Patents Assigned to SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
  • Patent number: 11136820
    Abstract: A mechanical module for filtering vibrations, designed to be mounted at least in part inside a casing of an electromechanical actuator, comprises a mechanical member for filtering vibrations (34), being in one piece and extending along a longitudinal axis (X34) designed to be aligned with an axis of rotation of a rotor of an electric motor. The member (34) comprises a first end portion (35) and an intermediate portion (36). The first end portion (35) comprises a first ring (37). The intermediate portion (36) is connected to the first end portion (35). The first ring (37) of the first end portion (35) has a first diameter that is greater than a greatest dimension of the intermediate portion (36) measured in a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis (X34). The first end portion (35) further comprises a plurality of first arms (38), each first arm (38) connecting the intermediate portion (36) to the first ring (37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Cyril Schuehmacher, Sébastien Lemaître, Jérôme Pezet
  • Publication number: 20210285286
    Abstract: Home-automation actuator (11) comprising a motor (16), a housing (17), a mechanical module for filtering vibrations (33; 33a; 33b; 33c), a module for absorbing vibrations (130) and a torque support (21), the mechanical module comprising a first end (35, 135) and a second end (39, 139), —the first end (35, 135) being connected to the housing (17), —the second end (39, 139) being connected to the torque support (21), the mechanical module providing the connection between the housing (17) and the torque support so as to rotate around a first axis (X) of the actuator, the absorption module translationally connecting the housing (17) to the torque support (21) allowing a rotational degree of freedom between the housing (17) and the torque support (21).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Cyril Schuehmacher, Sébastien Lemaître, Jérôme Pezet, Adrien Brondex, Eric Lagarde
  • Publication number: 20210246724
    Abstract: A mechanical module for filtering vibrations, designed to be mounted at least in part inside a casing of an electromechanical actuator, comprises a mechanical member for filtering vibrations (34), being in one piece and extending along a longitudinal axis (X34) designed to be aligned with an axis of rotation of a rotor of an electric motor. The member (34) comprises a first end portion (35) and an intermediate portion (36). The first end portion (35) comprises a first ring (37). The intermediate portion (36) is connected to the first end portion (35). The first ring (37) of the first end portion (35) has a first diameter that is greater than a greatest dimension of the intermediate portion (36) measured in a plane orthogonal to the longitudinal axis (X34). The first end portion (35) further comprises a plurality of first arms (38), each first arm (38) connecting the intermediate portion (36) to the first ring (37).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Cyril Schuehmacher, Sébastien Lemaître, Jérôme Pezet
  • Patent number: 11063900
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for communicating between communicating elements forming part of a home automation system for a building, each communicating element being connected in a communication network allowing communication according to a predefined communication protocol. Each communicating element of the communication network stores a current network address in a memory of the communicating element, the current network address being used for point-to-point addressing in the communication network, and each communicating element stores at least one preceding network address of the communicating element in the memory of the communicating element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventor: Sylvain Fargier
  • Patent number: 11053735
    Abstract: An electromechanical actuator includes a spring brake with a helical spring, a drum, an input member, an output member and a cap. The drum includes a housing with an inner friction surface configured to cooperate with at least one turn of the spring. The input member includes a driving tooth extending between the input member and the cap. The input member or the cap includes a spacer extending between the input member and the cap. The input member includes a first radial retention element of the spring extending between the tooth and the spacer, along a first side of the brake. Furthermore, the cap includes a second radial retention element of the spring extending between the tooth and the spacer, along a second side of the brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventor: Marc Sonzini
  • Patent number: 11017645
