Filing Information

Inventor(s)	Uwe Scheffknecht · Edgar Huber ·
Assignee(s)	Julius Blum GmbH ·  View assignee updates
Attorney/Agent(s)	Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P. ·
Primary Examiner	Walter Benson ·
Assistant Examiner	Thai Dinh ·
Application Number	US12222993
Filing date	08/21/2008
Issue date	01/11/2011
Prior Publication Data	US20090206715 - 08/20/2009
Predicted expiration date	02/01/2028
Patent term adjustment	343
U.S. Classifications	318/626  · 318/466  · 318/646  · 318/468  · 318/625  ·
International Classifications	G05G500  ·
Kind Code	B2
Related U.S. Application Data	This application is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/AT2007/000093, filed Feb. 23, 2007, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety.
Foreign Priority	ATA3622006 - 03/03/2006 ·

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Abstract

Disclosed is an assembly comprising at least two electric drive units ( 4) for respectively driving one of at least two drawers ( 2) which are movably mounted within a common furniture carcass ( 3). A measuring instrument ( 10) is assigned to each drive unit ( 4) in order to detect a force (F) that a user applies to the respective drawer ( 2). The inventive assembly further comprises at least one control or regulation device ( 9) for controlling or regulating the drive units ( 4). The measuring signals of the measuring instrument ( 10) can be fed to the control or regulation device ( 9) while the control or regulation device ( 9) can trigger the associated drive unit ( 4) after receiving a predetermined measuring signal from one of the measuring instruments ( 10). The control or regulation device ( 9) features a mode of operation in which the same prevents the drive units ( 4) allocated to the other measuring instruments ( 10) from being triggered after receiving the predetermined measuring signal from one of the measuring instruments ( 10).

Independent Claims | See all claims (8)

1. 1. An arrangement comprising: at least two electrical drive units for driving a respective one of at least two drawers mounted movably in a common body of an article of furniture, wherein associated with each drive unit is a measuring device for the detection of a force action exerted on the respective drawer by a user, and at least one control or regulating device for controlling or regulating the drive units, wherein the measurement signals of the measuring device can be fed to the control or regulating device and wherein after receiving the predetermined measurement signal from one of the measuring devices the control or regulating device can trigger the associated drive unit, wherein the control or regulating device has an operating mode in which after receiving the predetermined measurement signal from one of the measuring devices it blocks triggering of the drive units associated with the other measuring devices.