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    • 专利摘要:
    Control device (1) for controlling a lighting system comprising at least one light source, wherein said controlling device (1) is linked to said lighting system, and wherein the controlling device (1) comprises: a switching mechanism intended for turn on and off the lighting system, a regulating mechanism designed to regulate the light intensity of the lighting system, and an interface, which can be operated by a user to control the on and off, as well as regulate the intensity of the lighting. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)
    公开号:ES2645411A1
    申请号:ES201630735
    申请日:2016-06-02
    公开日:2017-12-05
    发明作者:Adrià RIQUÈ REBULL；Clara BATISTE MAYAS；Salvi PLAJA MIRÓ；Miguel GRAGERA GIL；Susana DÍAZ GONZÁLEZ
    申请人:Simon SA；
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    专利说明:

    DESCRIPTION
    5 OBJECT OF THE INVENTION
    The object of the present invention is a controlling device for switching on, off and regulating the lighting intensity of a lighting system comprising at least one luminaire.
    10 BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
    Currently, control devices are known which, in order to control the level of the illumination intensity of a luminaire, use a regulator button connected to a potentiometer. In this way, a user can regulate the lighting level by rotating said button. This button can be pressed by a user to turn said light on or off. Additionally, this controller device may have a control unit that can comprise memorized lighting levels.
    Although these devices work correctly, they penalize the control of the level of lighting intensity against the on and off function so that the user intuitively uses the device as a simple switch without using the light intensity control function .
    In addition, these state-of-the-art devices do not regulate and indicate the level of illumination in which the luminaire is located both when it is turned off and on.
    DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
    The present invention relates to a controller device for controlling a lighting system comprising at least one lighting fixture, wherein said controller device 30 is linked to said lighting system and comprises:
    • a switch mechanism linked to the luminaire and intended to turn the luminaire on and off,
    • a regulatory mechanism comprising a control unit and is intended
    to regulate the light intensity of the lighting fixture, and
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    • an interface, linked to the switch mechanism and the regulator mechanism, which can be operated by a user to control the on and off, as well as regulate the intensity of the lighting.
    5 Additionally, the controlling device comprises an electrical connection, heat dissipation elements and a housing that protects it and provides connection means for integration into a recessed box, preferably in a wall, or in a surface box.
    10 The switch mechanism and the regulating mechanism are actuated by the actuation of the user on the same medium, which is the interface of the controlling device. Preferably this interface is the operating surface of a rocker.
    More specifically, the switch mechanism comprises a switch with two states that allows, according to its open or closed state, the electrical supply of the lighting. The user by means of the application of a pressure the interface, causes the switching between the open and closed states of the switch.
    The interface comprises at least one sensor, and preferably comprises two sensors 20 which are preferably capacitive sensors that are housed on the inner surface of the interface, so that the capacitive sensors occupy most of the internal surface of the interface. These two capacitive sensors are capable of producing a substantially linear analog regulation signal. This analog regulation signal varies depending on a linear movement parallel to the controller device, performed by the user along the upper outer surface of the interface. The analog regulation signal at each point of the interface surface length is related to a light intensity so that the actuation of the user over a point of the interface surface length causes the capacitive sensors to transmit to the unit of control of the regulatory mechanism a specific signal and related to a specific light intensity.
    It should be noted that the control unit comprises a first microcontroller which in turn comprises at least one analog / digital converter to convert said analog regulation signal to digital.
    The first microcontroller therefore transmits a digital signal so that the lighting system provides the light intensity according to this signal in the case that it is on, or so that it has a starting light intensity when it is turned on.
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    It should be ruled out that the user-driven operation on the interface can be by contacting it or by positioning it at a distance approximately perpendicular to said surface.
    10 Preferably, the interface additionally comprises an indicator mechanism linked to the regulating mechanism and intended to continuously show the user the light intensity of the lighting system.
    This indicator mechanism comprises a plurality of LEDs also controlled by the control unit of the regulating mechanism to light linearly in function of the signal related to the light intensity provided by the capacitive sensors, the light system being both on and off.
