EP1853136A1

EP1853136A1 - Adjustable item of furniture for sitting upon

Info

Publication number: EP1853136A1
Application number: EP05793154A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Eckhart Dewert
Original assignee: Deon AG
Current assignee: Linrot Holding AG
Priority date: 2005-01-14
Filing date: 2005-09-29
Publication date: 2007-11-14
Anticipated expiration: 2025-09-29
Also published as: DE502005004760D1; WO2006074716A1; US7861610B2; EP1853136B1; ES2309799T3; US20080012395A1; ATE401022T1

Abstract

Furniture drive for displacing parts of a piece of furniture relative to one another, includes a linearly displaceable drive element for pivoting a pivot shaft that, when furniture drive is in a mounted position, is operatively connected to a part of the piece of furniture to be displaced, and drive element is connected in the manner of a crank mechanism via a rod-like power transmission element to pivot shaft, one end of which is connected to drive element in an articulated manner, however without displacing in the longitudinal direction of power transmission element, and other end of which is connected in an articulated manner to a crank pin of pivot shaft, the position and distance of coupling points of power transmission element on drive element and pivot shaft being selected such that power transmission element, during displacing movement, changes the angular position by more than 20°, preferably more than 40°.

Description

ADJUSTABLE SEATBELT

The invention relates to a furniture drive referred to in the preamble of claim 1. Art for Verstel len of parts of a piece of furniture relative to each other.

Such furniture drives serve, for example, for adjusting parts of armchairs and are described, for example, by DE 101 48 270 C1, DE 100 17 978 C1, DE 100 17 979 C1, DE 100 31 737 A1, EP 1 294 255 A1, DE 100 46 750 C1, EP 1 318 737 A, DE 100 46 752 C1, EP 1 318 738 A1, EP 1 276 406 A1, EP 1 416 832 A1, DE 101 57 650 C1, WO 03/045195 A1, EP 0 372 032 B1, DE 38 42 078 C2, EP 0 583 660 Bl, DE 296 07 493 Ul, DE 197 18 255 Cl, WO 99/27819, DE 296 03 173 Ul, DE 296 12 493 Ul, DE 190 08 083 Cl and DE 87 11 567 Ul known . The known furniture drives have, for example, a linearly movable drive element for pivoting a pivot shaft which is in operative connection with a part of the furniture to be adjusted in the assembly position of the furniture drive. The pivot shaft can be part of a fitting of a piece of furniture. By DE 10 2004 01 648 Al a furniture drive of the type in question for adjusting parts of a furniture is known relative to each other, which is a linearly movable drive element in the form of a spindle nut for pivoting in a mounting position of the furniture drive with a part to be adjusted in the furniture in operative connection pivot shaft having . In the known Mö- when driving the pivot shaft is connected to the spindle nut via a connecting plate having a hook-like end, with which it is hooked to a pin of the spindle nut. In order to hold the connecting element with the spindle nut in engagement, a spring mechanism is provided, which biases the connecting element against the pin on the spindle nut.

The invention has for its object to provide a furniture drive mentioned in the preamble of claim 1, which is simple in construction and compact.

This problem is solved by the teaching specified in claim 1.

According to the invention, the drive element, which may be formed, for example, and in particular by a spindle nut of a spindle drive, connected in the manner of a crank drive via a rod-like power transmission element with the pivot shaft, one end of the power transmission element articulated, but in the longitudinal direction of the force transmission element displaceable with the drive element and be another end is pivotally connected to a crank pin of the pivot shaft. In this way, a particularly simple and cost-effective and at the same time robust construction, for example, and in particular the power transmission element can be permanently connected to the pivot shaft and the drive element, so that expensive mechanisms are eliminated, which are required when the drive element, the pivot shaft only loose acted upon, for example, to facilitate a release of the furniture drive of a fitting of the furniture.

