Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
  • E06B9/68—Operating devices or mechanisms, e.g. with electric drive
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
  • E06B9/68—Operating devices or mechanisms, e.g. with electric drive
  • E06B2009/6809—Control
• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E06—DOORS, WINDOWS, SHUTTERS, OR ROLLER BLINDS IN GENERAL; LADDERS
  • E06B—FIXED OR MOVABLE CLOSURES FOR OPENINGS IN BUILDINGS, VEHICLES, FENCES OR LIKE ENCLOSURES IN GENERAL, e.g. DOORS, WINDOWS, BLINDS, GATES
  • E06B9/00—Screening or protective devices for wall or similar openings, with or without operating or securing mechanisms; Closures of similar construction
  • E06B9/56—Operating, guiding or securing devices or arrangements for roll-type closures; Spring drums; Tape drums; Counterweighting arrangements therefor
  • E06B9/68—Operating devices or mechanisms, e.g. with electric drive
  • E06B2009/6809—Control
  • E06B2009/6818—Control using sensors
  • E06B2009/6845—Control using sensors sensing position

Definitions

• the invention relates to the field of a drive device for the motorized maneuvering of a mobile element closing, occultation, sun protection or screen equipping a building, such as a shutter, a blind, a door.
• a method of controlling the operation of such a drive device It also relates to a home automation system comprising such a drive device.
• Soft shutdown and start-up functions are known which are implemented on a motorized drive device of a movable closure, concealment, sun protection or screen element fitted to a building. Such functions make it possible to avoid noises and to limit the mechanical stresses in the chains of transmission of the movement to the moving elements.
• a range or amplitude of a range of travel of the movable member is defined by a duration or amplitude of movement of the movable member or the output shaft of the actuator driving the member. mobile element.
• the object of the invention is to provide an operation control method improving the methods known from the prior art.
• the invention provides a simple operation control method and to limit the stresses of the motion transmission chains to the moving elements.
• a control method governs the operation of a motorized drive device of a home automation system for closing or sun protection, the home automation system for closing or sun protection.
• a concealment device comprising at least one screen and a winding tube
• the motorized drive device comprising at least one electromechanical actuator for winding and unwinding the screen on the tube winding, between a wound position and an unwound position
• the electromechanical actuator comprising at least:
• the method comprises at least the following steps:
• the approach zone can be defined between the entry position in the approach zone and the selected stop position.
• the entry position in the approach zone can be determined by calculation from the selected stop position, in particular by adding or subtracting a value representative of a displacement of the winding tube or a shaft output of the electromechanical actuator from the entry position in the approach zone to the selected stop position.
• the step of acquiring a movement order of the screen may be preceded by a step of determining the entry position in the approach zone associated with a stopping position of the determined screen, when of the installation and / or during the configuration of the motorized drive device.
• the step of determining the entry position in the approach zone may be preceded by a step of determining at least one stopping position of the screen, during the installation and / or during the configuration of the motorized driving device.
• the selected stop position can be a predefined end position or a predefined intermediate position.
• a motorized driving device of a winding tube of a rolling windscreen for closing or sun protection comprises hardware and / or software elements implementing the operation control method defined above.
• the motorized driving device of a winding tube of a rolling windscreen closing or sun protection comprises a control unit configured to implement the operation control method defined above.
• An electric motor of the electromechanical actuator may include at least one sensor for determining a position of the output shaft of the electromechanical actuator, so as to determine the current position of the screen.
• a home automation installation comprises a mobile windable closing or sun protection screen, a screen winding tube and a motorized drive device as defined above.
• the invention also relates to a data storage medium, readable by a computer, on which is recorded a computer program comprising computer program code means for implementing the phases and / or steps of the operation control method. previously defined.
• the invention also relates to a computer program comprising a computer program code means adapted to the realization of the phases and / or steps of the operation control method defined above, when the program is implemented by a computer.
• FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a home automation installation equipped with a drive device according to the invention
• FIG. 2 represents, in the form of a block diagram, an algorithm according to an embodiment of the operation control method according to the invention
• FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an example of rotational speed variations of an actuator as a function of the position of the screen in a first initial position of the screen, the position P of the screen being represented in FIG. the abscissa and the speed V of the actuator being represented on the ordinate;
• FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an example of speed variations of an actuator as a function of the position of the screen in a second initial position of the screen, the position P of the screen being represented in abscissae and the speed V of the actuator being represented on the ordinate.
• the home automation system 1 is a home automation system for closing or solar protection.
• the home automation installation 1 comprises a concealment device 7, a remote control 6, for example a nomadic remote control transmitting commands in the form of electromagnetic signals, especially infrared or radio signals, and a motorized driving device 2.
