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US 10,822,868 B2Granted
Electric screen device
AssigneeMetaco Inc.
InventorsYasubumi Okachi, Yuichiro Nishioka, Kazumasa Noda
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Abstract
This electric screen device is provided with an electric motor that causes slidable screen mounting frame part(s) to automatically slide. Torque generated by rotation of a rotation shaft of the electric motor is transmitted to a tension member that is provided inside the screen mounting frame parts, that connects screen guiding frame parts to each other at free ends thereof, and that forms a loop. The tension member moves in a state of being hung around the folded portions which apply tension to the tension member. The slidable screen mounting frame part(s) automatically slide in association with movement of the tension member. Thus, the screen automatically opens and closes.
Claims6
An electric screen device, comprises:
- a pair of screen mounting frame parts which are hollow and are disposed opposite to each other, at least one of the screen mounting frame parts being slidable;
- a foldable and expandable screen mounted between the screen mounting frame parts;
- a pair of slide guiding frame parts provided in the vicinity of two sides of the screen which are not mounted on the screen mounting frame parts, the slide guiding frame parts being receivable and drawable inside the screen mounting frame parts, each of the slide guide frame parts having a free end at least one end thereof;
- a tension member provided inside at least one of the screen mounting frame parts, connecting the slide guiding frame parts to each other at the free ends of the slide guiding frame parts, and forming a loop;
- two folded portions for applying tension to the tension member by hooking the tension member therearound, the folded portions being provided at an opposite side to a screen mounting side across the slide guiding frame parts in the screen mounting frame parts provided with the tension member;
- an electric motor causing the slidable screen mounting frame part(s) to automatically slide, and having a rotation shaft;
- a gear mounted on the rotation shaft of the electric motor and forming one of the folded portions;
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- a toothed belt forming a part of the tension member and having a plurality of toothings, which has a meshable shape with the gear;
- wherein torque generated by rotation of the rotation shaft of the electric motor is transmitted to the toothed belt through the gear and the toothings of the toothed belt and to the tension member,
- wherein the tension member moves in a state of being hung around the folded portions,
- wherein the slidable screen mounting frame part(s) automatically slides in association with movement of the tension member,
- wherein the screen automatically opens and closes,
- wherein the electric screen device has a fixing structure for fixing the toothed belt on a rigid unit forming the slide guiding frame parts,
- wherein the rigid unit is provided with a pair of side wall portions disposed opposite to each other and a bridge portion interconnecting the side wall portions with each other,
- wherein the fixing structure contains a belt fixing member, a first coil spring, a first fixing jig, and a coil spring holding member,
- wherein the belt fixing member has a body which is smaller than an inner diameter of the first coil spring, a length of which is longer than that of the first coil spring, and at a circumference of which can dispose the first coil spring is disposed, a flange which protrudes outward from the body and is provided with one end of the body, and a size of which is as large as or a little larger than a contour of the first coil spring, a belt connecting portion which is provided with the other end of the body, has a plate shape, is provided with a plurality of toothings, which are meshable with the toothings of the toothed belt, on one face portion in a longitudinal direction, and protrudes outward from the first coil spring when the first coil spring is disposed, and a claw which is provided at the other face portion disposed opposite to one face portion of the belt fixing member and at a furthest position from the flange, protrudes from the other face portion, a protruding direction of which is opposite to the toothings of the belt fixing member, and which extends toward a side of the flange,
- wherein the first fixing jig is a tubular hollow member throughout a length thereof, a size of a hollow portion is as large as or a little larger than an integral size of a contour of the belt connecting portion of the belt fixing member,
- wherein the coil spring holding member is provided at a surface portion of the bridge portion of the rigid unit positioned at the free end of each of the slide guiding frame parts, and in which a hollow portion having an inner diameter a little larger than an outer diameter of the first coil spring is formed,
- wherein the hollow portion of the coil spring holding member passes through the coil spring holding member in a longitudinal direction, one end of the hollow portion of the coil spring holding member is entirely opened, and the other end of the hollow portion of the coil spring holding member is a counterbore hole,
- wherein though a size of an opening opened outward in the counterbore hole is larger than that of the belt connecting portion of the belt fixing member, the size of the opening is smaller than that of the contour of the first coil spring and a size of the first fixing jig, and
- wherein, in the fixing structure, the belt fixing member is passed through an inside of the first coil spring, the first coil spring is disposed around the circumference of the body, the belt fixing member together with the first coil spring are inserted into an inside of the hollow portion of the coil spring holding member, one end of the first coil spring, which is positioned at the belt connecting portion, comes into contact with the counter bore hole, the belt connecting portion of the belt fixing member protrudes out of the coil spring holding member from the opening of the counterbore hole and is passed through the hollow portion, the toothings of the toothed belt passed through the hollow portion of the first fixing jig are meshed with the toothings of the belt connecting portion protruded out of the opening of the counterbore hole of the coil spring holding member, the claw is hooked on one end of the first fixing jig which is positioned at further than the counterbore hole, the first coil spring is held around the circumference of the body of the belt fixing member, and the toothed belt is fixed on the rigid unit positioned at the free end of each of the slide guiding frame parts.
