Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for manufacturing timepiece thermocompensated hairsprings of precise stiffness
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Application No.: US16980124Application Date: 2019-03-15
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Publication No.: US11703804B2Publication Date: 2023-07-18
- Inventor: Frédéric Maier , Sylvain Jeanneret
- Applicant: PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE
- Applicant Address: CH Geneva
- Assignee: PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE
- Current Assignee: PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE
- Current Assignee Address: CH Geneva
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye
- Priority: EP 162723 2018.03.20
- International Application: PCT/IB2019/052107 2019.03.15
- International Announcement: WO2019/180558A 2019.09.26
- Date entered country: 2020-09-11
- Main IPC: G04B17/06
- IPC: G04B17/06 ; G04D3/00

Abstract:
The method for manufacturing timepiece hairsprings according to the invention comprises the following successive steps: a) forming hairsprings in a wafer, b) forming a thermal compensation layer on the hairsprings, c) identifying the hairsprings having a stiffness within a predetermined range, d) optionally, detaching from the wafer the hairsprings identified in step c), e) modifying the other hairsprings so that the stiffness of at least some of them is within the predetermined range, f) detaching from the wafer these other hairsprings and, if they have not been detached in step d), the hairsprings identified in step c). This method makes it possible to reduce manufacturing dispersions between the hairsprings.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210003971A1 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING TIMEPIECE THERMOCOMPENSATED HAIRSPRINGS OF PRECISE STIFFNESS Public/Granted day:2021-01-07
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