Electromotive furniture drive and method for controlling an electromotive furniture drive

1. An electromotive furniture drive of a furniture, comprising:

a control device comprising a consumer transmission apparatus and a registration apparatus;

a terminal configuration having a plurality of electromotive consumers including of a type that performs adjustments and a type that performs massage functions respectively for the furniture;

a handheld control having an operating control apparatus, at least one display apparatus for displaying stored images of the plurality of electromotive consumers with their respective functions and an ascertainment apparatus configured to ascertain the terminal configuration and to display it on the at least one display apparatus which also displays the stored images of the plurality of electromotive consumers with their respective functions; and

wherein the consumer transmission apparatus facilitates a bidirectional transmission link coupling the handheld control to the control device, and

the terminal configuration is ascertained by the ascertainment apparatus activating the registration apparatus to read out information about the terminal configuration which is provided to the ascertainment apparatus via the consumer transmission apparatus in a manner controlled by the operating control apparatus; and

wherein the handheld control and the at least one display apparatus are configured to display on the at least one display apparatus the stored images of the plurality of electromotive consumers with their respective functions including symbols of adjustment drives, symbols for massage functions, and symbols for an operating state of an extendable and retractable lifting pipe corresponding to an adjustment of the furniture, wherein the displayed symbols respectively correspond to the type of electromotive consumer that performs adjustments or the type that performs massage functions, which displayed symbols permit a user of the furniture to provide control operations for that type of electromotive consumer.

2. The electromotive furniture of claim 1 , wherein the ascertainment apparatus is activated in a manner selected from a group consisting of manually or automatically, when a new electromotive consumer is put into operation, or after maintenance, replacement or refitting of the electromotive furniture drive.

3. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the ascertainment apparatus is configured to generate and display a menu guide for manual ascertainment of the terminal configuration by a user on the display apparatus.

4. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the ascertainment apparatus is configured to automatically activate all of the plurality of electromotive consumers.

5. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the handheld control includes a storage apparatus which stores all images associated with possible terminal configurations of the electromotive furniture drive.

6. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , wherein the handheld control includes a configuration unit configured to release images stored in the storage apparatus for display on the at least one display apparatus on the basis of the ascertained terminal configuration.

7. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , further comprising a configuration storage apparatus arranged in the control device and configured to store the information about the terminal configuration, said registration apparatus being connectable to the configuration storage apparatus to read the information about the terminal configuration.

8. The electromotive furniture drive of claim 1 , further comprising a power supply apparatus, said registration apparatus being coupled to a supply line of the supply apparatus and configured to register current values of the supply line to read the information about the terminal configuration.

9. A method for controlling an electromotive furniture drive for a furniture, by a handheld control comprising an operating control apparatus and a display apparatus, said method comprising:

activating an ascertaining apparatus of the handheld control to ascertain a terminal configuration of the electromotive furniture drive by activating a registration apparatus of a control device of the electromotive furniture drive to read out information about the terminal configuration which is provided to the ascertainment apparatus via a transmission of a consumer transmission apparatus coupling the control device and the handheld control in a manner controlled by the operating control apparatus, the terminal configuration having a plurality of electromotive consumers including of a type that performs adjustments and a type that performs massage functions respectively for the furniture;

adapting to generate, by a configurator unit of the handheld control on the basis of the ascertained terminal configuration, releases of stored images of the plurality of electromotive consumers with their respective functions corresponding to the terminal configuration;

releasing the thus released images of the plurality of electromotive consumers with their respective functions and the terminal configuration for display on the display apparatus, the images of the plurality of electromotive consumers with their respective functions including symbols of adjustment drives, symbols for massage functions, and symbols for an operating state of an extendable and retractable lifting pipe corresponding to an adjustment of the furniture, wherein the displayed symbols respectively correspond to the type of electromotive consumer that performs adjustments or the type that performs massage functions, which displayed symbols permit a user of the furniture to provide control operations for that type of electromotive consumer via an operating unit of the handheld control that comprises operating elements respectively assigned to the images that are displayed corresponding to the type of electromotive consumer of the plurality of electromotive consumers that is displayed; and

upon actuation of an operating element of the operating unit assigned to an image of the images of a displayed type of electromotive consumer, transmitting a control command to provide the control operations corresponding to the assigned image, from the handheld control to the electromotive furniture drive to control the displayed electromotive consumer.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, for ascertaining the terminal configuration, displaying a menu guide on the display apparatus of the handheld control, on the basis of which the terminal configuration is input by actuating the operating elements of the handheld control.

11. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, to ascertain the terminal configuration, automatically reading out by the ascertainment apparatus a configuration storage apparatus of a control device of a control device of the electromotive furniture drive in which the terminal configuration is stored.

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising, to ascertain the terminal configuration, activating the plurality of electromotive consumer by the ascertaining apparatus, by turning on and off all of the plurality of electromotive consumers of the electromotive furniture drive, and simultaneously performing a registration of a current flow by the registration apparatus, and in the event a current associated with a consumer of said plurality of electromotive consumers is registered, considering said activated consumer to be associated with the terminal configuration depending on the registered current flow.

13. The method of claim 9 , further comprising activating the ascertainment apparatus to ascertain the terminal configuration when a new electromotive consumer is put into operation, after maintenance, replacement, or refitting, or after installation of a program or after a start of a program on the handheld control automatically or by actuating one or more of the actuating elements on the handheld control or at another location of the handheld control provided for this purpose, alone or in combination.