JP2634225B2 - Electric blind operating device - Google Patents

Description

Description: BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an operating device for an electric blind, and more particularly, to a controller for controlling a vertical movement of a blind, a slat angle adjustment control, and the like.

[Prior Art and Problems to be Solved by the Invention] Conventionally, in this type of electric blind, it has become possible to control the blind to a desired elevating position and to control the slat to a desired angle by remotely operating a controller. ing. In recent years, there has been proposed a type in which a large number of electric blinds are controlled by a single controller.

The remote control by the controller is performed by operating a raising operation button when raising the blind, and by operating a lowering button when lowering the blind. Then, the operator merely confirmed the operation by checking the actual movement of the blind. Therefore, the movement of the blind based on the operation bon cannot be confirmed on the operation panel of the controller.

It is an object of the present invention to provide an operating device for an electric blind having good operability, in which a controller can easily and visually recognize that the blind moves up and down based on a lifting operation.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The electric blind operating device of the present invention is an electric blind in which the electric motor is rotated forward and reverse based on the operation of the lifting operation means, and the blind is raised and lowered based on the rotation. In the blind operating device, a display for displaying the form of the blind, storage means for storing data for displaying the form of the blind as an image, and display on the display based on the raising operation of the blind raising and lowering operation means A display control that controls the display of the same form so that the form of the blind changes to an ascending operation, and controls the display of the same form so that the form of the blind displayed on the display unit changes to a descending operation based on the descending operation. Means.

[Operation] When the lifting operation means is raised or lowered, the electric motor rotates forward or backward to move the blind up and down. At the same time, the display control means operating based on the data stored in the storage means controls the display of the form of the blind displayed on the display so as to correspond to the operation of the lifting operation means. Therefore, the raising and lowering operation of the blind can be visually recognized by the display of the display means without seeing the actual operation of the blind.

An embodiment in which the present invention is embodied in a family controller for operating four electric blinds will be described below with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, each electric blind 1
A pair of elevating units 6 are installed in the head boxes 5 to 4, and the slats 9 are suspended and supported by the elevating cords 7 and the ladder cords 8 from both the elevating units 6. A hoisting shaft 11 that is driven to rotate by an electric motor 10 is connected to both lifting units 6, and the lifting unit 6 raises or lowers the blinds 1 to 4 with the lifting cord 7 according to the forward / reverse rotation of the motor 10. , Slat 9 with ladder code 8
Or to change the angle.

A control box 12 containing a control circuit (not shown) is installed in the head box 5 of each of the electric blinds 1 to 4. Each controller box 12 is connected to a household power supply of 100 V AC via a power line 13 via an AC adapter 14. I have. Each control circuit is connected to a controller 16, 1
Based on the control signal from 7, the drive of each electric motor 10 is controlled by a DC current of a predetermined voltage rectified by the AC adapter 14.

Controllers 16 and 17 fixed to the wall are provided on the controller box 12 of each of the electric blinds 1 to 4 by a signal line 1.
5, one of the controllers 16 (the left side in FIG. 2) operates all four electric blinds 1 to 4 simultaneously or selectively selects one of them. 1 and the other three controllers 17 are S controllers 17 shown in FIG. 4 for operating only the connected electric blinds 2 to 4 respectively. is there. The controller boxes 12 of the blinds 1 to 4 are connected to each other by a signal line 18, and a control signal from the family controller 16 is transmitted to each control circuit via the signal line 18. .

As shown in FIG. 1, an operation surface of the family controller 16 is provided with an up button 19, a down button 20, and a stop button 21 as elevating operation means for elevating each of the blinds 1-4. Further, on both sides of the stop button 21, angle change buttons 22 for changing the angle of the slat 9 are provided. In addition, the current time can be set on the operation surface of the family controller 16,
Various operation buttons for setting a timer reservation for performing a predetermined operation at a predetermined time are provided.

Also, the family controller 16 has blind selection buttons 23 numbered 1 to 4 for selecting which of the blinds 1 to 4 the operation by the operation buttons 19 to 22 is applied to. , And a blind selection button 24 with the letters ALL for applying this operation to all the blinds 1-4.
In addition, a light receiving unit 25 of an infrared remote controller is provided at a lower portion of the front of the family controller 16, so that the above-mentioned operation can be commanded by a remote controller (not shown).

