Abstract: A soft-closer device has a housing installable in door rail, a roller and latch assembly in the housing and movable relative to the housing between first and second positions. A locking mechanism is adapted to secure the roller and latch assembly against movement to hold a sub-housing in a required position. The assembly includes a soft-closer actuator in the sub-housing operable to extend and contract, with latch mounted to project through and move along an opening of the housing as the actuator extends and contracts, and a journal on the sub-housing at which the roller is rotatable.

Abstract: Present invention relates to an entrance system (10) comprising a control arrangement (20) for controlling the automatic door operator (30). The entrance system (10) is configured to operate in any one of the following states: an opening state (OPS) wherein the one or more movable door members (D1 . . . Dm) are moving between the closed position and the opened position towards the opened position; a closing state (CLS) wherein the one or more movable door members (D1 . . . Dm) are moving between the opened position and the closed position towards the closed position.

Abstract: A lighting system for a door having a plurality of wheels that roll in a rail to support the door in an opened configuration and a closed configuration, the rail having an interior bounded by a pair of opposing U-shaped channels, and the system including at least one light attached to the door, a rail contact fixedly mounted in the interior of the rail, a door contact mounted on the door and electrically connectable to the at least one light, the door contact structured to move entirely within the interior of the rail and to contact the rail contact only in response to the door being in the opened configuration to convey sourced electricity to at least one light to illuminate the light in response to the door contact making electrical contact with the rail contact when the door is in the opened position.

Abstract: A control system for a door includes: a controller; a door motor configured to be operatively connected to the controller; an object sensor configured to be operatively connected to the controller and to detect a presence of an object; and an operation sensor configured to be operatively connected to the controller and to detect movement of a door, and wherein the controller is configured to send a operation signal to the door motor to cause the door motor to operate when the controller detects both: a signal from the object sensor indicating that the operation sensor has detected the presence of and object; and a signal from the operation sensor indicating that the operation sensor has detected movement.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for an installable pet door. The device may comprise a door, a knob, a plurality of windows, a frame, and a hinge. The knob may comprise a latch for secure closing. When the pet door comprises a hinge, the hinge may be inserted into a hinge recess so that the door may be securely locked. The orientation of the one or more elements of the pet door system may be predetermined, interchangeable, or customizable. The door may open from, slide into, revolve within, or move in some other non-limiting equivalent way from or relative to the frame. The frame may comprise a sensor. When the frame comprises a sensor, the sensor may interface with an external device, such as a doormat, to operate the door automatically as a result of motion, temperature, or other non-limiting sensible feature or method.

Abstract: The invention belongs to the technical field of protective articles for infants and young children, and particularly relates to a fence gate limiting mechanism, a fence gate assembly and a fence gate limiting method which can be suitable for protective devices such as fence gates. In the invention, the traditional dual-operation unlocking is transformed into two-stage unlocking, which eliminates the occurrence of unauthorized opening of the gate assembly by infants and young children. The invention also provides a novel connection mechanism with desirable structural strength and connection strength, which reduces the labor intensity and improves the assembly efficiency in production, assembly and maintenance.

Abstract: A design for a universal telescoping swing gate can be sized to obscure a wide range of openings while accommodating a multitude of installation options to make the gate versatile under many conditions. The swing gate can have a frame with a pivot member rotatable about a mounting seat between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The frame can have first and second telescoping members adjustable along an extension axis between a collapsed state and a fully extended state for changing the frame length so the gate can be quickly furnished to different sized openings. The gate can be spring loaded to bias the frame to a nominally closed position to reduce the chance for human error among workers. The gate can also be sized to have the structural rigidity to comply with OSHA requirements for handrails and guardrails around a walking-working surface.

Abstract: A sliding window assembly includes a frame with a track, and a sliding window portion disposed in the frame and displaceable in the track between a closed position and an open position. The sliding window portion includes a handle pivotable between a lock position and a slide position, and a driving pin coupled with the handle and engaging the track. The driving pin defines a pivot axis for the handle. A guide pin spaced from the driving pin is selectively engageable with the track when the handle is pivoted from the lock position to the slide position. With the handle in the slide position, the sliding window portion is displaceable from its closed position to an open position.

Abstract: This invention relates to a hinge stile gap blocking apparatus and to a method designed to prevent hand and finger injuries resulting from inadvertent door closures. The apparatus includes a pair of joined elongate members, each elongate member is joined to the other by an elastic band which extends through the opening of a door frame hinge stile gap with each joined elongate member residing on opposite sides of the hinge stile gap. The elongate members move when the door is pivoted, but are sufficiently tensioned against the hinge stile such that hands and fingers cannot be placed in the hinge stile gap when the door is open.

Abstract: A window vent assist mechanism for use with a vent window operable in a closed position and in a vented position can include a first support configured to connect to a header of a window frame and a second support configured to connect to an upper rail of a window vent disposed in the window frame. The window vent assist mechanism also includes a biasing member disposed between the header of the window frame and the upper rail of the window vent and nearer to an inner side of the vent window and a center of gravity of the window vent. The biasing member is configured to exert a force to urge the window vent to move relative to the window frame to reduce an operating force required to move the window vent to the vented position.

Abstract: A drive carriage for a door, in particular garage door, comprising a body which is linearly shiftably mountable in a rail of a door drive, and a door driver pivotally mounted on the body, wherein a carriage driver which is shiftable relative to the body and is connectable with a power transmission means of the door drive, a latch mounted in the body via a flexible element and is pushable into a recess of the carriage driver by the flexible element, and a latching slide which urges the latch against the flexible element into an unlocking position in which the latch is not pushed into the recess by the flexible element, and which in a drive position permits pushing of the latch into the recess of the carriage driver by the flexible element in order to take a locking position in which the carriage driver is coupled with the body.

