Pulley-Driven Automated Window or Door System
AssigneeHall Labs LLC
InventorsDavid R. Hall, Jerome Miles, Nathan Davis, Seth J. Myer
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Abstract
A motorized window with one or more motors and a frame with a slidable segment is disclosed. A drive system with pulleys engages with a belt or chain mounted to the frame or slidable segment. Rotating a first pulley in a first rotational direction causes the first pulley to pull the slidable segment in a first linear direction. Rotating the first pulley in a second rotational direction causes the first pulley to pull the slidable segment in a second linear direction. Preferably, a controller controls the operation of the motors. Sensors inform the controller, and user input via a mobile device enables both direct user control and programming of the controller.
Claims30
A device comprising:
- a frame and a slidable segment that is slidably mounted within the frame;
- a first motor coupled to a first vertical member of the frame;
- a first pulley wheel affixed to and driven by the first motor;
- a second pulley wheel attached to a second vertical member of the frame;
- a first linear flexible material, wherein the first linear flexible material forms a continuous belt that wraps around the first pulley wheel and the second pulley wheel, and wherein the first linear flexible material is attached in at least one location to a horizontal member of the slidable segment;
- wherein driving the first pulley wheel in a first direction causes the first pulley wheel to pull on the linear flexible material such that the slidable segment slides towards the first vertical member;
- wherein driving the first pulley wheel in a second direction causes the first pulley wheel to pull on the linear flexible material such that the slidable segment slides towards the second vertical member;
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- a power source, providing power to the first motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.