Classifications

• • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
  • E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
  • E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
  • E05D11/00—Additional features or accessories of hinges
  • E05D11/0081—Additional features or accessories of hinges for transmitting energy, e.g. electrical cable routing

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• the invention relates to a device articulated in rotation with an electrical connection system, the device comprising two parts connected to each other in rotation, each having an electrical connection element electrically connected to the other when the two parts are associated.
• the invention will be more particularly described, but not limited to, two parts constituting the male and female parts of a hinge, one of which is rotatable relative to the other and intended if necessary to to be decoupled.
• the invention may relate to any part, one of which is at least removable relative to the other and intended to include an electrical connection.
• the device of the invention relates more specifically to the routing of a low voltage, or even very low voltage, through it, and at the output of the two parts.
• the device of the invention is intended to be fixed by its two parts, respectively two components, for example respectively to a frame body and an opening / leaf, one to be rotatably mounted relative to the other thanks to said device, the device also serving as means for routing electricity from one room to another, and in particular from one component to another, such as from the frame to the leaf.
• Multiple members must be supplied with electricity or electrically connected while they are arranged on moving components such as a door having an electric lock, a door provided with a wired doorbell, a window with a glass canopy surface, called active glass window, illuminating mirror door, moveable panel with sensors, etc.
• the electrical routing is via cable glands visibly and unsightly associated with the fixed and mobile assembly.
• the association and dissociation of the mobile component relative to the fixed involve cabling and decabling operations, on the other hand the latter are not without risk for the user.
• grommets are external, maintenance operations are necessary to ensure electrical continuity and safety, and operate to their replacement because their service life is often limited because of the environment in which they are arranged .
• the invention therefore aims to overcome the aforementioned drawbacks and to provide a simple and quick implementation device, safe for the user, and retaining the rotational movement without damage to the electrical connection.
• the hinge device having an electrical connection system, comprises two articulated parts connected to each other in rotation and each provided with a hollow housing, and two electrical connection elements housed in the housing. device, both electrical connection elements cooperating together to provide electrical continuity when the two articulated parts are associated, characterized in that the electrical connection and disconnection between the two elements are automatic during the association and respectively the dissociation of the two parts, one two electrical connection elements being made of two longitudinally abutting portions, one of the parts being movable relative to the other on the one hand in rotation and on the other hand in translation according to an elastic movement, said movable part being the intended to be in contact with the other electrical connection element.
• the combination of the electrical connection elements and especially their separation at any subsequent time are simple and fast, without prior intervention operation. on the electrical elements, wiring, dismounting inside parts, and thus without risk to the user who must detach the two parts from each other while they are usually metal.
• the two articulated pieces form in particular a hinge, one of the parts comprising a hinge, while the other comprises a complementary receiving cavity for the hinge.
• Each piece is intended to be secured respectively to a frame and a removable body and movable in rotation, such as an opening / leaf, for example a door leaf, window, mirror, etc..
• the two parts of the two respective hinged parts are respectively male for one and female for the other, and cooperate mechanically by mutual engagement.
• the two articulated parts each comprise, a mounting plate for fastening the workpiece to a frame body and respectively a leaf body, and an elongated portion provided with a hollow housing for integrally accommodating one of the connection elements. electric.
• the housing accommodating the electrical connection element of the first male part is arranged in the male part (the hinge), while the housing accommodating the electrical connection element of the second part (female part) corresponds to the housing intended to accommodate the male part (hinge) of the first piece (male piece).
• each electrical connection element comprises a rigid rod made of an electrically conductive material which comprises a free distal end, the electrical connection between the two connection elements being formed by contacting the two free distal ends.
• the contacting of the two electrical connection elements is made by elastic compression.
• the movable part of the two-part electrical connection element is slidably mounted on the fixed part via a spring.
• the spring ensures contact between the movable part of the two-part electrical connection element and the other electrical connection element.
• the residual sliding avoids a hyperstatic assembly without breaking the electrical connection.
• the free ends of the electrical connection elements comprise at their contact surface forms cooperating by mutual engagement, so as to strengthen the intimate connection of contact, ensuring a perfect electrical continuity.
