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Juha Murtola

Mika Helisten

Pekka Hautala

Rolf Norberg

Petri Makkonen

Kimmo Siitari

Hilkka Palomäki

Franck Chinellato

Henne Karlheinz

Dieter Kuchenbecker

Lars Nilsson

Michel Noxfeld

The present invention relates to a locking arrangement by means of which two parts can be locked to each other, such as locking a door to its frame construction. The locking arrangement comprises a first locking element fastened to the lock unit, a second locking element fastened to the counter part and an acting element being preferably a part of the lock unit. The first and second locking elements are gripping brackets, forming a hooked grip with each other when the lock unit and the counter part are against each other, when, for example, the door is locked in its opening. The gripping brackets are essentially in the direction of the movement of the door. The task of the acting element is to keep the gripping brackets in an overlapping position when the locking arrangement is locked. The position of the acting can be changed, and the current state of the locking arrangement depends on the position.

Locking arrangement

A method of configuring a lock system comprising a plurality of lock system devices comprises the following steps: defining a plurality of command and status messages, wherein each of the messages has a specific function when received by a device, defining a plurality of device types, wherein each of the types can send predetermined command and status messages, sending a claiming message from each device, wherein the claiming message from a specific device comprises information relating to the predetermined messages that the specific device can send, and storing, in each of the devices, the information relating to the predetermined messages that every other device can send. By this method, a simple lock system can be set up without involvement of the person installing the system. A lock system and a lock system device using this method are also provided.

Lock system, lock system device and method of configuring a lock system

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