WO1991001596A1 - Dispositif de commutation a commande a distance ultrasonique - Google Patents

Dispositif de commutation a commande a distance ultrasonique Download PDF

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WO1991001596A1
WO1991001596A1 PCT/CA1990/000068 CA9000068W WO9101596A1 WO 1991001596 A1 WO1991001596 A1 WO 1991001596A1 CA 9000068 W CA9000068 W CA 9000068W WO 9101596 A1 WO9101596 A1 WO 9101596A1
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Reza H. Shah
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Shah Reza H
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K17/00—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking
    • H03K17/94—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the way in which the control signals are generated
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03K—PULSE TECHNIQUE
    • H03K2217/00—Indexing scheme related to electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making or -breaking covered by H03K17/00
    • H03K2217/0036—Means reducing energy consumption

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  • This invention relates to a switching device, and more particularly to an ultrasonic remote controlled switching device having very low power consumption.
  • Remote controlled switching devices are commonly used for switching electrical appliances such as televisions and the like ON or OFF.
  • the remote controlled switching device may either be incorporated as an integral part of the elec ⁇ trical appliance or is separate from the latter and to which the appliance is connected.
  • the switching devices and the appliances are commonly operated with the household current and they operate with a current draw in excess of 10 milli- amperes which, in terms of electronic equipment consumes a relatively large amount of electrical power, particularly when it is necessary for such device to be constantly ener- gized so that it is always ready to be actuated to switch on the equipment of which it controls.
  • Such switching de ⁇ vices are not practical for controlling equipment which are located remote from a household current power source or receptacle.
  • Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide a remote controlled switching device which also generates a power pulse whenever it is actuated for opera ⁇ ting associated controlling devices for the equipment bein ⁇ controlled.
  • Figure 1 is an electrical schematic diagram of the switching device according to the present invention.
  • Figure 2 is an electrical schematic diagram of the ultrasonic sound generating hand-held device usable for remotely actuating the switching device according to the present invention.
  • Figure 3 is a schematic block diagram showing the use of the remote controlled switching device of the present invention for operating a gas fireplace.
  • the remote controlled switching device of the present invention is constructed primarily with three low cost low power consumption metal oxide semiconductors commonly called complementary metal oxide semiconductors or abbreviated as CMOS.
  • CMOS complementary metal oxide semiconductors
  • Such semi ⁇ conductors are digital integrated devices and contains a series of inverters.
  • a first digital CMOS device 10 contains six inverters 11 to 16 con- nected in parallel with resistors 17 to 22 and 23 and " out ⁇ put bias and coupling capacitors 24 to 28 to act as cascaded analog amplifiers.
  • the CMOS device 10 can be operated with very low power source such as a 9 volts battery applying a positive potential to the supply pin therein.
  • the operating voltage is supplied through a high resistance resistor 29 in series with the positive potential V+ of the power supply, and is decoupled with a capacitor 30 connected to the nega ⁇ tive potential V- of the power supply as shown.
  • the high resistance resistor 29 ensures a very low power consumption by the CMOS device 10, since the supply voltage is automa ⁇ tically adjusted to a low level because of the self-biassing effect provided by the resistor 29.
  • a transducer device 31 such as an ultrasonic transducer is connected to the input of the cascaded amplifiers, so that the signal generated by the transducer 31 is repeatedly amplified by these ampli ⁇ fiers.
  • the low current bias of the amplifiers results in a high output impedance which provides a highly desirable low frequency attenuation.
  • trans ⁇ ducers such as an ultrasonic transducer, optical transducer, or electromagnetic wave transducer may be employed which can response to a remotely produced signal to generate a voltage signal.
  • An ultrasonic transducer is preferred, in that, the sound signal for actuating the transducer is not directional and can reflect from obsticles while it does not cause any adverse interference to the normal operation of any elec- tronic circuit components in other equipment located in the same neighbourhood of the switching device.
  • the ultrasonic transducer 31 is connected directly to the input of the cascaded amplifiers.
  • the transducer 31 acts as a virtual earth because of the provision of the feedback resistor 17 which is connected from the output to the input of the first amplifier in the cascade. This results in a low input impedance at that amplifier input thus reducing the input noise level.
  • the amplified signal from the cascaded amplifiers is fed through two coupling capacitors 28 and 32 to a full wave bridge rectifier comprising diodes 35, 36, 37 and 38.
  • a full wave rectifier is shown, it can be appreciated that a half wave rectifier may be used instead to provide a similar result.
  • a grounding resistor 39 is connected at the output terminal of the bridge rectifier to the ground such that when the output signal from the rectifier is low or when the output signal is absent, any residual stray charges would bleed through resistor 39 to the ground to ensure no nuisance operation of the device.
  • the series resistor 40 which charges the capacitor 41 is chosen at such value to provide a selected desirable long enough period of time to charge the capacitor 41 to the voltage at which the transis ⁇ tor 42 can be turned on via the resistor 43.
