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US 11,629,526 B2Granted
Wireless electric strike
OwnerChi (Ricky) Lee, William J. Rehlich +1inventors
InventorsChi (Ricky) Lee, William J. Rehlich, Peter R. Russo
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Abstract
Various implementations of an electric strike are described that includes a casing housing that includes a power source, a lock mechanism, circuitry powered by the power source, the circuitry being configured to authenticate a user, and electro-mechanically actuate the lock mechanism, and a rotor coupled to the lock mechanism, the rotor being powered by the power source and configured to situate the lock mechanism based on a lock state of the electric strike.
Claims16
An electric strike comprising:
- casing housing components of the electric strike, including:
- a power source;
- a lock mechanism;
- a modular electronic circuit powered by the power source, the modular electronic circuit being configured to wirelessly authenticate a user and electro-mechanically acuate the lock mechanism;
- a rotor coupled to the lock mechanism, the rotor being powered by the power source and configured to situate the lock mechanism based on a lock state of the electric strike;
- wherein the lock mechanism includes a keeper coupled to the rotor to provide a bi-stable operation of the electric strike, wherein the locked state includes one of:
- a locked state, an unlocked state, and an intermediate state;
- and
- wherein the energy of a torsion element is configured to pull the rotor from the intermediate state without any additional motion from a motor coupled to the rotor.
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An electric strike comprising:
- casing housing components of the electric strike, including:
- a power source;
- a lock mechanism;
- a modular electronic circuit including a processor, logic, and a wireless communication chip, the modular electronic circuit powered by the power source, the modular electronic circuit being configured to wirelessly communicate with a smartphone of a user and authenticate the user as a condition to electro-mechanically actuate the lock mechanism;
- and
- a rotor coupled to the lock mechanism, wherein the lock mechanism includes a keeper coupled to the rotor to provide a bi-stable operation of the electric strike, the rotor being powered by the power source and configured to situate the lock mechanism based on a lock state of the electric strike, wherein the lock state includes one of:
- a locked state, an unlocked state, and an intermediate state;
- and
- wherein energy in a torsion element of the electric strike on the rotor pulls the rotor from the intermediate state to the locked state without any additional motion from a motor coupled to the rotor.
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An electric strike comprising:
- casing housing components of the electric strike, including:
- a power source;
- a lock mechanism;
- a modular electronic circuit including a processor, logic, and a wireless communication chip, the modular electronic circuit powered by the power source, the modular electronic circuit being configured to wirelessly communicate with a smartphone of a user and authenticate the user as a condition to electro-mechanically actuate the lock mechanism;
- and
- a rotor coupled to the lock mechanism, wherein the lock mechanism includes a keeper coupled to the rotor to provide a bi-stable operation of the electric strike, the rotor being powered by the power source and configured to situate the lock mechanism based on a lock state of the electric strike, wherein the lock state includes one of:
- a locked state, an unlocked state, and an intermediate state;
- and
- wherein the keeper includes a recess and the rotor is configured to move freely within the recess as the keeper is in the intermediate state.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.