Flexible or portable closure – partition – or panel – Automatic control
Reexamination Certificate
2005-11-15
2005-11-15
Purol, David (Department: 3634)
Flexible or portable closure, partition, or panel
Automatic control
C160S310000, C049S028000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06964289
ABSTRACT:
An impact sensing system for a powered roll-up door combines an electrical switch and a breakaway coupling. To avoid damage or injury resulting from the door's roll-up curtain accidentally closing upon an obstacle or something striking the curtain, the breakaway coupling responds to such a collision by breaking away, which releases a lower portion of the curtain from between its two vertical guide tracks. Each breakaway coupling includes a set of electrical contacts that make or break in response to the coupling breaking away. When the curtain's lower portion becomes effectively derailed from its guide track, the electrical contacts disable continued operation of the door to prevent the door's drive motor from jamming the curtain. In some embodiments, the breakaway coupling is releasably held together by way of magnetic attraction between two coupling segments, with one electrical contact on each segment to comprise one set of functional contacts.
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Purol David
Rite-Hite Holding Corporation
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