Patent Grant
10006224
The present invention relates to a lock cylinder having a cylinder housing, a disk housing rotatably supported about a cylinder axis in the cylinder housing and a plurality of rotatably supported disk tumblers arranged along the cylinder axis in the disk housing, wherein each disk tumbler has a reception opening for a key, a blocking cut-out at the outer periphery for an at least partial reception of a blocking pin aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis and a fixing cut-out provided offset from the blocking cut-outs at the outer periphery for an at least partial reception of a core pin aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis, wherein the disk tumblers are rotatable from a starting position with a removed key into an end sorting position by a rotation of the introduced key in the unlatching direction, in which end sorting position the blocking cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis.
A lock cylinder having rotatable disk tumblers is also called a disk cylinder. Such a lock cylinder is disclosed in DE 10 2011 015 314 A1. A disk cylinder is also known from EP 0 712 979 B1.
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A plurality of rotatable disk tumblers 16, which are also called locking disks or tumbler disks, are received one after the other along the cylinder axis in the disk housing 14. The disk tumblers 16 have respective central reception openings 18 which together form a keyway 28 for introducing a key 24 and which have a rectangular cross-section in the example shown. The disk tumblers 16 furthermore have respective peripheral cut-outs in the form of blocking cut-outs 20 for receiving a blocking pin 22 which is aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis.
The blocking pin 22 is radially movably received in a slit 32 provided in the wall of the disk housing 14. When the lock cylinder 10 is in its closed position and the disk tumblers 16 are thus rotated into their latched position, the blocking pin 22 adopts a radially outer blocking position. In this blocking position, a part section of the blocking pin 22 engages into a blocking pin reception recess 34 provided at the inner wall of the cylinder housing 12 so that the disk housing 14 is blocked (apart from a slight rotational clearance) against a rotational movement relative to the cylinder housing 12.
The disk tumblers 16 can be moved from their latched position into an unlatched position by means of the key 24. When all the disk tumblers 16 are in a so-called end sorting position which lies between the latched position and the unlatched position, the blocking cut-outs 20 of all the disk tumblers 16 are oriented in alignment with one another and radial to the blocking pin 22, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis.
In the lock cylinder 10 known from the prior art, the blocking pin 22 can then move radially inwardly into its release position in which it is located outside the blocking pin reception recess 34. The disk housing 14 is thereby released for a rotational movement relative to the cylinder housing 12 and the disk housing 14 can be rotated further in the unlatching direction together with the disk tumblers 16 until the unlatched position is reached.
A fixing cut-out 44 for receiving a core pin 46 is furthermore provided at the outer periphery of each disk tumbler 16. The core pin 46 is aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis and is radially movably received in a slit provided in the wall of the disk housing 14. In the closed position of the lock cylinder 10, the core pin 46 engages into the fixing cut-outs 44 of the disk tumblers 16 and thus prevents a rotation of the disk tumblers 16 with respect to one another when no key 24 is introduced.
The key 24 associated with the lock cylinder 10 has a plurality of differently angled incisions 26 which correspond to different angular positions of the blocking cut-outs 20 of the disk tumblers 16. After the introduction into the keyway 28, the key 24 first adopts a so-called initial position from where the key 24 can be rotated in the unlatching direction. By a rotation of the key 24 out of the initial position in the unlatching direction, the key 24 first moves into a so-called zero position in which the core pin 46 can move out of engagement with the fixing cut-outs 44 of the disk tumblers 16 and the disk tumblers 16 are thus released for a rotational movement relative to the disk housing 14 to be able to bring the blocking cut-outs 20 of the disk tumblers 16 into alignment one after the other (so-called sorting, i.e. rotating the disk tumblers 16 into an alignment of their blocking cut-outs 20 with one another).
The disk tumblers 16 have a specific rotational clearance with respect to the respective associated incision 26 of the key 24 whose dimension depends on the angular dimension of the respective incision 26. I.e. in dependence on the angular dimension of the incisions 26, control sections of the respective incisions 26 and corresponding control sections of the central reception openings 18 of the associated respective disk tumblers 16 come into engagement with one another at different points in time or at different angular positions during sorting.
For example, starting from the zero position of the disk tumblers 16, the total rotational path of the key up to the reaching of the end sorting position of all the disk tumblers 16 amounts to approximately 110 degrees, i.e. after a rotation of the key 24 by approximately 110 degrees, all the disk tumblers 16 are sorted and the blocking cut-outs 20 are oriented in radial alignment with the blocking pin 22. A pattern of six different angular positions at uniform intervals is typically provided for the possible angular positions of the blocking cut-outs 20, with the angular spacing between two blocking cut-outs 20 adjacent in the pattern amounting to approximately 18 degrees. Correspondingly, there are six possible encodings for each disk tumbler 16, with the respective disk tumbler 16 having to be rotated by a specific angle out of its zero position for setting one of these encodings. In the exemplary lock cylinder 10, an encoding “1” corresponds to a rotation of the disk tumbler 16 by approximately 20 degrees, an adjacent encoding “2” corresponds to a rotation of approximately 38 degrees, etc. and, finally, an encoding “6” corresponds to a rotation of approximately 110 degrees, in each case from the zero position up to reaching the end sorting position. The blocking cut-outs 20 are accordingly arranged at an angular spacing from the blocking reception recess 34 of the cylinder housing 12 corresponding to the respective encoding when the disk tumblers 16 are in the zero position.
At the encoding “6”, a compulsory coupling between the corresponding disk tumbler 16 and the associated section of the key 24 can be provided, i.e. no incision or an incision having the angular dimension 0 degrees is present so that no rotational clearance is present between the key 24 and the disk tumbler 16.
At the encoding “1”, in contrast, there is the largest possible rotational clearance between the key 24 and the disk tumbler 16, i.e. an incision 26 having an angular dimension of approximately 90 degrees is provided at the key 24. A disk tumbler 16 of the encoding “1” is thus generally only taken along at the end of the rotational actuation of the key 24, i.e. after a rotation by approximately 90 degrees, and is brought into its end sorting position by a rotation of the key 24 by a further approximately 20 degrees.
