WO2017140934A1

WO2017140934A1 - Opening control for a movable leaf

Info

Publication number: WO2017140934A1
Application number: PCT/ES2017/070084
Authority: WO
Inventors: Juan Carlos FONQUERNIE CALLE
Original assignee: Fonquernie Calle Juan Carlos
Priority date: 2016-02-18
Filing date: 2017-02-14
Publication date: 2017-08-24
Also published as: ES1152708Y; ES1152708U

Abstract

The invention relates to an opening control for a movable leaf, which is a wireless electronic device formed from a box or casing containing an electronic system that emits one or more wireless signals to a receiver of an automated system of an automatic door and causes the door or movable leaf to open. The control is actuated when the covers or faces of the box or casing are pressed or touched, or simply by the approach of a hand or an object, depending on whether the corresponding actuator is of the pressure, contact or approximation type. The design of the control allows same to be easily placed on the movable leaf of the door, either on one of the panes or panels that form same or on the profiling, if the door has this, or simply by attaching the device to one of the faces of the movable leaf.

Description

OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET

SECTOR DESCRIPTION OF THE TECHNIQUE

The OPENING KNOB FOR MOBILE SHEET is a product aimed at Sliding, swinging, automatic Pedestrian Automatic Doors, etc. Its function is to give an opening signal to the automatism at the moment that the user activates causing the door to open.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

Automatic pedestrian doors are common in airports, hotels, large areas, etc., for decades. In origin they were mainly installed in this type of premises normally for public and mass use.

The initial and most generic object of these doors was to get them to open and close automatically avoiding the user having to manipulate doors of large weights and dimensions facilitating, in turn, maintaining the interior environment of the premises or building.

Initially, to cause the door to open, large tapestries were used with contact strips inside. When stepping on it, one or more electrical contacts of the tapestry were closed, generating a pulsed signal that opened the door. When stopping stepping, once the user had crossed the door, the signal disappeared and the door closed. This system, very practical and simple for the user, and which remains an option, presents difficulties for installation (sometimes unfeasible), maintenance and durability and is also more expensive. Today the most widespread method for opening is by means of motion and presence detectors commonly called radars. When the user moves within the area covered by the detector, it generates an electrical impulse that causes the door to open. The moment the user leaves the detection zone, the signal disappears and the door closes.

At present, automatic doors have become popular and extended their use to any type of place and business being very frequent in pharmacies, fruit shops, bars, hairdressers, bakeries, clothing stores, telephony, etc. In most of these places, usually not very large and with the door quite close to the public highway or, internally, to counters, tables, exhibitors, etc., users invade the radar detection zone continuously, with no intention of Enter or exit, causing multiple unnecessary and annoying openings.

The desirable thing is that the automatism opens the door to those people who want to enter or leave the premises and who ignore people who pass by the door outside and do not want to enter as well as those inside, also nearby from the door, but they don't want to leave.

This is the problem that solves the OPENING COMMAND FOR MOBILE SHEET. The door only opens if someone, from inside or outside, interacts with it.

There are other multiple systems to initiate the opening maneuver: card readers, fingerprint readers, intercoms, remote controls, from mobile through signals transmitted by Bluetooh, Wifi, SMS, etc. These systems are for doors with restricted access to users authorized to enter and exit. They do not have problems of unnecessary openings but they are of particular use reason why they are not systems applicable to doors of public use.

Finally, there are installations with opening pushbuttons connected directly by cable to the automatism. Although, where this system is used, they also do not have the problem of unnecessary openings, the location of these push-buttons, fixed in the environment of the door and outside it, having to depend on cables for its operation, it is problematic for the user Occasionally locate them and identify them as a control element for opening the door. In fact, when this type of installation occurs, it is not unusual for the user to collide with the door or stick to it waiting for it to open by itself.

The OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET is a standard, generic and wireless solution with easy location on the door and identification by the user. EXPLANATION OF THE INVENTION

The OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET is a set consisting of a box whose front and rear covers are in turn, or contain, interior and exterior actuator, and an electronics inside that emits the respective "opening from inside" signals and "opening from outside."

