism then sends information about this new critical measure of wind containing or activating gearshift information.
  • a particular command transmitter can also be configured in such a way that, regardless of the command command placed by this command transmitter, the command receiver reacts as if it were receiving a shift information.
  • the command event is then the identification, by the command receiver, of the particular command transmitter, through an order received from it. This identification can be based on the reception by the command receiver of the identifier of this particular command transmitter.
  • a control event consisting of detection of a wind gust by a sensor is symbolized by an arrow A2.
  • This event at a date S2 causes the operation of the screen at high speed while the screen is maneuvered at nominal speed since the date S1.
  • the screen is then moved at a fast speed until the end of the maneuver which ends on the date E2, prior to the date E1.
  • the described control method thus makes it possible to manage emergency situations or to meet the requirements of users in a hurry by authorizing under certain conditions the rapid speed maneuvering of the screen. It also allows, the screen is normally operated at low speed, to reduce noise and to spare the kinematic motion transmission of the actuator on the screen.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de commande d'un écran motorisé de type volet roulant, porte de garage, ou store, pouvant être manoeuvré à différentes vitesses. Il concerne de plus un dispositif de mise en oeuvre d'un tel procédé.The invention relates to a control method of a motorized screen type roller shutter, garage door, or blind, which can be operated at different speeds. It further relates to a device for implementing such a method.

L'écran peut consister notamment en un volet roulant, en une porte de garage ou en un store. Ces dispositifs dénommés écrans motorisés comprennent un actionneur destiné à entraîner l'écran. Ils comprennent également un émetteur d'ordres de commande et un récepteur d'ordres de commande pilotant l'actionneur. L'émetteur d'ordres permet à un utilisateur ou un automatisme de commander l'actionneur.The screen may consist in particular of a shutter, a garage door or a blind. These devices called motorized screens include an actuator for driving the screen. They also include a control command transmitter and a control command receiver controlling the actuator. The command transmitter allows a user or an operator to control the actuator.

L'utilisation d'un moteur à courant continu, comme c'est le cas pour les portes de garage, permet de réguler, de manière simple, la vitesse de la porte, de manière à arriver à vitesse plus lente aux fins de course par exemple. On peut également obtenir les même effets avec un moteur à courant alternatif.The use of a DC motor, as is the case for garage doors, allows the speed of the door to be regulated in a simple manner, so as to arrive at a slower speed for the purpose of racing. example. The same effects can also be achieved with an AC motor.

Il est connu, notamment de la demande WO 01/77479 et du brevet EP 1 083 291 , d'affecter une limitation de vitesse inférieure à la vitesse maximale de l'actionneur pour réduire le bruit de l'actionneur pour une charge donnée. Les manoeuvres de ces écrans sont alors lentes.It is known, especially of the demand WO 01/77479 and the patent EP 1 083 291 , to assign a lower speed limit to the maximum speed of the actuator to reduce the noise of the actuator for a given load. The maneuvers of these screens are slow.

Dans le domaine particulier des stores vénitiens, on connaît du brevet US 6,084,231 un dispositif de store vénitien motorisé intégré à un système permettant de réguler l'éclairement provoqué par une fenêtre dans une pièce. Le store vénitien comprend un moteur à vitesse variable. Il permet de manoeuvrer le store à vitesse lente pour faire des réglages fins et de manoeuvrer le store à vitesse rapide pour réduire le temps de réglage lorsque des déplacements plus importants sont nécessaires.In the particular field of venetian blinds, the patent is known US 6,084,231 a motorized venetian blind device integrated in a system for regulating the illumination caused by a window in a room. The venetian blind includes a variable speed motor. It allows to maneuver the blind at slow speed to make adjustments and operate the blind at a fast speed to reduce the adjustment time when larger displacements are required.

On connaît également du brevet US 5,663,621 un dispositif similaire dont les lames peuvent être orientées à différentes vitesses. La rotation des lames à vitesse lente a pour but d'éviter les sauts du store lorsqu'il est commandé par un automatisme.Patent is also known US 5,663,621 a similar device whose blades can be oriented at different speeds. The rotation of the slow speed blades is intended to avoid the jumps of the awning when it is controlled by an automatism.

