Electronic lock "chiplock"

• US 5,839,306 A
• Filed: 04/29/1997
• Issued: 11/24/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Martyn Sergeevich Nunuparov
• Original Assignee: Martyn Sergeevich Nunuparov
• Inventors: Nunuparov, Martyn Sergeevich
• Primary Examiner(s): Meyers, Steven N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): LUU, TUYET PHUONG PHAM
• Application Number:
  US08/841,085
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: 310/309, 70/283, 70/277, 70/282, 292/150
• US Class Current: 70/283
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0002 with electromagnets
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0603 the detent moving rectilinearly
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7062 Electrical type [e.g., solenoid]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/713 Dogging manual operator

Abstract

The invention provides an electronic lock, in which body (14) there is mounted a bar (1), a bar shifting mechanism including riegel (2), a control lever (3) and a blocking mechanism. The latter is made in form of an electromechanical catch which moving plate (11) is coupled to a limiter (8) blocking the bar shifting mechanism. In the present aspect of the electronic lock a power consumption is reduced significantly.

Claims

1. An electronic lock comprising:

a body;

a bar arranged shiftably disposed in said body between an open position and a closed position;

bar shifting means for transmitting an external mechanical force to said bar located in said body;

blocking means for blocking said bar shifting means, said blocking means being disposed of in said body and comprising a blocking element capable of taking one of a blocked position and deblocked position, and a return spring coupled with the blocking element;

fixing means for fixing said blocking element in one of the blocked position and deblocked position, the fixing means being kinematically coupled with said blocking element; and

said fixing means being formed by two elements, the first element secured in said body and the second element slidably mounted along a surface of said first element for fixing said blocking element in one of the blocked and deblocked positions under the action of friction forces arising between the first and second elements of the fixing means when an static electric charge is applied once to the first and second elements.

2. The lock according to claim 1, wherein the first element and the second element of said fixing means are each provided with a corresponding terminal electrically connected to an external source of electric power for applying or removing an electric charge.

3. The lock according to claim 1, wherein the bar shifting means comprises a cam having at least two pushers for deblocking the bar shifting mechanism and for shifting the bar, respectively, and a handle for transmitting an external mechanical force to said bar shifting mechanism, the handle being kinematically coupled with the cam.

4. The lock according to claim 1, wherein the blocking element disposed in a guide bushing secured to the body.

5. The lock according to claim 1, wherein said first and second elements of the fixing means are in the form of plates.

6. The lock according to claim 1, wherein said first and second elements of the fixing means move longitudinally with respect to each other when sliding.

7. The lock according to claim 1, wherein said bar is mounted capable of reciprocation.

8. The lock according to claim 1, wherein said body is separable and comprises at least two body elements, the first body element positioning said bar and said bar shifting means within the body, and the second body element being kinematically coupled with the first body element and positioning the blocking means and fixing means within the body.

9. The lock according to claim 2, wherein the external source of electric power comes from piezoelectric elements or triboelectric elements.

10. The lock according to claim 9, wherein the mechanical power source is the external mechanical force applied to said bar shifting means.