According to the invention thus the pivot shaft is designed as a crank and is via the drive element and the power transmission element pivoted in the manner of a crank drive. The furniture drive according to the invention differs from a genuine crank mechanism in that the crank does not rotate, but pivots back and forth at egg ner linear reciprocating motion of the drive element to a predetermined pivot angle and herver-. According to the operation of a crank - drive, the force transmission element performs an angular movement during pivoting of the pivot shaft, wherein according to the invention position and distance of the articulation points of the power transmission element on the drive element and the pivot shaft are chosen such that the force transmission element during the adjustment of its angular position by more than 20 ° , preferably by more than 40 ° changes. In this way results in a particularly favorable kinematics of the movement of the power transmission element, which reaches a large pivoting stroke of the pivot shaft with a relatively small movement stroke of the drive element. Due to the relatively low linear movement stroke of the drive element, the furniture drive according to the invention in the direction of the linear movement axis can be constructed particularly compact.

For example, and in particular, the longitudinal axis of the power transmission element, which by the hinge axes of the articulation to the drive element or. the pivot shaft extends, in a first end position of the adjustment with the linear axis of movement of the drive element an angle of more than 40 °, for example, enclose about 60 °, while the longitudinal axis in an end position of the adjustment to the li-linear motion axis can be substantially parallel. This results in a particularly favorable kinematics. According to the operation of a crank mechanism, the crank pin of the pivot shaft is arranged eccentrically to its pivot axis.

An advantageous development of the teaching according to the invention provides that the force transmission element has a guide extending in its longitudinal direction, is guided in or on the crank pin of the pivot shaft. In this way, a freewheel is provided for the case that the means of the furniture drive to be adjusted part of the furniture is adjusted by hand from the starting position in the direction of the end position of the adjustment movement. In this way, damage to the furniture drive is reliably avoided.

An advantageous development of the aforementioned embodiment provides that the guide is formed by a slot. In this embodiment, the guide can be particularly simple and inexpensive formed on the power transmission element.

Another advantageous development of the teaching of the invention provides that the drive element pulls during the adjustment movement of the crank pin. In this way, the force transmission element during the adjustment, d. H . under load, loaded on train. In this way, the power transmission element be dimensioned smaller than a load on pressure, in which the force transmission element would have to be dimensioned so strong that a buckling is avoided.

An extraordinarily advantageous development of the teaching according to the invention provides that the pivot shaft has an axial recess with non-circular cross-section for substantially rotationally fixed receiving a shaft of a Verstellbeschlages, one to the cross section of the recess substantially complementary Cross section has. In this embodiment, the shaft of the adjustment can be inserted, for example, in the recess, so that a connection of the furniture drive with the shaft or a release of the Wel le is facilitated. In this embodiment, therefore, the preferably non-detachable connection between the drive element, the force transmission element and the pivot shaft is the assembly or disassembly of the furniture drive at one or more points. relieved of a furniture.

In order to make the kinematics of the furniture drive according to the invention particularly advantageous developments of the invention teach that the longitudinal axis of the power transmission element in an initial position of the adjustment with the linear axis of movement of the drive element forms an angle of more than 45 ° and / or that the longitudinal axis of the Power transmission element in a second end position of the adjusting movement to the linear movement axis of the drive element is substantially parallel. In particular, by combining both features results in a particularly favorable kinematics, which allows a particularly large pivoting stroke with a particularly small axial movement stroke of the drive element.

In order to make the construction particularly simple and thus cost-effective, another development of the teaching according to the invention provides that the linearly movable drive element is a spindle nut of a spindle drive which is arranged so that it can not rotate and move axially on a threaded spindle that is rotatable by means of an electric motor.

The invention will be explained in more detail with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawing, in which an embodiment of an inventive Furniture drive is shown. All the features described, illustrated in the drawing or claimed in the patent claims alone or in any combination form the subject matter of the invention, regardless of their combination in the claims or their dependency and regardless of their formulation or. Presentation in the description resp. in the drawing .

It shows :

Fig. 1 is a schematic side view of an exemplary embodiment of a furniture drive according to the invention in a first end position of the adjustment movement, FIG. 2 - in the same representation as FIG.

1, however, on a smaller scale, the furniture drive according to FIG. 1 ,

Fig. 3 - in the same representation as Fig. 2 shows the furniture drive according to FIG. 2 in an adjustment between the end positions of the adjustment and Fig. 4 - in the same representation as FIG. 2 shows the furniture drive according to FIG. 2 in a second end position of the adjustment movement.

