Door Comprising an Identification Unit and an Electrical Lock and Door Body For Use In Such a Door

• US 20080222963A1
• Filed: 03/31/2006
• Published: 09/18/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sios Concepts B.V.
• Original Assignee: Sios Concepts B.V.
• Inventors: Zwart, Hans Nicolaas
• Application Number:
  US11/997,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222963A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/503
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0059 by transfer between frame and wing
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0061 using induction
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0094 Mechanical aspects of remotely controlled locks
• 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: E06B 2003/7046 with provisions for locks, hinges or other fittings
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2009/00634 Power supply for the lock
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00904 for hotels, motels, office buildings or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00944 Details of construction or manufacture
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7062 Electrical type [e.g., solenoid]

Abstract

A door comprises an identification unit for the identifying of a person or object situated in the vicinity of the door The identification unit provides an unlocking signal when an identification of the person or the object satisfies a predetermined criterion. The door also comprises an electrical lock for the unlocking of the door in response to the unlocking signal. The identification unit and the electrical lock are built into the door, according to the invention, for example, in the form of an insert unit that can be arranged in a cavity of the door from an end side of the door. The door can furthermore contain a communication unit for the sending and receiving of messages and a power supply unit for energizing the identification unit, the electrical lock, and the communication unit. By placing the above-mentioned components in the door, a considerable reduction in installation time can be achieved, since the laying of wiring in the vicinity of the door can be omitted to a substantial degree.

Claims

1. Door, comprising:

an identification unit for the identifying of a person or object situated in the vicinity of the door and the creating of an unlocking signal when an identification of the person or the object satisfies a predetermined criterion; and

an electrical lock for the unlocking of the door in response to the unlocking signal,

wherein the identification unit and the electrical lock are built into the door,

wherein the door has a cavity which is open toward one end side, and

wherein an insert unit containing at least one of the identification unit, the electrical lock, the power supply unit, and a communication unit is arranged in the cavity, while the door has at least one additional cavity, in which is arranged another insert unit containing at least one of the identification unit, the electrical lock, the power supply unit and the communication unit, while the cavity is made in one end side away from the hinge of the door, and the other cavity is made in an end side of the door facing the hinge.

2. Door according to claim 1, further comprising cable lead-through extending from the cavity to the additional cavity.

3. Door according to claim 1, wherein the door has a channel that emerges at one end into the cavity and at the other end it emerges at an end face of the door.

4. Door according to claim 3, wherein the channel for a portion of its length is at least partly encased by a material that expands upon rise in the temperature.

5. Door according to claim 4, wherein the portion of the length is located near the end of the channel that emerges at the end face of the door.

6. Door according to claim 3, wherein the end of the channel that emerges at the end face of the door is located at the top of the door.

7. Door according to claim 1, wherein the insert unit is provided with a cooling profile at its side that is facing the end face of the door in the installed condition.

8. Door according to claim 1, wherein the insert unit is provided with a channel at one of its sides that in the installed condition is turned toward the end face of the door, emerging at both of its ends at the side which is turned toward the end face of the door in the installed condition.

9. Door according to claim 3, wherein the insert unit has a cooling body and the channel is in communication with the cooling body.

10. Door according to one of claim 3, wherein the channel for a portion of its length is at least partly encased in material that expands upon rise in temperature.

11. Door according to claim 1, containing the communication unit for sending and/or receiving of a message, wherein the communication unit is connected to at least one of the identification unit and the lock for the transmission of the message.

12. Door according to claim 11, wherein communication unit is designed to communicate by a lighting circuit.

13. Door according to claim 11, wherein the communication unit comprises a radio frequency or optical transceiver for wireless communications.

14. Door according to claim 11, wherein the communication unit has a network connection for communicating with a data network.

15. Door according to claim 1, wherein the door contains the power supply unit for the energizing of at least the identification unit and the lock.

16. Door according to claim 15, wherein the power supply unit contains an induction hinge for the no-contact supplying of electric energy to the power supply unit.

17. Door according to claim 1, wherein the insert unit comprises the electrical lock and wherein the additional insert unit comprises the power supply unit.

18. Door according to claim 1, wherein the cavity and/or the additional cavity contain conduits for leading in the insert unit from the end side of the door.

19. Door according to claim 1, wherein the cavity contains an opening to an outer surface of the door and wherein the conduit has a bend for translating the insert unit in a direction toward one surface of the door when inserting the insert unit into the cavity, for leading a portion of the insert unit into the opening.

20. Door according to claim 1, wherein the cavity has the opening toward the outer surface of the door and wherein the insert unit contains a spring-loaded piece for springing this piece into the opening when inserting the insert unit into the cavity.

21. Door according to claim 20, wherein the spring-loaded piece comprises at least a portion of the identification unit.

22. Door according to one claim 1, further comprising a pair of longitudinal elements, which are arranged in the door at a vertical side away from the hinge and at a vertical side facing the hinge, and a pair of transverse elements which join together the vertical elements by means of pieces of the transverse elements and the longitudinal elements, which are complementary in shape to each other, wherein the complementary piece of the longitudinal elements, looking in a direction of the door essentially parallel to the transverse elements, is present only along a portion of the longitudinal elements, so that an assemblage of the longitudinal elements and the transverse elements looking in the direction of the door essentially parallel to the transverse elements consists of the longitudinal elements in the outermost region.

23. Door according to claim 21, wherein space at least partly enclosed by an assemblage of the longitudinal elements and the transverse is at least partly filled with a Phenol foam.

24. Door according to claim 21, wherein an outer surface of the door comprises a panel which at least partly covers the assemblage of the longitudinal elements and the transverse elements, and the panel is lined with a high-pressure laminate on its exposed surface.

25. Door according to claim 1, wherein the door furthermore contains at least one additional electrical unit built into the door, comprising one or more of a group comprising a proximity detector, a fire detector, a smoke detector, a breath detector, a lighting unit as well as a light emitting diode LED, and a monitor screen, such as a liquid crystal display LCD or a plasma screen.

26. Door according to claim 1, wherein the identification unit comprises a biometric identification unit.

27. Door body for a door according to claim 1, further comprising a cavity which is open toward one end side for arranging therein an insert unit containing at least one of the identification unit, the electrical lock, the power supply unit, and a communication unit, while the door has at least one additional cavity for the arranging therein of an additional insert unit containing at least one of the identification unit, the electrical lock, the power supply unit and the communication unit, while the cavity is made in one end side away from the hinge of the door, and the other cavity is made in an end side of the door facing the hinge.

28. Door body according to claim 27, further comprising a cable lead-through extending from the cavity to the additional cavity, and preferably a wiring is arranged in the cable lead-through.