On connaît du brevet US 4,887,660 un dispositif de rideau motorisé. Le rideau est manoeuvré à vitesse rapide sur toute sa course sauf à l'approche des positions de fin de course où il est manoeuvré à vitesse lente. Des interrupteurs permettent de détecter la position du rideau et de commander la vitesse de manoeuvre de celui-ci en conséquence.Patent is known US 4,887,660 a motorized curtain device. The curtain is maneuvered at high speed all the way except when approaching the end positions where it is maneuvered at slow speed. Switches are used to detect the position of the curtain and to control the speed of maneuver thereof accordingly.

On connaît enfin du modèle d'utilité DE 200 00 682 un dispositif de protection solaire motorisé comprenant un capteur d'accélération placé sur la barre de charge du dispositif. Ce capteur communique par liaison radio avec une unité de commande du moteur afin de commander le mouvement du dispositif en fonction des efforts appliqués sur celui-ci et notamment des efforts dus au vent.We finally know the utility model DE 200 00 682 a motorized sun protection device comprising an acceleration sensor placed on the load bar of the device. This sensor communicates by radio link with a motor control unit to control the movement of the device according to the forces applied to it and in particular the forces due to the wind.

Il s'avère que la vitesse d'actionnement d'écrans motorisés n'est pas, en toutes occasions, un critère important. Dans le cas de la fermeture des volets le soir par exemple, à partir du moment où la commande de fermeture est passée, la vitesse de fermeture n'a pas réellement d'importance. En revanche, le bruit généré par le mouvement des volets, considéré plus particulièrement à certaines heures de la journée comme une nuisance, prend une importance considérable. Cependant, dans d'autres occasions, il peut être nécessaire d'effectuer une même manoeuvre de l'écran rapidement. Dans l'art antérieur, la vitesse lente est associée à des réglages fins, pour lesquels l'utilisateur doit maintenir sa commande ou rester attentif au déplacement de l'écran jusqu'à une position souhaitée, ou à des commandes par des automatismes, de manière à éviter des sauts de l'écran (dus à la friction des cordons d'enroulement par exemple). Aucun des documents de l'art antérieur cités ne permet de gérer les situations décrites précédemment, dans lesquels la vitesse de déplacement d'un écran n'a normalement pas réellement d'importance.It turns out that the speed of actuation of motorized screens is not, on all occasions, an important criterion. In the case of closing shutters at night, for example, from the moment the closing command is passed, the closing speed does not really matter. On the other hand, the noise generated by the movement of the shutters, considered more particularly at certain times of the day as a nuisance, takes on considerable importance. However, on other occasions, it may be necessary to perform the same operation of the screen quickly. In the prior art, the slow speed is associated with fine adjustments, for which the user must maintain his control or remain attentive to the displacement of the screen to a desired position, or to commands by automatisms, so as to avoid jumps of the screen (due to the friction of the winding cords for example). None of the documents of the prior art mentioned can handle the situations described above, in which the speed of movement of a screen does not normally have any importance.

Le but de l'invention est de proposer un procédé de commande palliant au problème cité et améliorant les procédés connus de l'art antérieur. En particulier, l'invention propose un procédé de commande d'écran motorisé permettant de gérer des situations d'urgence et répondant mieux aux exigences des utilisateurs. L'invention propose également un dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre du procédé.The object of the invention is to propose a control method that overcomes the problem cited and improves the methods known from the prior art. In particular, the invention provides a motorized screen control method for managing emergency situations and better meeting the requirements of users. The invention also proposes a device for implementing the method.

Le procédé selon l'invention est défini par la revendication 1.The process according to the invention is defined by claim 1.

Le procédé selon l'invention permet d'utiliser un moteur de manoeuvre d'écran mobile par défaut en dessous de sa capacité en terme de vitesse d'entraînement tout en autorisant, à l'occasion ou au besoin, son utilisation à une vitesse supérieure. La vitesse, plus lente que celle qui pourrait être fournie compte tenu de la puissance du moteur, devient donc la vitesse nominale de fonctionnement sur l'ensemble de la course de l'écran sur une commande simple (montée, descente, déplacement jusqu'à une position intermédiaire prédéfinie) d'un utilisateur.The method according to the invention makes it possible to use a default mobile screen maneuvering motor below its capacity in terms of drive speed while allowing, on occasion or if necessary, its use at a higher speed. . The speed, slower than that which could be provided given the power of the engine, thus becomes the nominal operating speed over the entire run of the screen on a single command (up, down, up to a predefined intermediate position) of a user.

