EP2126943A1 - Plaquette pour inscription - Google Patents

Plaquette pour inscription

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Publication number
EP2126943A1
EP2126943A1 EP07702409A EP07702409A EP2126943A1 EP 2126943 A1 EP2126943 A1 EP 2126943A1 EP 07702409 A EP07702409 A EP 07702409A EP 07702409 A EP07702409 A EP 07702409A EP 2126943 A1 EP2126943 A1 EP 2126943A1
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Prior art keywords
shield
recess
flat side
lighting means
circuit
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EP2126943B1 (fr
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Andreas Krätzschmar
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Siemens AG
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Siemens AG
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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
    • H01H9/18—Distinguishing marks on switches, e.g. for indicating switch location in the dark; Adaptation of switches to receive distinguishing marks
    • H01H9/182—Illumination of the symbols or distinguishing marks
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F13/00—Illuminated signs; Luminous advertising
    • G09F13/04—Signs, boards or panels, illuminated from behind the insignia
    • 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
    • H01H9/16—Indicators for switching condition, e.g. "on" or "off"
    • H01H9/161—Indicators for switching condition, e.g. "on" or "off" comprising light emitting elements

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  • the invention relates to a sign for labeling for a command device in automation technology.
  • command devices Such command devices are e.g. Buttons, knobs, buttons, levers and the like.
  • the command devices are used to operate the relevant system etc. by an operator.
  • display signs which designate the purpose of the corresponding command device or the associated control of the system and so on. They are therefore the label for the command device.
  • Usual labels are e.g. "On / Off”, “Pump 3", "Stop” or similar
  • the corresponding display panels typically have a size of about one centimeter high, a few millimeters deep and a width of a few centimeters.
  • the known signs are made of two assembled plastic plates, one of which, for example, the one black (visible side) and the other (back) is white.
  • the corresponding plastic sheets are joined together, e.g. glued, wherein the respective front side (black) part, referred to in the following upper part, has recesses which form the label.
  • the respective front side (black) part referred to in the following upper part, has recesses which form the label.
  • the object of the invention is to provide an improved sign for labeling.
  • the invention is based on the basic idea of designing a luminous sign which is not available in practice.
  • the task is solved by a label, which serves the labeling of a command device in the automation technology.
  • the shield has a plate-shaped lower part.
  • the term "lower part” here serves the linguistic delimitation against an "upper part” mentioned below. If one starts from the usual viewing direction, ie viewing direction of the sign in its final mounting position, this is considered on its front flat side. At the front flat side, so the visible side, therefore, a label is attached.
  • the lower part is optically translucent.
  • the shield contains an electrical illuminant which is coupled into the lower part of the light.
  • the shield according to the invention is thus a self-illuminating shield.
  • the inventive construction of the shield results in a cost-effective variant of an illuminated or backlit shield.
  • the structure and thus the construction volume correspond approximately to today's common, unlit variant of a corresponding shield. Signs already present in automation technology can easily be replaced by the sign according to the invention.
  • the inscription element can be attached in almost any desired manner to the visible side, ie the front flat side, eg in the form of an inscription, a mask, a lacquer, etc. Because of the translucency of the lower part, it is diffusely illuminated due to a scattering of the coupled-in light.
  • the front flat side is also backlit. An optically untransparent labeling element lifts So from the rest, so the unmarked part of the visible flat side or vice versa.
  • the labeling element may be a light exit means mounted in the region of the label, and the front element
  • the light exit means may be a projecting into the interior of the base engraving.
  • An optically translucent body in itself allows relatively little light to pass through its planar surface. If you then engrave them in e.g. a label, then causes the engraving, so the recess extending into the interior of a light exit point.
  • the lettering lights up in other words.
  • the shield may have a plate-shaped upper part. Assuming the usual direction of view, so viewing direction of the shield, the upper part is arranged in front of the lower part. The upper part is therefore created with its rear flat side on the front flat side of the lower part. The upper part has a recess, which forms the label, which is then recognizable on the front flat side of the upper part or shield. Such a sign thus corresponds to the structure, handling, ie mounting on the command device, etc. the previously known, but unlit signs. These can be easily replaced by the invention.
