Electro-mechanical pivot wing drive for pivoting wings of doors or the like

• US 5,386,885 A
• Filed: 09/08/1993
• Issued: 02/07/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Record Türautomation GmbH
• Original Assignee: Record Türautomation GmbH
• Inventors: Bunzl, Helmut H., Bisang, Hansrudolf, Burgi, Daniel, Minder, Hans
• Primary Examiner(s): Herrmann, Allan D.
• Application Number:
  US08/084,262
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 74/89.13, 16/49, 16/64, 49/334, 49/340, 185/40 R, 318/376, 318/760
• US Class Current: 185/40.00R
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/1041 with a coil spring perpendicular to the pivot axis E05F1/1246 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 1/105 with a compression spring
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/611 for swinging wings
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/63 operated by swinging arms
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/72 responsive to emergency conditions, e.g. fire
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/41 for closing
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2201/474 Compression springs
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/302 during electromotoric braking
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2800/72 Sets of mutually exchangeable elements
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/132 Doors
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18784 including bevel gears

Abstract

The electro-mechanical drive includes an electric motor, a transmission and a restoring spring. To improve the capacity to close the door, particularly in the event of a power failure, a large coil spring used as the restoring spring surrounds the electric motor and transmission. The electric motor is short circuited when not powered in order to create a generator effect with consequent damping during movement of the door.

Claims

1. An electro-mechanical rotary leaf drive for pivotal leaves for doors comprising:

an elongated housing,

an electric motor and a transmission adjoining said electric motor as an axial extension thereof and in said housing,

said transmission having an intermediate output shaft drivingly connected with a bevel transmission, said bevel transmission having an output drive shaft arranged transversely of said elongated housing and adapted for coupling with a linkage for driving a pivotal leaf,

a restoring spring unit acting on the output drive shaft,

said restoring spring unit comprising a helical spring having at least thirty turns and a spring moment during an opening movement of the rotary leaf which increases less than 100% as a maximum, said helical spring surrounding one of said electric motor and said transmission and at a drive output end thereof bearing against an entrainment means, said entrainment means being connected in such manner as to prevent relative rotation with said intermediate shaft, and

means for deenergizing said electric motor during the entire closing phase of the pivotal leaf to obtain a generator effect and consequent damping during the door closing phase.

2. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein said helical spring has an axis arranged in parallel axial alignment with respect to a central axis of the electric motor.

3. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 2 wherein said entrainment means comprises an entrainment disk mounted on said intermediate shaft.

4. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 including a support disk for supporting said helical spring, said support disk being supported and located within said housing and on a side of said electric motor remote from said output drive shaft.

5. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein the magnitude of the bias of said spring is variable and means including said support disk for selecting a magnitude of the bias to be applied to said spring.

6. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein in an opening movement of the rotary leaf, the spring moment of the helical spring increases by less than 80% as a maximum.

7. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein in an opening movement of the rotary leaf, the spring moment of the helical spring increases by less than 60% as a maximum.

8. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein said helical spring has at least 40 turns.

9. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein said helical spring has at least 50-60 turns.

10. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein the helical spring possesses 100 turns as a maximum.

11. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 wherein the diameter of the helical spring is between 7-11 cm.

12. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 1 including a position sensor for detecting one of an opening and closed position of the rotary leaf.

13. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 12 wherein said position sensor is coupled with said intermediate shaft.

14. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 12 wherein the position sensor is provided on the side of the electric motor opposite said output drive shaft and on a stub shaft carried by said electric motor.

15. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 12 wherein the position sensor comprises a disk having markings and stationary detectors for reading said markings.

16. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 15 wherein at least one detector comprises a photoelectric detector.

17. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 15 wherein said markings on said disk comprise slots formed on a peripheral surface thereof extending in generally parallel relation to the axial direction of said motor.

18. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 15 wherein two detectors of said stationary detectors comprise photoelectric detectors for sensing the direction of rotation.

19. The rotary leaf drive according to claim 18 including a 4 quadrant control means for controlling the movement of the pivotal leaf and including means for preselecting a speed of rotation and torque in the opening and closing directions.