Différentes variantes d'exécution sont définies par les revendications dépendantes 2 à 8.Different alternative embodiments are defined by dependent claims 2 to 8.

Le dispositif d'écran motorisé mettant en oeuvre le procédé est caractérisé en ce qu'il comprend au moins un émetteur d'ordres, un récepteur d'ordres et un actionneur susceptible de fonctionner à différentes vitesses relié au récepteur d'ordres, le ou les émetteurs d'ordres et/ou le récepteur d'ordres comprenant des moyens de détection de commandes simples d'un utilisateur sur un émetteur d'ordres et d'événements de commande.The motorized screen device embodying the method is characterized in that it comprises at least one command transmitter, one command receiver and an actuator capable of operating at different speeds connected to the command receiver, the command transmitter (s) and / or the command receiver comprising means for detecting simple commands from a user on a transmitter orders and order events.

Le dessin annexé représente, à titre d'exemple, un dispositif pour la mise en oeuvre du procédé selon l'invention.The appended drawing represents, by way of example, a device for implementing the method according to the invention.

La figure 1 est un schéma d'un dispositif d'écran motorisé permettant de mettre en oeuvre le procédé selon l'invention.The figure 1 is a diagram of a motorized screen device for implementing the method according to the invention.

Les figures 2 et 3 sont des schémas de différentes phases d'exécution du procédé selon l'invention.The figures 2 and 3 are diagrams of different phases of execution of the method according to the invention.

Le dispositif d'écran motorisé 1 représenté à la figure 1 comprend principalement un écran 5 tel qu'un volet roulant, entraîné par un actionneur 2. L'actionneur 2 est relié à un récepteur d'ordres 6 communiquant avec un ou plusieurs émetteurs d'ordres de commande 4 par le biais de liaisons filaires ou sans fils. Les différents émetteurs d'ordres peuvent être destinés à émettre des ordres suite à des actions réalisées manuellement par l'utilisateur sur ceux-ci et/ou à émettre des ordres générés automatiquement en fonction de paramètres externes tels que le vent, le soleil et le temps, à partir de données mesurées par des capteurs. Le dispositif d'écran motorisé comprend également un capteur 7 permettant par exemple de mesurer la vitesse du vent et transmettant directement les valeurs mesurées au récepteur d'ordres 6. L'actionneur 2, le capteur 7 et les émetteurs d'ordres 4 sont reliés à des sources d'alimentation en énergie électrique 3.The motorized screen device 1 shown in FIG. figure 1 mainly comprises a screen 5 such as a shutter, driven by an actuator 2. The actuator 2 is connected to a command receiver 6 communicating with one or more issuers of control commands 4 via wired links or without son. The different issuers of orders can be intended to issue orders following actions performed manually by the user on them and / or to issue orders generated automatically according to external parameters such as wind, sun and time, from data measured by sensors. The motorized screen device also comprises a sensor 7 for example for measuring the wind speed and directly transmitting the measured values to the command receiver 6. The actuator 2, the sensor 7 and the command transmitters 4 are connected to sources of power supply 3.

L'actionneur est capable de fonctionner à deux vitesses, une vitesse lente VL qui est sa vitesse nominale et une vitesse rapide VR. L'écran 5 peut de cette manière être entraîné à deux vitesses.The actuator is capable of operating at two speeds, a slow speed V L which is its nominal speed and a fast speed V R. The screen 5 can in this way be driven at two speeds.

Dans une phase d'exécution du procédé représentée à la figure 2, un événement de commande pouvant consister en une séquence particulière d'actions sur l'un des émetteurs d'ordres, en une durée d'actions particulière sur cet émetteur ou en un ordre particulier généré automatiquement par l'émetteur d'ordres est symbolisé par une flèche A1. Cet événement entraîne la manoeuvre de l'écran à vitesse rapide alors que l'écran est normalement déplacé à vitesse lente. Ce changement de vitesse est ponctuel. Il n'affecte que la manoeuvre de l'écran commandée par l'évènement. Lors des manoeuvres suivantes, s'il n'y a pas d'instruction particulière de changement de vitesse, l'actionneur entraîne l'écran à sa vitesse nominale, c'est-à-dire à la vitesse lente.In an execution phase of the process shown in figure 2 , a control event that may consist of a particular sequence of actions on one of the issuers of orders, in a particular duration of actions on this issuer or in a particular order automatically generated by the issuer of orders is symbolized by an arrow A1. This event causes the screen to move at a fast speed while the screen is normally moved at slow speed. This gear change is punctual. It only affects the operation of the screen controlled by the event. During the following maneuvers, if there is no particular shift instruction, the actuator drives the screen at its nominal speed, that is to say at the slow speed.