A disk cylinder can also have one or more so-called lift disks which generally are disk tumblers. Each lift disk has the encoding “6” and is arranged at a predefined axial position in the disk housing, e.g. at the very front, at the very rear or at the center of the lock cylinder 10 with respect to the key introduction direction. The disk tumbler acting as a lift disk has a compulsory coupling with the key 24. On a key actuation in the unlatching direction, the lift disk serves for the coupling of the key 24 with the disk housing 14 on the completion of the sorting (rotation by 110 degrees) and thus effects a rotational entrainment of the disk housing 14. Starting from the release position of the blocking pin 22, the lift disk ensures, on a key actuation in the latching direction, that the blocking pin 22 is properly raised out of the blocking cut-outs 20 of the disk tumblers 16 (i.e. are urged into the blocking pin reception recess 34) and is not canted, for instance.
It is furthermore customary to arrange intermediate disks 36 between the disk tumblers 16, said intermediate disks being coupled to the disk housing 14 in a rotationally fixed manner or with rotational clearance. The intermediate disks 36 decouple adjacent disk tumblers 16 from one another so that the rotational movement of a respective disk tumbler 16 does not effect a co-rotation of the disk tumbler 16 adjacent thereto due to friction. Such an entrainment could namely have the result that a disk tumbler 16 is under certain circumstances rotated beyond its unlatched position and the lock cylinder 10 can thus no longer be opened.
The rotationally fixed coupling of the intermediate disks 36 with the disk housing can take place by abutment sections 40 of the intermediate disks 36 which extend at least partly in the radial direction (
Each intermediate disk 36 has a peripheral cut-out 38 which radially aligns with the blocking pin 22. Each intermediate disk 36 accordingly has a further peripheral cut-out 38a which radially aligns with the core pin 46 and which is preferably diametrically opposite the peripheral cut-out 38. The dimensions of the peripheral cut-out 38 are adapted to the diameter of the blocking pin 22 so that the intermediate disks 36 do not impede a transposition of the blocking pin 22 into its release position. The same also applies accordingly to the peripheral cut-out 38a with respect to the core pin 46.
Lock cylinders of the above-described kind have proved to be advantageously secure against manipulation. An unauthorized person can nevertheless attempt, using a suitable tool, a so-called picking tool, to probe the individual disk tumblers after one another and hereby to sort them after one another, i.e. to bring them into the respective end sorting position in order subsequently to unlatch the lock cylinder. Attempts could furthermore be made to detect the explained encoding of the disk tumblers, that is the respective angular position of the blocking cut-outs in order to copy a key with suitable incisions.
It is the underlying object of the present invention to improve a lock cylinder of the above-explained kind such that it offers an improved protection against manipulations such as picking. Furthermore, a key and a key blank should be provided which are matched to such a lock cylinder.
The object is satisfied by a lock cylinder having a cylinder housing, a disk housing rotatably supported about a cylinder axis in the cylinder housing and a plurality of rotatably supported disk tumblers arranged along the cylinder axis in the disk housing, wherein each disk tumbler has a reception opening for a key, a blocking cut-out at the outer periphery for an at least partial reception of a blocking pin aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis, and a fixing cut-out provided offset from the blocking cut-out at the outer periphery for an at least partial reception of a core pin aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis, and wherein the disk tumblers are rotatable from a starting position with a removed key into an end sorting position by a rotation of the introduced key in the unlatching direction, in which end sorting position the blocking cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis, wherein the fixing cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another in the end sorting position viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis, wherein the lock cylinder is adapted such that, on a further rotation of the disk tumblers out of the end sorting position in the unlatching direction, first the core pin engages into the fixing cut-outs and only then the blocking pin engages into the blocking cut-outs.
In this lock cylinder, the blocking cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another in the direction of the cylinder axis in the end sorting position. The blocking pin, however, does not yet immediately move into the blocking cut-outs in the end sorting position, but only on a further rotation of the disk tumblers in the unlatching direction beyond the end sorting position after the core pin has engaged into the fixing cut-outs of the disk tumblers. In other words, a time sequence is defined for the engagement of the core pin into the fixing cut-outs and for the engagement of the blocking pin into the blocking cut-outs. The disk tumblers are fixed with respect to one another (and relative to the disk housing) by the core pin engaging into the fixing cut-outs so that they can no longer be rotated individually (i.e. relative to one another) after the reaching of the end sorting position and a slight further rotation in the unlatching direction. A picking of the lock cylinder in that the disk tumblers are rotated individually by means of a picking tool and the reaching of the end sorting position is recognized in that the blocking pin is set into the blocking cut-outs oriented in alignment with the blocking pin is thus no longer possible. It is in particular hereby prevented that the blocking pin can be urged radially inwardly by the application of a torque and that the contact of the blocking pin at the lateral boundary of the blocking cut-out of this individual disk tumbler can be probed at the same time by a rotation of an individual disk tumbler (in order to successively detect the encodings of the individual disk tumblers in this manner).
Said fixing cut-out of a respective disk tumbler into which the core pin engages in the end sorting position is preferably one of a plurality of fixing cut-outs which are of a similar design and which are formed next to one another at the outer periphery of the respective disk tumbler, viewed in the peripheral direction. The fixing cut-outs or the radially outwardly projecting transition regions between two respective fixing cut-outs can serve as chatter marks on the rotation of the respective disk tumbler (i.e. causing a rattling of the core pin). In addition, the fixing cut-outs are not suitable for a picking attempt since the “correct” position of the disk tumbler cannot be determined using the fixing cut-outs due to the plurality of fixing cut-outs present in a disk tumbler. The lock cylinder is thus characterized by a particularly high protection against manipulations and in particular against picking.
The core pin can move inwardly and in so doing fix the disk tumblers relative to the disk housing by the core pin engaging into the fixing cut-outs of the disk tumblers. In addition, a blocking of the disk housing with respect to the cylinder housing effected by the core pin can be released. The blocking pin can additionally move radially inwardly due to the subsequent engagement of the blocking pin into the blocking cut-outs and a blocking of a rotation of the disk housing with respect to the cylinder housing effected by the blocking pin can be canceled. Once the core pin and the blocking pin have moved inward, the disk housing can be further rotated together with the disk tumblers in the unlatching direction up to the unlatched position.
