Method and system of controlling a door drive

• US 20090113797A1
• Filed: 10/03/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Marantec Antriebs-Und
• Original Assignee: Marantec Antriebs-Und
• Inventors: Hoermann, Michael
• Application Number:
  US12/286,937
• Publication Number:
  US 20090113797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 49/26
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/46 responsive to changes in electrical capacitance
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/73 responsive to movement or presence of persons or objects
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/00 Application of doors, windows, wings or fittings thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/106 for garages
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/88 for limiting unrolling
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/37418 By capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/43202 If collision danger, speed is low, slow motion
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/45242 Door, panel, window operation, opening, closing
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/955 using a capacitive detector

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of controlling a door drive, in particular of a roller door, wherein a capacitive sensor is used for the automatic recognition of obstructions in the region of the door closing path, wherein the recognition of obstructions on the closing of the door takes place by a comparison of the then current change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable with a reference value or a reference curve.

The invention furthermore includes a corresponding system of controlling a door drive.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a door drive, in particular of a roller door, wherein

a capacitive sensor is used for the automatic recognition of obstructions in the region of the door closing path of the door, and

the recognition of obstructions on the closing of the door takes place by a comparison of the then current change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable with a reference value or with a reference curve.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the capacitive sensor has a sensor surface arranged at the door leaf whose capacity to the ground is detected.

3. A method in accordance with claim either of claim 1, wherein the change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to the variable on a non-obstructed closing of the door is detected and stored for the generation of a reference curve.

4. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the variable depends on the time and/or on the travel path of the door.

5. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the derivation of the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable, in particular to the time or the travel path of the door, is used for the recognition of obstructions.

6. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the second derivation of the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable, in particular to the time or the travel path of the door, is used for the recognition of obstructions.

7. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein an exceeding signal is generated when the then current value of the change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable leaves a tolerance range.

8. A method in accordance with claim 7, the door drive is stopped, traveled back or continued more slowly on the basis of an exceeding signal.

9. A method in accordance with claim 7, wherein the door drive is first traveled back a specific distance and then moves the door in the closing direction again.

10. A method in accordance with claim 9, wherein the repeat closing takes place more slowly than the prior closing and/or the door drive stands still for a specific time between the traveling back and the repeat closing.

11. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable then currently detected during the operation is used for the updating of the reference value or of the reference curve.

12. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the door is closed by a fast motion or of a slow motion, in dependence on the comparison of the then current change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable with a reference value or a reference curve.

13. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the detection of the change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable takes place from a height mark.

14. A method in accordance with claim 16, wherein the height mark is set by a mechanical, optical or inductive limit value contact or it is derived from the data flow generated by the drive unit.

15. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the capacitive sensor has a sensor surface which extends along the total lower edge of the door leaf.

16. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein the capacitive sensor has a sensor surface which is embedded in a sealing lip at the lower edge of the door.

17. A system of controlling a door drive, in particular of a roller door, for the automatic recognition of obstructions in the region of the door closing path of the door having a capacitive sensor and an evaluation unit which detects and evaluates the capacity of the sensor, wherein the evaluation unit calculates the then current change in the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable for the recognition of obstructions on the closing of the door and compares it with a reference value or a reference curve.

18. A system in accordance with claim 17, wherein the capacitive sensor has a sensor surface which is arranged at the door leaf and whose capacity to the ground is detected.

19. A system in accordance with claim 17, wherein the capacitive sensor has a sensor surface which extends along the total lower edge of the door leaf.

20. A system in accordance with claim 17, wherein the capacitive sensor has a sensor surface which is embedded in a sealing lip at the lower edge of the door.

21. A system in accordance with claim 17, comprising a memory in which a reference value or a reference curve is stored which is determined from a change of the capacity of the capacitive sensor with respect to a variable calculated by the evaluation unit.

22. (canceled)