Une manoeuvre normale de l'écran, mise en oeuvre par une commande simple de montée ou de descente sur l'émetteur d'ordres, aurait débuté à une date S1 et se serait achevée à une date E1.A normal maneuver of the screen, implemented by a simple command of rise or fall on the issuer of orders, would have started at a date S1 and would be completed at a date E1.

La manoeuvre consécutive à l'évènement de commande entraînant la modification de la vitesse et débutant à une date S2 égale à S1, s'achève à une date E2 antérieure à E1.The maneuver following the control event causing the modification of the speed and starting at a date S2 equal to S1, ends at a date E2 prior to E1.

La mise en place du mode de commande par défaut de ce procédé dans lequel la vitesse nominale est la vitesse lente peut être réalisée lors de la fabrication du produit ou au cours de l'installation du dispositif d'écran, en particulier au cours du mode d'apprentissage.The setting of the default control mode of this method in which the nominal speed is the slow speed can be realized during the manufacture of the product or during the installation of the screen device, in particular during the learning.

Le mode de commande par défaut peut ensuite être modifié par l'utilisateur, en rentrant à nouveau dans le mode d'apprentissage, à partir d'un émetteur d'ordres et/ou du récepteur d'ordres.The default command mode can then be changed by the user, by entering the learning mode again, from an order transmitter and / or the command receiver.

Les émetteurs d'ordres 4 du dispositif comprennent des automatismes susceptibles d'envoyer de manière classique des ordres en fonctions de mesures, par exemple de soleil, de vent, de pluie. Ces ordres de commandes sont exécutés par l'actionneur à la vitesse nominale, c'est-à-dire à la vitesse lente, sauf dans certains cas particuliers dits d'urgence.The order transmitters 4 of the device include automatisms that can send orders in a conventional manner as measured functions, for example sun, wind, rain. These commands are executed by the actuator at the nominal speed, that is to say at the slow speed, except in certain special cases called emergency.

Ces cas particuliers peuvent être définis par l'utilisateur ou l'installateur lors d'un apprentissage. L'information de changement de vitesse peut être soit contenue dans l'ordre émis par l'automatisme, soit contenue au niveau du récepteur d'ordres 6 et validée par un type d'ordre reçu.These special cases can be defined by the user or the installer during an apprenticeship. The speed change information can be either contained in the order issued by the automation or contained in the command receiver 6 and validated by a type of order received.

Un utilisateur peut par exemple souhaiter que son store soit replié à vitesse lente si du vent est détecté par un capteur au-delà d'un premier seuil et à vitesse rapide si du vent est détecté au-delà d'un seuil critique. On peut alors mémoriser, au niveau de l'automatisme ou au niveau de l'actionneur, qu'une détection de vent au-delà de ce seuil critique doit automatiquement engendrer un ordre de repli du store si celui-ci est déployé, cet ordre contenant ou activant une information de changement de vitesse, de la vitesse nominale à la vitesse plus rapide. Dans le cas du capteur 7, l'information de détection de vent est transmise au récepteur d'ordres qui détermine si le store doit être replié et, le cas échéant, à quelle vitesse il doit l'être.A user may, for example, wish his blind to be folded down at a slow speed if wind is detected by a sensor above a first threshold and at a fast speed if wind is detected beyond a critical threshold. It can then be memorized, at the level of the automation or at the level of the actuator, that a wind detection beyond this critical threshold must automatically generate a fallback order of the blind if it is deployed, this order containing or activating gearshift information, from nominal speed to faster speed. In the case of the sensor 7, the wind detection information is transmitted to the command receiver which determines if the blind must be folded and, if so, how fast it must be.

L'information de changement de vitesse peut également intervenir si le seuil critique de vent est détecté au cours de la manoeuvre d'un store pour commander un repli à la vitesse rapide. L'automatisme envoie alors une information concernant cette nouvelle mesure critique de vent contenant ou activant l'information de changement de vitesse.The gearshift information can also be used if the critical wind threshold is detected during the operation of a blind to control a fast-speed fold. The automatism then sends information about this new critical measure of wind containing or activating gearshift information.