    In a preferred embodiment, the indicator mechanism comprises means that cause signals such as sound, smell, vibration.
    Preferably the indicator mechanism is in the interface.
    Preferably, the controller device additionally comprises a wireless communication mechanism. More specifically, this wireless communication mechanism is linked to the first microcontroller of the control unit of the regulation mechanism, and comprises a radio frequency antenna and a radio frequency module, the antenna being adjacent to the capacitive sensor described above. In this way the capacitive sensor assembly and the antenna occupy the entire internal surface of the interface. Preferably, both are integrated in a PCB or printed directly on the internal surface of the interface, more preferably they are printed on the internal surface of the operating surface of a rocker key or are integrated in a PCB attached to the internal surface of the surface of rocker key operation.
    In the preferred embodiment in which the interface is the operating surface of a rocker key, the communications module is preferably housed inside the rocker.
    5 Preferably, the wireless communication module is connected to the control unit of the regulatory mechanism to allow communication with external mechanisms.
    In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the interface is the actuation surface of an interchangeable rocker that can be connected and disconnected from a module integrated in the wall comprising the switch and the electrical connections.
    In this way, the present invention allows to use the entire surface of the interface both to regulate the light intensity and to turn the light on and off, integrating a functional part such as the antenna of the communication module 15 and the sensors in an ornamental part decreasing the size of the device.
    In addition, the present invention allows regulating and indicating the light intensity of the lighting fixture if it is switched on, and allows regulating and indicating the starting light intensity of the lighting system while it is switched off.
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    DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
    To complement the description that is being made and in order to help a better understanding of the features of the invention, according to a preferred example of practical realization thereof, an integral part of said description is accompanied, a set of Drawings where the following has been illustrated and not limited to:
    Figure 1.- Shows a schematic view of the connector device.
    30 PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
    The present invention, as shown in Figure 1, refers to a controller device (1) for controlling a lighting system, not shown, comprising at least one lighting fixture, wherein said controller device (1) is linked with said lighting system and comprises:
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    • a switch mechanism, not shown, linked to the lighting system and intended to turn the lighting system on and off,
    • a regulating mechanism comprising a control unit and is intended to regulate the light intensity of the lighting fixture, and
    • an interface, as a driving surface of a preferred rocker key (2) surrounded by a frame (4), linked to the switch mechanism and the regulating mechanism, which can be operated by a user to control the on and off , as well as regulate the intensity of the illumination.
    The switch mechanism comprises a switch with two states that allows, according to its open or closed state, the electrical supply of the lighting. More specifically, the switch is housed in an internal block of the controller device (1), so that its state depends on whether the rocker key (2) presses it or not, and in turn on whether the user has pressed said rocker key ( 2). Additionally, this internal block comprises the electrical connections with the luminaire and a housing that protects it.
    The rocker key (2) comprises an outer surface (3) that is the interface of the controller device (1) intended to receive the user's contact, for example by hand, a finger of a user or the like, to control the ignition and switching off the lighting, as well as to regulate the intensity of the lighting.
    More specifically, inside the rocker key (2) a first printed polyamide circuit of thickness 70um is inserted, which occupies approximately all of its surface. This printed circuit comprises a regulating mechanism formed by two capacitive sensors and a radio frequency antenna, which is part of a wireless communication mechanism that also comprises a radio frequency module.
    Alternatively, both the capacitive sensors and the radio frequency antenna are printed on the inner surface of the rocker key (2).
    In this way, the user, by sliding the hand, finger or the like on said surface
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    external from one end to the opposite end, usually from the left edge to the right, the capacitive sensors preferably generate an analogue regulating signal, whose value is incremental or decreasing depending on the displacement and is sent to a control unit of regulatory mechanism
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    More specifically, the capacitive sensors are connected to the control unit comprising a first microcontroller equipped with an analog / digital converter that converts the analogue regulator signal into digital and processes it. In this way, the control unit allows, or interferes with, the passage of electrical current to determine the light intensity of the lighting system for all types of luminaires (reactive, capacitive or inductive).