On the other hand, a liquid crystal display panel 26 as a display is provided on the upper part of the operation surface of the family controller 16, and the display panel 26 has an up-and-down movement for indicating that the current blinds 1 to 4 are going up or down. A display unit 27 is provided, and the elevation display unit 27 changes the form of the blind shown in FIGS. 6A to 6D in the order of (a), (b), (c), and (d), or vice versa. Can be displayed sequentially and repeatedly. The family controller 16 has a time display unit 29 for displaying the current time or a set time for timer reservation, a blind display unit 30 for displaying the selection status of the blind selection buttons 23 and 24, and a timer reservation. An angle display unit 28 for displaying the angle of the slat 9 set by the angle change button 22 is provided.

On the other hand, as shown in FIG. 4, the S controller 17 is provided with up / down / stop buttons 31 to 33 similarly to the family controller 16 and an angle change button 34.
Are provided to raise and lower the blinds 2 to 4 and to change the angle of the slats 9 to which the respective S controllers 17 are connected.

Next, the electrical configuration of the family controller 16 will be described with reference to FIG.
Central processing unit 35 (hereinafter, referred to as display control means)
The LCD panel 26 is connected to the CPU via a liquid crystal drive circuit 36, and the blind select buttons 23, 24 of 1-4 and ALL are connected to an up button, a down and stop button 19-21. Have been. The CPU 35 is connected to the control circuits of the blinds 1 to 4 via the signal lines 15 and 18 to output control signals. On the other hand,
A timer 35a is built in the CPU 35, and this timer 35a is used at the time of timer reservation as described above. In addition, other operation buttons such as the angle change button 22 are connected to the CPU 35, but since they are not related to the main part of the present embodiment, the description thereof is omitted.

The CPU 35 has a random access memory 37 (hereinafter, R
AM), and a read-only memory 38 (hereinafter, referred to as ROM) as storage means. The ROM 38 performs a predetermined display operation on the liquid crystal display panel 26 in accordance with the operation of the various operation buttons 21, 23, 24. Data to be executed and data for outputting a control signal to the control circuit of each of the blinds 1 to 4 in accordance with the operation of the various operation buttons 21, 23, and 24 are stored, and the CPU 35 operates according to these programs. It is supposed to work. The RAM 37 is adapted to temporarily store data of the processing performed by the CPU 35.

Next, a case will be described in which the electric blinds 1 to 4 are moved up and down by the family controller 16 configured as described above.

Now, for example, in order to lower the second blind 2 at the raised position by operating the family controller 16, the blind 2 is selected by the blind selection button 23 and the lowering button 20 is pressed. The CPU 35 receiving this signal outputs a descending command signal to the control circuit of the selected blind 2, and the control circuit outputs the electric motor
The blind 2 is lowered by rotating 10 in a specific direction.
At the same time, the CPU 35 operates the liquid crystal display panel 26 via the liquid crystal drive circuit 36, and based on the data stored in the ROM 38, displays the respective blind forms shown in FIGS. To (d), (c), (b), (a)
Are displayed three times in two seconds repeatedly in the order shown in FIG. As a result, the vertical display section 27 displays the blind 2 as if it were descending.

When the selected second blind 2 continues the descending operation and reaches the desired height, when the stop button 21 of the family controller 16 is pressed, the control circuit of the blind 2 based on the stop command signal from the CPU 35 Electric motor 10
Is stopped, and the lowering of the blind 2 is stopped. At this time
Since the CPU 35 does not operate the elevating display unit 27,
Keep the light-off state from before.

On the other hand, in order to raise the slats 9 thus lowered, the blind 2 is selected again by the blind selection button 23 of the family controller 16 in the same manner as described above, and the raising button 19 is pressed. The CPU 35 having received this signal outputs a rising command signal to the control circuit of the selected blind 2, and the control circuit outputs the electric motor 10
Is rotated in the opposite direction to the previous one to raise the blind 2. At the same time, the CPU 35 activates the liquid crystal display panel 26 by the liquid crystal drive circuit 36, and displays the respective blind forms shown in FIGS. 6 (a) to 6 (d) on the elevation display 27 based on the d stored in the ROM 38. , Contrary to the above case, (a),
(B), (c), and (d) are repeatedly displayed three times in two seconds in the order shown in FIG. This allows the elevation display section
27 will display the blind 2 as if it were going up.