To achieve a defined movement sequence, a compulsory guidance is preferably provided both for the explained engagement of the core pin into the fixing cut-outs and for the explained engagement of the blocking pin into the blocking cut-outs, i.e. the core pin is urged into the fixing cut-outs and the blocking pin is urged into the blocking cut-outs.
The core pin preferably engages into a core pin reception recess provided at the inner wall of the cylinder housing in the end sorting position of the disk tumblers and the lock cylinder is adapted such that the core pin is urged radially inwardly into the fixing cut-outs by a rotation of the key out of the end sorting position in the unlatching direction. The core pin can block a rotation of the disk housing with respect to the cylinder housing by the engagement into the core pin reception recess. This blocking is released once the core pin has moved radially inwardly into the fixing cut-outs. The disk tumblers are fixed with respect to the disk housing by the engagement of the core pin into the fixing cut-outs so that they are no longer individually rotatable with respect to the disk housing, but rather only the disk housing and the disk tumblers can be rotated together in the unlatching direction.
The core pin reception recess or the cylinder housing can in particular have a core pin guide chamfer which bounds the core pin reception recess, viewed in the unlatching direction, and which is adapted to urge the core pin radially inwardly into the fixing cut-outs. It can be achieved by the core pin guide chamfer that, at a defined position of angular rotation, the core pin Is urged beyond the end sorting position into the fixing cut-outs after the further rotation of the key or of the disk housing. The transfer of the rotational movement of the key toward the disk housing can take place in this respect via a abutment of a lift disk and/or via a respective abutment of the disk tumblers.
In accordance with a preferred further development of the invention, the lock cylinder is adapted such that the blocking pin engages into a blocking pin reception recess provided at the inner wall of the cylinder housing in the end sorting position of the disk tumblers and such that, once the core pin has been urged into the fixing cut-outs, the blocking pin is urged radially inwardly into the blocking cut-outs by a further rotation of the key in the unlatching direction. The blocking pin fixes the disk housing against rotation at the cylinder housing by the engagement of the blocking pin into the blocking pin reception recess. Once the blocking pin has been urged radially inwardly, the disk housing can be further rotated in the unlatching direction with respect to the cylinder housing until reaching the unlatched position.
A blocking pin guide chamfer is preferably provided at the cylinder housing which bounds the blocking pin reception recess in the unlatching direction and which urges the blocking pin radially inwardly beyond the end sorting position on a further rotation of the key or of the disk housing in the unlatching direction. It can be achieved in a simple manner by the blocking pin chamfer that the blocking pin is guided radially inwardly at a defined position of angular rotation.
Viewed in the direction of rotation, the core pin reception recess of the cylinder housing into which the core pin engages in the end sorting position preferably extends over a smaller peripheral angle than the blocking pin reception recess of the cylinder housing into which the blocking pin engages in the end sorting position. Starting from the end sorting position of the disk tumblers, the blocking pin can thus have a greater rotational clearance within the blocking pin reception recess in the unlatching direction than the core pin within the core pin reception recess.
This different rotational clearance is in particular present in the unlatching direction, starting from the end sorting position. In this respect, the core pin reception recess can be bounded in the unlatching direction by said core pin guide chamfer and the blocking pin reception recess of the cylinder housing can be bounded in the unlatching direction by said blocking pin guide chamfer, wherein the angular spacing between the core pin and the core pin guide chamfer is smaller in the end sorting position than the angular spacing between the blocking pin and the blocking pin guide chamfer.
The core pin reception recess and the blocking pin reception recess preferably lie at least substantially diametrically opposite with respect to the cylinder axis. The core pin and the blocking pin are correspondingly preferably at least substantially diametrically opposite one another.
At least one lift disk is preferably provided which is arranged in parallel with the disk tumblers and which is rotatably supported in the disk housing and which likewise has a reception opening (in particular a central reception opening) for the key, wherein the lift disk is coupled in a compulsory manner with the introduced key with respect to a rotation of the key. The compulsory coupling between the key and the lift disk can in particular be achieved in that the lift disk and the associated incision of the key have the initially explained encoding “6”. There is thus no rotational clearance between the key and the lift disk. The lift disk therefore always co-rotates on the rotation of the key.
This lift disk is preferably arranged in the disk housing in front of the disk tumblers, with respect to the key introduction direction, i.e. in the region of the distal end of the lock cylinder remote from the key introduction opening. The lift disk can, however, also be arranged at another point in the disk housing, e.g. behind the disk tumblers or in the center between the disk tumblers.
Like the disk tumblers, the lift disk preferably has at least one fixing recess at its outer periphery for the at least partial reception of the core pin. The lift disk, like the disk tumblers, preferably has a plurality of fixing cut-outs which are disposed next to one another, viewed in the peripheral direction, and which can also act as chatter marks on the rotation of the disk tumblers or of the lift disk.
In accordance with an advantageous embodiment, a control element is associated with the lift disk and is supported in a slit of the disk housing, wherein the control element can in particular be movable in a radial direction. The lift disk can be utilized by means of such a control element to control different movement procedures of the coupling and decoupling with a high precision.
The lift disk preferably has a control cut-out at its outer periphery for an at least partial reception of the control element. The lift disk can selectively be fixed at the disk housing by engagement of the control element into the control cut-out so that the lift disk and the disk housing can only be rotated together.
The control element preferably engages into the control cut-out of the lift disk in the starting position, that is with a removed key. The control element thus fixes the disk housing and the lift disk to one another in the starting position. The lift disk thus has a defined alignment in the starting position so that the key can be introduced without problem. Provision can additionally be made that the core pin engages into a fixing cut-out of the lift disk in the starting position and thereby likewise fixes the lift disk at the disk housing.
In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the disk housing and the lift disk (in particular together with the disk tumblers) are rotatable from an initial position, that is with a key which is introduced but not yet rotated, in the latching direction into a zero position in which the control element engages radially outwardly into a control element reception recess formed at the inner wall of the cylinder housing and moves out of engagement with the control cut-out of the lift disk. The disk housing is fixed in the zero position with respect to the cylinder housing by the engagement of the control element into the control element reception recess. In addition, the fixing effected by the control element between the starting position and the zero position between the disk housing and the lift disk is canceled as soon as the control element is out of engagement with the control cut-out of the lift disk. The core pin can preferably also move out of engagement with said fixing cut-out of the lift disk in the zero position in that the core pin is urged radially outwardly into said core pin reception recess of the cylinder housing in the zero position. A blocking of a rotation of the lift disk with respect to the disk housing effected by the core pin is thus canceled. The lift disk can therefore be rotated starting from the zero position in the unlatching direction with respect to the disk housing.
