The invention relates to a system for controlling access to a restricted area in a building, which system has a sliding door system and a controller for the sliding door system. The sliding door system has a door frame and a sliding door which can be displaced by a drive unit actuated by the controller. The door frame has a passage region and a wall shell region which accommodates the sliding door in the open position. The sliding door has an end face which points toward the passage region in the open position. The controller has a processor unit and a sensor unit, the sensor unit is arranged on the end face and the processor unit is arranged between the door leaves. A recognition device captures and checks credentials presented by a user. If the credentials are valid, a record is determined in a storage device, in which the credentials are assigned to an opening width (W) of the sliding door, in order to trigger the movement of the sliding door according to said opening width (W). The controller is designed to recognize a gesture made by the user and to actuate the sliding door depending on said gesture in deviation from the opening width (W).

A system for managing opening and closing a pocket door includes a spindle, an actuator, and brackets. The spindle extends along a longitudinal axis between first and second ends, and is configured to be coupled to the pocket door. The actuator is coupled to the spindle and is configured to cause the spindle to move axially along the longitudinal axis. The brackets are connected to the spindle at each end and are constrained from longitudinal motion relative to the spindle. The brackets are configured to affix the spindle to the pocket door. A bushing system couples each bracket to the spindle and is configured to dampen impact between the spindle and the brackets. For example, the bushing system may include lobed elements, made of a rubber material, that engage each other to transmit azimuthal forces. In some embodiments, another actuator is included to improve cycle life and redundancy.

Passenger seating comprises rows of seats with a door assembly at the end of each row for improving a seat occupant's privacy. The door assembly includes a door that slides into and out of a base in a primary mode of operation, and which supports a secondary mode of opening. The secondary mode may involve pivoting on hinges. A latch is provided to prevent the door from being opened routinely in the secondary mode. The door assembly is also capable of retracting with respect to the adjacent seat to improve access.

A sliding door system for inline closure of an opening in the wall of a structure, which may be a building or an item of furniture, for example, that includes a door panel, a guiderail assembly, and a guiderail coupled to the wall mount via a plurality of doubled-hinge assemblies that together serve to allow the guiderail to pivot towards and away from the wall, and includes a stop on the guiderail that serves as a catch, or cam, that causes a closing force on the door panel to be transferred to the double-hinge assemblies and to cause the door panel to be pulled into inline closure in the opening.

A sliding member for giving the appearance of a vertical translucent edge of a transparent member aligning with an intersecting, perpendicular wall includes a panel having at least one transparent member, a handle connected to the panel, and a jamb recessed in a wall having a recessed door jamb depth, where the handle is at least partially received in the door jamb depth when the sliding member is in a closed position.

A lighting device includes a first light source to emit first light; a diffuser to receive the first light and emits first scattered light; and a frame to support the first light source and the diffuser. The the diffuser includes nanoparticles, and guides the received first light, scatters it with the nanoparticles, and emits it as the first scattered light. The diffuser includes an incident surface to receive the first light, a first surface on which an emission surface to emit the first scattered light is formed, and a second surface opposite the first surface. The incident surface is at a first edge portion of the diffuser, the frame is opened to expose at least a portion of a region on the first surface of the diffuser in which the emission surface is formed and a region on the second surface corresponding thereto.

A building wall module for partitioning a first region from a second region has a frame structure with inner and outer wall panels and lateral fastening devices for connecting the building wall module to a building. In addition, a sliding door system and a secondary door system are integrated in the frame structure, wherein the secondary door system is arranged separated from the sliding door system and can be controlled separately from the control device of the sliding door system. An electrical interface device connects the building wall module to a building system of a building.

A system for managing opening and closing a pocket door includes a spindle, an actuator, and brackets. The spindle extends along a longitudinal axis between first and second ends, and is configured to be coupled to the pocket door. The actuator is coupled to the spindle and is configured to cause the spindle to move axially along the longitudinal axis. The brackets are connected to the spindle at each end and are constrained from longitudinal motion relative to the spindle. The brackets are configured to affix the spindle to the pocket door. A bushing system couples each bracket to the spindle and is configured to dampen impact between the spindle and the brackets. For example, the bushing system may include lobed elements, made of a rubber material, that engage each other to transmit azimuthal forces. In some embodiments, another actuator is included to improve cycle like and redundancy.

A method for obtaining a vertical or horizontal profiled element for the interconnection of plasterboard panels to walls, in particular to plasterboard walls that can be applied to in-wall frames for retractable sliding doors or for the provision of drywall dividing walls. The method entails a continuous machining of a metallic lamina by punching or drawing or rolling obtained by using two rollers, one acting as a die and the other acting as a punch, so as to obtain on the metallic lamina a plurality of holes, which are uniformly distributed according to a series of mutually parallel rows.

A system for managing opening and closing a pocket door includes a spindle, an actuator, and brackets. The spindle extends along a longitudinal axis between first and second ends, and is configured to be coupled to the pocket door. The actuator is coupled to the spindle and is configured to cause the spindle to move axially along the longitudinal axis. The brackets are connected to the spindle at each end and are constrained from longitudinal motion relative to the spindle. The brackets are configured to affix the spindle to the pocket door. A bushing system couples each bracket to the spindle and is configured to dampen impact between the spindle and the brackets. For example, the bushing system may include lobed elements, made of a rubber material, that engage each other to transmit azimuthal forces. In some embodiments, another actuator is included to improve cycle like and redundancy.