Actuators remotely controlled by transmitters possessing an identity number

• US 6,324,089 B1
• Filed: 04/14/2000
• Issued: 11/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Somfy SA
• Original Assignee: Somfy SA
• Inventors: Symoen, Lionel, Vignoli, Jean-Marc Nicolas
• Primary Examiner(s): PHAN, TRONG Q
• Application Number:
  US09/549,978
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• Field of Search: 365/52
• US Class Current: 365/52
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 19/28 using pulse code

Abstract

An assembly comprising at least one device remotely controlled by at least one transmitter (ESA, ESB) possessing an identity number capable of transmitting a signal consisting of a frame containing the identity number (A, B) and a command and a receiver (R1, R2) which are associated with the remotely controlled device (VR1, VR2) and capable of extracting the identity number from the signal received and of storing it. At least one transmitter of the assembly is a transmitter of simple type, that is to say whose signal frame contains an identifier signifying that this transmitter may control only a single receiver and the program contained in the processor of at least one receiver contains a routine for testing and identifying the type of transmitter preventing the recording of additional transmitter identity numbers in the memory if the identity number identified is that of a transmitter of simple type. A transmitter can then control only a single receiver.

Claims

1. An assembly comprising at least one device remotely controlled by at least one transmitter (ESA, ESB) possessing an identity number, the transmitter capable of transmitting a signal consisting of a frame containing the identity number (A, B) and a command, a receiver (R1, R2) associated with the remotely controlled device (VR1, VR2) and capable of extracting the identity number and the command from the signal received, this receiver containing a logic processing unit (ULT) comprising a memory (TI) intended for storing at least one identity number, a processor containing a recording program ensuring, on receiving an identity number, the storing of the identity number received, this processor being able to work in an operational mode in which it compares the identity number received with the identity number contained in the memory so as to execute the command received when the identity number received corresponds to an identity number contained in the memory and a recording mode in which it is able to ensure the recording of the identity number of the transmitter in the memory, the transmitter and the receiver comprising associated means (BPE, BPR) for placing the processor in recording mode, wherein at least one transmitter of the assembly is a transmitter of simple type (ESA, ESB), that is to say a transmitter whose signal frame contains an identifier signifying that this transmitter may control only a single receiver, and wherein the program contained in the processor of at least one receiver contains a routine for testing and for identifying the type of transmitter preventing the recording of additional transmitter identity numbers in the memory if the identity number identified is that of a transmitter of simple type.

2. The assembly as claimed in claim 1 comprising several transmitters of simple type and several receivers, which assembly comprises at least one auxiliary remote control box (BA) associated with at least one transmitter (EG), this auxiliary box making it possible to transmit a control signal whose reception by the receiver has the effect of deactivating the said routine and consequently of authorizing the recording of additional transmitter identity numbers in the memory in such as a way as to allow the recording of an identity number of a transmitter used as general control transmitter, and wherein the program contained in the processor of the receivers contains a routine for testing the reception of a signal emanating from an auxiliary box, deactivating the said routine on receiving such a signal.

3. The assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor tests whether the identity number received is already recorded in the memory and, in the affirmative, erases this identity number.

4. The assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processor tests whether the identity number received is already recorded in the memory and, in the affirmative, erases this identity number.

5. The assembly as claimed in claim 2, wherein the deactivating of the routine is accompanied by the erasing of the identity number of the simple transmitter recorded in the memory.