Automatic door lock

• US 4,580,365 A
• Filed: 11/28/1983
• Issued: 04/08/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 11/28/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Dorma-Baubeschlag GmbH & Company KG 5828 Ennepetal 14
• Original Assignee: Dorma-Baubeschlag GmbH & Company KG
• Inventors: Sieg, Giselher
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/555,693
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: 49/333, 49/334, 49/335, 49/336, 49/137, 16/49, 16/66, 16/58, 16/62, 16/69, 16/64
• US Class Current: 49/336
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/619 using flexible or rigid rack-and-pinion arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/622 using screw-and-nut mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/63 operated by swinging arms
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 3/102 with rack-and-pinion transmission between driving shaft and piston within the closer housing
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 3/224 for assisting in opening the wing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/41 for closing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/434 Electromotors; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/702 Spindles; Worms
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/722 Racks
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2600/13 by motors, magnets, springs, weights
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2600/20 characterised by the movement transmission
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/113 Power assistance
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/25 Emergency conditions
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors

Abstract

In a door lock comprised of an elongated housing in which a piston loaded with a spring is displaceable in two opposite axial directions, a rotatable locking shaft connected to the door wing and provided with a pinion engaged with a rack formed on that piston, the spring is prestressed in the direction of the closing of the door. The spring acts on a displaceable supporting member which displaces the piston in the housing of the lock. An electromotor actuated by a control unit is operated to displace the supporting member.

Claims

1. In an automatic door lock for opening and closing a door wing, comprising a housing having an elongated cylindrical portion formed with a cylindrical bore, a hydraulic piston-cylinder unit including a piston displaceable in said bore, a rotatable locking shaft connected to the door wing and cooperating with said piston and rotatable upon displacing of said piston in said bore to effect a movement of the door wing to a closed postion and to an opened position;

spring means disposed in said bore and operative for loading said piston and said locking shaft in the direction of closing the door wing, said piston-cylinder unit having a pressure chamber, said housing being formed with a pressure medium return passage;

throttle means in said return passage;

a check valve opening into said pressure chamber, said pressure chamber of the piston-cylinder unit being connected at one side thereof with said return passage via said throttle means and at another side thereof with said check valve;

the improvement comprising a movable supporting member interconnected immediately between said piston and said spring means; and

an external energy source, said supporting member being controllably driven by the external energy source in the direction of prestressing of said spring means in dependence upon operation of the door wing.

2. The door lock as defined in claim 1, further including an electronic control unit and an electromotor electrically connected to said unit and operative for driving said supporting member, the movement of said supporting member being controlled by said control unit upon the operation of the door wing.

3. The door lock as defined in claim 2, further including a signal coil system electrically connected to said control unit for generating control signals transmitted to said control unit, said signal coil system being operatively connected to a pressure space located in said housing before said piston and being operative under underpressure.

4. The door lock as defined in claim 3, wherein said supporting member is formed as a threaded nut loaded by said spring means to displace said piston.

5. The door lock as defined in claim 4, further including an elongated spindle having a thread thereon and mounted in said bore of said housing portion, said threaded nut surrounding said spindle and being guided in said bore unrotationally, said spindle extending through said spring means and being rotatably but axially stationarily supported in said housing portion within said bore.

6. The door lock as defined in claim 5, wherein said housing portion is formed with an elongated guide groove in the region of said bore for guiding said threaded nut in the movement thereof in said bore.

7. The door lock as defined in claim 6, further including a transmission unit having a brake operatively connected to said control unit, said transmission unit being interconnected between said electromotor and said spindle for rotating the latter.

8. The door lock as defined in claim 3, wherein said supporting member is formed as a pressure disc loaded by said spring means to displace said piston.

9. The door lock as defined in claim 8, further including an elongated piston rod rigidly connected to said pressure disc at one end thereof and extended through said spring means, said piston rod being axially displaceable in said bore of said housing portion.

10. The door lock as defined in claim 9, further including a clamping piston rigidly connected to said piston rod at an end thereof opposite to said one end.

11. The door lock as defined in claim 10, further including an extension cylinder separated from said piston-cylinder unit and having a pressure medium chamber in which said clamping piston is displaceably located.

12. The door lock as defined in claim 11, further including a pump and a control valve connected to said pump, said pump being connected to and being operable by said electromotor, said control valve being connected to said pressure medium chamber and being actuated by said control unit so as to control a flow of the pressure medium to and from said pressure medium chamber for displacing said clamping piston within said pressure medium chamber.

13. The door lock as defined in claim 3, wherein said piston includes a rack and said locking shaft includes a pinion engaged with said rack.