Watch with a striking mechanism having a governor and time setting safety function

    公开(公告)号:US11372373B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-28

    申请号:US16164853

    申请日:2018-10-19

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    摘要: Watch with a time setting mechanism with an uncouplable motion work lever, with a striking mechanism having a governor, including at least one control piece set in motion by a movement or on user command, and a governor mechanism arranged to regulate to a substantially constant value the rotational speed of a strike function actuator, this striking mechanism including, for at least one control piece, a governor trigger piece arranged, according to the angular position of this control piece, to operate a governor stop jumper able to block or allow the rotation of this governor mechanism, and, by means of an articulated connection, to isolate the motion work lever in an uncoupling position or place it in a coupling position.

    Timepiece with striking mechanism and release-prevention device

    公开(公告)号:US11188031B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-11-30

    申请号:US16386304

    申请日:2019-04-17

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    IPC分类号: G04B21/06 G04B21/12

    摘要: A timepiece with a striking mechanism having a detent ratchet cooperating with a passing strike actuation click controlled by a movement or a repeater click operable by a user, including an uncoupling lever preventing access of the click to the ratchet under the action of a reversing lever operable by a hand-setting stem, or by a main strike function or tune selection control member, or by a stopping mechanism, and including a safety device for preventing release during a strike mode or tune selection, arranged to prevent the release of any strike function by the movement or by a user, and which includes a release-prevention lever, the pivoting of which, under action on the main control member, moves any click away from the detent ratchet.

    Striking or musical watch provided with at least one acoustic radiating membrane and method for manufacturing the membrane

    公开(公告)号:US11640142B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-02

    申请号:US16598258

    申请日:2019-10-10

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    IPC分类号: G04B21/08 G04B21/06 G04B39/00

    摘要: A striking watch is provided with an acoustic radiating membrane made of metallic material or amorphous metal. The membrane takes the form of a loop with walls of a certain thickness to be connected by a first edge portion to a middle part of a watch case and by a second edge portion to a bezel fixed to a watch crystal. The bezel connected to crystal is movable with respect to the case middle via the membrane during the vibration of membrane once a sound is generated by a watch striking mechanism in the watch case. The membrane is configured with a wall of a specific thickness in an active region dependent on the mass of the bezel connected to the crystal, to obtain a frequency f0 of a first vibration mode.

    STRIKE MODE SELECTOR FOR A WATCH OR TIMEPIECE

    公开(公告)号:US20190033788A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-31

    申请号:US16043785

    申请日:2018-07-24

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    IPC分类号: G04B21/04 G04B21/10

    摘要: Striking mechanism for a watch including: an hour snail driven by a movement, a strike wheel set including a detent ratchet and a repeating rack pinion, a pivoting hour-rack for reading this snail and driving this pinion, a click set in motion at each passing strike to drive this detent ratchet, with a mode selector mechanism for selection by the user of a particular strike mode, among distinct modes including a silent mode, defining the angular position of a cam having an external profile, wherein, in silent mode, the largest radius pushes back a beak of a silencing lever, to orient it into a position where its main arm moves this click away from this ratchet in order to disable every passing strike.

    Strike mode selector for a watch or timepiece

    公开(公告)号:US10761485B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-01

    申请号:US16043785

    申请日:2018-07-24

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    摘要: Striking mechanism for a watch including: an hour snail driven by a movement, a strike wheel set including a detent ratchet and a repeating rack pinion, a pivoting hour-rack for reading this snail and driving this pinion, a click set in motion at each passing strike to drive this detent ratchet, with a mode selector mechanism for selection by the user of a particular strike mode, among distinct modes including a silent mode, defining the angular position of a cam having an external profile, wherein, in silent mode, the largest radius pushes back a beak of a silencing lever, to orient it into a position where its main arm moves this click away from this ratchet in order to disable every passing strike.

    Mechanical watch with a carillon striking mechanism

    公开(公告)号:US10514660B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-24

    申请号:US15834249

    申请日:2017-12-07

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    IPC分类号: G04B21/06 G04B21/04 G04B21/10

    摘要: Timepiece movement with a carillon striking mechanism, striking the hours and quarter-hours with different melodies, the striking mechanism including a quarter surprise-piece coaxial to and superposed on the quarter-snail, in a limited angular travel with respect to the quarter-snail, arranged to ensure the sequential playing of the melodies of the four quarter-hours on the full hour, in the first minute of the new hour, and further including, in the plane of the quarter surprise-piece, a quarter surprise-piece jumper, arranged to drive and/or to lock this quarter surprise-piece.

    Dragging type retrograde horological display mechanism equipped with a display disconnection lever

    公开(公告)号:US12111617B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US17494159

    申请日:2021-10-05

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    发明人: Mehdi Denden

    IPC分类号: G04B19/02 G04B19/04

    CPC分类号: G04B19/02 G04B19/04

    摘要: A dragging type retrograde horological display mechanism, arranged to successively display first and distinct indications in a retrograde manner, including a display wheel driven by a drive wheel; a pivoting holding element engaged in a toothing of a fixed display wheel; a return element that constrains a display pinion in rotation; a display disconnection lever including an elastic strip; when the retrograde horological display mechanism moves from the display of the last indication to the display of the next first indication, the holding element pivots, whereas the display disconnection lever is locked, such that the elastic strip becomes strained and the holding element is forced to be released from the toothing of the fixed display wheel, thus enabling the stress induced by the return element to relax and return the retrograde horological display mechanism in the retrograde direction in the initial position to display the first indication.

    Display change mechanism
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    公开(公告)号:US11687034B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-27

    申请号:US16952319

    申请日:2020-11-19

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    发明人: Mehdi Denden

    IPC分类号: G04B13/02 G04B15/14 G04B19/04

    摘要: A display mechanism (100) allowing display change with a single display mobile (150) so as to indicate a first piece of information with a first counter (110) and second piece of information with a second counter (120). This change is performed by the permutation of a clutch organ (130) displacing between a first position (131) and a second position (132) when the clutch organ (130) is controlled by a control organ (140).

    Retrograde timepiece display with a retractable hand

    公开(公告)号:US10222749B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-05

    申请号:US15397219

    申请日:2017-01-03

    申请人: Blancpain SA

    IPC分类号: G04B19/04 G04B19/08 G04B45/00

    摘要: Timepiece display mechanism including a cam driven by a time base, and a pivoting lever including an elastically returned feeler member following the contour of the cam and a first rack meshing with a first angular orientation wheel which drives an indicator plate synchronously or via a differential mechanism, the indicator plate projecting radially with respect to a main axis and being parallel to or coplanar with the first wheel, the display mechanism includes a connecting rod articulated at a first end to a carriage slidably mounted on the indicator plate and carrying a retractable hand, a second end of the connecting rod being pivoted on a fixed pivot or on a movable pivot comprised in an elongation wheel set driven directly or indirectly by the lever.