Locking device comprising a deactivation mechanism
Assignee9Design.Be Bvba
InventorRoel Boutelegier
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Abstract
A locking device is disclosed having (a) a tubular housing having a frontal end and a distal end; (b) a latch movable between a first position protruding from the frontal end of the housing and a second position wherein the latch is retracted in the housing; and (c) an electrically driven drive device for moving the latch between the first and second positions. The locking device further includes a deactivation mechanism provided in the housing and allowing movement of the drive device or at least part thereof from an active position wherein the drive device is enabled to move the latch between the first and second position and an inactive position wherein the latch is retracted in the housing irrespective of its movement by the electrical drive device.
Claims18
A locking device comprising:
- (a) a tubular housing having a frontal end and a distal end;
- (b) a latch movable in a longitudinal direction of the housing between a first position protruding from the frontal end of the housing and a second position retracted into the housing;
- (c) an electrically driven drive device configured to move the latch between said first position and said second position;
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- (d) a deactivation mechanism provided in said housing and configured to allow the drive device to move from an active position, at which the drive device moves the latch entirely in the longitudinal direction from said first position to said second position, to an inactive position, at which the latch is retracted into the housing by a spring biasing the drive device to the inactive position, and said deactivation mechanism is electrically driven to maintain said drive device in the active position against the bias of the springy, under power from a power supply, the drive device moving entirely in the longitudinal direction to the inactive position by the biasing of the spring when power from the power supply to the deactivation mechanism is interrupted.
A kit in parts comprising a first part and a second part, the first part is a locking device comprising:
- (a) a tubular housing having a frontal end and a distal end;
- (b) a latch movable in a longitudinal direction of the housing between a first position protruding from the frontal end of the housing and a second position wherein the latch is retracted into the housing;
- (c) electrically driven drive device for moving the latch between said first and second positions;
- and (d) a deactivation mechanism provided in said housing and configured to allow the drive device to move from an active position, at which the drive device moves the latch entirely in the longitudinal direction from the first position to the second position, to an inactive position, at which the latch is retracted into the housing by a spring biasing the drive device to the inactive position, and the deactivation mechanism is electrically driven to maintain said drive device in the active position against the bias of the spring under power from a power supply, the drive device moving entirely in the longitudinal direction to the inactive position by the biasing of the spring when power from the power supply to the deactivation mechanism is interrupted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.