Noise-Reduced Motor-Driven Vertical Blind

• US 20080078509A1
• Filed: 10/03/2006
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bin Terng Enterprise Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Bin Terng Enterprise Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: YEH, Wei-Cheng
• Application Number:
  US11/538,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20080078509A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 160/168.1P
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/36 with vertical lamellae ; Supporting rails therefor

Abstract

A motor-driven vertical blind is provided with a restricting device disposed on the transmission shaft and a control device disposed on the transmission device. When curtain pieces held by the slide base move, the transmission device is in control of the swing angles: the transmission shaft will be blocked by the restricting device, whenever the output current of the motor increases above a normal range. Meanwhile, when the control device detects an overloading current, an “off” signal to stop the operation is transmitted to the motor.

Claims

1. A motor-driven vertical blind comprising:

a top rail defining a interior recess, having a channel on said recess for said recess to communicate with the outside;

two guide members adjacently disposed and sliding in said recess;

each said guide member having a guide hole with a guide block protruding from the side wall of said guide hole, and a guide groove with a wing rib protruding therefrom;

a plurality of slide sets disposed on both sides of said two guide members, wherein each said slide set having a slide base sliding in said recess and a curtain piece mounted on said slide base, said slide base disposed side by side, each said slide base comprises a base body, a rotation shaft pivotally coupled to said base body and connected to said curtain piece, a driving shaft pivotally coupled to said base body and connected to said rotation shaft, and a fastening block protruding from said base body, wherein a plurality of racks protruding from said rotation shaft, and in between any two racks recesses with a groove and the blocking wall is defined the partial grooves, said driving shaft is composed of a hollow shaped inactive member and an active member which pivotally coupled to each other;

a vortex sheet surrounding the outer periphery of said inactive member and a plurality of clasping blocks protruding from said inactive member, a plurality of obstructing blocks disposed on said active member corresponding to said clasping block;

a plurality of connection members and protruding blocks protruding from both side edges of every said connection member;

a transmission device, comprising a thread shank and a transmission shaft disposed in said recess, a first and a second gear connected to both said thread shank and said transmission shaft, and a motor driving said first gear and said second gear;

a control device having a driving circuit electrically connected to said motor, a controller electrically connected to said driving circuit, a current limiting circuit disposed between said driving circuit and an external power, and a detection circuit electrically connected to both said current limiting circuit and said controller; and

a limiting device disposed on said transmission shaft to make said transmission shaft to stop in operation.

2. The motor-driven vertical blind as claimed in claim 1, wherein said limiting device comprises a position block penetrated by said transmission shaft, a locking block penetrated by said transmission shaft and fastened to said position block, and a slider disposed between said position block and said locking block, wherein said position block has a penetrated opening for said transmission shaft to penetrate through, said position is fixed to said transmission shaft, one end of said position block forms a blocking portion, said slider has an internal screw thread for screwing screw threads of said position block for said slider to slide between said blocking portion and said locking block.

3. The motor-driven vertical blind as claimed in claim 1, wherein said limiting device has a slide base sliding in said recess, and a curtain piece mounted on said slide base, wherein said slide base having a base body, a rotation shaft pivotally coupled to said base body and connected to said curtain piece, a fastening block protruding from said base body, wherein a plurality of racks protrude from said rotation shaft, in between any two racks recesses with a groove and the blocking walls is defined the partial grooves, and the vortex sheet surrounds the outer periphery of said driving shaft for restricting the operation of said driving shaft by engaging with said blocking wall.