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An electric screen device comprising,
- a pair of screen mounting frame parts which are hollow and are disposed opposite to each other, at least one of the screen mounting frame parts being slidable;
- a foldable and expandable screen mounted between the screen mounting frame parts;
- a pair of slide guiding frame parts provided in the vicinity of two sides of the screen which are not mounted on the screen mounting frame parts, the slide guiding frame parts being receivable and drawable inside the screen mounting frame parts, each of the slide guide frame parts having a free end at least one end thereof;
- a tension member provided inside at least one of the screen mounting frame parts, connecting the slide guiding frame parts to each other at the free ends of the slide guiding frame parts, and forming a loop;
- two folded portions for applying tension to the tension member by hooking the tension member therearound, the folded portions being provided at an opposite side to a screen mounting side across the slide guiding frame parts in the screen mounting frame parts provided with the tension member;
- an electric motor causing the slidable screen mounting frame part(s) to automatically slide, and having a rotation shaft;
- two gears forming the folded portions, one of which is mounted on the rotation shaft of the electric motor;
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- a toothed belt having a plurality of toothings, which has a meshable shape with the gears and forms the tension member;
- wherein torque generated by rotation of the rotation shaft of the electric motor is transmitted to the toothed belt through one of the gears, which is mounted on the rotation shaft of the electric motor, and the toothings of the toothed belt and to the tension member,
- wherein the toothed belt moves in a state of being hung around the-folded portions,
- wherein the slidable screen mounting frame part(s) automatically slides in association with movement of the toothed belt,
- wherein the screen automatically opens and closes,
- wherein the slide guiding frame parts are formed by a plurality of rigid units having a pair of side wall portions disposed opposite to each other and a bridge portion interconnecting the side wall portions with each other,
- wherein the electric screen device has a fixing structure for fixing the toothed belt on the bridge portion of the rigid unit positioned at the free end of each of the slide guiding frame) parts,
- wherein the fixing structure has a fixing jig,
- wherein the fixing jig has a main body in which a through hole passing through in a front-rear direction is formed and a washer in which a screw hole is formed,
- wherein the main body has toothings meshable with the toothings of the toothed belt, and a rear face of the main body is put on a surface of the bridge portion of a surface of one of the slide guiding frame parts and a surface of the main body is put on a rear face of the other of the slide guiding frame parts, and
- wherein, in the fixing structure, the rear face of the main body of the fixing jig is put on the surface or the rear face of the bridge portion of the rigid unit of each of the slide guiding frame parts, a surface of the washer comes into contact with the rear face or the surface of the bridge portion of the rigid unit, the main body and the washer are connected by a screw screwed into the screw hole through the through hole of the main body of the fixing jig, the toothings of the main body of the fixing jig and the toothed belt are meshed with each other, and the toothed belt is fixed on the bridge portion of the rigid unit that is positioned at the free end of each of the sliding guiding frame parts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.