Automatic swing door and sensor
AssigneeBea SA
InventorsJean-François Klein, Sébastien van Loo
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AssigneeBea SA
InventorsJean-François Klein, Sébastien van Loo
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The invention relates to an automatic swing door (10, 100), comprising a door controller (22, 122), 10 further comprising a door leaf arrangement (12, 112) that is pivotably attached to a door frame (30), where the door leaf arrangement (12, 112), comprises a door leaf (14, 114) that has a following face (15b) that is facing to the door opening (20) and a leading face (15a) that is facing away from the door opening (20), a hinged edge (15d) and a main closing edge (15c) that lies opposite to the hinged edge (15d), the door leaf arrangement (12) comprises a leading face sensor (16) that is attached to the 15 leading face (15a) of the door leaf (14), where the leading face sensor (16) provides a scanning field that at least covers a zone that lies next to the leading face of the door leaf.
Automatic swing door (10, 100), comprising a door controller (22, 122), further comprising a door leaf arrangement (12, 112) that is pivotably attached to a door frame (30), where the door leaf arrangement (12, 112), comprises a door leaf (14, 114) that has a following face (15b) that is facing to the door opening (20) and a leading face (15a) that is facing away from the door opening (20), a hinged edge (15d) and a main closing edge (15c) that lies opposite to the hinged edge (15d), the door leaf arrangement (12) comprises a leading face sensor (16) that is attached to the leading face (15a) of the door leaf (14), where the leading face sensor (16) provides a scanning field that at least covers a zone that lies next to the leading face of the door leaf that lies between the hinged edge and the main closing edge (15c) of the door leaf, where a detection zone (26) is defined within the scanning field, where the leading face sensor (16) comprises a movement determination unit (316), to determine the angular movement/position of the door leaf (14), where during an opening operation of the door leaf (14) the detection zone (26) comprises a leaf zone (32) that extends over the most part of the width of the door leaf (14) characterized in that during closing operation of the door, the detection zone (26) comprises an edge zone (36), where the edge zone (36) extends beyond the leaf zone (32) in direction of the main closing edge (15c), where a detection of an object in this edge zone (36) triggers the door controller (22) to reopen the door leaf (14) or to open the door.
Sensor (300) comprising a scanning unit (308) producing a scanning field, where the scanning unit (308) comprises a laser scanner (311, 312, 310) that emits light pulses that are evaluated according to the Time of Flight principle, the laser scanner comprises a rotating mirror (310) that has at least two facets that are inclined differently to the rotational axis (R) of the rotating mirror (310), where the light pulses are deflected at the mirror facets (320), where a series of sent pulses on a mirror facet while the mirror is rotating by a predefined angle-facet sweep- and thereby produces a curtain, where the sensor furthermore comprises a door controller interface (340) to provide information in order to trigger different door functions on a door controller, further comprising a detection determination unit (314) that defines a detection zone (26, 28, 126, 128) within the scanning field, where a detection of an object within the detection zone (26, 28, 126, 128) leads to a certain output on the door controller interface (340) to trigger a specific door function, characterized in that the detection determination unit (314) is embodied to execute a first evaluation step, where a first set of measurements of pulses is evaluated, where the first set of measurement contains at least some measurements of the pulses that are accumulated over at least two facet sweeps where the pulse emission is triggered in a way that a plurality of pulses are shifted with regard to the angular mirror position in a way that they have shifted deflection angles, in subsequent facet sweeps, and where the detection determination unit is embodied to execute a second evaluation step, where the second set of measurements is evaluated, where the set of measurements contains measurements of only one facet sweep of the second facet.
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