The internal electronics correspond to a multichannel transmitter powered by a battery or, preferably, rechargeable battery. If the MOBILE SHEET OPENING COMMAND is a rechargeable battery, it has a power socket for charging it, as well as the electronics that regulate and control the charge, including indication of the state of charge by one or more LEDs. The container box, with different configurations and adapters for fixing, is designed to be located on the Mobile Sheet (the door itself) in a visible and comfortable place. The best place, without a doubt, is the one that occupies the handle on a conventional door. The OPENING COMMAND FOR MOBILE LEAF, in this location, provides training and regulatory effects on the user: it guides you to the best area to cross the door (where it begins to open) and forces you to stand and wait for the door to open door.

Being a wireless system (battery power and signals emitted by radiofrequency) the movement of the door is not limited by power cables or signal transmission.

When acting on the OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET, inside or outside, the electronics emits the corresponding signal, "opening from inside" and "opening from outside" respectively, to the receiver of the automatism and this opens the door.

A convenient option for charging, and that allows full use of the door during it, is to do it from a portable battery of the POWER BANK type that can be attached to the glass or panel of the Moving Sheet (door) by suction cup, sailboat or any other method of fixation without interfering with or obstructing the movement or stroke of the Moving Sheet. The design of the MOBILE SHEET OPENING KNOB is designed so that the most common installation of the same is integrated into the glass or panel of the Mobile Sheet, crossing it from side to side and not protruding from it (just 1 mm the adapter (5) ), especially on the outside of the mobile sheet, thus avoiding, in the case of "automatic sliding door", the possibility that the Mobile Sheet rubs or stops with the Fixed Sheet (or partition, or panel) after which it does its route.

In places where the problem is only in one of the directions (entry or exit) the OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET would have a configuration that is only active from the front face (the back being a fixed cover to the housing) and may interest fix it to the Mobile Sheet by attaching it superficially to the glass or panel by any system that allows this type of support (with sailboat, glued, screwed, etc.) without the need for any drilling in the glass or panel. Likewise, we can opt for this assembly for both directions of passage, with OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET active only from the front face, sticking one inside the Moving Sheet and another outside the same if it is a door of only one Mobile Sheet, or another if it were two Mobile Sheets or more, as long as, in the case of "sliding automatic door", the space between the Mobile and Fixed Sheet (or partition, or panel) after which it runs and it is hidden enough and does not rub or collide with it.

Another variant of the MOBILE SHEET OPENING KNOB, for installations where it is not desired or cannot be mounted through, and therefore inaccessible from both sides of the Moving Sheet or door, is the type of "active only from the front face" to generate one of the opening signals, normally "opening from the inside", and for the other signal, usually "opening from the outside", a push button fixed on the opposite side of the glass or Mobile Sheet panel. The optimal push button is the membrane type that sticks to the movable sheet and its conductive tracks are connected to the OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET in a connector or terminal of the same arranged for this function of "external signal". The push-button conductor (conductive tracks or wires) sticks superficially to the glass or panel of the moving leaf along a section of face where it is located up to the edge, edge and opposite section of the glass or panel to the location of the CONTROL OF OPENING FOR MOBILE SHEET to which it connects. Or, the driver of the button (tracks or conductive wires), is sent to the OPENING COMMAND FOR MOBILE SHEET through a drill, practiced to the glass or panel, through between push button and command. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Figures 1, 2 and 3 correspond to an OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET (1) for installation integrated in a Mobile Sheet, in glass or panel 10 mm thick, in a circular hole through the glass or panel of 100 mm in diameter

Figure 1 Profile

Figure 2 front or inside view of the Moving Sheet or door

Figure 3 rear or exterior view of the Moving Sheet or door In these figures you can see the different parts of the MOBILE SHEET OPENING KNOB:

2i internal push button

2e external push button

3c led indicator "charging battery"

3f led indicator "charging completed"

4 connector for battery charging

5 rings adapting to the glass or panel of the Moving Sheet Figure 4: Perspective of the OPENING KNOB FOR MOBILE SHEET

Figures 5 and 6 show an exploded view of the OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET in main body (1 p), where the electronics are located, and the adapter rings (5e and 5i) that allow a perfect fixation to the glass.

Figure 5: Adapter rings for panel or glass 10 mm thick and a circular hole 100 mm in diameter.

