EP2082086A2 - Dispositif de blocage destine a la porte d'un appareil electromenager electrique, en particulier la porte d'une machine a laver - Google Patents

Dispositif de blocage destine a la porte d'un appareil electromenager electrique, en particulier la porte d'une machine a laver

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EP2082086A2
EP2082086A2 EP07848811A EP07848811A EP2082086A2 EP 2082086 A2 EP2082086 A2 EP 2082086A2 EP 07848811 A EP07848811 A EP 07848811A EP 07848811 A EP07848811 A EP 07848811A EP 2082086 A2 EP2082086 A2 EP 2082086A2
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catch
striker
bottom wall
door
blocking device
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Oton Leban
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ITW Appliance Components doo
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F37/00—Details specific to washing machines covered by groups D06F21/00 - D06F25/00
    • D06F37/26—Casings; Tubs
    • D06F37/28—Doors; Security means therefor
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F37/00—Details specific to washing machines covered by groups D06F21/00 - D06F25/00
    • D06F37/42—Safety arrangements, e.g. for stopping rotation of the receptacle upon opening of the casing door
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F39/00—Details of washing machines not specific to a single type of machines covered by groups D06F9/00 - D06F27/00 
    • D06F39/12—Casings; Tubs
    • D06F39/14—Doors or covers; Securing means therefor
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
    • E05B—LOCKS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; HANDCUFFS
    • E05B47/00—Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means
    • E05B47/0001—Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means with electric actuators; Constructional features thereof
    • E05B47/0009—Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means with electric actuators; Constructional features thereof with thermo-electric actuators, e.g. heated bimetals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H61/00—Electrothermal relays
    • H01H61/02—Electrothermal relays wherein the thermally-sensitive member is heated indirectly, e.g. resistively, inductively

