Protection circuit for a power window apparatus

• US 4,900,994 A
• Filed: 06/09/1988
• Issued: 02/13/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1987
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mizuta, Ken
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SALATA, ANTHONY J
• Application Number:
  US07/204,450
• Time in Patent Office: 614 Days
• Field of Search: 318/263, 318/265, 318/266, 318/267, 318/282, 318/283, 318/286, 318/264, 318/469, 318/444, 361/23, 361/28, 361/30, 361/31
• US Class Current: 318/283
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/40 Safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/41 Detection by monitoring transmitted force or torque E05F15/48 takes precedence; Safety couplings with activation dependent upon torque or force, e.g. slip couplings
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/148 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/55 Windows
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/0851 for motors actuating a movable member between two end positions, e.g. detecting an end position or obstruction by overload signal
• CPC Class Codes: H02H 7/0855 avoiding response to transient overloads, e.g. during starting

Abstract

An automatic window glass elevating apparatus for moving a motor normally or reversely by drive control by a switch actuation to move a window glass in a closing or opening direction which has a resistor connected in series with the motor, first detector for detecting the locking time point of the motor from a point for crossing a first waveform signal representing a variation in a potential generated across the resistor by the driving current of the motor and a second waveform signal delayed from the first waveform signal for a first time and added with a first level thereto by obtaining the first waveform signal and the second waveform signal, and second detector for detecting a point for crossing a third waveform signal delayed for a second time from the first waveform signal and subtracted by a second level thereform and the first waveform signal by obtaining the third waveform signal to enable an automatic operation. Thus, the apparatus can operate an automatic circuit when the motor current decreases in a motor starting range.

Claims

1. A power window device comprising:

a window glass set in a window frame;

a motor rotatable in two opposite directions operably connected to open and close said window glass in response to a driving current provided to said motor;

drive controlling means for controlling said driving current;

a switch connected to said motor, said switch being actuated for opening and closing said window;

energization current sensing means for detecting a value of said driving current;

first sensing means for sensing an object being held between said window glass and said window frame, by comparing said value of said driving current to a delayed value of said driving current, said first sensing means being inoperative for a predetermined time after an actuation of said switch;

reversing means included in said drive controlling means for reversing a direction of rotation of said motor for a predetermined time in response to said first sensing means;

second sensing means for sensing that said window glass is fully opened or fully closed in said window frame by comparing said value of said driving current to a delayed value of said driving current; and

switch controlling means included in said drive controlling mean for overriding said switch and preventing provision of said driving current to said motor, in response to said second sensing means.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein said energization current sensing means comprises a resistor, and said first detecting means comprises:

a real time amplifier for amplifying a voltage across said resistor;

a delay amplifier for delaying and amplifying an output of said real time amplifier;

a non-inverting amplifier for adding a value to an output of said delay amplifier;

a comparator for comparing an output of said non-inverting amplifier to an output of said real time amplifier; and

a cancelling circuit for preventing transmission of the output of said real time amplifier to said comparator for a predetermined time when said motor starts rotating,

whereby when a mechanical load on said motor increases, thereby increasing the voltage across said resistor, the output of said real time amplifier exceeds said output of said non-inverting amplifier, so as to invert said comparator.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein said second detecting means comprises:

a subtractor for subtracting a voltage from said output of said delay amplifier; and

a voltage comparator for comparing an output of said subtractor to an output of said real time amplifier.