• each electrical connection element comprises a rigid portion of electrically conductive material (metal rod) which is electrically insulated from the inner surface of the room housing it.
• the electrical insulation means for the connection element comprising the movable part are made of a rigid sleeve enveloping the fixed part of the rigid rod of the connection element, while the mobile part is at a distance of the inner surface of the room.
• the association of the connection element is made at the fixed part, the latter having a radial shoulder resting on the edge of the sleeve.
• the electrical connection elements comprise at one of their ends, opposite the free electrical connection end between the two elements, a cable made integral with said path end in the hollow housing and comprising in its free end a connector flush with the outer wall of the room or out of the room.
• the cable connector of each of the parts is intended to be connected to a power supply connector of the component to which the respective part (of the frame body and of the door leaf to be electrically connected) is to be fixed.
• the device can integrate in each of the parts (the housing of the female part and the cavity of the male part) several adjacent connection elements being spaced to be electrically isolated from each other, the elements of a part being intended to be facing the elements of the other piece to form pairs of connecting elements.
• the electrical contact between the connecting elements of the same pair is directly ensured.
• the size of the housing and cavity, and therefore parts will be adapted to house several elements.
• Several devices can be used to connect in rotation and electrically two components together (or electrical means integral with said two components), the two components being for example respectively a frame and a leaf / leaf.
• the terms “outside” and “inside” are understood to mean constituents of the device arranged with respect to the external environment, while the terms “internal” and “external” describe the constituents arranged. in the device.
• FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of the articulated device and electrical connection of the invention, the two parts being dissociated;
• FIG. 2 is a front view of the device in the associated position of the two parts and fixed on two components, one fixed and the other mobile in rotation;
• - Figure 3 is a top view of the device in the associated position of the two parts;
• - Figure 4 is a longitudinal sectional view along the axis AA of Figure 2;
• FIG. 7 is an exploded perspective view of the two electrical connection elements.
• the device 1 of the invention illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, articulated in rotation and provided with an electrical connection system, is a hinge and comprises two parts 2 and 3 for attachment respectively to a frame 10 and a leaf 1 1 mobile relative to the frame thanks to the hinge and the hinge of the hinge.
• the two parts 2 and 3 are hinged relative to each other.
• the device 1 has an elongated main shape.
• One of the parts is in particular rotatable relative to the other about the longitudinal axis of the device.
• the hinge is of usual external shape.
• the two parts 2 and 3 are of usual external shape to ensure in a known manner their mechanical association and their reciprocal rotary function.
• the first piece 2 said male piece, comprises in a known manner a mounting plate 20 for attachment to the frame 10, and an elongated portion 21 extending on one of the edges of the plate; the elongate portion 21 comprises on the one hand an inner housing or node 22 (visible in Figures 4 and 5) and on the other hand an outer projection 23 constituting the male member of the hinge.
• the body of the hinge 23 is narrower than the rest of the part so as to arrange in the plane from which the hinge protrudes a transverse bearing surface 24.
• the second piece 3 here the hinge and said female part, comprises in known manner a mounting plate 30 for attachment to the leaf 1 1, and an elongate portion 31 extending on one of the edges of the plate; the elongated portion 31 has an inner housing or eye 32 constituting the female member of the hinge in which engages the hinge of the first part 2.
• the female part 3 is freely rotatable around the male part 2, the hinge 23 being engaged in the housing 32 and the transverse edge 33 of the housing 32 resting on the bearing surface 24.
• the device 1 comprises a quick and automatic connection system when the female part 3 engages on the hinge 23, that is to say once the parts mechanically associated, a continuous electrical connection is generated inside the two rooms.
• Each of the parts 2 and 3 comprises an electrical connection element, respectively 4 and 5 as visible in isolation in FIG.
• Each electrical connection element 4, 5 comprises a longiline rigid member, respectively 40, 50, of electrically conductive material, and an electric cable, respectively 41, 51 integral with one end of the member 40, 50.
• the member 40, 50 is housed inside the parts, while the electric cable 41, 51 runs partly inside the parts and leaves on the outside of each part, preferably at the end. the body of each piece, opposite the hinge 23 and the housing 32 fitted into one another.
