Electronic lock with LED indicators
AssigneeSunn Fire International Co., Ltd.
InventorShih Tsang Lin
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Abstract
An electronic lock for locking or unlocking a door of a safe is provided with a housing mounted on the door; an axis-shaped coder disposed in the housing; a dial mounted on the coder; a plurality of LEDs disposed in the housing; an electromechanical solenoid disposed in the housing; a latch bolt operatively connected to the electromechanical solenoid; a fastening unit disposed in the housing and including a clamping element put on the latch bolt; a pin tumbler lock secured to the housing and including a keyhole and a lever; a microcontroller disposed in the housing for controlling the coder, the electromechanical solenoid, and the LEDs; and a battery disposed in the housing for supplying electricity to the coder, the microcontroller, the electromechanical solenoid, and the LEDs.
Claims4
An electronic lock for locking or unlocking a door of a safe, comprising:
- a housing mounted on the door;
- an axis-shaped coder disposed in the housing;
- a dial mounted on the coder;
- a plurality of sources of illumination disposed in the housing;
- an electromechanical solenoid disposed in the housing;
- a latch bolt operatively connected to the electromechanical solenoid;
- a fastening unit disposed in the housing and including a clamping element put on the latch bolt;
- a pin tumbler lock secured to the housing and including a keyhole and a lever;
- a microcontroller disposed in the housing for controlling the coder, the electromechanical solenoid, and the sources of illumination;
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- a battery disposed in the housing for supplying electricity to the coder, the microcontroller, the electromechanical solenoid, and the sources of illumination;
- wherein a pressing of the dial presses the coder to activate the microcontroller, thereby activating the sources of illumination to emit light;
- wherein a rotation of the dial causes the coder to generate a coded signal which is in turn decoded by the microcontroller;
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- wherein in response to the battery being sufficiently discharged, an insertion of a key into the keyhole to rotate the lever rotates the fastening unit, thereby causing the clamping element to activate the electromechanical solenoid which in turn retracts the latch bolt from a locked position of the door to an unlocked position of the door.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.