US 4,900,994 AGranted

Protection circuit for a power window apparatus

AssigneeAlps Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorKen Mizuta

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Abstract

An automatic window glass elevating apparatus for moving a motor normally or reversely by drive control by a switch actuation to move a window glass in a closing or opening direction which has a resistor connected in series with the motor, first detector for detecting the locking time point of the motor from a point for crossing a first waveform signal representing a variation in a potential generated across the resistor by the driving current of the motor and a second waveform signal delayed from the first waveform signal for a first time and added with a first level thereto by obtaining the first waveform signal and the second waveform signal, and second detector for detecting a point for crossing a third waveform signal delayed for a second time from the first waveform signal and subtracted by a second level thereform and the first waveform signal by obtaining the third waveform signal to enable an automatic operation. Thus, the apparatus can operate an automatic circuit when the motor current decreases in a motor starting range.

Claims3

Dependent claims

A power window device comprising:

a window glass set in a window frame;
a motor rotatable in two opposite directions operably connected to open and close said window glass in response to a driving current provided to said motor;
drive controlling means for controlling said driving current;
a switch connected to said motor, said switch being actuated for opening and closing said window;
energization current sensing means for detecting a value of said driving current;
first sensing means for sensing an object being held between said window glass and said window frame, by comparing said value of said driving current to a delayed value of said driving current, said first sensing means being inoperative for a predetermined time after an actuation of said switch;
reversing means included in said drive controlling means for reversing a direction of rotation of said motor for a predetermined time in response to said first sensing means;
second sensing means for sensing that said window glass is fully opened or fully closed in said window frame by comparing said value of said driving current to a delayed value of said driving current;
and
switch controlling means included in said drive controlling mean for overriding said switch and preventing provision of said driving current to said motor, in response to said second sensing means.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 07/204,450Filed 9 Jun 1988
Priority: JP 62-24245029 Sep 1987
Granted: 13 Feb 1990
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H02H 7/0851
Against excessive load: for motors actuating a movable member between two end positions, e.g. detecting an end position or obstruction by overload…
E05F 15/40
Power-operated mechanisms for wings: safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions
E05F 15/41
Safety devices, e.g. detection of obstructions or end positions: detection by monitoring transmitted force or torque ; Safety couplings with…
E05Y 2900/148
Type of wing: windows