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US 8,508,167 B2Granted
Actuation device
AssigneeKesseböhmer Holding e.K.
InventorsRene Barkau, Heiko Schnier
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AssigneeKesseböhmer Holding e.K.
InventorsRene Barkau, Heiko Schnier
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The invention relates to an actuation device for pull-outs, shelf boards, flaps, or other such elements to be opened, particularly front elements of particularly kitchen and office furniture, kitchen appliances and flush-mounted appliances, product dispensing devices, and the like, having components comprising a corpus, wherein the element to be opened can be transferred into an open position relative to the corpus 2 by way of a drive unit 5, the drive unit 5 can be activated by way of control means, and the control means comprise a front body sound sensor 6 that is associated with the front element 3. In order to create an actuation device, the front surface of which is to be configured in a manner that is free of impairment, the control means have a second corpus body sound sensor 7 (solid body sound sensor) that is disposed at a distance from the front body sound sensor 6 in or on the corpus interior 4, wherein the corpus sound signals of the front body sound sensor 6 and of the corpus body sound sensor 7 can be compared to each other in an analysis unit of the control means, and the drive unit 5 can be activated by way of the control means as a function of the result of the signal comparison.
An actuation device for pull-out element of a component having a corpus, wherein the pull-out element is moveable by a drive unit relative to the corpus, wherein the drive unit is activatable by control means and moveable into an open position, wherein the control means comprise a first sensor and a second sensor, wherein the first sensor is a front body sound sensor correlated with a front element of the pull-out element and the second sensor is a corpus body sound sensor that is arranged in or on the corpus at a spacing to the front body sound sensor, wherein the control means comprise an evaluation unit that carries out a signal comparison of body sound signals of the front body sound sensor and of body sound signals of the corpus body sound sensor with each other, wherein the drive unit is activatable as a function of a result of the signal comparison by the control means, wherein the corpus body sound sensor is arranged on a sidewall of the corpus body or on the drive unit and has a sensing orientation that is substantially transverse to a sensing orientation of the front body sound sensor and substantially parallel to a length extension of the front element.
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