Electrically Adjustable Piece of Furniture and Method of Diagnosing an Operating State for an Electrically Adjustable Piece of Furniture

• US 20100176958A1
• Filed: 04/04/2008
• Published: 07/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Logicdata Electronic & Software Entwicklungs Gmbh
• Original Assignee: Logicdata Electronic & Software Entwicklungs Gmbh
• Inventors: Koch, Walter
• Application Number:
  US12/594,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20100176958A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/635
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2203/72 for collision prevention
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/018 Control or drive mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/24092 Warning display lights, lamps, leds on module

Abstract

An electrically adjustable piece of furniture includes an adjusting device that includes at least one electrical drive, at least one control unit for activating the drive and at least one input device. A detection device detects at least one operating state of the adjusting device. A display device is arranged on the control unit and serves to indicate the operating state.

Claims

1. An electrically adjustable piece of furniture, comprising:

an adjusting device that comprises at least one electrical drive, at least one control unit for activating the drive, and at least one input device,

a detection device for detecting at least one operating state of the adjusting device; and

a display device arranged on the at least one control unit and serving to indicate the at least one operating state;

the display device including light-emitting diodes, each light-emitting diode indicating a different operating state.

2. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein the detection device is configured to indicate different operating states in different ways by means of the display device.

3. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein the detection device is part of the at least one control unit.

4. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein the display device is integrated into the at least one control unit.

6. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein one light-emitting diode is assigned to each functional unit of the adjusting device.

7. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein one light-emitting diode each is assigned to several functional units of the adjusting device and a group of several of the light-emitting diodes is assigned to a further functional unit.

8. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the light-emitting diodes in the at least one control unit is assigned locally to an element of a functional unit.

9. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein the display device further comprises an LCD display respectively indicating a different operating state by a different display illustration.

10. The electrically adjustable piece of furniture according to claim 1, wherein the detection device comprises a memory for storing at least target data and a comparison device for comparing the target data with operating state data.

5. (canceled)

11. A method of diagnosing an operating state for an electrically adjustable piece of furniture, the method comprising:

indicating at least one operating state by means of a display device,

detecting operating state data of an adjusting device for the adjustable piece of furniture,

comparing the operating state data with target data,

indicating a change in the at least one operating state when there is a predefined deviation criterion of the operating state data with respect to the target data, and

wherein, for a plurality of functional units of the adjusting device, an individual operating state signal is generated which controls a light-emitting diode associated with the at least one operating state.

12. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 11, wherein one light-emitting diode is associated with each of the plurality of functional units of the adjusting device.

14. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 11, wherein the adjusting device comprises at least one electrical drive, at least one control unit for activating the drive, and at least one input device.

15. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 14, wherein the electrically adjustable piece of furniture comprises:

the adjusting device;

the display device; and

a detection device for detecting the operating state data of the adjusting device.

16. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 15, wherein the display device is arranged on the at least one control unit.

17. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 16, wherein the display device includes light-emitting diodes.

18. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 16, wherein the display device is integrated into the at least one control unit.

19. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 11, wherein one light-emitting diode each is assigned to several functional units of the adjusting device and a group of several light-emitting diodes is assigned to a further functional unit.

20. The method of diagnosing an operating state according to claim 11, wherein at least one light-emitting diode in the at least one control unit is assigned locally to an element of a functional unit.

13. (canceled)