REFRIGERATOR WITH AN ASSISTED DOOR OPENER
    166.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240151089A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-09

    申请号:US17983875

    申请日:2022-11-09

    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet, a door, a door opener, and a controller. The door opener may be attached to a cabinet and include a casing, a push rod, and a position sensor. The controller may be in operable communication with the door opener and configured to direct an opener operation. The opener operation may include directing the push rod to a retracted position, detecting the door in the closed position following directing the push rod to the retracted position, directing the push rod forward from the retracted position following detecting the door in the closed position, monitoring sensor output at the rod-load sensor while directing the push rod forward, detecting contact with the door while monitoring sensor output, and halting the push rod at a partially extended position in response to detecting contact.

    Apparatus for guiding rotation of gear hinge part in rotary door

    公开(公告)号:US11927040B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-12

    申请号:US17635989

    申请日:2020-08-18

    Inventor: Kwang-Seog Lee

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device capable of guiding a stable rotational actuation between a first support bracket fixedly connected to a supporting frame side of a door frame and a second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side in a gear hinge unit constituting a rotating door, specifically, in a door hinge in which a gear hinge unit is provided between the first support bracket fixedly connected to the support frame side of the door frame and the second support bracket fixedly connected to the door side, by minimizing the compressive stress generated in the lower gear hinge unit under a neutral axis of the door and the tensile stress generated in the upper gear hinge unit above the neutral axis of the door by the rotational moment applied to the gear hinge unit due to the load of the door, it is possible not only to secure and maintain the correct opening/closing performance of the door, but also to minimize damage to parts caused by friction or friction noise in the door hinge.

    Sectional lifting door system
    168.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11913272B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-27

    申请号:US18170610

    申请日:2023-02-17

    CPC classification number: E05F15/686 E05F15/668 E05Y2201/71 E05Y2900/106

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sectional lifting door system. When the system is in normal operation, a door operator drives a cable drum to wind or unwind a cable for lifting or lowering slats. During a process of lowering the slats, if the slats is stopped or slowed unexpectedly (e.g. the slats hit an obstacle below), the door operator is disconnected from a shaft automatically. At this time, even if the door operator is still activated, the shaft does not rotate, the cable drum does not unwind the cable so that a certain tension force can be maintained on the cable and that the cable is prevented from loosening from the drum, thereby preventing the slats from falling off. Also, it can avoid the situation that the weight of the slats is completely applied to the obstacle because the cable drum continuously unwinds the cable.

    Heavy duty full energy, encoder driven non-handed electric door operator

    公开(公告)号:US11859430B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-02

    申请号:US17453340

    申请日:2021-11-02

    Inventor: Paul J. Krivoy

    Abstract: A heavy duty full energy, encoder driven non-handed electric door operator for industrial and commercial use a motor and an encoder configured to receive an external set of predetermined instructions. A motor mounting bracket connects the motor to a multi-layer housing. A controller is in electronic communications with the encoder and transmits external sets of predetermined instructions. Internally, the door operator contains a plurality of transfer shaft assemblies in communication with each other and connected with the motor at one end and an output shaft at the other end. The output shaft terminates at each end in a nondetachable spline. A detachable mounting plate serves as a base. The door operator operates heavy swing doors external to a building where the swing doors are required to be open or remain open in strong wind conditions.

    Slide Mechanism for Fenestration Unit and Associated Methods

    公开(公告)号:US20230340824A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-26

    申请号:US18344597

    申请日:2023-06-29

    Abstract: Fenestration units that include slide mechanisms that operate the unit through linear motion. Slide mechanism designs include a handle, a slide member coupled to the handle, and a linear rail along which the slide member is slidably received such that the slide member is operable to slide in a linear motion. The slide member includes an attachment structure for operatively coupling with a drive belt to transfer linear motion through a transfer mechanism to a drive mechanism of the unit. The attachment structure is attached to the drive belt such that a position of the attachment mechanism along the length of the drive belt may be adjusted by a user.

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