Abstract: A roof support system includes a support member configured to be mounted between a roof panel and a frame of an enclosure. The support member is movable to an extended position that supports the roof panel in an open position. A cam lock mechanism is operatively connected to the support member for releasably locking the support member in the extended position. In the extended position, a pin of the support member is received within a slot of the cam lock mechanism such that engagement of the pin with a closed end of the slot prevents the support member from moving from the extended position toward a retracted position. The cam lock mechanism includes a cam configured to rotate to a locking position that at least partially blocks an open end of the slot such that the pin of the support member is prevented from backing out of the slot.

Abstract: A louvre shutter comprising louvres 20 rotatably mounted in a frame on louvre axles, and a louvre drive system that, in summary, comprises a rack and pinion gear system including an externally operable rack assembly and a set of pinion gears 28 mounted to the louvre axles. The rack is externally operable rack and is reciprocably mounted in the drive system housing 42, 48. The pinion gears 28 mounted to the louvre axles are engaged with the rack such that reciprocation of the rack rotates the louvre 20 relative to the frame.

Abstract: A dampening system (28) that includes an actuation state and/or a door actuation system that includes a single-use pressurized tank (34). The dampening system or the door actuation system may include a damper (30) and a fluid pressure source (e.g., the single-use pressurized tank (34)) that pressurizes the damper to actuate from a first position to a second position. The pressurization allows the damper to actuate another component, such as a vehicle door (26) that is operably coupled to the damper. A user may shift the damper into the actuation state to actuate the vehicle door open during an emergency, such as when a military vehicle is on its side after an explosion knocks over the vehicle and the vehicle door is too heavy for the user to open without assistance.

Abstract: A vehicle door enables introduction of a plastic resin through penetration holes formed in the reinforcement bracket that is inserted into the window frame portion in injection molding of the door module assembled between the door trip and the door panel to improve structural bonding force and at the same time assure structural rigidity by forming various ribs and bosses to thereby prevent separation of the reinforcement bracket due to torsion, and particularly, prevents deformation by strengthening bending strength by filling a plastic resin in a space formed between ribs in a portion where structural strength is required.

Abstract: A link type structure includes a lower rail mounted in a longitudinal direction at a lower side of a vehicle body, a lower rail roller unit rollably connected to the lower rail, a lower rail swing arm rotatably connected to the lower rail roller unit and a door, a first link member having a first end rotatably connected to the door and a second end connected to a link hinge, a second link member having a first end rotatably connected to the lower rail roller unit and a second end connected to the link hinge, and a spring provided on the link hinge. The spring is configured to supply elastic force such that one end of the first link member applies force to the door in a direction toward outside of the vehicle body.

Abstract: An architectural structure includes retractable and moveable louvres having a frame having a rear end, a front end and a pair of side walls connecting the front end and the rear end and a plurality of louvres extending substantially between the side walls, with at least one end of the louvres being mounted to a gearbox member for controlling the angular orientation of the louvre. Each gearbox member is mounted upon a track extending substantially along a length of at least one side wall and at least one of the gearbox members is mounted to a belt driven by a drive pulley to move one or more gearbox members along the track, in which each gearbox member is attached to an adjacent gearbox member by way of a connector, with the length of the connector extending between adjacent gearbox members being constant such that, when the louvres are in an extended position, the spacing between the louvers is maintained at a predetermined distance.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a door guide frame of a detachable segment structure for sliding windows and doors, in which in order to improve heat insulating performance of the door guide frame, the door guide frame is divided into an outer body portion and an inner body portion and a thermal break is disposed therebetween, and even when a second pocket guide segment accommodated in the inner side surface of the inner body portion and a third pocket guide segment accommodated in the inner side surface of the outer body portion are separated from an upper cap region of an aluminum material and have a lower leg region formed of a thermal break material, a supporting means capable of providing a good supporting force for the lower leg region formed of such thermal break material is provided without affecting the heat insulating performance of the door guide frame.

Abstract: A space adjustment system and a control method thereof are provided. The space adjustment system includes a body, at least one door leaf, at least one motor, and a control circuit. The door leaf is movably disposed at the body. The door panel of each door leaf includes a panel. The motor can drive the motion of the door leaf. The control circuit is coupled with the panel of the door leaf and motor. The control circuit controls the motor to drive the door leaf, and adjusts the transparency or display function of the panel on the corresponding door leaf in response to a location of the door leaf. Accordingly, multiple space type can be created.

Abstract: A reinforced flexible seal (101 and 201) for sealing a gap or space, such as a gap or space between an edge of a wall, fence, door, door leaf or wing, port or window and a surface adjacent to the wall, fence, door, door leaf or wing, port or window is provided. The flexible seal may be used to provide a barrier below a door leaf or door wing in order to avoid entrance of for example unwanted animals. The reinforced flexible seal has a width and a length and comprises a flexible outer material (102a, 102b, 202a, 202b), and a plurality of elongated metal wires (103, 203) embedded in the flexible outer material and running substantially in a longitudinal direction of the reinforced flexible seal with at least part of said elongated metal wires arranged at a distance to each other. For at least one of the embedded elongated metal wires, at least part of said metal wire holds several bent, bulging or wavelike deformations in the longitudinal direction of the wire.