Abstract:
A slide assist mechanism includes a case attached to one of a main body or a moving body; a slider disposed freely slidably in the case; a latch supported by the slider so as to be switched between a standby position which locks in a corresponding portion of the case and a draw-in position which releases the locking; a draw-in unit including an urging device; and an operation member attached to the another of the main body or the moving body and switching the latch from the standby position to the draw-in position, or switching the latch from the draw-in position to the standby position. When the latch is switched from the standby position to the draw-in position, due to an urging force which has been accumulated in the urging device, the slide assist mechanism allows the moving body to move from a first position to a second position on a main body side through the operation member. In the slider, the urging device is disposed on a lower surface side, and also one end in a sliding direction includes an attachment device for the urging device.
Abstract:
A device for moving sliding doors may include a rectilinear guide mountable along the width of an opening reclosable by means of a door, a first bogie slidably movable along the rectilinear guide and connected to a connecting element solidly securable to the door, an auxiliary bogie connected to said connecting element, mounted on the first bogie and free to run along a direction substantially perpendicular to the rectilinear guide, an auxiliary guide in which is engaged the auxiliary bogie, a second bogie slidably movable along the rectilinear guide. The device may include a rotatable arm pivoting on the second bogie and having an end hinged to the connecting element. The rotatable arm is movable between a first position, in which it lies substantially aligned with the rectilinear guide, and a second position, in which it lies substantially perpendicular to the rectilinear guide.
Abstract:
Presented herein is a novel sliding door system that that enables adjustment of at least two sliding doors relative to each other such that surfaces of the sliding doors create a substantially flush surface a support onto which the sliding door mechanism is mounted. The system includes at least one inner and outer sliding door slidably coupled to corresponding guide rails. The guide rail that is coupled to the outer sliding door is selectably moveable by a sliding door mechanism between a first and a second position. In the first position, a user can slide outer and inner sliding doors along said guide rails, whereas in the second position, a surface of the outer sliding door is substantially flush with a surface of said inner sliding door.
Abstract:
A sliding door with a door leaf, which is suspended from at least one carriage and is guided to be displaceable along a roller rail profile, which is disposed at a wall or at a ceiling. The sliding door having a closing device, suitable to displace the door leaf into a closed position in a decelerated manner. The closing device includes at least one spring-damper element disposed near a ground level area at the door leaf by a carrier module.
Abstract:
A runner 5 including a striker 51 in a lower portion; a catcher 6 corresponding to the striker 51 and engaging a movable body 1 in a reference position R; and an urging device 7 storing an urging force when the catcher 6 is in the reference position R, are provided. The catcher 6 in the reference position R captures the striker 51 of the runner 5 stopped and engaged with a rail 2 in a self-propelling start position SA of the movable body 1, and upon this capture, an engagement between the catcher 6 and the movable body 1 is released. At the same time, due to a backward movement of the movable body 1 from the stop position SA, the catcher 6 is positioned in the reference position R again, and releases the striker 51 of the runner 5. An engagement between the runner 5 and the rail 2 is subsequently released.
Abstract:
A catcher member is provided to be movable between a standby position and a retracted position, and at the standby position, while being urged by an urging device, the catcher member is positioned in the standby position by a holding device. When a movable body is moved forward a predetermined movement position, a striker member is caught and engaged with the catcher member positioned in the standby position, and subsequently, holding by the holding device is released, and the catcher member is moved or relatively moved up to the retracted position by being urged by the urging device, so that the urging force is applied to the movable body up to position where the movement ends. An operation device is provided so as to be able to operate to move the catcher member which was moved to the retracted position without catching the striker member, toward the standby position.
Abstract:
A device for controlling the movement of a both motorically and manually movable vehicle part comprises a drive unit controllable in its rotational speed for motorically moving the vehicle part, a coupling device for coupling the drive unit with the vehicle part and a control unit which controls the drive unit and the coupling device such that during manually moving the vehicle part the coupling device couples the drive unit with the vehicle part if the vehicle part has reached a pre-defined position. For this, the control unit (3) controls the rotational speed of the drive unit (2) in dependence on the moving speed of the vehicle part (10). In this way a device and a method are provided which in an easy and low-wear manner allow for a control of the movement of a both motorically and manually movable vehicle part.
Abstract:
A method for carrying out a drying step in a dishwasher that includes a housing, a washing tub, a door with a hinged lower region operable to close the washing tub, an opening device for automatically opening the door to an ajar position and a condensation drying system including a cooling-air flow generator. The method includes guiding a portion of a cooling-air flow along a portion of an underside of a countertop covering a top of the dishwasher housing both before and after the door is opened to an ajar position.
Abstract:
A damper (1) for furniture parts which are movable relative to one another and/or for furniture fitting components (2, 5, 6, 11, 13, 14) of a furniture fitting, wherein the damper (1) has at least two damping components (8, 9), which are mounted such that they can move relative to each other during a damping stroke, and a damping medium, which is arranged or acts between said damping components (8, 9), and at least one actuating element (7) which is operatively connected to the first damping component (9) at least during the damping stroke of the damper (1), wherein a locking device is arranged between the second damping component (8) and a retaining part (12, 27), wherein the locking device couples the second damping component (8) fixedly to the retaining part (12, 27) during the damping stroke of the damper (1), and wherein, during the return stroke of the damper (1), the locking device decouples the second damping component (8) from the retaining part (12, 27) so as to realize a freewheeling motion such that, during the return stroke of the damper (1), the second damping component (8) moves together with the first damping component (9), wherein the locking device has at least one movably mounted locking element (16, 19, 38) which is spring-loaded in the direction of the locking position, and in the locking position, couples the second damping component (8) to the retaining part (12, 27).
Abstract:
Damping device (10), in particular for damping the motion of movable furniture parts of pieces of furniture, with a piston mounted in a housing (12) in a longitudinally displaceable manner which, in accordance with the displacement position thereof, forms two variable-size working chambers on opposite sides that are filled with a fluidic damping medium. Via at least one overflow-connection, a throttled transfer of the damping medium is possible between the two working chambers, wherein a piston plunger (28), fed in a sealed manner out of the assigned front-facing end of the housing (12), is connected on one side of the piston (14), and wherein via the outer end of said piston plunger (28), facing away from the piston, the motion of the furniture part to be damped is transferred to the piston (14). On the side of the piston (14) opposite the working chamber (26) on the piston plunger side, an elongated adjustment shaft (38) is connected with a diameter essentially corresponding to the diameter of the piston plunger (28), the free end of which is also fed in a sealed manner out of the front face lying opposite the front face that is sealed on the piston plunger side, out of the housing (12). The end of the adjustment shaft (38) connected to the piston (14) engages with a passage duct (42) connecting the two working chambers of the piston (14) and is constructed in such a way as to form a variable-sized throttle cross section in the passage duct (42) by making an adjusting motion of the shaft (38) relative to the piston (14).