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  • the present invention relates to a blocking device for a door of an electric household appliance, in particular for a door of a front-loading washing machine.
  • the safety devices known, for example from EP 1137030 by the Applicant itself, include a blocking catch and control means for selectively moving the catch between an extracted position and a retracted position in a seat of a first body housing the control means and the catch itself, so that one end of the catch which protrudes in the extracted position from the seat in the first body may cooperate in use with a striker of the blocking device of the door;
  • the blocking device includes the striker, generally in the form of a striker plate slidingly carried by a second body on which the first body of the safety device is snappingly fixable; the second body is in turn fixable in use to a casing of the electric household appliance, by the side of the door to be blocked and so that the striker is adapted to cooperate in use, in turn, with a notch of the door.
  • the control means of the safety device are defined by a bi-metallic spring arranged in proximity of a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) resistive tablet; when the electric household appliance is working, the electric supply current heats the resistive tablet, which heats the bi-metallic spring, making it snap in position so as to take the catch to the extracted position, in which it engages a perforation of the striker plate of the blocking device itself, blocking the transversal sliding of the latter and, consequently, preventing the same from being released from the notch also if the user attempts to force the door to the open position.
  • PTC positive temperature coefficient
  • the present invention thus relates to a blocking device for a door of an electric household appliance, in particular for a door of a front-loading washing machine, as defined in claim 1.
  • the blocking device of the invention is characterised in that the control means of the catch comprise: electrically operated actuator means to selectively move the catch between an extracted position and a retracted position from/into a seat thereof, in which the catch is adapted to respectively intercept/not intercept the striker; a first element actuated by the actuator means so as to be mobile between a first and a second end-of-stroke positions in a direction perpendicular to that of movement of the catch; and a bell crank restrained so as to be oscillating on a plane parallel to the direction of movement of the catch, operatively connected with its first shorter arm to the first element and with its second longer arm to the catch to receive from the first element an oscillating movement such as to displace the catch between said extracted and retracted positions in response to a movement of the first element between said second and first end-of-stroke positions.
  • the first element of the control means is a metallic foil associated to a bi-metallic bi-stable knee-pad device controlled by a PTC resistor, forming the actuating means; the metallic foil is arranged facing and distanced from a bottom wall of a first body acting as a guide for the striker and which moves between the first and second end-of-stroke positions in a direction essentially perpendicular to the bottom wall of the first body, so as to vary in use its distance from the bottom wall in the displacement between the second and the first end-of-stroke positions and vice versa.
  • the bell crank is restrained to a fulcrum consisting of a pin arranged with its axis parallel to the sliding direction of the striker, as well as the bottom wall of the first body and integrally restrained to the first body; furthermore, the first arm of the bell crank presents a free end defined by a pair of elastically deformable arms arranged facing each other and engaging on opposite sides a peripheral longitudinal edge of the metallic foil oriented parallelly to the sliding direction of the striker and facing a corresponding longitudinal peripheral edge of the bottom wall of the first body; finally, preferably, the second arm of the bell crank integrally carries the catch, which protrudingly extends from a free end of the second arm on opposite band to the first arm, so that the bell crank presents on its oscillation plane, which is perpendicularly oriented with respect to the bottom wall of the first body, an essentially Z-shape.
  • the catch and the corresponding control means may be made as a self-contained safety device, for blocking the striker when the door is closed, possible enclosed in a second body restrainable to the first, e.g. snappingly, or in a specific part of the first body, however always so that the striker is slidingly sandwiched between the bottom wall of the first body and the safety device, which provides a particularly compact layout of the device.
  • the stroke available to the catch is essentially independent of the entity of the stroke available at the actuator means, because it mainly depends on the ratio between the length of the two arms of the bell crank, thus allowing to make strokes of required entity, independent of the type of actuator means used: these may be a traditional PTC resistor with bi-metallic bi-stable snapping mechanism, as it will be shown in the illustrated preferred embodiment, or of other type.
  • figure 1 shows a perspective diagrammatic three-quarters front view partially from the top of the blocking device of the invention with parts removed to facilitate understanding and shown in a partially exploded view
  • figures 2 and 4 show respective diagrammatic views, taken along plotting planes II and IV-IV of the device in figure 1 in a first operative position
  • figures 3 and 5 show the same diagrammatic views in section of the device in figure 1 shown in figures 2 and 4 respectively, but with the device in a second operative position.
  • numeral 1 indicates as a whole a blocking device in a closed position of a door 2 of an electric household appliance, known and not shown for the sake of simplicity, e.g. the door 2 of a front-loading washing machine, rotational about an axis A and provided with a notch 3 actuatable by means of a handle 4 (figure 1) .
  • the blocking device 1 comprises a striker 5, in the form of a striker plate, sliding in use perpendicularly to the axis of rotation A of the door 2 and adapted to cooperate in use with the notch 3 of the door, and a safety device, indicated as a whole by numeral 6, comprising in turn (figures 2-5) a catch 7 blocking the sliding of the striker 5 and control means 8 of the catch comprising electrically operated actuating means 10 to selectively move the catch 7 between an extracted position and a retracted position from/into its seat 11 in the safety device 6, in which extracted and retracted positions the catch 7 is adapted to respectively intercept/not intercept the striker 5.
  • a striker 5 in the form of a striker plate, sliding in use perpendicularly to the axis of rotation A of the door 2 and adapted to cooperate in use with the notch 3 of the door
  • a safety device indicated as a whole by numeral 6, comprising in turn (figures 2-5) a catch 7 blocking the sliding of the striker 5 and
  • the control means 8 comprise a first element 12 actuated by the actuator means 10 so as to be mobile between a first and a second limit stop positions (shown in figures 2 and 3, respectively) in a direction diagrammatically shown in the figure by arrow P, perpendicular to that of movement of the catch 7, in turn diagrammatically shown in figures by arrow S; and a bell crank 14 restrained so as to be oscillating on a plane parallel to the direction S of movement of the catch 7, operatively connected with its first shorter arm 15 to the first element 12 and with its second longer arm 16 to the catch 7, to receive from the first element -12 an oscillating movement so to shift the catch 7 between the extracted (figure 3 and 5) and retracted (figure 2 and 4) positions in response to a movement of the first element 12 between said second (figure 3) and first (figure 2) limit stop positions.
  • the device 1 further comprises a first body 20 fixable in a known manner to a casing of the electric household appliance, by the side of the door 2 to be blocked and on opposite band of the axis A of rotation of the same; the first body 20 slidingly carries, in a known manner, the striker 5 in form of a striker plate, which is arranged interposed between a bottom wall 21 of the first body 20 defining a sliding guide for the striker 5 and provided with a through opening 22 for the notch 3, and the safety device 6.
  • the catch 7 of the device 6 is arranged essentially parallel to the bottom wall 21 of the body 20 and so as to move within the through seat 11 of the safety device 6 in a direction S, which is essentially perpendicular to a first longitudinal edge
  • the longitudinal edge 25 of the striker 5 is provided with a fin 30 oriented perpendicularly to the bottom wall 21 of the first body 20 and which extends transversally to the sliding direction N of the striker 5, in a position so as to be adapted to be intercepted in use by the catch 7 in extracted position.
  • the fin 30 is integrally obtained in one piece with the striker 5, which is formed by a metallic plate one appendix of the edge 25 of which was bent as a L outside the laying plane of the plate itself.
  • the safety device 6 is carried, e.g. snappingly, within a second body 31 fixable to the body 20on opposite band to the bottom wall 21 and provided on one side thereof, arranged in use facing the longitudinal peripheral edge 26 of the bottom wall 21 of the first body 20, of the through seat 11 for the catch 7.
  • the bell crank 14 is restrained to a fulcrum formed by a pin 34 arranged with its axis parallel to the sliding direction N of the striker 5, as well as to the bottom wall 21 of the body 20 and integrally restrained to the body 20 itself, in the case in point idly carried by opposite side walls of the body 31, in turn snappingly restrained to the body 20.
  • the first element 12 of the control means 8 is a metallic foil 12 associated to a bi-metallic bi-stable knee-pad device 40 controlled by a PTC resistor 41, forming the actuating means 10;
  • the device 40 is of the type described in EP 1137030 wherein the metallic foil 12 is arranged facing and distanced from the bottom wall 21 of the first body 20 and moves between the first and second end-of-stroke positions in a direction P essentially perpendicular to the bottom wall 21, so as to vary in use its distance from the bottom wall 21 in the displacement between the first and second endo-of-stroke positions and vice versa.
  • the first and second end-of-stroke positions of the metallic foil are determined, in the case in point, by a first and a second shoulders respectively defined by a contact 50 associated to the PTC resistor 41 (figures 2 and 3) and by a bottom wall 52 of the safety device 6 facing and integral with the bottom wall 21 of the first body 20, and in the case in point forming integral part of the second body 31.
  • the catch 7 is not however directly carried by the foil 12, but is controlled only indirectly by the latter, by means of the bell crank 14.
  • the first arm 15 of the bell crank 14 presents a free end defined by a pair of elastically deformable arms 60 (figures 2 and 3) arranged facing each other and engaging on opposite sides a peripheral longitudinal edge 6 (figures 4 and 5) of the metallic foil 12 oriented parallelly to the sliding direction N of the striker 5 and facing the corresponding longiudinal peripheral edge 26 of the bottom wall 21 of the first body 20.
  • the second arm 16 of the bell crank 14 integrally carries the catch 7, which protrudingly extends from a free end of the second arm 16 on opposite band to the first arm 15, so that the bell crank 14 presents on its oscillation plane, which is perpendicularly oriented with respect to the bottom wall 21 of the first body 20, an essentially Z-shape.
  • the catch 7 does not perform a linear trajectory in its displacement between the extracted position and the retracted position (and vice versa) but a curvilinear trajectory allowed by a housing with a large clearance in the seat 11.
  • the actuator means 10 When the actuator means 10 are actuated (in the case in point the resistor 41 is supplied by means of contacts 70 arranged in use through slots 72 in the body 31), the foil 12 passes from the position in figure 2 to that in figure 3, producing a rotation of the lever 14 which makes the catch 7 protrude from the seat 11, in extracted position, approaching the edge 26, adjacent to which the fin 30 of the striker 5 slides.