  • undesirable noise signals are commonly of a short duration, the undesi- rable noise signals if reaching capacitor 41 will not be of such a level to turn on the transistor 42.
  • the transistor 42 can only be turned on by the signal generated by the transducer 31.
  • the transistor 42 as shown in Figure 1 is an NPN transistor. It can be appreciated by those skilled in the art that a PNP transistor may be used for the purpose with the polarity of the diodes of the bridge rectifier con ⁇ nected in the reverse as shown.
  • the collector of the tran ⁇ sistor 42 is connected to a second digital CMOS device 44 through coupling resistors 45, 46 and 47.
  • the CMOS device 44 contains six inverters 148,149,150,151,152 and 153 and its terminals are arranged to operate as a Schmidt trigger which converts an input signal into a square wave pulse signal.
  • the square wave pulse signal from the CMOS device 44 is passed to a third digital CMOS device 48 which is a type D Flip-flop device and is arranged such that its output will change its state from low to high or vice versa whenever a fresh signal is received by its input, namely, whenever, the transducer 31 is actuated by a remote ultrasound generating unit.
  • the output of the CMOS device 48 operating as a Flip- Flop is fed directly to an inverter consisting of a P-chan- nel surface-channel field-effect transistor 49 commonly referred to as P-channel VMOSFET and an N-channel VMOSFET transistor 50.
  • the drain terminal 51 of these VMOSFET tran ⁇ sistors 49 and 50 are connected together, so that whenever a signal is generated by the transducer 31 a high power pulse signal appears at the output drain terminal 51 of the VMOSFET transistors 49 and 50.
  • the power pulser may alter ⁇ natively be constructed with common bipolar NPN or PNP transistors in a voltage follower configuration. Also, single or Darlington transistors may be used for such pur- purpose.
  • the output of the Flip-Flop device is also applied via a resistor 52 to one or two N-channel or P-channel VMOSFET transistors. Two VMOSFET transistors 53 and 54 are shown in the example shown in Figure 1.
  • the output terminals 55 and 56 of the VMOSFET transistors 53 and 54 will change their state from ON to OFF and vice versa whenever a fresh pulse signal is applied from the digital CMOS device 48 to the input of these transistors 53 and 54.
  • the switching device of the present invention is represented by the terminals 55 and 56 which will change their states from ON to OFF or vice versa whenever the transducer 31 is actuated by a remote signal and simultan ⁇ eously a power pulse is present at the drain terminal 51 of the inverter consisting of VMOSFET transistors 49 and 50. Due to the negligible DC current required by the VMOSFET transistors 53 and 54, the operation of the present swit ⁇ ching device consumes almost negligible power, in the level of less than 20 microamperes, from the supply voltage power source so that a 9-volt battery can be used as a power source with relatively long operating life.
  • FIG. 2 shows an examplary ultrasound transmitting device which may be used as a remote controlled unit for actuating the switching device of the present invention.
  • Such device may also employ the low power consumption CMOS digital integrated device 57 which contains six inverters 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 63.
  • the inverters 58 and 59 are con ⁇ nected to a resistor 64 and capacitor 65 and a potentiometer 66 to provide an oscillator.
  • the actuating power is connec ⁇ ted to the input terminal of the CMOS device 57 through the power switch 67 and decoupling capacitor 69.
  • the fre- quency of the voltage in the oscillator may be selectively varied by adjusting potentiometer 66.
  • the high frequency voltage signal from the oscillator is then fed through in ⁇ verters 60 to 63 which act as buffers and output driver am ⁇ plifiers to drive the piezoelectric wave transducer 68 to generate and emit the ultrasonic wave signal.
  • in ⁇ verters 60 to 63 act as buffers and output driver am ⁇ plifiers to drive the piezoelectric wave transducer 68 to generate and emit the ultrasonic wave signal.
  • the simple construction of the transmitting device facilitates low cost manufacturing and it also consumes very low power such that a low voltage battery can be used as a power source with a long operating life.
  • the switching device Due to the relatively small number of components used in the switching device, it can be made in a very compact size and can be freely and easily incorporated into any selected equipment in place of the main ON/OFF switch therein without complex installation.
  • One application of the switching device is in a gas fireplace, as shown in Figure 3, in which the switching device can be easily incorporated in the electromechanical control device 100 of the gas supply to the pilot light 101 and the burner 102 as shown in Figure 3.
  • the electromechanical control device 100 of the gas fireplace is normally actuated with a manual switch 103 which controls the power supply to the electro ⁇ mechanical control device.
  • the manual switch can easily be replaced with the switching device of the present invention or be connected in parallel thereto such that the gas fire ⁇ place may be * turned ON or OFF remotely with the remote transmitting unit.
  • the power pulse signal generated from the switching device may also be utilized to incorporate with an electromechanical control 104 for con ⁇ trolling the fresh air damper 105 of the gas fireplace, such that whenever the switching device is actuated to turn on the gas fireplace, the power pulse from the switching device will simultaneousely operate the electromechanical control 104 to cause the fresh air damper to open so as to allow more air to enter into the fireplace to enhance the ignition of the gas at the burner.
  • the electromechanical control 104 for the fresh air damper of the fireplace may be in the form of a DC motor or solenoid adapted at the damper pivot shaft operative for turning the damper either in one direction or in the opposite direction in response to the polarity of the power pulse.