In Fig. 1 shows an exemplary embodiment of a furniture drive 2 according to the invention, which has a housing 4, which consists of interconnectable half shells, of which in FIG. 1, a half shell has been omitted for reasons of illustration. The furniture drive 2 is used for adjusting parts of a furniture, not shown in the drawing, for example example of a chair, relative to each other. It has along a liearen movement axis, which in Fig. 1 is symbolized by a dot-dash line 6, linearly movable drive element for pivoting a in the mounting position of the furniture drive with a part of the furniture to be adjusted in operative connection pivot shaft 8. The drive element is formed in this embodiment by a spindle nut 10 of a spindle drive, which is guided in the housing 4 against rotation and arranged to be movable in the axial direction on a rotatably driven threaded spindle 12. The threaded spindle 12 is rotatably supported by ball bearings 14, 16 in the interior of the housing 4 and rotatably connected to a worm wheel 18, which is in engagement with a worm 20 which is rotatably connected to the output shaft of an electric motor, not shown, or formed on this. In this way, the threaded spindle 12 is in rotary drive connection with the electric motor, not shown, so that the spindle nut 10 according to the direction of rotation of the threaded spindle 12 in the drawing to the left or right screws.

According to the invention, the spindle nut 10 is connected in the manner of a crank drive via a rod-like force transmission element 22 with the pivot shaft 8, wherein one end of the power transmission element 22 articulated, but j edoch in the longitudinal direction of the power transmission element 22 is fixedly connected to the spindle nut 10. The other end of the power transmission element 22 is pivotally connected to a crank pin 24 which is arranged eccentrically to a pivot axis 26 of the pivot shaft 8 at a rotatably connected to the pivot shaft 8 pivot lever 28. The pivoting lever 28 forms the crank of the crank handle bes.

By the articulated connection of the power transmission element 22 with the spindle nut 10 on the one hand and the pivot lever 28 and thus the pivot shaft 8 on the other hand articulation points 30, 32 of the power transmission element 22 on the spindle nut 10 and the pivot axis 26 are defined whose position and distance from each other according to the invention are selected in that during the adjusting movement the force transmission element changes its angular position by more than 20 °, preferably by more than 40 °, as described below with reference to FIG. 2 to 4 will be explained in more detail.

In principle, the force transmission element 22 can also be connected to the crank pin 24 in an articulated manner, but can nevertheless be connected to the pivot shaft 8 so as to be displaceable in its longitudinal direction. In the embodiment shown in the drawing, however, the force transmission element 22 has a running in its longitudinal direction guide in the form of a slot 34 in which the crank pin 24 is slidably guided.

The pivot shaft 8 has in this embodiment, an axial recess 35 with non-circular cross-section, into which a shaft, not shown, a fitting of the furniture to be adjusted can be inserted, wherein the shaft has a to the cross section of the recess 35 is substantially complementary cross section, so that on this way, the shaft of the fitting is connected to the pivot shaft 8 substantially rotationally fixed.

Fig. 2 shows the furniture drive 2 in a first adjustment position, in which the in Fig. 2 symbolized by a dashed line 36 longitudinal axis of the force transmission element 22, which passes through the articulation points 30, 32, with the linear axis of movement 6 of the spin delmutter 10 an angle a of more than 45 °, in the illustrated embodiment, namely about 70 °, includes.

To adjust a means of the furniture drive 2 to be adjusted part of the furniture Schwenkwel le 8 is pivoted. For this purpose, the electric motor drives the threaded spindle 12 in such a way that the spindle nut 10 in FIG. 2 moves to the left.

As shown in FIG. 3, in this case via the force transmission element 22, the pivot shaft 8 in FIG. 3 counterclockwise pivoted in the manner of a crank drive, the force transmission element 22 changing its angular position in accordance with the function of a crank drive, as shown in FIG. 3 can be seen. When pivoting the pivot shaft 8, for example, a shaft of a fitting of the furniture to be adjusted is pivoted, which is in operative connection with a part of the furniture to be adjusted. As shown in FIG. 2 it can be seen, pulls the power transmission element 22 during the adjustment, ie under load, on the crank pin 24 so that it is claimed during the adjustment to train.

