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Patent No.:

US 9605476 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 09, 2015

Motorized gearbox assembly having a direct-drive position encoder

Applicant:

David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);

Inventors:

David R. Hall, Provo, UT (US);

Austin Benjamin Carlson, Provo, UT (US);

Kevin Dean Rees, Herriman, UT (US);

Jerome Lee Miles, Spanish Fork, UT (US);

Emily Brimhall, Alpine, UT (US);

Assignee:

Other;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:

Katherine Mitchell

Assistant Examiner:

Abe Massad

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E06B 9/307 (2006.01); F16H 57/023 (2012.01); E06B 9/322 (2006.01); E06B 9/266 (2006.01); E06B 9/303 (2006.01); E06B 9/34 (2006.01); E06B 9/72 (2006.01); E06B 9/68 (2006.01); E06B 9/42 (2006.01); E06B 9/32 (2006.01); E06B 9/74 (2006.01); F24J 2/40 (2006.01); E06B 9/308 (2006.01); E06B 9/326 (2006.01); E06B 9/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E06B 9/307 (2013.01); E06B 9/266 (2013.01); E06B 9/303 (2013.01); E06B 9/308 (2013.01); E06B 9/32 (2013.01); E06B 9/322 (2013.01); E06B 9/326 (2013.01); E06B 9/34 (2013.01); E06B 9/38 (2013.01); E06B 9/42 (2013.01); E06B 9/68 (2013.01); E06B 9/72 (2013.01); E06B 9/74 (2013.01); F16H 57/023 (2013.01); F24J 2/402 (2013.01); F24J 2/407 (2013.01); E06B 2009/3222 (2013.01); E06B 2009/3225 (2013.01); E06B 2009/6818 (2013.01); E06B 2009/6827 (2013.01); Y10T 29/49817 (2015.01); Y10T 29/49959 (2015.01); Y10T 74/2186 (2015.01);
Abstract

An apparatus in accordance with the invention includes a motor and a gearbox coupled to the motor and comprising an output shaft configured to actuate a window covering. A position encoder, directly driven by the output shaft, is configured to measure at least one of an angular position and a number of rotations of the output shaft. The angular position and number of rotations may be used to calculate an angular position of slats of a window blind and/or an amount a window covering is opened or closed. A corresponding method is also disclosed herein.

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