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L'invention concerne un dispositif de commutation ultrasonique ayant une consommation en courant très faible. Le dispositif est capable de commuter une grande puissance (55, 56) ou de produire une impulsion de puissance (51) afin de faire fonctionner des dispositifs de commande électrique associés. Ledit dispositif de commutation réagit à une onde ultrasonore (31) produite par un émetteur portatif éloigné afin de le faire passer d'un état de marche à un état d'arrêt ou vice-versa, et produit simultanément l'impulsion de puissance voulue, ledit dispositif de commutation à distance est adapté pour être utilisé dans la commande à distance du fonctionnement d'une chaufferie au gaz naturel.
PCT/CA1990/000068 1989-07-25 1990-03-01 Dispositif de commutation a commande a distance ultrasonique WO1991001596A1 (fr)

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CA 606612 CA1327237C (fr) 1989-07-25 1989-07-25 Dispositif de commutation telecommande par ultrasons
US07/384,783 US4924564A (en) 1989-07-25 1989-07-25 Ultrasonic remote controlled switching device
CA606,612 1989-07-25

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US3949366A (en) * 1974-02-22 1976-04-06 Frank Spillar Remote control system for electrical power outlet
DE2938734A1 (de) * 1979-09-25 1981-03-26 Siemens AG, 1000 Berlin und 8000 München Uebertragungssystem fuer informationen innerhalb eines gebaeudes oder zwischen gebaeuden
US4467224A (en) * 1982-03-18 1984-08-21 Rca Corporation System for applying a high voltage source to a CRT through a capacitive load
EP0265315A1 (fr) * 1986-10-08 1988-04-27 AEROSPATIALE Société Nationale Industrielle Commutateur électronique bistable integré à faible chute de tension

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US3949366A (en) * 1974-02-22 1976-04-06 Frank Spillar Remote control system for electrical power outlet
DE2938734A1 (de) * 1979-09-25 1981-03-26 Siemens AG, 1000 Berlin und 8000 München Uebertragungssystem fuer informationen innerhalb eines gebaeudes oder zwischen gebaeuden
US4467224A (en) * 1982-03-18 1984-08-21 Rca Corporation System for applying a high voltage source to a CRT through a capacitive load
EP0265315A1 (fr) * 1986-10-08 1988-04-27 AEROSPATIALE Société Nationale Industrielle Commutateur électronique bistable integré à faible chute de tension

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