Locking device with embedded circuit board
AssigneeSargent Manufacturing Company
InventorsDaniel J. Picard, Robert C. Hunt, Scott B. Lowder
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Abstract
Electrified access-control technology devices for a door, particularly electrified locks for a door, having embedded circuitry therein, and methods of making the same. One or more printed circuit boards (PCBs) having various electronic circuitry are secured inside a housing that encases an access-control device, particularly a lock, for a door. The one or more PCB(s) may be embedded on an internal surface of the housing such that the embedded PCB resides inside the housing along with the lock itself. The embedded PCB(s) avoid interference of both any working components of the lock inside the housing and any openings residing in the housing.
Claims20
An electrified lock comprising:
- a mortise lock housing having a first side and a second side, each side having an internal surface facing an inside of the housing, the second side including a second side opening therein;
- a circuit board having various electrical components for electrifying said lock;
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- a location of said lock adjacent the internal surface of the second side and adjacent a lock cylinder opening, said circuit board and said second side opening both residing in said location whereby the circuit board resides directly over and covers said second side opening permitting access to the circuit board from outside said housing through said second side opening thereby allowing electrical circuitry outside the lock to be connected via wiring to at least one of the electrical components on the circuit board inside said housing.
An electrified lock comprising:
- a housing having a single enclosed internal chamber with at least one side having an internal surface facing an inside of said housing;
- an access-control device residing in the inside of said housing and facing said internal surface of said at least one side;
- an opening in said at least one side exposing said single enclosed internal chamber to outside said housing;
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- a circuit board residing inside said housing in a location that is adjacent both said internal surface of said at least one side and said opening, whereby the circuit board resides directly over and covers said opening permitting access to the circuit board from outside said housing through said opening.
An electrified lock comprising:
- a housing having an internal chamber and at least one side having an internal surface facing an inside of said housing;
- a moving lock component residing inside said housing and facing said internal surface of said at least one side;
- an actuator residing inside said housing for moving said moving lock component;
- a magnetically operated sensor mounted to the surface of the circuit board adjacent to the actuator to monitor movement thereof;
- at least one opening in said at least one side that exposes said internal chamber to outside said housing;
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- a circuit board residing inside said housing in a location that is adjacent said internal surface, said actuator, and said at least one opening in said at least one side, whereby the circuit board resides directly over and entirely covers said at least one opening permitting access to the circuit board from outside said housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.