Accessory for a garage door opener

• US 4,064,404 A
• Filed: 04/19/1976
• Issued: 12/20/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc. (The Chamberlain Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Chamberlain Manufacturing Corporation (General Dynamics Corporation)
• Inventors: Willmott, Colin Barns, Stifle, James D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hohauser, Herman J.
• Application Number:
  US05/678,066
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 361/191, 361/205, 307/252 B, 307/311, 307/293, 307/141, 307/141.4, 307/141.8, 315/360
• US Class Current: 307/141.4
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/106 Lighting
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/18 Modifications for indicating state of switch
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/292 in thyristor, unijunction transistor or programmable unijunction transistor switches

Abstract

An accessory for a garage door opener which includes a circuit which is energized when the garage door operator is actuated and which can be used to energize a power circuit as, for example, a lamp so as to provide illumination upon energization of the garage door operator. The lamp automatically turns off after a pre-set time and can also be manually controlled by an on-off switch.

Claims

1. An accessory circuit for a garage door opener comprising:

a high voltage power supply,

a load,

a triac switch connected in series with said load to said high voltage power supply,

a gate signal circuit connected to the gate of said triac switch,

a low voltage AC power supply,

an actuating switch connected to said low voltage power supply,

an oscillator-timer connected to said low voltage power supply and reset when said actuating switch is closed,

an output of said oscillator-timer connected to said gate signal circuit,

including a diode bridge rectifier connected between said low voltage power supply and said oscillator-timer, including a resistor and capacitor connected to said oscillator-timer circuit to control its timing cycle, and including a voltage regulator connected between said diode bridge rectifier and said oscillator-timer.

2. An accessory circuit according to claim 1 wherein said resistor is variable.

3. An accessory circuit according to claim 1 wherein said gate signal circuit comprises a light emitting diode and a light detector.

4. An accessory circuit according to claim 1 including a second resistor connected between said gate of said triac and one side of said high voltage power supply.

5. An accessory circuit according to claim 1 including a third resistor and a second capacitor connected across said triac.

6. An accessory circuit according to claim 1 including a three position switch connected to said load, said triac and said high voltage power supply and moveable to automatic position wherein said triac is in the high voltage power supply, to off position wherein said high voltage power supply is disconnected from said load and said triac, and to on position wherein said load is connected to said high voltage power supply.