Electricity: motive power systems – Automatic and/or with time-delay means – Movement – position – or limit-of-travel
Patent
1996-11-27
1998-08-11
Ro, Bentsu
Electricity: motive power systems
Automatic and/or with time-delay means
Movement, position, or limit-of-travel
318 16, 318266, 318286, E06B 924, A47H 5032
Patent
active
057931747
ABSTRACT:
A wireless battery-operated window covering assembly is disclosed. The window covering has a head rail in which all the components are housed. These include a battery pack, an interface module including an IR receiver and a manual switch, a processor board including control circuitry, motor, drive gear, and a rotatably mounted reel on which lift cords wind and unwind a collapsible shade. The circuitry allows for dual-mode IR receiver operation and a multi-sensor polling scheme, both of which are configured to prolong battery life. Included among these sensors is a lift cord detector which gauges shade status to control the raising and lowering of the shade, and a rotation sensor which, in conjunction with internal registers and counters keeps track of travel limits and shade position.
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Colson Wendell B.
Gaudyn Erwin
Holford Michael S.
Jarosinski Marek
Kovach Joseph E.
Hunter Douglas Inc.
Ro Bentsu
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