Upon further movement of the spindle nut 10 in FIG. 3 to the left, the pivot shaft 8 is further in Fig. 3 pivoted counterclockwise until the in Fig. 4 shown second end position of the adjustment is achieved.

As shown in FIG. 4, in this second end position, the longitudinal axis 36 of the force transmission element 22 to the linear axis of movement of the spindle nut 10 is substantially parallel.

As can be seen from a comparison of FIG. 2 with Fig. 4, the power transmission element 22 has between the in Fig. 2 illustrated first end position and the in Fig. 4 illustrated second end position of the adjustment changes its angular position by about 70 °. As further shown by a comparison of FIG. 2 and with the Fig. 4, the furniture drive 2 according to the invention enables a large pivoting stroke of the pivot shaft 8 about the pivot axis 26 due to the crank-drive-like connection of the spindle nut 10 to the pivot shaft 8 with a relatively small linear displacement stroke of the spindle nut 10.

If a part of the furniture to be adjusted, starting from the part of FIG. Adjusted by a user by hand in the adjustment shown 2, the first end position of the adjustment, so in this case the pivot shaft 8 is rotated about the pivot axis 26. Here, the crank pin 24 slides in the slot 34 of the power transmission element 22, wherein the power transmission element 22 pivots about the pivot point 30 and thereby changes its angular position. In this way, in the illustrated embodiment, a freewheel is provided which allows an adjustment of the part to be adjusted of the furniture by hand over a certain adjustment -, wherein the part of the furniture unlike a motorized adjustment by means of the furniture drive 2 then in the j eweiligen Verstellage is not arrested.

Due to the permanent connection of the spindle nut 10 with the pivot shaft 8 via the force transmission element 22, the furniture drive 2 is particularly simple in construction and thus inexpensive to manufacture and particularly robust.

The furniture drive 2 according to the invention is suitable for the adjustment of any parts of furniture. According to the invention, while maintaining the basic principle of the invention, a crank-drive-like Connection of the drive element with the pivot shaft position and distance of the articulation points of the power transmission element to the drive element or the pivot shaft are also chosen so that the force transmission element changes its angular position by less than 20 ° during the adjustment.

Claims

claims

1. furniture drive for adjusting parts of a furniture relative to each other,

with a linearly movable drive element along a linear movement axis (16) for pivoting a pivot shaft (8) operatively connected to a part of the furniture to be adjusted in the mounting position of the furniture drive (2),

characterized,

in that the drive element is connected in the manner of a crank drive via a rod-like force transmission element (22) to the pivot shaft (8), one end of which is hinged, but displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the force transmission element (22) with the drive element and the other end articulated to a crank pin ( 24) of the pivot shaft (8) is connected, wherein position and distance of the articulation points (30, 32) of the force transmission element (22) on the drive element and the pivot shaft (8) are selected such that the force transmission element (22) during the adjustment of its angular position changes by more than 20 °, preferably more than 40 °.

2. Furniture drive according to claim 1, characterized in that the force transmission element (22) has a running in its longitudinal direction guide, in or on which the crank pin (24) of the pivot shaft (8) is guided.

3. Furniture drive according to claim 2, characterized marked, that the guide is formed by a slot (34).

4. Furniture drive according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drive element during the adjustment movement on the crank pin (24) pulls.

5. Furniture drive according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the pivot shaft (8) has an axial recess with non-circular cross-section for substantially rotationally fixed receiving a shaft of a Verstellbeschlages having a to the cross section of the recess substantially complementary cross-section.

6. Furniture drive according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the longitudinal axis (36) of the force transmission element (22) in a first end position of the adjustment movement with the linear movement axis (6) of the drive element an angle (ex) of more than 45 ° , preferably about 60 °.

7. Furniture drive element according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the longitudinal axis

(36) of the force transmission element (22) in a second end position of the adjustment movement to the linear movement axis (6) of the drive element is substantially parallel.

8. Furniture drive according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the linearly movable drive element is a spindle nut (10) of a spindle drive which is arranged so that it can not rotate and move in the axial direction on a threaded spindle (12) which can be driven in rotation by means of an electric motor.