    Optionally, said radio frequency module of the communication mechanism manages the communications made by the radio frequency antenna with 15 external elements by means of the Z-Wave protocol.
    Preferably, the first microcontroller is inserted into the first printed circuit. Alternatively, it is inserted into a second printed circuit and linked to the first printed circuit by strapping. This second printed circuit is housed in the rocker key (2).
    Alternatively, this second printed circuit is housed in the internal block of the controller device (1).
    Additionally, this rocker key (2) on its external surface, that is to say on the interface, comprises the indicator mechanism (6). This indicator mechanism (6) indicates to the user, regardless of whether the luminaire is on or off, the luminous intensity level of the luminaire, and is controlled by the first microcontroller included in the control unit.
    Specifically, the indicating mechanism (6) comprises a series of LEDs arranged in a line, where a greater number of LEDs indicate a higher level of luminous intensity of the luminaire, from a minimum value to a maximum value.
    More specifically and in a non-limiting way, the first microcontroller achieves that, by sliding a finger on the surface of the interface from the left edge to the right, a first LED will illuminate and increase its intensity to a limit value that will keep it that the intensity of the second LED also increases up to the value 5 according to the displacement of the finger passes through the surface of the rocker key (2), and so on! successively until the finger stops, or the last LED lights up.
    Additionally, the first microcontroller achieves that, when the lighting system is off, with the proximity or contact of the user on the surface, the corresponding LEDs light up indicating the starting intensity of the lighting system if the luminaire was turned on in that moment. When sliding the hand, the finger or similar from that starting point of intensity to one side or the other, the LEDs turn on or off, and correspondingly the intensity of them increases or decreases to the point where the finger of the user for.
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    Optionally, the wireless communication mechanism comprises a WiFi type communication module.
    权利要求:
    Claims (8)
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    1. Controller device (1) for controlling a lighting system comprising at least one lighting fixture, wherein said controller device (1) is linked to said lighting system, wherein the controller device (1) is characterized in that it comprises:
    • a switch mechanism linked to the lighting system and intended to turn the lighting system on and off,
    • a regulatory mechanism comprising a control unit and intended to regulate the light intensity of the lighting system, and
    • an interface, linked to the switch mechanism and the regulator mechanism, which can be operated by a user to control the on and off, as well! how to regulate the intensity of the illumination.
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    2. Controller device (1), according to revindication 1, characterized in that the interface additionally comprises an indicator mechanism (6) linked to the control unit of the regulating mechanism and intended to continuously show the user the light intensity of the lighting system independently If this is on or off.
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    3. Control device (1), according to claim 1, characterized in that the switch mechanism comprises a switch with two states that allows, according to its open or closed state, the electrical supply of the lighting.
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    4. Control device (1), according to claim 1, characterized in that the interface comprises at least one capacitive sensor that substantially covers the entire internal surface thereof.
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    5. Control device (1), according to claim 4, characterized in that the interface comprises two capacitive sensors that are capable of producing a substantially linear analog regulation signal based on a linear movement made by the user on the outer surface of the interface .
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    6. Controller device (1), according to claim 5, characterized in that the
    control unit comprises a first microcontroller which in turn comprises at least one analog / digital converter to convert said analog regulation signal to digital.
    5 7. Controller device (1), according to claim 2, characterized in that the
    The indicating mechanism comprises a plurality of LEDs controlled by said control unit of the regulating mechanism to light linearly in function of the lighting intensity of the lighting fixture, being both on and off.
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    8. Control device (1), according to claim 1, characterized in that it additionally comprises a wireless communication mechanism connected to the control unit of the regulatory mechanism to allow communication with external mechanisms.
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    9. Control device (1), according to claim 8, characterized in that the wireless communication mechanism comprises a radio frequency antenna and a radio frequency module.
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