The zero position, which relates to the sorting of the disk tumblers, can thus be set or controlled in a simple manner by means of the lift disk and the control element.
The lift disk can preferably be rotated from the zero position up to the end sorting position with respect to the disk housing, whereas the disk housing is in particular fixed at the cylinder housing by engagement of the control element into the control element reception recess. The key coupled to the lift disk in a compulsory manner can thus be rotated further from the zero position into the end sorting position. All the disk tumblers are sorted on reaching the end sorting position, i.e. the blocking cut-outs of the disk tumblers are brought into alignment with one another.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, the lift disk has a peripheral cut-out at it outer periphery for the at least partial reception of the control element. The peripheral cut-out is in particular formed offset from said control cut-out, viewed in the peripheral direction, at the outer periphery of the lift disk, with the peripheral cut-out forming a further control cut-out.
The control element preferably engages in the end sorting position (and preferably already during the sorting of the disk tumblers) into a control element reception recess which is formed at the inner wall of the cylinder housing and which preferably corresponds to the already mentioned control element reception recess, wherein the peripheral cut-out of the lift disk is oriented in alignment with the control element in the end sorting position, viewed in the radial direction, in order subsequently to be able to partly receive the control element. The disk housing is fixed at the cylinder housing in the end sorting position by engagement of the control element into the control element reception recess.
The lock cylinder is preferably adapted such that the control element is urged—in particular by a rotation of the lift disk in the unlatching direction out of the end sorting position—radially inwardly into the peripheral cut-out of the lift disk. The control element in this respect moves out of engagement with the control element reception recess, whereby the fixing of the disk housing at the cylinder housing effected by the control element is canceled. In addition, the control element moves into engagement with the peripheral cut-out so that the control element effects a fixing of the lift disk at the disk housing.
A control element chamfer is particularly preferably provided at the cylinder housing (in particular at the inner wall of the cylinder housing) which bounds the control element reception recess, viewed in the unlatching direction, and which—on the rotation of the lift disk in the unlatching direction out of the end sorting position—urges the control element radially inwardly into the peripheral cut-out of the lift disk. The control element can thus in a simple manner be brought out of engagement with the control element reception recess, be urged radially inwardly and be brought into engagement with the peripheral cut-out of the lift disk. After reaching the end sorting position, a control of the time or of the angular position for the decoupling of the disk housing from the cylinder housing or for the coupling of the disk housing with the lift disk and thus with the key is hereby possible.
In accordance with a further development of the invention, the control element reception recess which is provided at the cylinder housing extends, viewed in the unlatching direction, over a peripheral angle which is smaller than or at most as large as the peripheral angle of a core pin reception recess (in particular the already named core pin reception recess) into which the core pin engages in the end sorting position. The core pin reception recess therefore offers at least the same rotational clearance for the core pin in the end sorting position as the control element reception recess for the control element so that the explained procedure control is determined by the interplay of the control element with the control element reception recess.
This different rotational clearance is in particular present in the unlatching direction, starting from the end sorting position. In this respect, the control element reception recess of the cylinder housing can be bounded in the unlatching direction by said control element guide chamfer and the core pin reception recess can be bounded in the unlatching direction by said core pin guide chamfer, wherein the angular spacing between the control element and the control element guide chamfer corresponds at most to the angular distance between the core pin and the core pin guide chamfer in the end sorting position, and wherein the former is preferably smaller than the latter.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, the lift disk has an abutment at the outer periphery which moves into contact with a counter-abutment provided at the disk housing on a rotation of the lift disk from the starting position in the unlatching direction on a reaching of the end sorting position. The disk housing is co-rotated due to the interplay between the abutment and the counter-abutment by a further rotation of the lift disk in the unlatching direction out of the end sorting position. The control element can be brought out of engagement with the control element reception recess in the inner wall of the cylinder housing and into engagement with the peripheral cut-out of the lift disk by this rotational movement. In addition, the core pin can be urged radially inwardly such that it moves out of engagement with the core pin reception recess and into engagement with the fixing cut-out provided at the outer periphery of the lift disk. In addition, the core pin moves into engagement with the fixing cut-outs of the disk tumblers aligned in the end sorting position. The core pin can thus fix all the disk tumblers against a rotation at the disk housing on a further rotation of the key beyond the end sorting position. The blocking pin can only then—on the further rotation of the disk tumblers in the unlatching direction—be urged radially inwardly out of the blocking pin reception recess into the blocking cut-outs of the disk tumblers and thus a further rotation of the disk tumblers and of the disk housing up to the reaching of the unlatched position can be released.
Alternatively or additionally, the lift disk has a further abutment at the outer periphery which moves into contact with a further counter-abutment provided at the disk housing on a rotating back of the lift disk from the end sorting position in the latching direction (in particular on reaching said zero position). The disk housing can be co-rotated due to the interplay between the further abutment and the further counter-abutment by a further rotation of the lift disk in the latching direction (in particular out of the zero position). The control element can be brought out of engagement with the control element reception recess in the inner wall of the cylinder housing and into engagement with the control cut-out of the lift disk by the rotational movement of the disk housing. In addition, the core pin can be urged radially inwardly out of the core pin reception recess such that the core pin moves out of engagement with the core pin reception recess and into engagement with the fixing cut-out provided at the outer periphery of the lift disk. In this respect the core pin also moves into engagement with the fixing cut-outs of the disk tumblers (oriented in the zero position, viewed in the radial direction, in alignment with the core pin reception recess) so that the core pin fixes all the disk tumblers against a rotation at the disk housing on the further rotation of the key in the latching direction beyond the zero position. The disk housing with the disk tumblers fixed at the disk housing and the lift disk fixed at the disk housing via the control element and the core pin can thus be rotated back into the initial position in which the key can be removed.
The control element can in particular be a pin-like control element such as a control pin which is preferably aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis. The control element can, however, also be formed by a ball, for example.