Un émetteur d'ordres particulier peut également être configuré de telle manière que quelle que soit la commande de manoeuvre passée par cet émetteur d'ordres, le récepteur d'ordres réagit comme s'il recevait une information de changement de vitesse. L'événement de commande est alors l'identification, par le récepteur d'ordres, de l'émetteur d'ordres particulier, au travers d'un ordre reçu de celui-ci. Cette identification peut être basée sur la réception par le récepteur d'ordres de l'identifiant de cet émetteur d'ordres particulier.A particular command transmitter can also be configured in such a way that, regardless of the command command placed by this command transmitter, the command receiver reacts as if it were receiving a shift information. The command event is then the identification, by the command receiver, of the particular command transmitter, through an order received from it. This identification can be based on the reception by the command receiver of the identifier of this particular command transmitter.

Dans la phase d'exécution du procédé représentée à la figure 3, un événement de commande consistant en une détection d'une rafale de vent par un capteur est symbolisé par une flèche A2. Cet événement à une date S2 entraîne la manoeuvre de l'écran à vitesse rapide alors que l'écran est manoeuvré à vitesse nominale depuis la date S1. L'écran est alors déplacé à vitesse rapide jusqu'à la fin de la manoeuvre qui se termine à la date E2, antérieure à la date E1.In the execution phase of the process shown in figure 3 a control event consisting of detection of a wind gust by a sensor is symbolized by an arrow A2. This event at a date S2 causes the operation of the screen at high speed while the screen is maneuvered at nominal speed since the date S1. The screen is then moved at a fast speed until the end of the maneuver which ends on the date E2, prior to the date E1.

Le procédé de commande décrit permet donc de gérer des situations d'urgence ou de répondre aux exigences d'utilisateurs pressés en autorisant sous certaines conditions la manoeuvre à vitesse rapide de l'écran. Il permet également, l'écran étant normalement manoeuvré à vitesse lente, de réduire les nuisances sonores et de ménager la chaîne cinématique de transmission de mouvement de l'actionneur à l'écran.The described control method thus makes it possible to manage emergency situations or to meet the requirements of users in a hurry by authorizing under certain conditions the rapid speed maneuvering of the screen. It also allows, the screen is normally operated at low speed, to reduce noise and to spare the kinematic motion transmission of the actuator on the screen.

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  1. A method for controlling a motor-driven screen (1) of the rolling shutter, garage door, or blind type which may be maneuvered at different speeds, the method comprising at least one default control mode in which a maneuver of the screen (5) is normally accomplished at a first slow rated speed over the whole of its travel subsequent to a simple command from a user on an order transmitter (4) and in which at least one control event causes maneuvering of the screen at a second speed, greater than the first, the change in speed being one-off and only affecting the maneuvering of the screen controlled by the event, so that during subsequent maneuvers, if there is no particular instruction for changing speed, an actuator drives the screen at the first rated speed, the control event consisting in:
    ▪ a particular action of a user on an order transmitter (4), or
    ▪ an order automatically generated by an order transmitter (4).
  2. The control method according to claim 1, characterized in that the second maneuvering speed is applied to the maneuver being executed.
  3. The control method according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the second maneuvering speed is applied to the next maneuver which will be ordered.
  4. The control method according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that an order transmitter automatically generates orders according to external parameters such as wind, sun, weather from data measured by sensors.
  5. The control method according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that a particular action of a user is a sequence or a particular pressing duration on keys of an order transmitter (4) or an action on a specific key of an order transmitter (4).
  6. The control method according to the preceding claim, characterized in that the particular action on an order transmitter may be executed on a same order transmitter as for the maneuver of a command at a rated speed.
  7. The control method according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized in that a control event comprises the identification, by the order receiver, of a particular order transmitter through an order received from the latter.
  8. The control method according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized in that the maneuvering of the screen is accomplished at a reduced speed over certain portions of its travel and notably in the vicinity of the end-of-travel positions.
  9. A motor-driven screen device applying the method according to one of claims 1 to 8, characterized in that it comprises at least one order transmitter (4), an order receiver (6) and an actuator (2) able to operate at different speeds connected to the order receiver (6), the order transmitter(s) (4) and/or the order receiver (6) comprising means for detecting simple commands from a user on a transmitter for orders and control events.
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