Automatic door with automatic lock system

• US 4,738,052 A
• Filed: 03/23/1987
• Issued: 04/19/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: YKK Corporation
• Original Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Yoshida, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Aschenbrenner, Peter A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Anderson, Gerald A.
• Application Number:
  US07/028,790
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 49/31, 49/141, 49/360, 49/347, 49/349, 49/352
• US Class Current: 49/31
• CPC Class Codes: E05D 13/1276 with coiled ribbon springs, e.g. constant force springs E05D13/1253 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/006 by emergency conditions, e.g. fire operating or controlling mechanisms for physical fire-barriers A62C2/24
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/16 for sliding wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/643 operated by flexible elongated pulling elements, e.g. belts, chains or cables by flexible elongated push-pull mechanisms E05F15/635
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/72 responsive to emergency conditions, e.g. fire
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/22 Locks
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/246 by motors, magnets, springs or weights
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/41 for closing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/434 Electromotors; Details thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/482 Ribbon springs
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/612 Batteries
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/614 charging thereof
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors

Abstract

An automatic door including a door body connected to a chain or belt extending between and wound around a drive pulley disposed on one side of a door opening and a driven pulley disposed on the other side thereof in which the door body is actuated to open and close by allowing the drive pulley to be rotated forwardly or reversely by an electric motor connected through a main switch and a controller to a main electric power supply source, comprises an apparatus for automatically moving the door body to its closing-stop point when the supply of electric power to the motor is interrupted by the OFF operation of the main switch, and a locking apparatus for automatically locking the door body in its closing-stop position at that time.

Claims

1. An automatic door which includes a door body connected to a chain or belt means extending between and wound around at least one drive pulley disposed on one side of a door opening and at least one driven pulley disposed on the other side thereof, wherein the door body is actuated to open or close by allowing the drive pulley to be rotated forwardly or reversely by means of an electric motor connected through a main switch and a controller to a main electric power supply source, characterized in that the automatic door further includes a means for automatically moving the door body to its closing-stop point when the supply of electric power to the motor is interrupted by the OFF operation of the main switch, and at least one locking means for automatically locking the door body in its closing-stop point at that time.

2. The automatic door as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said apparatus for moving the door body to its closing-stop point includes a battery;

an alternating current relay adapted to be turned on or off when the main switch is switched on or off, respectively;

an electric motor for driving the door to open or close;

a controller for use with the motor; and

a contact connected between the battery and the controller, the contact being adapted to be turned on when said alternating current relay is turned off.

3. The automatic door as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that said contact is provided in a circuit connected directly between the motor and the battery.

4. The automatic door as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said locking apparatus comprises a lock receiver mounted on the door body, and a lock body mounted on the framework of the door and adapted to be located opposite to the lock receiver when the door body is located at its closing-stop point, the arrangement being made such that the lock body is normally held at its unlocked position spaced away from said lock receiver, whilst the lock body is moved to its locked position where the lock body is engaged with the lock receiver, when the supply of power from the main power supply to the electric motor for driving the door to open or close is interrupted.

5. The automatic door as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that said lock body comprises a latch having an inclined surface formed in the leading end thereof and adapted to be moved freely in the vertical direction;

a solenoid means connected through said controller with said power supply and adapted to be energized so as to hold the latch at its upper position or unlocked position when the main power supply is switched on; and

a compression spring for moving said latch to its lower position or locked position when the supply of power from the main power supply is interrupted.

6. The automatic door as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that said lock receiver is a dog having an inclined surface adapted to be located opposite to the inclined surface formed in the leading end of said latch.

7. The automatic door as claimed in claim 2, characterized in that in case of emergency such as fire etc., when the supply of power from the main power supply is stopped while the main switch is kept on, said controller is actuated to rotate said motor forwardly by the power supplied from said battery thereby opening the door body.

8. The automatic door as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said apparatus for moving the door body to its shut position includes a coiled spring wound round the shaft of said driven pulley, and when the supply of power from the main power supply is stopped, the driven pulley is rotated reversely by the rewinding force of the coiled spring so as to move the door body to its shut position.