Then, when the selected second blind 2 continues the ascent operation and reaches the desired height, when the stop button 21 of the family controller 16 is pressed, the blind 2 is controlled based on a stop command signal from the CPU 25. The circuit stops the electric motor 10 and stops the lowering of the blind 2. At this time, since the CPU 35 does not operate the elevating display unit 27, the display unit 27 maintains the previously turned off state.

As described above, instead of operating only a specific blind, the blind selection button 24 with ALL
, And all the blinds 1 to 4 can be simultaneously moved up and down. Also, Family Controller 16
In addition to such an elevating operation, the angle change button 22 can be used to change the angle of the slat 9, set the current time, set a timer reservation, and the like. In these cases, the display units 28 of the liquid crystal display panel 26 can be used. , 29, the operations of the blinds to 4, the reserved time, and the like are displayed. Further, such various operations can be remotely controlled by the infrared remote controller. If only the raising and lowering of the blinds 1 to 4 and the changing of the angle of the slat 9 are performed, the S controller 17 of each of the blinds 1 to 4 can be operated. Can also be done.

As described above, according to the electric blind operating device of the present embodiment, not only the four electric blinds 1 to 4 can be arbitrarily operated by the family controller 16 but also the blinds 1 to 4 can be raised and lowered by the controller 16. When operated, the elevating display section corresponds to the operation direction.
Since the form in which the blinds 1 to 4 are raised or lowered is displayed on 27, the user can easily visually recognize the vertical movement of the blinds 1 to 4 on the vertical display section 27 of the family controller 16. In particular, when the system is formed by a plurality of blinds 1 to 4 as in the present embodiment, the installation locations of the blinds 1 to 4 are separated from the family controller 16 and the blinds 1 to 4 are operated while operating the controller 16. In some cases, the vertical movement of the blinds 1 to 4 can be easily confirmed by the vertical display unit 27 even in such a case.

In the electric blind operating device of this embodiment, the present invention is embodied as a family controller 16 for operating four blinds 1 to 4, but is embodied as a normal controller for operating one blind. The controller may be provided with a liquid crystal display panel 26 for displaying various operations such as raising and lowering the blinds.

[Effects of the Invention] As described in detail above, according to the operating device for an electric blind of the present invention, the vertical movement of the blind based on the raising / lowering operation can be easily visually recognized on the controller, and the operability is excellent. It works.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a front view showing a family controller of this embodiment, FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing each blind and its controller, FIG. 3 is a front view showing a blind and a family controller, and FIG. 4 shows an S controller. FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the electrical configuration of the family controller, and FIGS. 6 (a) to 6 (d) are explanatory views showing the form of the blind displayed by the elevation display unit. 1 to 4 are electric blinds, 10 is an electric motor, 19 is an ascending button as an elevating operation means, 20 is a descending button as an elevating operation means, 21 is a stop button as an elevating operation means, 26
Is a liquid crystal display panel as a display, 35 is a CPU as display control means, and 38 is a ROM as storage means.

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Kiyoshi Tani 4-30-7 Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Tachikawa Blind Industry Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Koji Takimoto 1-3-15 Nitacho, Izumiotsu-shi, Osaka (72) Inventor Hironobu Watanabe 5-27-12 Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi Prefecture Inside Nagoya Sales Office, Nippon Sangyo Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yoshimoto Toki Naka, Aichi Prefecture 5-27-12, Sakae-ku, Nagoya Sales Office of Nippon Sangyo Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroyuki Hagiwara 5-27-12, Sakae, Naka-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi Nagoya Sales Office of Nippon Sangyo Co., Ltd. (56) References 64-71989 (JP, A) Japanese Utility Model Application No. 2-43397 (JP, U)

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. An electric blind, wherein an electric motor (10) is rotated forward and reverse in response to an operation of a lifting operation means (19-21), and the blinds (1-4) are raised and lowered based on the rotation. The display device (26) for displaying the form of the blind, a storage means (38) for storing data for displaying the form of the blind as an image, and an ascending and descending operation means (19 to 21) Based on the operation, the display of the blind displayed on the display (26) is controlled so as to change to an ascending operation, and the form of the blind displayed on the display (26) is changed based on the descending operation. And a display control means (35) for performing display control of the same form so as to change to a descending operation.