The control element is preferably offset along the cylinder axis with respect to the blocking pin, but is arranged in the same angular position, i.e. the control element is oriented at least substantially in alignment with the blocking pin (except for a possible radial displacement), viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis. A two-part control pin arrangement is provided in this respect which comprises the blocking pin and the control element which is separate therefrom and which is independently movable. The control element configured as a pin can in particular be received in the same slit of the disk housing as the blocking pin. The blocking pin thus cooperates with the blocking cut-outs of the disk tumblers, but not with the explained lift disk. The blocking pin can, however, cooperate with at least one other lift disk.
In contrast, the core pin preferably cooperates both with the lift disk and with the disk tumblers. The slit of the disk housing for the reception of the blocking pin and of the control element can preferably be configured in the form of an aperture of the disk housing extending in the direction of the cylinder axis. The same preferably applies to the slit of the disk housing for the reception of the core pin.
With an introduced key, the disk housing and the disk tumblers (which are in particular coupled to the disk housing via the core pin) preferably can be rotated together in the unlatching direction from the starting position up to a zero position or to the already named zero position.
The disk tumblers can be individually rotatable in a manner known per se between the zero position and the end sorting position relative to the disk housing. The disk tumblers can be sorted in a manner known per se by a rotation of the key between the zero position and the end sorting position. In the end sorting position, the blocking cut-outs and the fixing cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are each oriented in alignment with one another, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis. In addition, the blocking cut-outs of the disk tumblers are oriented radially in alignment with the blocking pin reception recess of the cylinder housing and the fixing cut-outs of the disk tumblers oriented in alignment with the blocking pin reception recess of the cylinder housing, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis, are aligned, viewed in the radial direction, with the core pin reception recess of the cylinder housing.
In accordance with a preferred further development of the invention, the lock cylinder has at least one blocking element which is also called a rotary slide block and which is arranged, with respect to a key introduction direction, in front of the disk tumblers (and in particular in front of the disk housing). The blocking element is thus located at a distal end of the disk housing. In addition, the blocking element is rotationally fixedly coupled to the disk housing.
An additional blocking of the disk housing relative to the cylinder housing can thus be effected by the blocking element. The blocking element is preferably movable by a rotation of the key in an unlatching direction out of blocking position in which the blocking element engages into a reception recess of the cylinder housing into a release position in which the blocking element is out of engagement with the reception recess. A simple introduction of the key into the lock cylinder is in contrast not sufficient for the actuation of the blocking element. The lock cylinder can thus not be unlatched by a non-matching key which cannot actuate the blocking element in the intended manner. The security against manipulation can therefore be even further increased by the blocking element.
Where reference is made in connection with the invention to the “introduction direction” of the key, the indications “in front of” or “at the front” generally designate a position disposed in the introduction direction and the indications “behind” or “at the rear” designate a position against the introduction direction.
The blocking element can have a driven flank which cooperates with a drive flank formed at the tip of the key such that the blocking element is moved out of the blocking position into the release position by a rotation of the key in the unlatching direction. The blocking element and the key tip can thus come into contact with one another via said flanks in order to bring the blocking element into the release position by a rotation of the key in the unlatching direction.
The driven flank of the blocking element and the drive flank at the tip of the key are preferably adapted and cooperate with one another such that the two flanks only contact one another when the key is rotated from an initial position which the key adopts after the introduction into the lock cylinder at least into a first rotational position. The first rotational position in this respect preferably corresponds to a rotational position which the key adopts after passing the already named zero position (in which the disk tumblers are released for a rotational movement relative to the disk housing) briefly before reaching said end sorting position.
In accordance with a further development of the invention, the driven flank of the blocking element and the drive flank at the tip of the key are furthermore adapted and cooperate with one another such that the blocking element moves out of the blocking position into the release position while the key is rotated from the first rotational position in the unlatching direction into a second rotational position. The second rotational position is preferably the already named end sorting position in which the disk tumblers are sorted and the blocking cut-outs of the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another in the direction of the cylinder axis. The reception openings of the disk tumblers can, in particular together with at least one lift disk, form said keyway (preferably with an at least substantially rectangular cross-sectional shape) in the starting position of the lock cylinder, wherein said driven flank of the blocking element is preferably arranged outside the keyway, i.e. does not project into the keyway, viewed in axial alignment. The securing against picking can thus be increased since the blocking element can only be accessed and actuated with difficulty via the keyway.
The tip of the key preferably has a cross-sectional shape having two narrow sides and two broad sides which are longer than the narrow sides, wherein the blocking element can be driven to make the movement out of the blocking position into the release position by means of one of the broad sides of the key tip. The drive flank can thus be formed by a broad side of the key tip.
In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, the blocking element can be co-rotated on the rotation of the key in the unlatching direction from an initial position which the key adopts after the introduction into the lock cylinder into a first rotational position or into the already named first rotational position such that the blocking element initially remains in the blocking position. For this purpose, the reception recess at the inner wall of the cylinder housing into which the blocking element engages in the blocking position is preferably larger in the peripheral direction than the extent of the end of the blocking element projecting into the reception recess in the peripheral direction. The blocking element thus has a rotational clearance relative to the cylinder housing in its blocking position. This rotational clearance is preferably present starting from an initial position of the lock cylinder, i.e. after introduction of the key, the rotational clearance first has to be overcome and a further rotation of the key only then effects the movement of the blocking element out of the blocking position into the release position.
The reception recess at the inner wall of the cylinder housing preferably has a first abutment surface for an end of the blocking element projecting into the reception recess (in particular the already named end) which the end of the blocking element comes into contact with when the key is rotated in the unlatching direction from an initial position which the key adopts after the introduction into the lock cylinder into a first rotational position (in particular into the already named first rotational position, wherein the first abutment surface blocks a further rotation of the blocking element in the unlatching direction. When the first rotational position is reached, the blocking element thus has to be brought into the release position because otherwise a further rotation in the unlatching direction is not possible. No unlatching of the lock cylinder is thus possible using a non-matching key which cannot actuate the blocking element as intended.
