US 7,504,792 B2
Method of configuring a control unit of an actuator
Florent Pellarin, Saint-Martin Bellevue (France); Dirk Mommaerts, Hirrlingen (Germany); and Juergen Lasar, Moessingen (Germany)
Assigned to Somfy SAS, Cluses (France)
Filed on Jan. 22, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/656,248.
Claims priority of application No. 06 00576 (FR), filed on Jan. 23, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0170882 A1, Jul. 26, 2007
Int. Cl. H02P 1/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 318—466  [318/268; 318/280; 318/282] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of configuring a control unit of an actuator including a motor for operating a movable element of a home automation equipment item of closure, privacy, sun protection or screening, which comprises:
a phase for supplying the motor during which at least one characteristic quantity of the movement of the movable element is obtained with the aid of a measurement procedure comprising at least one step of integrating a physical quantity supplied by an accelerometer, at least one quantity internal to the actuator being measured during this supply phase, and
a phase for determining a possibly nonlinear relation between the characteristic quantity and the internal quantity, so as to enable later control movements of the actuator without use of the accelerometer.