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Definitions

• the invention relates to the technical sector of the control means for moving an element, in particular in translation and in two opposite direction of direction.
• the invention finds a particularly advantageous application in the automotive field.
• mouse It is well known, particularly in the computer field, to use, to move in a document that appears on the screen, an organ called mouse.
• This mouse has a rotating wheel to move, especially up or down the document, according to the direction of rotation and to scroll through the document that appears on the screen.
• a rotational drive at greater or lesser speed by the finger of the user of the wheel allows, concomitantly, a more or less rapid movement in the document.
• the wheel is mounted in combination with a toothed wheel for making notches in conjunction with a blade or spring associated with a ball.
• the number of notches may be 24 allowing, in a corresponding manner, a stepwise displacement of the wheel facing a toothed encoder wheel of 48 slots.
• an infrared light-emitting diode and phototransistors or other optical sensors to have information on the direction of rotation of the wheel.
• the passage of a notch realizes a rotation of the wheel of 15 degrees (360/24).
• the toothed wheel being, still in the example shown, composed of 48 notches, the passage of a notch therefore makes the passage of two slots.
• the effort required to pass a notch is determined to prohibit a passage of notch when the user's finger is no longer in contact with the wheel. From this design, to scroll continuously the document, it is appropriate to subject the wheel to a succession of rotational drive in one direction or the other by the finger of the user. The displacement obtained is nevertheless relatively slow.
• the problem to be solved by the invention is to be able to control a moving element in two opposite directions, by means of a rotary wheel with the objective of obtaining a movement of the step type or continuous movement, even when the rotary drive of the wheel has stopped.
• the invention aims to move different types of elements, including in the computer field, as is generally the case, but also in other areas such as that of the automobile.
• the technical solution to solve this problem can find an advantageous application for the control of windows or other similar body, such as blackout curtain, sliding door, roof pavilion, ...
• a control device for moving an element in two opposite directions, said device comprising a rotary wheel secured to means capable of creating a system of notches, said wheel being mounted in combination with detection and selection means, either a manual operating mode step by step, in one direction or the other driving the wheel, or from an automatic and continuous mode of operation until at an end-of-travel or stop position, in one direction or the other, or until intervention on said wheel.
• the detection and selection means of the different modes consist of sensors mounted in combination with the wheel via a processing of the information of the speed of rotation of said wheel.
• a speed of rotation greater than a threshold speed, between the automatic mode and the manual mode hereinafter called speed
• VsemiAutoManuei allows you to change mode and switch to automatic mode. Possibly, it can be interesting to go from a manual mode of fine adjustment (slow mode) to a manual mode of coarse adjustment
• the movement distance of the window is a function of the number of steps of the wheel, as well as the movement speed of said wheel. scroll wheel.
• a rotation of a wheel screen in the slow mode corresponds to a displacement of the window of 5 mm
• a rotation of a wheel screen in the fast mode corresponds to a displacement of the window of 20 mm
• the detection and selection means of the different modes consist of sensors mounted in combination with the wheel and able to measure its angular displacement, so that if the number of notches is less than a determined threshold corresponding to the gripping angle of the wheel, the operation is of the manual type, while if the number of consecutive notches is greater than said threshold, the operation is of the automatic type.
• a conventional control switch of a vehicle window generally has five monostable positions. From a stable position in which no support or other is exerted on the switch, or one exerts a simple pulse in support or traction, to obtain the descent or the automatic rise of the window to a position of limit stop, or one maintains this position of support or traction to obtain the descent or the manual rise of the window until release. Difficulties may arise to move the glass in manual mode when the user wants a very limited and precise movement.
• the device is slaved to an algorithm for executing the manual and automatic operation modes, from a neutral position said rest, according to which: the manual mode, in a direction of movement or in the other, of the element, is validated
• a displacement of the wheel in a direction opposite to that of the displacement of the element causes the stop of said displacement.
• the wheel is mounted in combination with sensors able to select the various modes of manual or automatic operation via a processing of the information of the speed of rotation of said wheel and the number of notches, so that a number of consecutive notches greater than a predetermined number of notches makes it possible to change modes and to switch to an automatic mode.
• the device may have, in manual operation mode, a state in which a rotation of one notch of the wheel corresponds to a slow displacement of (x) mm and a state in which a rotation of a notch of wheel corresponds to a rapid movement of (x + n) mm.
• the distinction between the slow manual mode and the fast manual mode is done on a predetermined threshold of the speed of rotation of said wheel, such a distinction is made over a predetermined time between 2 no rotation.
• the wheel is subject to means for passing from a rotation action to slot-shaped signals to know the number of notches, its speed and its direction of rotation, said signals being transmitted. to a computer for controlling an actuator for moving the element.
• the securing means of the wheel include a photodiode, an encoder wheel and photos transistors whose combination of signals allows to know the direction of rotation of the wheel.
• the computer comprises a microcontroller and a control member of a motor in two directions of rotation that the actuator presents and mounted in combination with a gearbox and Hall effect sensors.
• the wheel is rotated in combination with arrangements able to accumulate the kinetic energy to overcome the crunching effort and spin freely under a launch effect.
• the wheel is mounted in partial overflow of a support in combination with means able to limit the bearing surface of the finger of the user as a function of the angular value of the opening angle of said wheel which corresponds to a determined number of notches.
• FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the control wheel according to the invention
• FIG. 2 is an example of a simplified state machine for operating the inertia wheel according to the invention
• FIG. 3 is an example of a timing chart for translational control of the element under consideration, according to the steps of the wheel in the traditional mode, that is to say without inertia of the wheel.
