Movement lock for a locking element or an actuator in a locking system

• US 9,683,389 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2011
• Issued: 06/20/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ASSA Abloy Sicherheitstechnik GmbH (Assa Abloy AB)
• Original Assignee: ASSA Abloy Sicherheitstechnik GmbH (Assa Abloy AB)
• Inventors: Pintar, Zeljko, Fischer, Ulrich, Loeb-Ullmann, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): GALL, LLOYD A
• Application Number:
  US13/989,525
• Publication Number:
  US 20130239630A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,036 Days
• Field of Search: 702783, 702787, 702791, 70333 R, 70DIG 52, 70495, 70496, 70386, 292DIG 22, 292252
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 17/2092 Means responsive to tampering or attack providing additional locking for safes E05B65/0082
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 2015/0493 Overcenter springs
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 33/00 Cylinder locks in which the bolt is moved by means other than the key
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 47/0611 Cylinder locks with electromagnetic control
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 49/00 Electric permutation locks; Circuits therefor ; Mechanical aspects of electronic locks; Mechanical keys therefor arrangements for sensing or reading record carriers G06K7/00; mechanisms including electronic locks actuated by nonmechanical keys such as passive and active electrical keys and other data carriers G07C9/00, G07F7/00; electronic switching H03K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/70 Operating mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7062 Electrical type [e.g., solenoid]

Abstract

The invention relates to a movement lock for a locking element or an actuator in a locking system which can be operated in a mechanical or mechatronic manner. Provision is made here for the movement lock to have a blocking element which can be brought into engagement with the locking element or actuator by a system which is maintained under tension or caused to move and can be triggered as a result of an external pulse application on the locking system.

Claims

1. A movement lock, comprising

a locking element;

an actuator;

a blocking element configured for engagement with the actuator, said blocking element being movable between a locking position and a release position;

a tension spring cooperating with said blocking element and applying a tension to said blocking element; and

a ball cooperating with said blocking element and assisting a movement of the blocking element between the release position and the locking position,

wherein the blocking element includes a pivot lever having a free end provided with a stop engageable with the actuator to lock movement of the actuator,

wherein the tension spring has one end connected to the pivot lever on the free end provided with the stop and another end supported at a distance from a pivot lever bearing, so that the tension spring extends along the pivot lever,

wherein the tension spring being configured such that the pivot lever assumes a position, in which position the tension spring is tensioned and is relaxed in deflections that are mirror images of one another, with one of the deflections of the pivot lever representing a rest or release position and another one of the deflections of the pivot lever representing a locking position, with the pivot lever being swingable when released from the rest or release position into the locking position.

2. The movement lock of claim 1, wherein the actuator has an electrically-operated rotary lock engageable with the locking element acting in a lock cylinder between a cylinder core and a cylinder housing in order to prevent a rotation of the cylinder core when a key has a wrong encoding, wherein the stop for the pivot lever remains in the rest or release position, when the lock cylinder is actuated in a normal way, and swings into the locking position in the presence of an external pulse application upon components of the actuator to prevent a movement of the rotary lock.

3. The movement lock of claim 1, wherein the ball is configured for contact with the pivot lever and freely movable to apply a momentum upon the pivot lever, when the pivot lever is acted upon by a pulse in the rest or release position so as to move the pivot lever away from the rest or release position into the locking position.

4. The movement lock of claim 1, further comprising a U-shaped reset frame being freely movable in perpendicular relationship to a rotor shaft of the actuator, said reset frame having opposing legs, with one of the legs of the reset frame configured to bear upon one side of a widening substantially rectangular section of the actuator so that a free rotation of the rotor shaft is preventable.

5. The movement lock of claim 4, wherein the section of the actuator as viewed in direction of the rotor shaft has two flat longitudinal surfaces disposed in confronting relation and connected by two transverse surfaces, wherein one of the legs of the reset frame rests upon the one longitudinal surface of the section, when the rotor shaft assumes an idle rotation position.

6. The movement lock of claim 1, wherein the blocking element is elongated and has two opposite ends, the tension spring acting on one of the ends of the elongated blocking element, while the ball is arranged to contact with and to act on a portion of the blocking element located between the ends of the blocking element.