Figure 6: Main body of the OPENING KNOB FOR MOBILE LEAF without adapter rings Figures 7, 8, 9 and 10 correspond to the OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET integrated in a glass or sample panel 10 mm thick in the different profile views (figure 7), front (figure 8) and perspectives from the inside (figure 9) and from the outside (figure 10). The glass or sample panel would be approximately 0.5 m wide x 1 m high.

Figure 1 1 represents a sliding automatic door with 2 movable and 2 fixed blades with the MOBILE SHEET OPENING KNOB (1) integrated in the right movable leaf.

Figure 12 represents a sliding automatic door with 1 movable and 1 fixed leaf with the MOBILE SHEET OPENING KNOB (1) integrated in the movable leaf during the recharging process from an external battery (6) of the POWER BANK type attached to the own moving blade by sailboat, suction cup or other fixing method.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

The attached drawings correspond to an embodiment of the MOBILE SHEET OPENING KNOB (1) designed for a door whose mobile leaf was constituted by a glass (or panel) of 10 mm thickness and to which a circular and through hole was made. 100 mm in diameter close to the closing edge and at medium height where the OPENING KNOB FOR MOBILE SHEET is inserted and integrated as if it were part of the glass and being accessible from both sides of the moving leaf or door.

The OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET has, in this case, an electronic with 2 functions:

• 433 MHz radio control. multichannel for the emission of the "opening from inside" and "opening from outside" signals generated by pressing the corresponding push-button powered by a rechargeable battery.

• Battery charger circuit for charging and battery charge control with status indicators "charging" and "charging finished". The box or housing of the OPENING KNOB FOR MOBILE SHEET (1) would be constructed of plastic material being this circular model, of dimensions of 90 mm in diameter by 12 mm wide where the front (2i) and rear (2e) covers are, in turn, push-buttons that, when activated, emit the signal corresponding to the pulsed cover:

• Front "opening from inside"

· Rear "opening from outside"

On the front side it has a microUSB socket (4) that allows an external power supply to be connected to the MOBILE SHEET OPENING CONTROL (1) for recharging the battery. The charging process is monitored by LEDs (3c and 3f). During charging, the "charging" LED (3c) lights up in red and when charging is complete, it turns off (3c) and the "charging completed" LED (3f) turns green.

For its adjustment and fastening to the glass it has 2 adapter rings (5i and 5e) 6 mm high, 90 mm inside diameter and 100 mm outside diameter crowned, as shown in the drawing (5i and 5e of figures 1 , 2, 3 and 5), by a washer that, as a visor, protrudes 5 mm to, thus, stop and cover the edge and imperfections of the hole in the glass or panel.

Claims

OPENING COMMAND FOR MOBILE LEAF is an electronic device consisting of a box or housing and an electronics inside whose function is to emit one or more wireless signals to a receiver of an automatic door automatism and cause the opening of the mobile door or sheet , this electronic device is operated from the covers or faces of the case or housing when pressed, touched or simply approaching hand or object, depending on whether the corresponding actuator is of the pressure, contact or approximation type, characterized by:

be wireless when powered by a battery or battery and the generated signals emitted by radiofrequency, that is to say without the need for a cable connection with an external power supply or with the automatism, have a design, of varied range in materials, shape and dimensions, which It allows it to be easily located on the mobile door leaf, either on the glass or panel that conforms it, or on the profile if it has it, fixing it to the mobile leaf in

^■ glass or panel holes made specifically for the shape and dimension of the MOBILE SHEET OPENING KNOB into which it would be inserted.

^■ in mechanized holes in the profiles if it is a door framed with profiles and of sufficient dimensions.

^■ simply by attaching it to one of the faces of the movable sheet.

OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET, according to claim 1, characterized by having an electronic circuit for recharging the battery, with connector and LEDs indicating the state of charge.

OPENING CONTROL FOR MOBILE SHEET, according to claims 1 and 2, characterized by having at least one connector or terminal where to connect an external actuator to the main body (1 p) from which the corresponding opening signal would be generated when activated .

OPENING KNOB FOR MOBILE SHEET, according to claim 1, 2 and 3, characterized by having as an accessory a membrane push button to attach to the glass or panel of the Moving Sheet on the opposite side to which the main housing is fixed in order to generate the opening signal on that side of the Moving Sheet.