Electronic Deadbolt Lock

• US 20150114055A1
• Filed: 01/06/2015
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC (Allegion PLC)
• Original Assignee: Schlage Lock Company LLC (Allegion PLC)
• Inventors: Frolov, George, Walsh, John E., Bogdanov, Victor, Levesque, Alfred S., Miller, Kevin D., Shilonie, Don, O'Day, Adam
• Granted Patent: US 9,803,394 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 70/266
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0016 with linearly reciprocating motion
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2047/0026 Clutches, couplings or braking arrangements
• 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: E05B 47/0001 with electric actuators; Constructional features thereof for vehicles E05B81/04
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0012 with rotary electromotors actuators with rotary electromotors per se H02K7/06, H02K23/68
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0692 with a rectilinearly moveable coupling element
• CPC Class Codes: E05C 1/02 without latching action
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/00174 Electronically operated locks; Circuits therefor; Nonmechanical keys therefor, e.g. passive or active electrical keys or other data carriers without mechanical keys mechanical locks with electric permutation E05B49/00; arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5823 Coaxial clutch connection
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/70 Operating mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7102 And details of blocking system [e.g., linkage, latch, pawl, spring]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7107 And alternately mechanically actuated by a key, dial, etc.

Abstract

A deadbolt lock assembly comprising a retractable and extendable deadbolt, a housing, an outside member movably mounted on the housing, the member being normally disconnected from the deadbolt, and an operator input device on the housing, the device connecting the member to the deadbolt in response to presentation of an appropriate credential, such that a force applied to the member by the operator is mechanically transmitted to the deadbolt to move the deadbolt.

Claims

1. A deadbolt lock assembly comprising

a retractable and extendable deadbolt,

a housing,

an outside member movably mounted on the housing, the member being normally disconnected from the deadbolt, and

an operator input device on the housing, the device connecting the member to the deadbolt in response to presentation of an appropriate credential, such that a force applied to the member by the operator is mechanically transmitted to the deadbolt to move the deadbolt.

2. A deadbolt lock assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein the input device includes a code entry device.

3. A deadbolt lock assembly as set forth in claim 2 wherein the code entry device is a keypad, and wherein the input device also includes a mechanism for connecting the member to the deadbolt in response to entry of a predetermined code on the keypad.

4. A deadbolt lock assembly as set forth in claim 1 wherein the member is a turnpiece pivotally mounted on the housing.

5. A deadbolt lock assembly as set forth in claim 4 and further comprising a driver bar pivotally mounted on the housing and operably connected to the deadbolt, and wherein the input device connects the turnpiece to the driver bar such that the driver bar pivots with the turnpiece.

6. A deadbolt lock assembly comprising

a retractable and extendable deadbolt,

a housing,

a credential reading device on the housing,

an outside turnpiece pivotally mounted on the housing, the turnpiece being normally disconnected from the deadbolt, and

a mechanism operable to connect the turnpiece to the deadbolt so that an operator can turn the turnpiece to move the deadbolt, the mechanism connecting the turnpiece to the deadbolt when an operator presents an appropriate credential to the credential reading device.

7-34. -34. (canceled)