  • the lighting means may be a light emitting diode (LED).
  • LED light emitting diode
  • Light-emitting diodes as lighting elements have the well-known advantages, such as low energy consumption, little waste heat, small design, etc. on .
  • the plate-shaped, so cuboid lower part may have a reaching into its interior recess, wherein the recess is so large that it serves for at least partially receiving the light source.
  • the recess can completely accommodate the illuminant
  • the plate or cuboid shape remains as the boundary of the lower part. In other words, the light bulb disappears in the lower part.
  • the design in contrast to an unlit shield does not change.
  • the recess may taper towards the interior of the lower part.
  • Light which is generated in the recess thus enters the interior of the lower part through an inclined surface with respect to the cuboid shape and is thus broken at the interface and distributed uniformly in the lower part.
  • this produces a uniformly illuminated lower part, which results in the lettering, e.g. as an opening in the upper part, also uniformly illuminated or Wegberguchtet.
  • the lower part is roughened on the surface so that the light can emerge again (homogeneously).
  • the recess may also be a conical bore.
  • a receptacle which receives the luminous means and tapers towards the interior of the lower part is thus particularly easily insertable into the lower part in terms of production engineering, e.g. by inserting with a 90 ° drill.
  • the recess can be attached to the rear flax side of the lower part. The recess and thus the
  • Illuminants thus form an actual backlight of the shield.
  • the contact surface of the upper part on the front flat side of the lower part is not hindered by recesses or the light source.
  • the recess may have a staggered toward the interior of the lower part contact to the connection of the lamp.
  • the contacting of the bulb is so within the volume or cuboid of the lower part and is not apparent from this. A simple assembly and secure contact of the bulb is thus given.
  • the illuminant may also be e.g. be mounted on a narrow side of the lower part and thus in other words laterally couple light into the lower part.
  • the shield may include a wiring for the lamp, wherein the wiring is a printed circuit.
  • Printed circuits have with respect to the display plate a nearly vanishing height and can therefore be particularly easily and advantageously combined with the shield, without the plate requires additional space.
  • the wiring can be mounted in particular on the rear flat side of the lower part.
  • the result is a cuboid shield, on the back of the circuit is applied.
  • the reverse side is thus the side facing away from the lettering, with which it is e.g. in turn can be attached to a plant or machine near the command device.
  • the shield or the circuit can be painted on the back for the purpose of isolation, for example.
  • the printed circuits or the lower parts with these can be displayed almost independent of length, since the position of the lamps due to the translucent lower part by about ⁇ 10 mm in the transverse direction of the shield can vary without brightness distributions on the front flat side can be seen.
  • one or more bulbs can be used, for example, a per 30mm shield length.
  • the printed circuit itself can in this case with the bulbs, z. B one or more light emitting diodes be equipped.
  • the electrically conductive side of the printed circuit can be mounted to the lower part, for example glued. This results in the mounting side, ie the rear side of the shield towards an automatic isolation through the substrate of the printed circuit.
  • the shield may have a wiring for the wireless power supply of the light source.
  • a corresponding circuit typically comprises a coil and a capacitor and may be e.g. also be made as a printed circuit.
  • the shield is thus independent of cabling and may e.g. by standard power supply elements with e.g. Voltages of 5-LOV at frequencies of 1-10OkHz be energized.
  • there is no installation effort especially for the user who would like to attach the shield.
  • the handling of the signs e.g. Regarding engraving or attachment of the signs remains unchanged from the previously known unlit signs.
  • the wireless energy supply is very advantageous especially with high required degrees of protection (IP56 and above).
  • the lower part can be powered by an external power supply with energy. Alternatively or additionally, however, the lower part can also have a recess for receiving an energy source. A wireless power supply is then not necessary, the sign is independent of any additional component self-luminous.
  • the energy source may in particular be a button cell, which is particularly suitable in terms of its design for integration in a plate-shaped component. The button cell can of course be interchangeable here.
  • the luminous means can also be operated as a function of the switching state of the command device.
  • the lighting can thus be switched on and off, for example, after pressing a switch or button as a command device, for example to indicate the operating state of the corresponding switch, ie the switching state.
  • FIG. 2 the label from FIG. 1 composed of two joined plastic parts
  • FIG. 3 shows an alternative embodiment of the shield from FIG. 1 with a single plastic part
