Batten spacers for shade systems
    22.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10077599B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-18

    申请号:US15156449

    申请日:2016-05-17

    摘要: In one aspect, a shade assembly may generally include a shade fabric having a front side and a back side. The shade assembly may also include two or more batten spacers, with each batten spacer being coupled to the shade fabric at spaced apart locations along a vertical length of the fabric. Moreover, the batten spacers may be substantially aligned with one another horizontally along the back side of the shade fabric. When the shade fabric is moved to an opened position, the batten spacers may be configured to vertically engage one another to form a vertical spacer stack along the back side of the shade fabric.

    Linear Piezoelectric Actuator on Rail System
    23.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180254717A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-09-06

    申请号:US15910764

    申请日:2018-03-02

    摘要: A linear actuator has a base, a linear guide coupled to a flat, planar side of the base and extending in a travel length of an object to be moved, a contact plate extending along the flat, planar side of the base, and a carriage. The carriage includes an enclosure formed of an acoustically isolating material, a moving element configured to move along the guide and is coupled to the enclosure, a piezoelectric element including a contact site in physical contact with the contact plate, and a housing elastically holding the piezoelectric element, the housing coupled to the enclosure with no direct contact with the moving element. An electrical power source is in electrical communication with the piezoelectric element, wherein the power source energizes the piezoelectric element to effectuate movement of the carriage along the linear guide via the physical contact between the contact site and the contact plate.

    Device and Method for Blind Control and Automation

    公开(公告)号:US20170362888A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-21

    申请号:US15527653

    申请日:2015-11-18

    申请人: JALOUSIER OU

    IPC分类号: E06B9/322 E06B9/38 E06B9/36

    摘要: The invention is related to window blind automation and provides a removable device for blind control and automation. The invention is also related to a method for blind control and automation. The device is attached to window blinds headrail with magnets, hooks or other means and the tilter or the cords are put inside the mechanism. The device has a hole where the adaptor is inserted. There are different types of small adaptors for different types of tilters. There is a light sensor for ambient light which might be hidden under semi-transparent plastic or be visible on the enclosure. In the lower part of the drawing the version for vertical blinds is shown. At the side of the verticals there is a metal shaft and the device connects to it with a gear wheel. For verticals, the device is attached to the side of the headrail.

    Window treatment
    26.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US09797192B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-24

    申请号:US15243086

    申请日:2016-08-22

    摘要: A window covering is provided. The window covering may include a frame mountable within a window return. The frame includes up to four frame members. The four frame members include a first side member having a first light stop, a second side member having a second light stop, a top member having a top light stop, and a bottom member having a bottom light stop. The top member may be coupled between top ends of the first side member and the second side member and the bottom member may be coupled between bottom ends of the first side member and the second side member to form a rectilinear shaped frame. A window covering may be coupled within the frame, wherein the light stops reduce a light gap between the window covering and the frame.

    Slat Holder
    28.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170089131A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-03-30

    申请号:US15107403

    申请日:2014-12-23

    申请人: Okalux GMBH

    发明人: Frank Schneider

    IPC分类号: E06B9/38 E06B9/264

    摘要: The invention relates to a holder for one or more elongate elements (70, 72), particularly slats for shading systems and daylight control systems, comprising an elastic or resilient compensating unit having two profiles (50, 150) which are located opposite one another and engage in one another and are arranged such as to be movable relative to one another in the longitudinal direction of the elongate elements (70, 72), said two profiles forming a common interior (90). Accommodated in the interior (90) is a spring element (92) which is compressed when the elongate element (70, 72) expands under the effect of temperature and which relaxes when the elongate element (70, 72) contracts in the longitudinal direction of the elongate element (70, 72). The spring element is held in the interior (90) with a clamping fit or friction fit, a compensating movement in the longitudinal direction being possible. The profiles of the compensating unit each comprise, on the side facing away from the interior (90), a further profile (30, 130) which is formed in one piece therewith and is designed to hold the elongate elements (70, 72) or as a spacer from a window frame or carrier element (8). The components, consisting in each case of one profile (50, 150) of the compensating unit and a further profile (30, 130), are identical.

    Systems for maintaining window covers
    30.
    发明授权
    Systems for maintaining window covers 有权
    维护窗户的系统

    公开(公告)号:US09574396B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-02-21

    申请号:US15141695

    申请日:2016-04-28

    发明人: Andrew J. Toti

    摘要: A spring drive system includes a housing, an extendible window cover coupled with the housing, and at least one lift cord coupled to the cover for raising and lowering the window cover. A spring drive system comprises a first spring drive spool spaced apart from a second spring drive spool and at least one spring having a storage end coupled to one of the spring drive spools and an output end coupled to the other of the spring drive spools. A first cord spool has a first cord spool axis. The lift cord extends from the first cord spool to the window cover for assisting in raising and lowering of the cover, and the spring drive system affects rotation of the first cord spool about the first cord spool axis and has no external hand-operated control cord input to raise and lower the window cover.

    摘要翻译: 弹簧驱动系统包括壳体,与壳体联接的可延伸的窗罩,以及耦合到盖的至少一个提升绳,用于升高和降低窗盖。 弹簧驱动系统包括与第二弹簧驱动卷轴间隔开的第一弹簧驱动卷轴和至少一个弹簧,其具有联接到弹簧驱动线轴中的一个的存储端和联接到另一个弹簧驱动线轴的输出端。 第一帘线卷轴具有第一帘线卷轴轴线。 提升绳从第一帘线卷轴延伸到窗盖,用于辅助盖的升高和降低,并且弹簧驱动系统影响第一帘线卷轴围绕第一帘线卷轴轴线的旋转,并且没有外部手动控制绳 输入以升高和降低窗户盖。