Drive assembly for a covering of an architectural opening

Abstract

The invention relates to a drive assembly (45, 46, 52) for a covering of an architectural opening, comprising a motor drive (52), an accumulator (54) connected to the motor drive, a power source (45) and an electrical circuit (55) connecting the power source to the accumulator. The electrical circuit comprises a step-up converter. Preferably, the step-up converter comprises an input terminal (11) connected to the power source (45), and an output terminal (12) with a supply voltage, connected to the accumulator (54), the voltage converting circuit (2) having; an input terminal (11) for connection to a varying voltage or current source, and an output terminal (12) with a supply voltage, an inductive element (5) being with a first terminal connected to the input terminal and with a second terminal to a capacitive element (8) and to the output terminal (12), the capacitive element (8) being with one terminal connected to a reference voltage (9), a first switch (6) being with a first terminal connected to the second terminal of the inductive element (5), and with a second terminal to the reference voltage (9), the first switch (6) comprising a gate electrode (31) for opening and closing of the switch when a control voltage of a first level is applied to the gate, an oscillator (13) comprising a power input (14) connected to the output terminal (12), a start-up output (15) connected to the gate electrode (31) of the first switch (6) for supplying a pulse-like signal to the gate electrode (31) and an oscillator output (16).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.