Electronic deadbolt lock

• US 10,174,524 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2017
• Issued: 01/08/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC (Allegion PLC)
• Original Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC (Allegion PLC)
• Inventors: Frolov, George, Walsh, John E., Bogdanov, Victor, Levesque, Alfred S., Miller, Kevin D., Shilonie, Don, O'Day, Adam
• Primary Examiner(s): Boswell, Christopher J
• Application Number:
  US15/799,020
• Publication Number:
  US 20180128017A1
• Time in Patent Office: 434 Days
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0016 with linearly reciprocating motion
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0026 Clutches, couplings or braking arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/00 Operating or controlling locks or other fastening devices by electric or magnetic means electric permutation locks E05B49/00
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0001 with electric actuators; Constructional features thereof for vehicles E05B81/04
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0012 with rotary electromotors actuators with rotary electromotors per se H02K7/06, H02K23/68
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0692 with a rectilinearly moveable coupling element
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 1/02 without latching action
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00174 Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5823 Coaxial clutch connection
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/70 Operating mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7102 And details of blocking system [e.g., linkage, latch, pawl, spring]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7107 And alternately mechanically actuated by a key, dial, etc.

Abstract

A deadbolt lock assembly including a retractable and extendable deadbolt, a housing, an outside member movably mounted on the housing and being normally disconnected from the deadbolt, and an operator input device on the housing, with the operator input device connecting the member to the deadbolt in response to presentation of an appropriate credential, such that a force applied to the member by the operator is mechanically transmitted to the deadbolt to move the deadbolt.

Claims

1. A lock system, comprising:

a housing configured for mounting to a door;

a manually operable member mounted for rotation relative to the housing;

a driver mounted for rotation relative to the housing;

an adapter mounted for joint rotation with one of the manually operable member or the driver, the adapter including a plurality of notches;

a clutching cam mounted for joint rotation with the other of the manually operable member or the driver;

a pin movably mounted to the clutching cam, the pin having a disengaged position in which the pin does not rotationally couple the clutching cam and the adapter, and the pin having an engaged position in which the pin extends into one of the notches and rotationally couples the clutching cam and the adapter, wherein the pin is biased toward the disengaged position;

a wall including an arcuate cam surface, the wall having a first position in which the arcuate cam surface supports the pin in the disengaged position, the wall having a second position in which the arcuate cam surface retains the pin in the engaged position, thereby rotationally coupling the adapter and the clutching cam;

a coil spring engaged with the wall such that rotation of the coil spring in a first direction urges the wall from the first position toward the second position and such that rotation of the coil spring in a second direction urges the wall from the second position toward the first position; and

a motor mounted in the housing, the motor including an output shaft drivingly connected to the coil spring;

wherein the motor is configured to rotate the coil spring in the first direction in response to receiving a first signal, thereby urging the wall toward the second position such that the wall urges the pin toward the engaged position in which the pin extends into one of the notches and rotationally couples the clutching cam and the adapter, thereby rotationally coupling the manually operable member and the driver; and

wherein the motor is configured to rotate the coil spring in the second direction in response to receiving a second signal, thereby urging the wall toward the first position such that the wall supports the pin in the disengaged position, thereby permitting relative rotation of the adapter and the clutching cam, thereby permitting relative rotation of the manually operable member and the driver.

2. The lock system of claim 1, further comprising circuitry in electrical communication with the motor and a power source, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit the first signal in response to a proper credential being provided to a credential reading device.

3. The lock system of claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to transmit the second signal a predetermined amount of time after transmitting the first signal.

4. The lock system of claim 2, wherein the credential reading device is mounted to the housing.

5. The lock system of claim 4, wherein the credential reading device comprises a code entry device.

6. The lock system of claim 2, further comprising a controller, wherein the controller comprises the circuitry.

7. The lock system of claim 2, further comprising an onboard power source, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit at least one of the first signal and the second signal using power from the onboard power source.

8. The lock system of claim 1, wherein the adapter is mounted for joint rotation with manually operable member, and wherein the clutching cam is mounted for joint rotation with the driver.

9. The lock system of claim 8, wherein the bolt comprises a deadbolt, and wherein the manually operable member comprises a thumbturn.

10. A lock system, comprising:

a housing;

a bolt mounted for movement relative to the housing between an extended position and a retracted position;

an operating member mounted for rotation relative to the housing, the operating member being normally disconnected from the bolt;

a clutch assembly operable to selectively connect the operating member to the bolt, the clutch assembly having a disconnecting state in which the operating member remains disconnected from the bolt, and the clutch assembly having a connecting state in which the operating member is connected to the bolt such that a force applied to the outside member by an operator is mechanically transmitted to the bolt to move the bolt from the extended position to the retracted position; and

a motor operable to move the clutch assembly between the disconnecting state and the connecting state, wherein the motor is configured to move the clutch assembly to the connecting state in response to a first signal, and wherein the motor is configured to move the clutch assembly to the disconnecting state in response to a second signal;

wherein with the operating member disconnected from the deadbolt, the operating member has a plurality of rotational positions in which the clutch assembly operable to connect the member to the bolt.

11. The lock system of claim 10, further comprising circuitry mounted in the housing and in communication with the motor, wherein the circuitry is configured to transmit the first signal in response to a first condition, and to transmit the second signal in response to a second condition.

12. The lock system of claim 11, further comprising a credential reading device in communication with the circuitry, wherein the first condition comprises an appropriate credential being presented to the credential reading device, and wherein the second condition comprises a predetermined time delay following transmission of the first signal.

13. The lock system of claim 12, wherein the credential reading device comprises a keypad mounted on the housing.

14. The lock system of claim 10, further comprising a driver operably coupled with the bolt such that rotation of the driver moves the bolt between the extended position and the retracted position;

wherein the clutch assembly comprises an adapter rotationally coupled with the operating member, a clutching cam rotationally coupled with the driver, and a pin selectively coupling the adapter with the clutching cam;

wherein the adapter comprises a plurality of notches operable to receive a portion of the pin, each notch corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of rotational positions.

15. The lock system of claim 14, wherein the pin has an engaged position in which the portion of the pin is received in one of the notches and the pin rotationally couples the adapter and the clutching cam;

wherein the pin has a disengaged position in which the portion of the pin is not received in any of the notches and the adapter is rotatable relative to the clutching cam; and

wherein the pin is biased toward the disengaged position.

16. The lock system of claim 15, further comprising a wall having an arcuate surface, the wall having a first position in which the arcuate surface supports the pin in the disengaged position, and the wall having a second position in which the arcuate surface retains the pin in the engaged position;

wherein the motor is operable to drive the wall between the first position and the second position.

17. The lock system of claim 16, wherein the motor has an output shaft, wherein a coil spring is engaged with the output shaft and the wall, and wherein the coil spring is configured to urge the wall between the first position and the second position in response to rotation of the motor shaft.

18. The lock system of claim 17, wherein the bolt is a deadbolt, and wherein the operational member is a turnpiece.