• the remote control 6 makes it possible to control the motorized drive device 2.
• the concealment device 7 is equipped, for example, with a motorized closing motor, solar protection, such as, in particular, a motorized device roller shutter, blind or roll-up door.
• the occulting device 7 comprises a winding tube 8 and a screen 3, which can also be called a mobile element.
• the motorized drive device 2 comprises an electromechanical actuator 4 capable of setting the screen 3 in motion or maneuvering, in particular by setting the winding tube 8 in motion or moving.
• the concealment device 7 equips, for example, an opening of a building to ensure its closure, the concealment at the level thereof or the sun protection at this level.
• the mobile screen 3 is a mobile rolling element closing, sunscreen, such as, in particular, a roller shutter, a blind, a gate or a roll-up door.
• the winding tube 8 is arranged so that the screen 3 opens when it is wound on the winding tube 8 and closes when it unwinds from the winding tube 8.
• the electromechanical actuator 4 is thus mechanically linked, in particular connected in rotation, to the winding tube 8 via an output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 and the winding tube 8 is mechanically connected to the screen 3.
• the motorized drive device 2 mainly comprises the electromechanical actuator 4 and a control unit 5 of the electromechanical actuator 4.
• the electromechanical actuator 4 comprises an electric motor 41 coupled to a gearbox 42.
• the electric motor 41 is Preferably, a brushless motor with electronic commutations, or called "BLDC" (acronym for the BrushLess Direct Current term), or called synchronous permanent magnet.
• the control unit 5 makes it possible to control or manage the power supply electric motor 41, in particular, the successive supply of windings of the electric motor 41.
• the control unit 5 comprises a memory 51, a logic processing unit 52, such as a computer, an instruction receiver 53, in particular an electromagnetic signal receiver.
• the control unit 5 makes it possible to manage or control the power supply of the electric motor 41 as a function of the different information that it collects via the instruction receiver 53 or via other elements, not shown, such as sensors.
• the control unit 5 makes it possible to control the electromechanical actuator 4 according to various parameters, such as, in particular, an order received from a control point, in particular from the remote control 6, via the instruction receiver 53 of the electromechanical actuator 4 and, such as the position of the screen 3 or the evolution thereof.
• the logic processing unit 52 makes it possible to manage the operation in common of the different elements of the control unit 5.
• the logic processing unit 52 makes it possible to implement the control logic of the electric motor 41 and, more generally, of the electromechanical actuator 4 or of the motorized drive device 2.
• the position of the screen 3 can be determined, in particular, as a function of the angle of rotation of the winding tube 8 or of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4, and in particular by one or more sensors of the electric motor 41 for determining the angle of rotation of its rotor.
• the motorized driving device 2, in particular the control unit 5, comprises all the hardware and / or software elements making it possible to implement the operating control method that is the subject of the invention.
• the control unit 5 is configured so as to implement the operating control method of the invention.
• some elements may consist of computer program modules.
• the hardware and / or software means comprise a position comparison element.
• the motorized drive device 2 is able to move the screen 3 between a first position P1 and a second position P2.
• the first and second positions P1, P2 correspond to limit stops of displacement of the screen 3. These first and second positions P1, P2 correspond to the wound and unrolled positions of the screen 3, as represented in FIGS. and 4.
• the first and second positions P1, P2 are the extreme positions taken by the screen 3. These first and second positions P1, P2 can be defined, either automatically by the electromechanical actuator 4, or manually by the user, during installation and / or during the configuration of the motorized drive device 2.
• the remote control 6 comprises an instruction transmitter 61, a logic processing unit 62 and a man-machine interface 63.
• the man-machine interface 63 comprises an information meaning element 631 to the user, such as a screen, and a data input or input element 632, such as a keyboard.
• the elements of significance 631 and input 632 can be brought together in a touch screen.
• the remote control 6 can be a tablet or a phone.
• a first step 100 the motorized drive device 2, in particular the instruction receiver 53, receives an order of movement of the screen 3. This order is interpreted. There is then acquisition of this order by the motorized drive device 2. The order may, in particular, have been transmitted by the remote control 6. It is assumed that the electromechanical actuator 4 is stopped when receiving the this order or that the electromechanical actuator 4 is in motion with a rotation speed setpoint of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 lower than a first rotation speed setpoint of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4. Electromechanical actuator 4. The following steps are preferably performed in this case.
• the order received by the motorized drive device 2 can correspond to a direction order of movement of the screen 3, such as, for example, the raising or lowering of the screen 3, or to reach a specific position, such as, for example, a high or low end position, or an intermediate position.