The reception recess of the cylinder housing preferably has a second abutment surface for the end of the blocking element projecting into the reception recess, wherein the end of the blocking element contacts the second abutment surface with a removed key and the second abutment surface blocks a rotation of the blocking element against the unlatching direction. With a removed key, that is in the starting position, a defined position thus results for the blocking element and for the disk housing coupled therewith.
In accordance with a further development of the invention, the blocking element is linearly displaceably supported in a normal plane to the cylinder axis. The blocking element is in particular movable from the blocking position into the release position at least substantially in a direction transverse to the cylinder axis. The blocking element can be linearly displaceably supported with respect to the cylinder axis in a radial direction or in a direction which extends in parallel with a radial direction.
The blocking element is preferably preloaded in the direction of the blocking position, in particular by means of a spring. The blocking element can thereby be held in the blocking position, in particular with a removed key.
In accordance with a preferred further development of the invention, a further blocking element which is also called a slide block is arranged in front of the disk tumblers (and in particular in front of the disk housing), with respect to the key introduction direction. The further blocking element is thus located at the distal end of the disk housing. The further blocking element is likewise preferably rotationally fixedly coupled to the disk housing.
The further blocking element preferably adopts a blocking position with a removed key in which the further blocking element engages into a further reception recess at the inner wall of the cylinder housing and wherein the further blocking element is movable out of engagement with the further reception recess and thus into a release position by introducing the key into the lock cylinder. The further blocking element can therefore (unlike the above-explained blocking element) already be brought out of the blocking position into the release position by a simple axial introduction of the matching key.
The blocking element (in particular said rotary slide block) and the further blocking element (in particular said slide block) are preferably arranged next to one another in the same cross-sectional plane of the lock cylinder (i.e. at the same level along the cylinder axis) and are displaceably supported in parallel with one another. With a small construction length, i.e. with a small axial construction space of the lock cylinder, two different latching and unlatching functions can hereby be implemented which become effective at different times or at different positions of the lock cylinder.
The further blocking element is preferably likewise preloaded in the direction of its blocking position, in particular by means of a spring.
The present invention also relates, independently of the presence or of the particular configuration of a core pin and/or of a blocking element, to a lock cylinder which has a plurality of disk tumblers, a blocking pin, at least one lift disk and a control element having the above-described features. The lift disk can be utilized by means of such a control element to control different movement procedures of the coupling and decoupling with a high precision. The setting of the zero position or of the end sorting position which relate to the sorting of the disk tumblers can be controlled, for example, in a simple manner by means of the lift disk and the control element.
The invention in particular also relates to a lock cylinder having a cylinder housing, a disk housing rotatably supported about a cylinder axis in the cylinder housing and a plurality of rotatably supported disk tumblers arranged along the cylinder axis in the disk housing, wherein each disk tumbler has a reception opening for a key and a blocking cut-out at the outer periphery for the at least partial reception of a blocking pin aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis, wherein the disk tumblers are rotatable from a starting position with a removed key by a rotation of the introduced key in the unlatching direction into an end sorting position in which the blocking cut-outs of all the disk tumblers are oriented in alignment with one another, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis, to receive the blocking pin, wherein the lock cylinder furthermore has at least one lift disk which is arranged in parallel with the disk tumblers in the disk housing and is rotatably supported and which has a reception opening for the key, wherein the lift disk is compulsorily coupled with the introduced key with respect to a rotation of the key, and wherein a control element is associated with the lift disk and is supported in a slit of the disk housing, wherein the control element is offset along the cylinder axis with respect to the blocking pin.
The lift disk can have a control cut-out at its outer periphery for the at least partial reception of the control element. The control element can in this respect engage into the control cut-out of the lift disk in the starting position of the lock cylinder with a removed key in order to fix the disk housing and the lift disk to one another. The disk housing and the lift disk can be rotatable from an initial position of the lock cylinder, with a key which is introduced but not yet rotated, in the unlatching direction into a zero position and the lock cylinder can be adapted such that the control element is urged in the zero position radially outwardly into a control element reception recess of the cylinder housing and is brought out of engagement with the control cut-out of the lift disk in order to fix the disk housing relative to the cylinder housing and to release the lift disk for a rotation from the zero position up to the end sorting position relative to the disk housing.
Alternatively or in addition to said control cut-out, the lift disk can have a peripheral cut-out at its outer periphery for the at least partial reception of the control element. The control element can in this respect engage into a control element reception recess (or into the already named control element reception recess) of the cylinder housing in the end sorting position, wherein the peripheral cut-out of the lift disk is aligned in the radial direction with the control element in the end sorting position. The lock cylinder can be adapted such that the control element is urged radially inwardly in the unlatching direction out of the control element reception recess by a rotation of the lift disk out of the end sorting position and in so doing engages into the peripheral cut-out of the lift disk to cancel the fixing of the disk housing at the cylinder housing and to effect a fixing of the lift disk at the disk housing.
The control element is preferably arranged in the same angular position as the blocking pin. In this respect, the blocking pin and the control element can together form a blocking pin which is divided (along the cylinder axis).
The control element is in particular a pin-like control element such as a control pin which is preferably aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis. The control element can, however, also be formed by a ball, for example.
The cylinder housing can have the already named blocking pin reception recess for the reception of the blocking pin and the already named control element reception recess for the reception of the control element, wherein the control element reception recess is preferably offset along the cylinder axis with respect to the blocking pin reception recess, but is arranged in the same angular position, and wherein the control element reception recess and the blocking pin reception recess are preferably formed by a continuous recess along the cylinder axis at the inner wall of the cylinder housing. The control element reception recess can, however, have a smaller extent in the peripheral direction than the blocking pin reception recess.
The invention also relates to a key or to a key blank, in particular for a lock cylinder of the explained kind, comprising a shaft whose tip is adapted to cooperate with a blocking element provided in the lock cylinder, wherein the shaft has two broad sides and two narrow sides, wherein the shaft tip has two broad sides, two narrow sides and an end face, and wherein a flattened portions set back relative to a plane of the broad side of the shaft is provided at least one broad side of the shaft tip.
