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US 10,829,957 B2Granted
Lock devices, systems and methods
AssigneeSchlage Lock Company LLC
InventorsAaron P. McKibben, Kenton H. Barker
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Abstract
Lock devices, systems, and methods that can include an internal mechanism to permit backdriven operation and lost motion operation. In one form the lock includes an assembly of parts that includes parts having locating features that that can assist in those parts being assembled with other parts of the assembly in a single, relative orientation. Further, lost motion may be utilized to accommodate manual displacement of one or more components of the can also be displaceable, in at least certain situations, via operation of a motor. The lock can also include an internal power source capable of driving electronics used to determine handedness of a door.
Claims14
An apparatus, comprising:
- a housing having an inner bolt housing and a cam housing, the cam housing being telescopically coupled to the inner bolt housing, the cam housing including a first housing feature;
- a bolt having an aperture, a portion of the bolt positioned within the inner bolt housing;
- a cam having an extension, a first cam feature, and an aperture, the aperture sized for receipt of a complementary shaped driver;
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- a lock cylinder assembly engaged with the driver, wherein the lock cylinder assembly includes a post structured to limit rotation of the driver when the post engages a surface of the driver, or a surface of a structure rotationally coupled to the driver, to interfere with further rotation of the driver;
- wherein the first housing feature and the cam first feature are configured to prohibit the cam from being rotatably coupled to the cam housing at more than a single orientation relative to the cam housing, and wherein the extension is engaged with the aperture of the bolt when the cam is rotatably coupled to the cam housing at the single orientation;
- wherein the first cam feature of the cam is a first protrusion extending from a first sidewall of the cam, the first protrusion sized to be received in the cam housing in only a first opening located on a first sidewall of the cam housing;
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- wherein the cam further includes a second cam feature comprising a second protrusion, the second protrusion extending from a second sidewall of the cam, and wherein the cam housing includes a second housing feature comprising a second opening, the second opening sized to (a) receive the second protrusion, and (b) not receive the first protrusion.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a deadbolt assembly having a housing that encloses a portion of a bolt, the deadbolt assembly comprising a drive member including a locating feature;
- a cam having a cam feature structured to interact with the locating feature to prohibit the cam from being rotatably securable to the housing at more than a single orientation of the cam relative to the housing and in a manner in which rotation of the cam facilitates linear displacement of the bolt relative to the housing;
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- a lock cylinder including a plug operable to rotate the drive member, wherein the lock cylinder includes a post configured to limit rotation of the drive member relative to the plug when the post engages a surface of the drive member, or a surface of a structure rotationally coupled to the drive member, to interfere with further rotation of the drive member;
- wherein the cam comprises an opening sized and shaped to receive the drive member;
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- wherein the cam feature comprises a formation formed on only one side of the opening, the formation sized and shaped to receive the locating feature when the drive member is received at one, and only one, orientation relative to the opening.
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A method, comprising:
- moving a door bolt cam and a door bolt housing into a pre-installation orientation;
- manipulating a relative orientation of the door bolt cam and the door bolt housing to align:
- a first cam feature of the door bolt cam with respect to a first housing feature the door bolt housing, and
- a second cam feature of the door bolt cam with respect to a second housing feature the door bolt housing, the second cam feature having a configuration that prevents alignment of the second cam with the first housing feature;
- wherein the manipulating results in only one possible orientation of the door bolt cam relative to the door bolt housing;
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- as a result of the manipulating, inserting the door bolt cam into the door bolt housing such that the door bolt cam is installed into the door bolt housing in one orientation;
- engaging a drive member having a poka-yoke feature with the door bolt cam having a complementary poka-yoke feature;
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- coupling the drive member to a cylinder assembly such that a post of the lock cylinder assembly limits rotation of the drive member when the post engages a surface of the drive member, or a surface of a structure rotationally coupled to the drive member, to interfere with further rotation of the drive member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.