    Abstract: Method for monitoring for presence in a surveillance zone (ZS) using a surveillance system (SY), comprising the following steps: detecting an absence of movement or of at least one movement of at least one entity (E1, E2, En) in a detection zone (ZD); creating and/or modifying, in a memory of the surveillance device (Dl), a piece of movement information (IM); sending the movement information (IM) using the surveillance device (Dl) to a processing unit (UT) of the surveillance system (SY); detecting an absence or a presence of at least one terminal (T1, T2, T3, Tn) in a communication network (RI); creating and/or modifying, in a memory of a listening module (ME), a piece of presence information (IP); and sending the piece of presence information (IP), using the listening module (ME), to the processing unit (UT).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventor: Gabriel Peixoto Guimaraes Ubirajara E Silva
  • Patent number: 10996647
    Abstract: Method for configuring, commanding and/or controlling a command and/or control interface (IN) of devices of a home automation installation, comprising the following steps: (E1) collecting a set of status queries (E) relating to at least one possible status of at least one home automation device (3), (E2) constituting a selection of at least one status query (SeIE) of the set of status queries (E), (E3) configuring an interface element (IN) on the basis of the selection of the at least one status query (SeIE), in such a way as to trigger transmission of a collection request (RC) comprising the selection, and obtaining, for each status query (E) of the selection, of at least one corresponding status indication (IDC) relating to at least one current status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Frédéric Devis, Isabelle Duchene, Claudia Rety, Michael Danis
  • Patent number: 10938268
    Abstract: A tubular electromechanical actuator includes an electronic control unit including a housing and an electronic board. A first electrical connection device includes first electrical connection elements configured to electrically connect the board to electrical connection elements of an electric motor and second electrical connection elements configured to electrically link the board to electrical connection elements of an additional electronic board of the motor. The first device is configured to plug into an edge of a printed circuit wafer of the board and to cooperate with the electric tracks of the board. In addition the first and second electrical connection elements are electrical connection elements that are configured to directly cooperate with the respective electrical connection elements of the motor and of the additional board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Emilie Meynet, Claude Desbiolles, Jérôme Besombes, Pierre-André Gardic
  • Patent number: 10934773
    Abstract: A motorized maneuvering device (1) intended to manoeuvre a moving windable fabric screen (3), the motorized maneuvering device includes an actuator (4), comprising a hollow housing (41) containing a gear motor and a mounting end-plate (7a) which has a first support (11) extending from the end-plate along a first longitudinal axis (X-X?) and cooperating with the housing (41) of the actuator (4) and a second support (12) extending from the end-plate along a second axis distinct from the first axis (Ya-Ya?, Z-Z?). The hollow housing, notably the tubular hollow housing, of the actuator, is closed by the first end-plate support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Sébastien Lemaitre, Julien Peillex, Ronan Georgeault
  • Patent number: 10934761
    Abstract: A sliding window for a building includes a stationary frame, an opening leaf, a motorized drive device, a fittings system, and a locking control device. The motorized drive device includes an electromechanical actuator, a flexible element, and a drive arm. The flexible element drives movement of the opening leaf with respect to the stationary frame when the actuator is electrically activated. The arm is connected both to a frame of the opening leaf and to the flexible element. The locking control device collaborates with a lock of the fittings system and is actuated by the flexible element when the actuator is electrically activated. The drive arm supports the locking control device. The fittings system also includes an errorproofing system. The locking control device actuates the lock following activation of the errorproofing system and when the actuator is electrically activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignees: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA, GROUPE LIEBOT
    Inventors: Pierre-Emmanuel Cavarec, Marc Brechemier, David Serve, Christophe Jacquin, Stéphane Beau, Julien Cron
  • Publication number: 20200410827
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for electronically controlling the power supply to a multi-phase motor, said method comprising: supplying at least one phase of the motor with a suitable first periodic or pseudo-periodic electrical signal such that the electric motor and/or a structure linked to the motor emits a first sound signal, the above-mentioned first signal being supplied while a rotor of the motor is maintained immobile relative to a stator of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Sébastien Lemaître, Serge Bruno
  • Patent number: 10879780