The flattened portion at the shaft tip in this respect in particular makes it possible that the key can be introduced into an associated keyway in a starting position of the lock cylinder (corresponding to the already named initial position) without the shaft tip abutting a blocking element of the above-explained kind (in particular at said rotary slide block). The blocking element can notwithstanding have a driven flank which can reach relatively closely to the cylinder axis for a rotary actuation of the blocking element by means of the key. After introduction of the key into the lock cylinder or into said keyway, a drive flank of the shaft tip which can in particular be provided laterally adjacent to the flattened portion of the shaft tip and/or can lie in the plane of the corresponding shaft broad side can thus move into contact with the driven flank of the blocking element on the rotation of the key in the lock cylinder to transpose the blocking element into the release position.
The broad side of the shaft tip can be set back with respect to the plane of the broad side of the shaft in the region of the respective flattened portion. The plane of the broad side of the shaft is preferably an overlapping plane of the outer elements of the broad side of the shaft. Recesses such as a longitudinal groove present in the broad side are set back toward the key axis with respect to this overlapping plane and thus do not lie in said plane of the broad side of the shaft.
The flattened portion is preferably formed along the key axis over the total broad side of the shaft tip. The flattened portion can, however, also be formed only over a part of the broad side of the shaft tip, viewed in the direction of the key axis.
In a direction transverse to the key axis, the flattened portion preferably only extends over a part of the broad side of the shaft tip, whereas another part of the broad side of the shaft tip (in particular the total or almost the total remaining part) can lie in the plane of the corresponding broad side of the shaft.
In accordance with a further embodiment, the flattened portion can only extend over a part of the broad side of the shaft tip in a direction transverse to the key axis, whereas another part of the broad side of the shaft tip (in particular the total or almost the total remaining part) forms the already named drive flank of the shaft tip (or key tip) for transposing the blocking element by a rotation of the key. In this respect, the drive flank can, as explained above, lie in the plane of the corresponding broad side of the shaft. Alternatively or additionally, in this embodiment, the drive flank of the shaft tip can only extend over a part of the broad side of the shaft tip in a direction transverse to the key axis, which part corresponds to a portion in the range from approximately 10% to 50%, in particular to a portion in the range from approximately 20% to 40%, and preferably to a portion of approximately 30%, of the total width of the respective broad side of the shaft tip (these are approximate values here in view of rounded edges and/or transitions). In other words, the drive flank preferably extends over at most half the breadth of the respective broad side of the shaft tip in the transverse direction.
The flattened portion can, however, generally also extend over the total broad side of the shaft tip in the transverse direction.
The flattened portion can extend in parallel with the plane of the broad side of the shaft. The flattened portion can, however, also extend obliquely to the plane of the broad side of the shaft. Alternatively, the flattened portion can extend sectionally in parallel with and sectionally obliquely to the plane of the broad side of the shaft.
The flattened portion is preferably inclined by a predefined angle relative to the plane of the broad side of the shaft, wherein the angle is preferably in the range between 2 and 25 degrees, further preferably between 5 and 20 degrees, and even further preferably between 10 and 15 degrees (in each case respectively including the range borders).
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, a respective flattened portion is provided at each of the two broad sides of the shaft tip, wherein the two flattened portions are preferably rotationally symmetrical with one another. The key can in this respect preferably be configured in the form of a reversible key.
In accordance with a further development of the invention, the two narrow sides of the shaft tip extend on an oblique and tapering manner in the direction of the end face. The narrow sides thus extend toward the end face toward one another like a roof. An acutely converging shape thereby results at the front end, whereby the key can be inserted more simply into the keyway.
The shaft tip can be set off from the remaining part of the shaft by a peripheral notch at the narrow sides. A defined shaft tip delineated from the remaining shaft thereby results. The notch preferably has a spacing from the front end of the shaft tip which amounts to between 1 mm and 3 mm.
A further peripheral notch can be formed at the narrow sides in a front part of the shaft disposed in the vicinity of the shaft tip. An associated blocking disk provided in the lock cylinder can engage into the further notch on the rotation of the key in the unlatching direction out of the initial position. If no further notch is present, the blocking disk in contrast blocks the rotation so that the security against manipulation can be further increased by the combination of a further notch and an associated blocking disk. The further notch can have a spacing from the front end of the shaft tip which amounts to between 3 mm and 5 mm.
Further advantageous embodiments of the invention are set forth in the dependent claims, in the description and in the drawings.
The invention will be described in the following with reference to an embodiment and to the drawings. There are shown:
The lock cylinder 100 in accordance with the invention of
Each disk tumbler 16 and each intermediate disk 36 has a central reception opening 18 which together form a keyway 28 for the introduction of a key 24. The central reception openings 18 of the disk tumblers 16 in the embodiment shown have a rectangular cross-section, whereas the reception openings 18 of the intermediate disks 36 have a circular cross-section.
Each disk tumbler 16 has a blocking cut-out 20 at its outer periphery for the reception of a blocking pin 22 which is aligned in parallel with the cylinder axis and is radially movably received in a slit (not shown in
A lift disk 48 is provided in the disk housing 14 which is at the front—viewed in the introduction direction A of the key 24 into the keyway 28—which is rotatably supported in parallel with the disk tumblers 16 in the disk housing 14 and which likewise has a central reception opening 18 for the key 24. The front lift disk 48 is thus at the distal end of the disk housing 14, viewed from the opening of the keyway 28. The front lift disk 48 is compulsorily coupled with respect to a rotation with the key 24 introduced into the keyway 28. The front lift disk 48 thus always co-rotates when the key 24 is rotated.
The same applies to a rear lift disk 50 which is rotatably supported in the disk housing 14 behind the packet of disk tumblers 16 with respect to the introduction direction A (i.e. at the proximal end of the disk housing 14). In this respect, an intermediate disk 36, in particular supported in a floating manner, is arranged between the adjacent disk tumbler 16 and the rear lift disk 50, as
Unlike the lock cylinder 10 which is described with reference to
Viewed in the introduction direction A of the key 24, a first blocking element formed by a so-called slide block 56 and a second blocking element formed by a so-called rotary slide block 58 are arranged within the same plane in front of the disk housing 14 (i.e. offset to distal) and are linearly movably supported (i.e. along a straight line) in a normal plane to the cylinder axis in parallel with a radial direction with respect to the cylinder axis.
