IP Library Granted Patent US 7,315,146
Granted Patent B2
US 7,315,146 · App. 10/860,562 · Granted Jan 1, 2008

Blind device with orientable slats

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Patent No.
US 7,315,146
App. No.
10/860,562
Granted
Jan 1, 2008
Kind
B2
Abstract

The motorized blind ( 4 ) device ( 1 ) with orientable slats ( 5 ) comprises an orders transmitter ( 2 ) and an orders receiver ( 6 ) which is attached to the motorized blind, the orders transmitter ( 2 ) comprising a first control interface ( 2 a ) and a second control interface ( 2 b ). This device is one which comprises means of interpretation for differentiating between the orders to translate and to orient the slats on the basis of the actions performed on the two control interfaces, in which the second control interface ( 2 b ) comprises an element ( 14 ) that can be moved in two opposite senses along substantially one and the same first direction and in which two electric contacts are respectively actuatable by movement of the element ( 14 ) in the first sense and in the second sense. Such a device is simple, inexpensive, multi-purpose and its ergonomics for orienting the slats is intuitive.

Claims (16)

1. Motorized blind device with orientable slats comprising an orders transmitter and an orders receiver which is attached to the motorized blind, the orders transmitter comprising a first control interface and a second control interface, which device comprises means of interpretation for differentiating between the orders to translate and to orient the slats on the basis of the actions performed on the two control interfaces, in which the second control interface comprises an element that can be moved in two opposite senses along substantially one and the same first direction and in which two electric contacts are respectively actuatable by movement of the element in the first sense and in the second sense wherein the element is a thumbwheel mounted moveable in rotation and comprising teeth and wherein the contacts are actuated by the teeth of the thumbwheel.

2. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the element is mounted moveable between two stops and wherein the contacts are actuated at the level of the limits of travel of the element.

3. The device as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the element is a thumbwheel or a slider.

4. The device as claimed in claim 1 , which device comprising a third electric contact actuatable by manipulation of the second interface.

5. The device as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the third electric contact is actuatable by manipulation of the element in a second direction.

6. The device as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction.

7. The device as claimed in claims 4 , wherein the means of interpretation comprise means for differentiating between translation and orientation orders as a function of the actuation of the third electric contact.

8. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the means of interpretation comprise means for differentiating between translation and orientation orders as a function of the control interface actuated.

9. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the means of interpretation comprise means for differentiating between translation and orientation orders as a function of the duration of actuation of the control interfaces.

10. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the means of interpretation comprise means for differentiating between translation and orientation orders as a function of the duration of actuation of the electric contacts.

11. The device as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the means of interpretation are included at the level of the orders transmitter or of the orders receiver.

12. The device as claimed in claim 1 , which device comprises a single actuator for the translation and orientation of the slats.

13. The device as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the means of interpretation are coupled with a module for ordering a reduction in the speed of the actuator.

14. Motorized blind device with orientable slats comprising an orders transmitter and an orders receiver which is attached to the motorized blind, the orders transmitter comprising a first control interface and a second control interface, which device comprises means of interpretation for differentiating between the orders to translate and to orient the slats on the basis of the actions performed on the two control interfaces, in which the second control interface comprises a movable thumbwheel that can be rotated in two opposite senses along substantially one and the same first direction so that each displacement of a certain angle of the thumbwheel causes an orientation displacement step of the slats.

15. The device according to claim 14 , wherein the thumbwheel can be moved with a plurality of displacement steps, a control command being transmitted for each displacement step.

16. The device according to claim 14 , wherein the thumbwheel can be moved with a plurality of displacement steps, a control command being transmitted and comprising the counted number of displacement steps.

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 8, 2020
From: SOMFY SAS
To: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
Reel/Frame 054644/0539 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Nov 8, 2007
From: SOMFY
To: SOMFY SAS
Reel/Frame 020084/0786 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2004
From: BEJEAN, ALAIN
To: SOMFY
Reel/Frame 015111/0542 →