• FIG. 4 is an example of a timing chart for translational control of the element under consideration, as a function of the steps of the wheel in inertia mode;
• FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram that makes it possible to pass from a rotation action to the wheel to electrical signals making it possible to know the number of notches and the speed of rotation and the direction of rotation, in particular;
• FIG. 6 is a schematic view of an advantageous embodiment of the wheel shape, to deliberately limit the movement of the finger of the user.
• the basic principle of the control device according to the invention is the use of a rotating wheel (1) having an internal toothed ring (2) having a number of notches (2a) regularly offset on the circumference and disposed opposite an encoder wheel (3).
• the wheel (1) is subject to means capable of creating a system of notches for a stepwise movement corresponding to a manual operation and means capable of create an effect of inertia for a continuous movement corresponding to a so-called automatic operation.
• the parameter on which it is possible to intervene, to increase the kinetic energy beyond the aforementioned crushing force, is to increase the mass of said roulette.
• the wheel (1) can therefore be subjected to a so-called normal or manual operation or step by step operation and said inertia or automatic. Normal operation is performed at the maximum of the opening angle (or gripping angle) of the wheel corresponding to a predetermined number of notches and beyond which it is necessary to restart the movement.
• a drive force on the wheel, related to the inertia of said wheel, generates a greater angular rotation than the accessible angular sector of said wheel and, consequently, a greater number of steps resulting from the effect of inertia mentioned above.
• the wheel can therefore perform two functions in the trigonometric direction and two functions in the clockwise direction, namely, for each of the senses, a normal rotation function and an inertia rotation function.
• a normal rotation function for each of the senses, the function to be selected will be normal, while a continuous movement greater than 12 steps in one direction or the other, the function to be selected will be normal during the first 12 steps, then, by inertia, starting from the 13th step.
• the wheel In the context of an application of the inertia wheel for the manual or automatic control of the raising or lowering of a window, the wheel must allow the user to select, according to the direction of rotation:
• the means capable of differentiating the rotation of the wheel from a normal operation and an inertia operation depends on the number of notches, that is to say the number of "tops" made by the wheel without discontinuity.
• the manual rise or the manual descent of the window results from a rotation of the wheel in one direction or the other, without detection of the rotation function of said wheel by inertia, while the rise or the automatic descent results from a rotation of the wheel by inertia in one direction or the other.
• the stop of the manual ascent or descent results from the end of displacement to be reached or from an action exerted on said wheel in one or more notches, in the opposite direction to the movement considered.
• descent or automatic climb also results from the end of displacement reached (end stop stroke) or an action exerted on said wheel in one or more notches, in the opposite direction to the movement in question.
• FIG. 2 shows the simplified state machine of the operation of the inertia wheel and the timing diagram illustrated in FIG.
• the idle state corresponds to a state where there is no manipulation on the wheel and where the window is in a stable state (off).
• the mounted manual mode is the state where the manual window raise mode is selected. In this state, the state machine must monitor the number of consecutive notches, in order to move, if necessary, into the auto-climb mode.
• the auto-up mode is the state where the automatic window up mode is selected.
• the manual descent mode corresponds to the manual window descent mode selected.
• the state machine In this state, the state machine must, in the same way as for the mounted mode, monitor the number of consecutive notches to go, if necessary, to the auto-descent mode.
• Auto-down mode is the state in which the automatic window descent mode is selected.
• the activation of the automatic mode allows to raise or lower the window to the high stop or low stop position, while the wheel is no longer rotated.
• the action generated, in the inertia mode of the wheel continues, even when the rotational drive of said wheel is stopped.
• the wheel is of the traditional type, that is to say without inertia
• the wheel is mounted in combination with sensors adapted to select the different modes of manual (normal) or automatic (inertia) operation via a processing of the information of the speed of rotation of said wheel.
• a speed of rotation greater than a threshold speed, between the automatic mode and the manual mode hereinafter referred to as the VsemiAutoManuei speed
• VsemiAutoManuei speed a speed of rotation greater than a threshold speed, between the automatic mode and the manual mode, hereinafter referred to as the VsemiAutoManuei speed
• a threshold speed between the automatic mode and the manual mode
• VsemiManueiRapideLent- the distance of movement of the window is a function of the number of steps of the wheel, and the speed of movement of said wheel.
• a rotation of a wheel screen in the slow mode corresponds to a displacement of the window of 5 mm
• a rotation of a wheel screen in the fast mode corresponds to a displacement of the window of 20 mm.
• the wheel is subject to a photodiode (4), an encoder wheel (5) and two photos transistors (6) and (7), the association allows to know the direction of rotation of the wheel.
• the signals are transmitted to a computer (8) which comprises a microcontroller (9) and a control member (10) of the actuator under consideration (11), namely, in the example illustrated, the control actuator of the up or down the windows (V).
• the power control member (10) acts on a gear motor (12) of the actuator, in combination with two Hall effect sensors (13).
• the wheel (1) is mounted in partial overflow of a support (14), in combination with means (15) and (16) capable of to limit the bearing surface and the user's finger displacement as a function of the angular value of the opening angle of said wheel which corresponds to a determined number of steps.
• a support 14
• means (15) and (16) capable of to limit the bearing surface and the user's finger displacement as a function of the angular value of the opening angle of said wheel which corresponds to a determined number of steps.
• the angle of rotation of the wheel (1) is the angle delimited by the bearing points (A) and (B) of the finger and the center of rotation of the wheel, typically the angle ⁇ of 60 °.

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