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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Rockwell Automation Limited, Maldon, Essex, GB;
Inventors:
Anthony Day, Manchester, GB;
Derek W. Jones, Galloway, GB;
Assignee:
Rockwell Automation Limited, Maldon Essex, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E05C 19/16 (2006.01); E05B 17/00 (2006.01); E05B 47/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E05C 19/16 (2013.01); E05B 17/002 (2013.01); E05B 2047/0068 (2013.01); Y10T 292/11 (2015.04);
Abstract
A magnetic latch for industrial environments includes fixed magnetic pole pieces that may be sealed within a housing to resist environmental contamination and which provide for perpendicular engagement faces for use with gates having a rolling or swinging configuration. An RFID tag reader may be incorporated into the magnet assembly of the latch for reading a specially encoded RFID tag in a keeper portion of the magnetic latch.