Portable device for controlling electrical adjustable apparatus

• US 10,334,961 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2018
• Issued: 07/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TiMOTION Technology Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: TiMOTION Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lin, Dong-Jye, Chen, Chung-Yi, Tu, Chang-Lin, Chan, Chi-Hung
• Primary Examiner(s): Elamin, Abdelmoniem I
• Application Number:
  US16/177,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20190059607A1
• Time in Patent Office: 244 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 2200/0062 Electronically user-adaptable, height-adjustable desk or table
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 9/00 Tables with tops of variable height lecterns with variable height A47B19/06; school forms or desks with variable height A47B39/02, A47B41/02; seats with variable height A47C3/20
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/041 by electric motors
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 31/008 Use of remote controls

Abstract

A portable device for controlling an external electrical adjustable apparatus is provided. The portable device has a case, a signal transmitter connected to the electrical adjustable apparatus, a tilt sensor sensing a tilted angle and a controlling operation, a memory storing a threshold angle and a processor. The processor generates a controlling signal according to the controlling operation, and transmitting the controlling signal to an electrical adjustable apparatus for making the electrical adjustable apparatus raise/lower. The processor further determines that the electrical adjustable apparatus has collision when receiving a controlling signal used to control the electrical adjustable apparatus and the tilted angle is not less than the threshold angle, and sends a stopping signal to the electrical adjustable apparatus via the signal transmitter for making the electrical adjustable apparatus stop raising/lowering when determining that the electrical adjustable apparatus has collision.

Claims

1. A portable device for controlling an external electrical adjustable apparatus, comprising:

a case;

a signal transmitter installed in the case and connected to the electrical adjustable apparatus;

a tilt sensor sensing a tilted angle and sensing a raising/lowering-controlling operation of moving or rotating the portable device;

a memory storing a threshold angle; and

a processor installed in the case and electrically connected to the signal transmitter, the tilt sensor and the memory, the processor being configured to generate a raising/lowering-controlling signal according to the raising/lowering-controlling operation, and transmitting the raising/lowering-controlling signal by the signal transmitter to the external electrical adjustable apparatus for making the external electrical adjustable apparatus raise/lower according to the raising/lowering-controlling signal, the processor being configured to determine that a carrying structure of the electrical adjustable apparatus has collision when receiving any raising/lowering-controlling signal used to control the electrical adjustable apparatus and the tilted angle is not less than the threshold angle, and sending a stopping signal to the electrical adjustable apparatus via the signal transmitter for making the electrical adjustable apparatus stop raising/lowering the carrying structure.

2. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the threshold angle is 0.3 degrees.

3. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the signal transmitter is Bluetooth transmitter, Wi-Fi transmitter or ZigBee transmitter.

4. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tilt sensor is gyroscope or accelerometer.

5. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portable device further comprises a human-machine interface electrically connected to the processor, the human-machine interface is used to receive operation and trigger the raising/lowering-controlling signal.

6. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the processor generates the raising/lowering-controlling signal after the human-machine interface receives a control-preceding operation and the tilt sensor receives the raising/lowering-controlling operation.

7. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the control-preceding operation is an operation of pressing a designated button of the human-machine interface, an operation of touching a designated position of a touchscreen of human-machine interface down, inputting a password by the human-machine interface, unlocking a screen lock of the portable device or moving the portable device in a designated way.

8. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the portable device further comprises a standby unit installed in the case and electrically connected to the human-machine interface and the processor, the standby unit forwards the raising/lowering-controlling signal received from the human-machine interface to the processor, and keeps a path between the human-machine interface and the processor conductive for a standby time when failing to receive the raising/lowering-controlling signal.

9. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the standby unit is optical coupler.

10. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the portable device is smart glasses, smart watch, tablet, smart wristband or smart ring.

11. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor generates the raising/lowering-controlling signal used to control the electrical adjustable apparatus to raise if the tilt sensor senses the raising/lowering-controlling operation of horizontally moving the portable device in a first horizontal moving direction.

12. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the processor generates the raising/lowering-controlling signal used to control the electrical adjustable apparatus to lower if the tilt sensor senses the raising/lowering-controlling operation of horizontally moving the portable device in a second horizontal moving direction being opposite to the first horizontal moving direction.

13. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor generates the raising/lowering-controlling signal used to control the electrical adjustable apparatus to increase a stretching/shortening speed if the tilt sensor senses the raising/lowering-controlling operation of horizontally rotating the portable device in a first horizontal rotating direction.

14. The portable device for controlling the external electrical adjustable apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the processor generates the raising/lowering-controlling signal used to control the electrical adjustable apparatus to reduce the stretching/shortening speed if the tilt sensor senses the raising/lowering-controlling operation of horizontally rotating the portable device in a second horizontal rotating direction being opposite to the first horizontal rotating direction.