PROTECTION FOR THE STRIPS OF A MECHANICAL WATCH RESONATOR

    公开(公告)号:US20180136609A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-17

    申请号:US15793145

    申请日:2017-10-25

    CPC classification number: G04B43/002 G04B17/045 G04B17/10 G04B31/02

    Abstract: Strip resonator for a mechanical watch movement, comprising a structure, an oscillating inertial element, and elastic strips forming a flat bearing for the inertial element, and a flat, anti-shock device arranged to protect each strip from rupture in the event of a shock, and including a first prestressed flexible element arranged to allow a variation in length during the expansion or contraction of a strip within a range of lengths corresponding to normal operation of this strip under the action of a stress of intensity lower than a first threshold, and to prevent the expansion or contraction of this strip when it is subjected to a tensile or respectively compressive stress of intensity higher than the first threshold, and the resonator includes, for the three-dimensional anti-shock protection of the strips, in an axial direction perpendicular to a main plane, axial protection means, which include, on the one hand, axial banking members for limiting the axial travel of at least one inertial element, and on the other hand, an axial anti-shock device comprising a second axially prestressed flexible element.

    SELF-WINDING WATCH
    12.
    发明申请
    SELF-WINDING WATCH 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180088534A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-03-29

    申请号:US15710209

    申请日:2017-09-20

    CPC classification number: G04B5/08 G04B5/16 G04C1/062 G04C10/02

    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-winding watch comprising a movement connected to a winding device of a barrel spring comprising an oscillating weight pivoting around an axis A, a reduction wheel train cooperating with the oscillating weight to transmit the torque to the barrel, a storage unit for electrical energy, a photovoltaic cell arranged to receive the ambient light and charge the electrical energy storage unit, a control circuit connected to the terminals of said electrical energy storage unit and drive means connected to the circuit and coupled to the oscillating weight to displace it. According to the invention the electrical energy storage unit, the control circuit and the drive means are integrated to the oscillating weight.

    TIMEPIECE RESONATOR INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE FLEXIBLE GUIDE

    公开(公告)号:US20220113677A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-14

    申请号:US17481790

    申请日:2021-09-22

    Abstract: A timepiece resonator including an inertial element moveable in relation to a fixed structure, and suspended to a flexible guide including flexible strips crossed in projection on a plane XY at a single crossing zone ZC, each one deformable in a plane parallel to the plane XY each one extending in a ribbon on either side of a neutral surface perpendicular to the plane XY and joining the first recess with the structure and the second recess with the inertial element, and including at least one rib asymmetrical in relation to its neutral surface, and, at the crossing zone ZC, either each flexible strip does not include any rib, or each rib is asymmetrical in relation to its neutral surface.

    TIMEPIECE OSCILLATOR WITH FLEXURE BEARINGS HAVING A LONG ANGULAR STROKE

    公开(公告)号:US20190033784A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-31

    申请号:US16047250

    申请日:2018-07-27

    Abstract: Mechanical timepiece oscillator comprising, between a first element and a second inertial element, two distinct flexible strips returning the inertial element to a rest position in an oscillation plane, the projections of these strips crossing each other, in the rest position, at a point, through which passes the pivoting axis of the second solid inertial element, the embedding points of the strips in the first element and the second inertial element defining two directions in which each strip has a free length between its embedding points, and an axial distance between the pivoting axis and the the farthest of its embedding points, and, for each strip, the embedding point ratio is comprised between 0 and 1, and the vertex angle at the crossing point of the directions of the strips is less than 70°.

    TIMEPIECE REGULATING MECHANISM WITH ARTICULATED RESONATORS

    公开(公告)号:US20190332056A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-31

    申请号:US16364853

    申请日:2019-03-26

    Abstract: A timepiece regulating mechanism including primary resonators each with an inertial weight suspended by flexible strips to a fixed structure with respect to which this weight pivots, and mechanical device of synchronizing the primary resonators which include, between the inertial weights, an articulated connection which, under normal conditions, allows pivoting of the inertial weights in opposite directions of rotation and with close rotation angles, and during a shock, prevents pivoting thereof in the same direction of rotation, the mechanism including an oscillator with a frictional rest escapement mechanism arranged to cooperate alternately with the primary resonators, on pallet stones of the inertial weights.

    INTERACTION BETWEEN TWO TIMEPIECE COMPONENTS
    20.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20170123379A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-04

    申请号:US15317313

    申请日:2015-06-19

    CPC classification number: G04C3/047 G04B15/08 G04B15/14 G04C3/105 G04C5/005

    Abstract: A timepiece mechanism including a first component and a second component configured to cooperate with each other in a relative motion on a trajectory in an interface area, wherein a first path of the first component includes magnetic and/or electrostatic actuation components, configured to exert a contactless stress on complementary magnetic and/or electrostatic actuation components included in a second path belonging to the second component. Throughout a monotonous relative movement of the second path with respect to the first path, interaction energy between the first component and second component has a variable gradient with at least one position of discontinuity of the gradient, which corresponds to a variation in the contactless stress, the position of discontinuity of the gradient corresponding, in a variant, to an abrupt variation in the contactless stress.

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