• This order received by the motorized drive device 2 may be emitted by a control point, such as, for example, the remote control 6 or a central control unit 9.
• This central control unit 9 comprises means similar to the remote control 6 for communicating and controlling the motorized driving device 2.
• the order received by the motorized driving device 2 may be issued by an automation element of the home automation system, which may be in particular, a sensor, and in particular presence, temperature, brightness, wind, and / or humidity, or a timer.
• a position P4 of the screen 3 in which the screen 3 will be stopped is of course a function of the order of movement of the screen 3 acquired previously in the first step 1 00. This is the position in which the screen 3 will be stopped automatically, that is to say at the same time. the absence of a new order subsequently received by the motorized drive device 2, in particular, in the absence of a new order subsequently received by the motorized drive device 2 while the electromechanical actuator 4 is activated.
• the automatic stop position P4 may be a predefined intermediate stop position between the two end-of-travel positions P1 and P2.
• the automatic stop position P4 can also be a predefined end position.
• This automatic stop position P4 can be defined by a value, in particular an angular or temporal value. This value is stored in the memory 51 of the control unit 5.
• the motorized driving device 2 determines the current position P3 of the screen 3. This value is also in the memory 51 of the control unit 5.
• This memory 51 is regularly updated. day, during the displacement of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4.
• This memory 51 may comprise a counter memory zone. The counter can be incremented when the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 moves in a first direction of rotation and decremented when the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 moves in a second direction of rotation.
• a current position P3 is shown in FIGS. 3 and 4. The current position P3 determined corresponds to the position of the screen 3, during the acquisition of a movement order of the screen 3 having been received by the receiver from instructions 53 to the first step 1 00.
• the temporal order of execution of the second and third steps is indifferent. They can also be executed simultaneously.
• the motorized drive device 2 determines an approach zone ZA of the automatic stop position P4.
• this approach zone ZA extends from the automatic stop position P4, in the direction opposite to the direction of movement defined by the movement command received at the first step 100.
• the extent of this zone d ZA approach is defined by a value, including an angular value or a time value.
• the motorized drive device 2 also determines an entry position P5 in the approach zone ZA, shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
• the input position P5 in the approach zone ZA can be determined by calculation from the selected automatic stop position P4, in particular by adding or subtracting a value, for example a representative angular value or time value. of a displacement of the winding tube 8 or the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4, from the entry position P5 in the approach zone ZA to the automatic stop position P4 selected.
• This value may, for example, be 3/8 of a turn of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 or of the winding tube 8 for an approach zone ZA associated with a predefined intermediate stop position P4. .
• the extent of the approach zone ZA may, for example, be such that the entry position P5 and the position in which the rotational reference value of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 is decreased in a docking area is separated by 1/8 turn of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 or winding tube 8.
• This fourth step 130 is optional at this location. Indeed, this step of defining the approach zone ZA could be implemented before the first, second and third steps 100, 1 10, 120 mentioned above. In particular, this fourth step 130 could be implemented just after the definition of the end positions P1, P2 and / or the intermediate position P4, in particular following the installation and / or configuration of the device. In this sense, there may be as many entry positions P5 in approach zone ZA, and as many approach zones ZA, as there are automatic stop positions P4.
• a fifth step 140 the motorized drive device 2 compares the relative positions of the current position P3 and the input position P5 in the approach zone ZA. If the current position P3 is upstream of the entry position P5 in the approach zone ZA (in the direction of movement of the screen 3 defined by the order received at the first step 100), or upstream of the P5 entry position in approach zone ZA, as shown in Figure 3, then the process proceeds to a sixth step 150. If the current position P3 is in the approach zone ZA (in the direction of movement of the screen 3 defined by the order received in the first step 100), or between the input position P5 in the approach zone ZA and the selected automatic stop position P4, as represented in FIG. motorized drive 2 proceeds to a seventh step 1 60.
• the screen 3 is moved according to the first rotation speed setpoint V1 of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4.
• the value of this first rotation speed setpoint V1 is, for example , between 12 revolutions per minute and 17 revolutions per minute. It is worth, for example, 15 revolutions per minute.
• the rotational speed of the output shaft 421 of the actuator electromechanical 4 then evolves between the current positions P3 and automatic stop P4, as shown in Figure 3.
• the profile is decomposed into an acceleration phase, a constant speed phase defined by the first rotation speed setpoint V1 and a deceleration phase.
• the characteristics of the acceleration phase and / or the deceleration phase are preferably not controlled, or in other words unregulated, that is to say in an open servocontrol loop. They result preferably from the mechanical characteristics of the electromechanical actuator 4, the screen 3 and the transmission chain.