• the cables 41 and 51 as illustrated in FIG. 3 extend outside the hinge and comprise a terminal connector 41A, 51A, in view to be connected to the electrical elements associated with the frame and the leaf here not shown.
• the embodiment shown shows an outgoing cable.
• the cable could run only inside the room and stop at the edge of the body of the room in the form of a female connector for receiving by plugging a connector of electrical means associated with the frame / at the door.
• the rigid member 40, 50 could be extended inside each piece and connected to an internal connection plug flush with the outer surface of the body of the piece.
• the hinge 23 of the male part 2 comprises (FIG. 5) a hollow housing 25 which opens out at 25A at the free end 25B of the hinge, that intended to face the housing 32 of the female part 3.
• the electrical member 40 of the male part 2 is in the form of a rod, one part 42 of which is fixed and the other part 43 is movable in translation longitudinally.
• the mobile part 43 extends the fixed part 42 by having a narrower section so as to slide in translation inside the fixed part 42.
• the rod 40 has two opposite ends 40A and 40B.
• the first end 40A is free and intended to come into contact with the rod 50 of the female part 3, while the second end 40B is connected to the cable 41.
• the rod 40 has in its proximal zone an outer shoulder 44 arranged on the end of the fixed part 42 opposite the end 40B, at the level of the area where the movable part 43 projects.
• the movable part 43 is kept sliding in the fixed part 42, a spring 45 being housed between two stops in the body of the fixed part and associated with the proximal part of the movable part.
• the spring of the type helical is in the state of rest out of use of the device (FIG. 5) and is in the partially or totally compressed state during the mechanical cooperation of the two parts and their simultaneous electrical connection (FIG. 4).
• the characteristics related to the spring allow a translation of the movable portion 43 to about 10 mm.
• FIG. 5 illustrates the movable part 43 completely out of the fixed part (spring at rest)
• FIG. 4 illustrates in the mounted position parts 2 and 3, the movable part 43 retracted into the fixed part 42 (spring compressed).
• the rod 40 is an electrically conductive material.
• Isolation means 6 ( Figure 5) are provided in the housing 25 between the inner wall, generally metal, the body of the part 2 and the rod 40, and more particularly the body 2 and the fixed portion 42 of the rod. These electrical insulation means 6 advantageously also serve as means for holding the rod 40, and more particularly the fixed part 42 of the rod 40, in the housing 25.
• the insulating means 6 are, for example, a plastic sleeve that is forcibly housed inside the housing 25.
• the sleeve accommodates the fixed portion 42 of the rod 40, the shoulder 43 resting on the edge of the sleeve.
• the electrically conductive rod 50 of the female part 3 is internal to the housing 32. It extends over part of its length towards the mouth of the housing, however at a distance from the latter.
• the rod 50 is spaced from the metal inner wall of the housing 32 to provide electrical insulation between the rod and the wall.
• An insulator 60 is provided between the inner wall of the female part 3 and the part connecting the end of the rod 30 with the cable 51.
• the contact surfaces 40A and 50A of the respective rods 40 and 50 have forms of male-female mutual cooperation to enhance the intimate contact of the electrical connection surfaces.
• the surface area 40A and 50A is for example 2 mm for the passage of a low voltage.
• the implementation of the device is as follows.
• the male part 2 and the female part 3 of the hinge 1 are fixed via their attachment surface 20, respectively on the frame 10 and the leaf 1 1.
• the leaf January 1 is brought to the frame 10 by engaging the female part 3 on the male part 2, the hinge 23 being housed in the housing 32.
• the rod 50 is automatically supported on the rod 40, electrically connecting the two connecting elements of the respective parts.
• the connectors 41 A and 51 A of the electrical cables 41 and 51 are to be connected to the electrical components associated respectively with the frame and the leaf.
• the user therefore has no electrical manipulation to be performed on the inside of the device or on the electrical connection elements arranged in each of the parts, the electrical connection is immediate as soon as the mechanical association operation (engagement of the hinge in the housing opposite) is carried out.

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