Method for controlling a door arrangement, as well as a door arrangement of this kind and a safety device therefor

• US 10,605,001 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2015
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: EFAFLEX Tor- und Sicherheitssysteme GmbH & Co. KG
• Original Assignee: EFAFLEX Tor- und Sicherheitssysteme GmbH & Co. KG
• Inventors: Bartole, Dieter, Kremser, Hans-Jorg, Mayer, Martin
• Primary Examiner(s): Cahn, Daniel P
• Application Number:
  US15/545,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20180002980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,617 Days
• Field of Search: 160310, 49 26
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/40 Safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/43 responsive to disruption of energy beams, e.g. light or sound
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 15/75 responsive to the weight or other physical contact of a person or object
• CPC Class Codes: E05F 2015/435 by interruption of the beam
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/32 Position control, detection or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2400/53 Wing impact prevention or reduction
• CPC Class Codes: E05Y 2900/106 for garages
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2009/6836 sensing obstacle
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 2009/6845 sensing position
• CPC Class Codes: E06B 9/68 Operating devices or mechanisms, e.g. with electric drive

Abstract

A door arrangement (1), includes a safety device. A door arrangement monitoring method monitors a monitored area positioned in front of a door opening, offset and parallel to a door closing plane, and performs a failure routine when an object (6) is detected in the monitored area and there is a risk of a collision of the object (6) with a door leaf (2). A current position of the object (6), and of a leading edge (23) of the door leaf (2), are detected. A direction of movement of the door leaf (2) is detected. The failure routine is initiated as a function of the current position of the object (6) and the leading edge (23) of the door leaf (2) as well as the direction of movement of the door leaf (2).

Claims

1. A safety device for a door arrangement comprising a door leaf configured to be guided in lateral guides and is configured to be driven by a drive means movable between an open and a closed position in a door closing plane of a door opening, wherein the safety device monitors a monitored area at least on one side, said monitored area being positioned in front of the door opening and being offset in parallel to the door closing plane, and the safety device performs a failure routine when an object is detected in the monitored area and a collision of the object with the door leaf is immanent, wherein the safety device comprises:

an object detecting means for detecting a current position of the object;

a leading edge detecting means for detecting a current position of a leading edge of the door leaf;

a door leaf direction detecting means for detecting a direction of movement of the door leaf; and

a control means for initiating the failure routine as a function of the current position of the object and the current position of the leading edge of the door leaf as well as the direction of movement of the door leaf, wherein the failure routine, after a predetermined dwell time, initiates a reversal of the direction of movement of the door leaf at reduced speed when the leading edge of the door leaf is positioned adjacent to the object during a closing movement in the direction of movement, wherein the failure routine initiates a stopping of the door leaf movement when the leading edge of the door leaf has already passed the position of the object during the closing movement in the direction of movement.

2. The safety device according to claim 1, wherein the object detecting means comprises at least one light grid system on a first lateral side and a second lateral side of the door opening.

3. The safety device according to claim 1, wherein the object detecting means for detecting the current position of the object comprises a device for detecting or setting differing detection densities in partial areas of the monitored area.

4. The safety device according to claim 1, wherein the monitored area is only a partial area of the door opening.

5. The safety device according to 1, wherein the control means initiates the failure routine based on a vertical distance between the object and the leading edge of the door leaf.

6. A door arrangement comprising:

a door leaf drive;

lateral guides;

a door leaf configured to be guided in the lateral guides and is configured to be driven by the door leaf drive and movable between an open position and a closed position, in a door closing plane of a door opening;

a safety device configured to monitor a monitored area at least on one side, said monitored area being positioned in front of the door opening and being offset thereto and disposed in parallel to the door closing plane, and the safety device performing a failure routine when an object is detected in the monitored area and a collision of the object with the door leaf is immanent, wherein the safety device comprises;

an object detecting means for detecting a current position of the object, a leading edge detecting means for detecting a current position of a leading edge of the door leaf, a door leaf direction detecting means for detecting a direction of movement of the door leaf, and a control means for initiating the failure routine as a function of the current position of the object and the current position of the leading edge of the door leaf as well as a detected direction of movement of the door leaf, wherein the failure routine, after a predetermined dwell time, initiates a reversal of the direction of movement of the door leaf at reduced speed when the leading edge of the door leaf is positioned adjacent to the object during a closing movement in the direction of movement, wherein the failure routine initiates a stopping of the door leaf movement when the leading edge of the door leaf has already passed the position of the object during the closing movement in the direction of movement.

7. The door arrangement according to claim 6, wherein the object detecting means comprises at least one light grid system on a first lateral side and a second lateral side of the door opening.

8. The door arrangement according to claim 6, wherein the object detecting means for detecting the current position of the object comprises a device for detecting or setting a differing detection density in partial areas of the monitored area.

9. The door arrangement according to claim 6, wherein the monitored area is only a partial area of the door opening.

10. The door arrangement according to 6, wherein the control means initiates the failure routine based on a vertical distance between the object and the leading edge of the door leaf.

11. A method for controlling a door arrangement, the method comprising the steps of:

providing the door arrangement of claim 6; and

performing the failure routine.