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US 6,646,399 B2Granted
Controller for shutting apparatus
AssigneeHarmony Co., Ltd.
InventorTetsuo Kitamura
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Abstract
A controller for a shutter moved between an opened position and a closed position. A plurality of location ranges is defined between the opened position and the closed position. The controller detects the current moving speed of the shutter in each range, compares the moving speed with a predetermined reference speed, and generates a stop signal based on the comparison result to stop the movement of the drive mechanism.
Claims6
A shutting apparatus, comprising:
- a shutting member that is opened and closed in predetermined directions;
- a drive mechanism for moving the shutting member in an opening direction and a closing direction between an opened position and a closed position;
- a transmission train arranged between the drive mechanism, and the shutting member;
- a position detector located in the transmission train to detect the position of the shutting member and to generate a position detection signal;
- an output detection device for detecting the speed of the drive mechanism and for generating a speed signal;
- a location range memory for storing positions of the shutting member in association with a plurality of location ranges defined between the opened position and the closed position;
- an output computation device for computing the speed of the drive mechanism from the speed signal of the output detection device;
- an output memory for storing a reference speed of the drive mechanism for each location range;
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- a processor for comparing the reference speed with the computed speed of the drive mechanism for each location range and for generating a stop signal to stop operation of the drive mechanism when the difference between the predetermined reference speed and the current speed is outside a predetermined tolerance range.
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A shutting apparatus, comprising:
- a shutting member that is opened and closed in predetermined directions;
- a drive mechanism for moving the shutting member in an opening direction and a closing direction between an opened position and a closed position;
- a transmission train arranged between the drive mechanism and the shutting member, wherein the transmission train includes a first output unit;
- a position detector located in the transmission train to detect the position of the shutting member and to generate a position detection signal;
- a second output unit connected to the drive mechanism;
- a speed detector included in the second output unit to detect the speed of the second output unit and to generate a speed signal;
- a location range memory for storing positions of the shutting member in association with a plurality of location ranges defined between the opened position and the closed position in accordance with the position detection signal from the position detector;
- an output computation device for computing the speed of the second output unit from the speed signal of the speed detector;
- an output memory for storing a reference speed of the second output unit for each location range;
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- a processor for comparing the reference speed with the computed speed of the second output unit for each location range and for generating a stop signal to stop operation of the drive mechanism when the difference between the predetermined reference speed and the current speed is outside a predetermined tolerance range.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.