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US 11,692,371 B2Granted
Fenestration automation systems and methods
OwnerEvan R. Vande Haar, Todd A. Bernhageninventors
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Abstract
A fenestration assembly including a panel, a lock assembly coupled to the panel, and an actuation system coupled to the lock assembly. The lock assembly includes a motor, a transmission driven by the motor, a sensing assembly, and a slide assembly that includes a rack member operatively coupled to the motor by the transmission and a drive bracket member that is slidable by the rack member between a locked drive bracket member position and an unlocked drive bracket member position.
Claims19
A fenestration assembly comprising:
- a panel;
- a lock assembly coupled to the panel;
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- an actuation system coupled to the lock assembly and including a motor, a transmission driven by the motor, a sensing assembly, and a slide assembly that includes a rack member operatively coupled to the motor by the transmission and a drive bracket member that is slidable by the rack member between a locked drive bracket member position and an unlocked drive bracket member position, the rack member being slideable relative to the drive bracket member when the drive bracket member is stationary,
- wherein the rack member has an unlocked rack member position and a locked rack member position,
- wherein the rack member drives the drive bracket member to the locked drive bracket member position when the rack member is driven to the locked rack member position to transition the lock assembly to a locked state, and
- wherein the drive bracket member is slidable to the unlocked drive bracket member position by a manual operation of the lock assembly to an unlocked state when the rack member is in the locked rack member position.
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