  • FIG. 5 shows a printed circuit according to FIG. 4,
  • FIG. 6 shows a shield according to FIG. 1 in an embodiment with side-mounted light sources
  • FIG. 7 shows a plate according to FIG. 1 with internal contacts for the illuminant in a) side view and b) rear view,
  • FIG. 8 shows a plate according to FIG. 1 with integrated button cell in a) side view and b) top view.
  • FIG. 1 shows a section of a system control or its housing 2.
  • a pushbutton 4 for controlling a pump is mounted in the housing 2.
  • a shield 6 is attached to the label of the pushbutton 4, which carries as a label 8 "pump l n .
  • the shield 6 is glued to the housing 2.
  • FIG. 1 shows the top view of the housing 2. This viewing direction is provided by an operator (not shown) who is in front of the system control and who has access to the pushbutton 4. In Figure 1, therefore, the front 10 of the shield 6 is visible.
  • the shield 6 comprises a lower part 14, on the back side 16 of which a printed circuit 18 is glued, and an upper part 20 which is glued to its rear side 22a on the front side 16b of the lower part 14.
  • the front side 22b of the upper part 20 thus forms the front side 10 of the shield 6.
  • the shield 6 is thus glued with its printed circuit 18 on the housing 2.
  • two LEDs 24a, b LEDs are mounted.
  • the lower part 14 has at its rear side 16a in the interior of reaching holes 26a, b.
  • the holes are conical in the direction of arrow 28 with an opening angle of 90 °.
  • the upper part 20 is made of an opaque material, and has in the region of the label 8 openings 32 which extend from the front 22b to the back 22a and thus the front 16b of the lower part 14. At the locations of the apertures 32, therefore, light in the form of the light rays 30 penetrates from the lower part 14 to the front side 10 of the shield 6, for which reason the inscription 8 is illuminated in the direction of the arrow 12.
  • the LEDs 24a, b can be permanently switched on. Alternatively, they are switched on, not shown pump, so switching state “1" of the push button 4 bright, and switched off the pump, so switching state "0" off.
  • FIG. 3 shows an alternative embodiment of a shield 6, which has only the lower part 14 and no upper part 20.
  • the lower part 14 is provided with an engraving 34.
  • the engraving 34 arise in the lower part 14 and the front side 16b coupling areas, so that the engraving 34 and thus the Be 8 at these points opposite the remaining, not engraved surface (front side 16b) is illuminated. This is likewise represented by the light beams 30 in FIG.
  • FIG. 4 shows a known basic circuit diagram for an energy transmission circuit 40 for the wireless transmission of energy over an air gap 42.
  • a voltage U of the frequency f is applied to the input 44 of the circuit 40, which emits a non-illustrated electromagnetic field via a transmitting coil 46a.
  • a series connection of receiving coil 46b and capacitor 48 receives the energy to operate the two parallel LEDs 24a, b.
  • Reception coil 46b, the capacitor 48 and with terminals 50 for contacting the LEDs 24a, b. 5 shows the plan view of the conductive side of the printed circuit 18, which faces the lower part 14 in FIGS. 2 and 3, respectively.
  • a substrate 52 (substrate) of the printed circuit 18 thus forms an insulation with respect to the housing 2.
  • FIG. 6 again shows a shield 6 according to FIG. 1, in which the printed circuit 18 projects laterally beyond the lower part 14 with the contacts 50.
  • the LEDs 24a, b are there at the
  • Circuit 18 and thus arranged on opposite side surfaces 54 of the lower part 14 and not in its interior.
  • FIG. 7a shows a further alternative embodiment of a shield 6 with a recess 56 modified with respect to FIGS. 2 and 3 for receiving the light-emitting diode 24a in the lower part 14.
  • the recess 56 initially extends along the arrow 28 with a vertical wall section 58 into the lower part 14 in that in this wall section 58, the LED 24a finds room completely or disappears therein.
  • two contact surfaces 60a, b then extend toward the center of the recess 56. At these contact surfaces 60a, b, the LED 24a is located with their respective not shown connection contacts.
  • the contact surfaces 60a, b are extensions of the circuit 18 attached to the rear side 16a. Thus, in other words, it is inserted into the recess 56.
  • FIG. 8 shows a further variant of a shield 6, in which the printed circuit 18 is not a circuit for wireless energy input but carries a button cell 64 for supplying power to the LEDs (not shown in FIG. 8).
  • 8b shows the plan view in FIG. 8a in the direction of the arrow 12.
  • the button cell 64 is mounted in a battery receptacle 66 of the lower part 14 and exchangeable.

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Abstract

L'invention concerne une plaquette (6) destinée à l'inscription (8) pour un appareil de commande (4) en technique d'automatisation. La plaquette selon l'invention comprend une base (14) en forme de plaque qui présente une face avant plane (16b) sur laquelle est apposé un élément d'inscription (20, 34), la base (14) étant optiquement translucide. La plaquette selon l'invention comprend en outre un moyen lumineux électrique (24a, b) injectant de la lumière (30) dans la base (14).
EP07702409A 2007-02-01 2007-02-01 Plaquette pour inscription Not-in-force EP2126943B1 (fr)

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