Electromechanical lock cylinder

• US 7,591,160 B2
• Filed: 03/08/2005
• Issued: 09/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Keso AG (Assa Abloy AB)
• Original Assignee: Keso AG (Assa Abloy AB)
• Inventors: Keller, Ernst
• Primary Examiner(s): Gall; Lloyd A
• Application Number:
  US10/592,227
• Publication Number:
  US 20080028808A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,659 Days
• Field of Search: 702/77, 702/782, 702/783, 702/787, 702/791, 702/831, 703/74, 702/781, 70D/IG.60, 70D/IG.63
• US Class Current: 70/277
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0012 with rotary electromotors actuators with rotary electromotors per se H02K7/06, H02K23/68
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0615 operated by handles, e.g. by knobs
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0642 axially, i.e. with an axially disengaging coupling element
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 9/045 Modular casings for adjusting the length of cylinder locks
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7062 Electrical type [e.g., solenoid]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7079 Key rotated [e.g., Eurocylinder]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7102 And details of blocking system [e.g., linkage, latch, pawl, spring]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7107 And alternately mechanically actuated by a key, dial, etc.
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7678 Adjustable

Abstract

The invention relates to an electromechanical lock cylinder, comprising a first cylinder half (2), arranged on the outside of the door, with a key passage (8) for a security key (44) and a second cylinder half (3), arranged on the inside of the door, with a rotating knob rotor (4). Tumblers in the first cylinder half (2) are arranged for rotational release by a security key (44). An electronic device (17) is arranged in the rotating knob (24) for control of a locking device (43). The rotating knob (24) forms a unit with the electronic device (17) arranged therein, detachably mounted on an extension (4a) of the rotating knob rotor (4), projecting past the housing (6). The rotating knob rotor (24) may be adjusted for length by means of an exchangeable adapter (18a to 18c).

Claims

1. An electromechanical lock cylinder, having a first cylinder half adapted to be arranged on the outside of a door, having a key channel for a safety key and a second cylinder half to be arranged on the inside of the door, having a rotary knob rotor, which is connected to a rotary knob, having tumblers, which are arranged in the first cylinder half and which are to be positioned by the safety key in order to enable rotation, having electronics arranged in the rotary knob for the purpose of driving a blocking apparatus, which can block the rotation, wherein the rotary knob with the electronics arranged therein forms a unit which is mounted detachably so that it can be plugged on an extension, which protrudes on a housing, of the rotary knob rotor, wherein the electronics are connected to the housing of the second cylinder half by means of a plug-in connection.

2. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 1, wherein the plug-in connection has a pin (28), which is inserted into a cutout (63) in the housing (6) of the second cylinder half (3).

3. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 2, wherein the pin (28) is mounted, in a floating manner, in the cutout (63).

4. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 1, wherein a cable (29) is connected detachably to the blocking apparatus (43) and the electronics (17).

5. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 4, wherein the cable (29) has a plug (30, 42) at each of its ends.

6. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 4, wherein the cable (29) is introduced through a groove (50) of a connecting web (12).

7. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 6, wherein the connecting web (12) has a surplus of holes (48) for accommodating a connecting pin (14).

8. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotary knob (24) has a bearing disk (39), which covers the electronics (17) and is connected detachably to a pot-shaped handle part (25).

9. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 8, characterized in that the bearing disk (39) has an opening for a connecting pin (28) and an opening through which a cable (29) is passing.

10. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 8, wherein the bearing disk (39) is fixed detachably to the handle part (25) by a snap ring (26).

11. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 1, wherein the rotary knob (24) is fixed detachably to the rotary knob rotor (4) by a snap ring (27).

12. The lock cylinder as claimed in claim 1, wherein a slide sleeve (31) is arranged in the rotary knob (24), a carrier (32) for the electronics (17) being mounted in said slide sleeve (31).

13. A construction kit for producing an electromechanical lock cylinder, wherein a first cylinder half (2) having tumblers and an actuator (43) arranged in the first cylinder half, which can be driven electronically and with which a rotor of the first cylinder half (2) can be blocked, having a second cylinder half (3), which has an extendible rotary knob rotor (4), on which a rotary knob (24) is mounted, having intermediate pieces (18a to 18c), with which the rotary knob rotor (4) can be extended and having further intermediate pieces (16), with which a housing (5, 6) of the first and a housing of the second cylinder half (2, 3) can be extended, and wherein a connecting member (28), is provided with which electronics (17) arranged in the rotary knob (24) can be connected in a pluggable and floating manner to the housing (6) of the second cylinder half (3).

14. The construction kit as claimed in claim 13, wherein the two cylinder halves (2, 3) are guided by a connecting web (12), a cable (29) being laid in the connecting web (12).