As
An attachment 62 is attached to the end of the disk housing 14 at the front, viewed in the key introduction direction A. The attachment 62 serves as a reception and as a translatory guide for the slide block 56 and the rotary slide block 58 and as a connection member to a lock mechanism, not shown in
Clamps 64 are provided for holding the attachment 62 at the disk housing 14 and the attachment 62 can be clamped tight at the disk housing 14 by them, in particular at mutually opposite sides.
The key 24 shown in
The front lift disk 48 and the rear lift disk 50 have the encoding “6” so that the two lift disks 48 and 50 are compulsorily coupled with the key 24 with respect to a rotation.
The operation of the lock cylinder 100 of
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In the zero position, the key 24 is rotated so far along an unlatching direction D with respect to the initial position that the disk housing 14 is first blocked against a further rotational movement and now, however, the disk tumblers 16 are released for a rotational movement relative to the disk housing 14 (so-called sorting). In the end sorting position, the sorting procedure of the disk tumblers 16 is completed so that the blocking cut-outs 20 of all the disk tumblers 16 are oriented in alignment with one another. In addition, in the end sorting position, the fixing cut-outs 44 of all the disk tumblers 16 are oriented in alignment with one another, viewed in the direction of the cylinder axis.
As
The rotary slide block 58 has a driven flank 78 which does not yet come into contact with the tip 60 of the key 24 on the introduction of the key 24, that is in the initial position. A drive flank 80 (cf.
In this respect, the rotary slide block reception recess 66 at the inner wall of the cylinder housing 12 is larger, viewed in the peripheral direction or in the direction of rotation D, than the extent of the end of the rotary slide block 58 projecting into the rotary slide reception recess 66 in the peripheral direction. The rotary slide block 58 thus has a rotational clearance relative to the cylinder housing 12 in its blocking position. The rotational clearance is present starting from the starting position and the initial position in accordance with
The rotary slide blocking reception recess 66, which is formed at the inner wall of the cylinder housing 12, has a first abutment surface 86 for the end of the rotary slide block 58 projecting into the rotary slide block reception recess 66. The end of the rotary slide block 58 comes into contact with the first abutment surface 86 when the key 24 is rotated in the unlatching direction D from the initial position in accordance with
The rotary slide block reception recess 66 of the cylinder housing 12 additionally has a second abutment surface 88 which is disposed opposite the first abutment surface 86 and which the end of the rotary slide block 58 projecting into the rotary slide block reception recess 66 contacts with a removed key (cf.
The particular configuration of the key tip 60 will be explained in even more detail in the following in connection with the actuation of the rotary slide block 58.
As mentioned, the key 24 has the tip 60 at its shaft 81 for actuating the rotary slide block 58, said tip cooperating with the rotary slide block 58 on the rotation of the key 24. As
Each broad side 84 of the shaft 81 has a plane 92 in which the outer surface of the respective broad side 84 lies. The plane 92 thus overlaps the outer elements or surfaces of the broad side 84 of the shaft 81. Recesses such as one or more elongate grooves in the broad side 84 are set back with respect to the plane 92 and thus toward the key axis. Only the plane 92 of the broad side 84 at the top in the illustration is shown in
A flattened portion 94 is provided at each broad side 84a of the shaft tip 60 relative to the respective plane 92 of the corresponding shaft broad side 84. The flattened portion 94 of the upper broad side 84a is in this respect formed with respect to the longitudinal key axis rotationally symmetrically by 180 degrees to the corresponding flattened portion at the lower broad side 84a of the key of
The broad side 84a of the shaft tip 60 is set back with respect to the plane 92 of the broad side 84 of the shaft 81 in the region of the respective flattened portion 94. In the exemplary key 24 shown in
The flattened portion 94 can have a smooth surface so that no recesses (such as a bore) and/or elevated portions are formed thereon. Alternatively, however, at least one bore and/or at least one elevated portion can also be provided on the flattened portion 94 (not shown). The flattened portion 94 can in particular extend in parallel with or obliquely to or sectionally in parallel with and sectionally obliquely to the plane 92 of the corresponding shaft broad side 84. The flattened portion 94 can, for example, be inclined relative to the plane 92 of the shaft broad side 84 by an angle which can be in the range between 2 and 25 degrees. The flattened portion 94 can in particular also have an at least slightly curved contour, viewed transversely to the key axis. In the embodiment in accordance with
As can furthermore be seen in
In addition, the narrow sides 82a of the shaft tip 60 taper at the end of the shaft tip 60 remote from the end face 85 so that the tip 60 is set off from the remaining part of the shaft 81 by a peripheral notch 96 at the narrow sides 82a. The slide block 56 can latch into this notch 96 on the transition from the starting position (
The further actuation of the lock cylinder 100 starting from the zero position will now be explained again in the following.
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In a corresponding manner, the core pin 46 also moves out of engagement with the fixing cut-outs 44 of the disk tumblers 16 so that the blocking of the disk tumblers 16 with respect to the disk housing 14 in the zero position is canceled and the disk tumblers 16 are now released for a sorting. This sorting now takes place, as explained, by cooperation of the incisions 26 of the key 24 with the inner walls or boundaries of the reception openings 18 of the disk tumblers 16.
As
The disk tumblers 16 are sorted in the end sorting position. The blocking cut-outs 20 of the disk tumblers 16 (cf.
As can be seen by a comparison of
As can in particular be seen in
In a corresponding manner, on a rotation of the disk housing 14 out of the end sorting position, the disk housing 14 urges the control element 54 toward a control element guide chamfer 116 which bounds the control element reception recess 104, viewed in the unlatching direction D, and by which the control element 54 is urged radially inwardly into the peripheral cut-out 108 of the front lift disk 48 at a defined angular position (cf.
As is shown with respect to
As
It can thus be simply achieved with the lock cylinder 100 in accordance with the above explanations that, on the rotation of the disk housing 14 by means of the key 24 out of the end sorting position and in the unlatching direction D, the core pin 46 first moves into the fixing cut-outs 72 of the lift disks 48, 50 and into the fixing cut-outs 44 of the disk tumblers 16 (cf.
For the latching, the rotation of the key 24 takes place, starting from the unlatched position in accordance with
The front lift disk 48 has at its outer periphery a second abutment 120 which comes into contact with a second counter-abutment 122 provided at the disk housing 14 (cf.
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