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  • Main Body Construction Of Washing Machines And Laundry Dryers (AREA)
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Abstract

L'invention concerne un dispositif de blocage (1) comprenant une gâche (5) coulissant perpendiculaire à la porte (2), conçue pour coopérer en fonctionnement avec une encoche (3) de la porte (2), et un dispositif de sécurité (6) comprenant un cliquet (7) bloquant le coulissement de la gâche (5) et un moyen de commande (8) pourvu d'un moyen d'actionnement électrique (10) destiné à déplacer de façon sélective le cliquet (7) entre une position allongée et une position repliée à partir de son/dans son siège (11) dans le dispositif de sécurité, positions dans lesquelles le cliquet (7) peut respectivement intercepter ou ne pas intercepter la gâche (5). Le moyen de commande (8) comprend un premier élément (12) actionné par le moyen d'actionnement pour se déplacer entre une première et une deuxième position de fin de course dans un sens perpendiculaire (P) à celui du mouvement (S) du cliquet (7). Un levier coudé (14) est retenu de sorte à osciller sur un plan parallèle au sens du mouvement (S) du cliquet (7), relié fonctionnel par son premier bras plus court (15) au premier élément et par son deuxième bras plus long (16) au cliquet, afin de recevoir du premier élément (12) un mouvement d'oscillation pour déplacer le cliquet (7) entre lesdites positions allongée et repliée, en réponse à un mouvement du premier élément (12) entre les première et deuxième positions de fin de course.
EP07848811.1A 2006-10-13 2007-10-11 Dispositif de blocage destine a la porte d'un appareil electromenager electrique, en particulier la porte d'une machine a laver Active EP2082086B1 (fr)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

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IT000736A ITTO20060736A1 (it) 2006-10-13 2006-10-13 Dispositivo di bloccaggio per una porta di un elettrodomestico, in particolare un oblo' di una lavatrice
PCT/IB2007/003036 WO2008044132A2 (fr) 2006-10-13 2007-10-11 Dispositif de blocage destine a la porte d'un appareil electromenager electrique, en particulier la porte d'une machine a laver

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EP2082086A2 true EP2082086A2 (fr) 2009-07-29
EP2082086B1 EP2082086B1 (fr) 2014-01-15

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WO2008044132A3 (fr) 2008-08-21
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ITTO20060736A1 (it) 2008-04-14
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