• the first and second set of rotational speed V1 and V2 can be respectively in ranges of values ranging from 12 to 17 revolutions per minute and ranging from 6 to 10 revolutions per minute.
• the screen 3 is moved according to a second rotation speed setpoint V2 of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4.
• the value of this second rotation speed setpoint V2 is, for example, example, between 6 revolutions per minute and 10 revolutions per minute. It is worth, for example, 8 revolutions per minute.
• the rotational speed of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 then changes between the current positions P3 and automatic stop P4, as shown in FIG. 4.
• the profile is decomposed into an acceleration phase, a constant speed phase defined by the second rotation speed setpoint V2 and a deceleration phase.
• the characteristics of the acceleration phase and / or the deceleration phase are preferably not controlled, or in other words unregulated, that is to say in an open servocontrol loop. They result, preferably, mechanical characteristics of the electromechanical actuator 4, the screen 3 and the transmission chain.
• the control unit 5 controls the electric motor 41 of the electromechanical actuator 4 according to the first or the second rotation speed setpoint V1, V2, so as to attempt to reach them. . Nevertheless, these first and second setpoints of rotation speed V1, V2 may not be reached depending on the load exerted on the electric motor 41.
• the position of the screen 3 corresponds to a position of the winding tube 8 or to a position of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4. Two positions of the winding tube are considered. 8 or the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 spaced by an angle of 360 ° about the axis of rotation of the winding tube 8 or the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 as two distinct positions of the screen 3.
• any given position of the screen 3 corresponds to a single position of the winding tube 8 or to a single position of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4.
• the selected automatic stopping position P4 is a travel stop of the screen 3 or an intermediate position
• the input position P5 in the approach zone ZA is upstream of the automatic stopping position selected P4, following the direction of movement of the screen 3 defined by the order received in the first step 100.
• the input position P5 in the approach zone ZA can be upstream of a position deceleration of the screen 3, according to the direction of movement of the screen 3, when docking the screen 3 to the selected automatic stop position P4 from the first speed reference V1.
• the approach zone ZA located upstream of the automatic stop position P4 is also located upstream of the docking zone defined from the deceleration position of the screen 3, according to the direction of movement of the 3.
• a deceleration profile of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 is implemented.
• This deceleration profile of the output shaft 421 of the actuator electromechanical 4 may comprise a linear deceleration slope or a slope cut into one or more rotational speed bearings.
• This deceleration profile may, preferably, define the rotation speed setpoint V1 in the docking zone.
• the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 is controlled at the first rotation speed setpoint V1 to the deceleration position, then the speed setpoint is decreased according to a docking speed profile as explained previously until the stopping position is reached.
• the deceleration position defined as the position where the rotational speed reference starts to be decreased from the value V1, can be fixed in the case where the stop position is a high end position.
• the deceleration position may be identical in value to that of the upper end position, when the upper limit stop position is not defined, in particular, during installation.
• the deceleration position may be different in value when the two end stop positions are defined. In this case, for the stop position corresponding to the low end position, the value of the deceleration position can be adjusted according to a user parameter.
• the method can be implemented in both directions of movement of the screen 3. It can be applied with the same parameters (reference speeds of rotation, extent of the approach zone, ...) in both directions. It can, however, also be applied with different parameters in both directions.
• the value of the first rotation speed setpoint V1 and / or the value of the second rotation speed setpoint V2 can be selected from a range of predefined values, following the selection of an operating mode of the driving device.
• motorized 2 either by the user, in particular, by means of the remote control 6 or the central control unit 9, or by the control unit 5 as a function of the reception of a signal emitted by one of the automation elements.
• the value of the first rotation speed setpoint V1 and / or the value of the second rotation speed setpoint V2 can be selected according to a so-called silence operating mode, used especially at night, in which at least one of the rotational speed setpoints V1, V2 of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 is reduced relative to the associated nominal rotational speed value V1, V2.
• the selection of the reduced rotation speed reference V1, V2 is carried out among the range of predefined values of the associated rotational speed command V1, V2.
• the value of the first rotation speed setpoint V1 and / or the value of the second rotation speed setpoint V2 can be selected according to a so-called fast operating mode, in which at least one rotational speed setpoints V1, V2 of the output shaft 421 of the electromechanical actuator 4 is a maximum rotational speed reference with respect to the associated nominal rotational speed value V1, V2.
• the selection of the maximum rotational speed reference V1, V2 is carried out among the range of predefined values of the associated speed setpoint V1, V2.

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