    Abstract: This electromechanical actuator configured for controlling screens includes an electronically-commutated, brushless, DC electric motor, a rotor and a stator of the electric motor being positioned coaxially around an axis of rotation, the rotor including a rotor body provided with magnetic elements distributed over the outer surface of the rotor, the magnetic elements of the rotor being surrounded by the stator, the stator being formed by a stator core including a circular peripheral wall and pole elements supporting windings, the pole elements being distributed on the inside of the peripheral wall. The ratio between the outer diameter of the stator and the inner diameter of same is less than 1.7. Further, the ratio between the axial length of the stator and the outer diameter of the stator is greater than 1.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Thierry Tollance, Sébastien Lemaitre
  • Publication number: 20200386045
    Abstract: A motorized operating device for a movable screen including a roll-up fabric of a screen device, the motorized operating device being intended to be hung by the fabric and including a winding tube which is movable about a first axis (X) and on which the fabric is intended to be wound, and a first fixing element for fixing a first end of the fabric to the winding tube, the first fixing element including at least one first slot formed in the winding tube and intended to receive one end of the fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Sébastien Lemaitre, Guillaume Ducretet-Pajot
  • Publication number: 20200308907
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tubular home-automation actuator for driving a winding tube (310), said actuator comprising a head system (100) including a fixed point (1), a bush bearing (2), and a head (3A; 3B), The fixed point (1) forms a bearing surface (11) for guiding the bush bearing (2) in rotation, said bush bearing (2) partially covering a tube (210) of the tubular home-automation actuator. The head (3A, 3B) comprises a bore (32) having a first connecting element (33) that engages with a second connecting element (13) provided on the outer periphery of the fixed point (1) such as to connect the head and the fixed point in a rotatable manner. The head comprises a stop element (31) serving as an axial stop to the bush bearing along the longitudinal axis when the head is mounted on the fixed point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Adrien Brondex, Nicolas Hafner
  • Patent number: 10704325
    Abstract: Disclosed is a motor assembly for a motor unit for driving a shaft for rolling a blind, the assembly including a rotary motor and an output shaft connected to the rotary motor in order to transmit the torque supplied by the rotary motor to the rolling shaft, the output shaft including a first socket for receiving a drive member of the rolling shaft of a roller blind. The output shaft also includes a second socket, separate from the first socket, for securing a non-roller blind to the rolling shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Ronan Georgeault, Stephane Thumerel, Frederic Volle
  • Patent number: 10666301
    Abstract: This multifrequency device (10) is configured to be connected via at least two conductors (121, 122) to an electricity supply grid (11). This device comprises: at least one radiofrequency module (13) comprising at least one first and one second input/output port (131, 132), which ports are able to emit and/or receive radiofrequency signals at two different frequencies; and at least two matching circuits (14, 15) that are configured to block the propagation of radiofrequency signals propagating over the conductors, each matching circuit comprising a plurality of terminals. One terminal (141, 151) of each matching circuit is connected to the first conductor or to the second conductor. One terminal (142, 151) of each matching circuit is connected to the first input/output port or to the second input/output port of the radiofrequency module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Michel Ramus, Serge Robin
  • Patent number: 10658131
    Abstract: The invention relates to a remote-control device (14) which comprises a portable remote control (10) and a wall mounting (12), the portable remote control (10) comprising a housing (16) having a rear surface (40) and a front surface (42), located on either side of and at a distance from a median plane (M) of the housing (16), the housing (16) including a recess (48) open at least on the rear surface (40), the wall mounting (12) having a surface (28) for bearing against a wall along a bearing plane (P) and a head (24) projecting from the bearing plane (P), the head (24) penetrating into the recess (48) in an anchoring position of the portable remote control (10) so as to pass through the median plane (M) of the housing (16). The recess (48) is shaped so as to match the shape of the head (24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Pierre Escurier, Alizé Le Goueff, Frédéric Strubi, Philippe Bajard, Thomas Desagre
  • Patent number: D876355
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Zhishan Cai, Yanbo He, Binfeng Xu, Jiantao Yin, Yang Yu
  • Patent number: D920713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Prevoteau, Alizé Legoueff
  • Patent number: D932798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: SOMFY ACTIVITES SA
    Inventors: Mathieu Prevoteau, Thomas Desagre