Window covering with head rail-mounted actuator

Details Window covering with head rail-mounted actuator Window covering with head rail-mounted actuator

1998-01-28

1999-03-16

Masih, Karen

Electricity: motive power systems

Motor-reversing

Periodic- or intermittent-reversing

318 17, 318 16, 318469, 318480, 1601681, 160168R, 1601761, H02P 100

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058834800

ABSTRACT:
A mini-blind actuator has a motor and a housing that holds the motor and a dc battery. The rotor of the motor is coupled to the baton of the mini-blind for rotating the baton and thereby opening or closing the slats of the mini-blind. Alternatively, the rotor is coupled to the tilt rod of the blind to rotate the tilt rod and thereby open or close the slats of the mini-blind. A control signal generator generates a control signal for completing the electrical circuit between the battery and the motor in which reference to an element in the singular is not intended to mean "one and only one" unless explicitly so stated in the claim, but rather "one or more". The control signal can be generated in response to a predetermined amount of daylight or in response to a user-generated remote command signal. The actuator can be used to rotate the slats of horizontal or vertical blinds, or the sections of a pleated shade. Or, the actuator can be used to rotate the hollow rotatable tube of a roll-up shade.

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