IP Library Granted Patent US 8,661,733
Granted Patent B2
US 8,661,733 · App. 13/262,549 · Granted Mar 4, 2014

Electrical door-locking device

Inventor: Chul Lee (Incheon, KR)
Assignee: The Korea Development Bank
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Patent No.
US 8,661,733
App. No.
13/262,549
Granted
Mar 4, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electrical door-locking device includes screws which are rotatable in a forwards and backwards direction, and are placed in line on one side of a door frame in the direction in which the electrical door main body slides; locking hooks located adjacent to the screws; and a sliding unit equipped with a rotatably-provided locking lever having a latch for latching onto the locking hooks when the electrical door main body is closed and is equipped with a locking-lever-pressing part for pressing the locking lever such that the latch of the locking lever unlatches from the locking hooks, and one end of which is rotatably linked to the screws and the other end of which is linked to the electrical door main body.

Claims (31)

1. An electric door-locking device adapted to at least one electric door body that is able to slide comprising:

a screw capable of rotating forwards and rearwards in one side of a door frame in the direction in which the door body slides;

a locking hook provided in the proximity of the screw; and

a sliding unit wherein one end thereof is rotatably connected to the screw and another end thereof is connected to the door body,

wherein the sliding unit including a locking lever rotatably provided therein and having a latch for latching onto the locking hook when the electric door is closed, and a locking lever-pressing part actuated to press the locking lever such that the latch of the locking lever unlatches from the locking hooks,

wherein the sliding unit comprises:

a transfer nut rotatably screwed-coupled to the screw such that it is rotatable in the longitudinal direction of the screw;

a transfer nut bundle including the transfer nut, a support for the transfer nut, and the locking lever-pressing part;

a transfer nut bundle housing partially surrounding and supporting the transfer nut bundle such that the transfer nut bundle is rotatable at a certain angle; and

a locking lever hinge rotating the locking lever at a certain angle in a direction perpendicular to an advancing-direction of the sliding unit,

wherein the transfer nut bundle housing comprises:

a housing body; and

an opening formed to one side of the housing body such that the locking lever-pressing part is exposed to a locking lever roller.

2. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the locking lever is elastically biased towards a direction against which the locking lever approaches the locking hook.

3. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the locking lever-pressing part has a shape of a disc with a certain thickness, with a protrusion formed in one side.

4. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the locking lever-pressing part having a shape of a disc with a certain thickness is mounted eccentrically with respect to the center of an axis of the screw.

5. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the locking lever further comprising a locking lever roller that comes into contact with the locking lever-pressing part.

6. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the locking lever further comprising a locking roller for latching onto the locking hook.

7. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the locking hook is provided in a position of proximity of the door frame or a screw-fixing housing adjacent to the screw.

8. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the electric door further comprises a locking switch provided in the door frame for checking the locked state of the door body when the door body is closed, and a locking switch-pressing part actuated to operate a locking switch such that a locking signal is generated by the locking switch.

9. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the locking hook comprises:

an inclined section provided in the outside thereof at a certain angle in the direction in which the electric door body is closed, such that a locking roller of the locking lever is smoothly coupled to the locking hook; and

a vertical end formed at the utmost position of the inclined section such that the vertical end extends in the direction that intersects the direction in which the door body slides.

10. The electric door-locking device of claim 9 , wherein a boundary between the inclined section and the vertical end of the locking hook is formed into a round.

11. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , further comprising an emergency release mechanism.

12. The electric door-locking device of claim 11 , wherein the emergency release mechanism comprises an emergency release roller and an emergency release roller plate.

13. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the door body, the screw, the locking hook, the emergency release roller, the emergency release roller plate, and the sliding unit are respectively provided in a pair of units, in which the pair of units are symmetric with each other, on the door frame.

14. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein a second screw is provided having threads extending opposite to the screw.

15. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein the electric door lock further comprises a closing switch provided in the door body so as to generate a signal indicative of the closed state of the door body when the door body was closed.

16. The electric door-locking device of claim 1 , wherein a space in which a screw nut bundle can move in a sliding direction of the door body or in a direction that vertically intersects the sliding direction in connection with a screw nut bundle housing is further provided between the screw nut bundle and the screw nut bundle housing.

17. An electric door system comprising the electric door-locking device according to claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 21, 2013
From: VOCES CO., LTD.
To: THE KOREA DEVELOPMENT BANK
Reel/Frame 030663/0481 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 1, 2013
From: LEE, CHUL
To: VOCES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 030126/0345 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2009-0028373 · Apr 2, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20120017517A1 · Jan 26, 2012