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公开(公告)号:US11454932B2
公开(公告)日:2022-09-27
申请号:US16438960
申请日:2019-06-12
发明人: Gianni Di Domenico , Pierre Cusin , Jean-Luc Helfer , Alex Gandelhman , Pascal Winkler , Baptiste Hinaux , Dominique Lechot , Olivier Matthey , Laurent Klinger , Jerome Favre
摘要: A method for making a flexure bearing for an oscillator with an inertial element oscillating in a plane supported by flexible strips fixed to a stationary support returning it to a rest position includes: forming the bearing with basic strips in superposed levels, each having an aspect ratio of less than 10; breaking down the number of basic levels into a plurality of sub-units, each including one or two strips joining a basic support and a basic inertial element, which are made by etching substrates; assembling the sub-units by joining their basic inertial elements; and fixing the basic supports to the support, directly or via translational tables along one or two in-plane translational degrees of freedom, of lower translational stiffness than that of the sub-unit.
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公开(公告)号:US10948879B2
公开(公告)日:2021-03-16
申请号:US15957949
申请日:2018-04-20
摘要: A method for adjusting the rate of a watch with an oscillator arranged to generate oscillation at a nominal frequency N0, with a servo-system including a master oscillator arranged to generate excitation oscillation at an excitation frequency NE, which is approximately equal to, or equal to the nominal frequency N0, or to an integer multiple of this nominal frequency N0, the watch is subjected to excitation oscillation or to a modulated motion, generated by the master oscillator, during a transition phase after which the oscillator of the watch is stabilised at excitation frequency NE, and there is incorporated in the servo-system a winder for mechanical or automatic watches, arranged to move a support on which such a watch is fixed.
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公开(公告)号:US20200089168A1
公开(公告)日:2020-03-19
申请号:US16571428
申请日:2019-09-16
发明人: Gianni DI DOMENICO , Jerome Favre , Dominique Lechot , Baptiste Hinaux , Olivier Matthey , Pascal Winkler , Marc Stranczl , Michel Willemin , Ahmad Odeh
摘要: An oscillator includes a resonator, which has an inertial mass returned by an elastic return and carries entry and exit pallets cooperating with teeth of an escape wheel each provided with a magnet. Each pallet includes a magnetic arrangement, with an annular sector, centred on the axis of oscillation of the resonator, defining a first magnetic barrier area extending above and/or below a mechanical pallet-stone of the entry pallet or exit pallet, over the entire length of this mechanical pallet-stone acting as support for the teeth during the supplementary arc, in order to form a magnetic cylinder escapement mechanism.
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公开(公告)号:US10241475B2
公开(公告)日:2019-03-26
申请号:US15399224
申请日:2017-01-05
摘要: Timepiece regulating mechanism including an energy storage means delivering an output torque (CS), via a train (3), to a wheel set (4) forming a magnetic escapement mechanism (10) with a resonator wheel set (5) subjected to the torque from a return means (6) and cooperating therewith, either directly or via a magnetic stop member (7), this magnetic escapement mechanism (10) being arranged to operate when the wheel set (4) receives a torque higher than or equal to a maintenance torque (CE), and the train (3) includes a torque regulating means (30) arranged to deliver to the wheel set (4) a constant torque comprised between 1.0 and 2.0 times the maintenance torque (CE), the torque regulating means (30) including a fusee (8) of continuously variable cross-section, from which unwinds a chain (9), wound by a drum (21), directly or indirectly driven by the energy storage means (2).
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公开(公告)号:US10216149B2
公开(公告)日:2019-02-26
申请号:US15793145
申请日:2017-10-25
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US10114340B2
公开(公告)日:2018-10-30
申请号:US15672478
申请日:2017-08-09
发明人: Gianni Di Domenico , Jerome Favre , Dominique Lechot , Baptiste Hinaux , Olivier Matthey , Jean-Jacques Born
摘要: Timepiece movement including a flexible strip resonator cooperating with a magnetic escapement mechanism, wherein an escape wheel set includes tangential magnetized areas repelling first magnetized areas of an inertial element of the resonator, this movement includes isochronism correction means combining the first magnetized areas and compensating magnets on the escape wheel set, each arranged in proximity to a tangential magnetized area and producing a leakage field in a different direction from that of the field of the tangential magnetized area, the leakage field intensity being low compared to that of the field of the second tangential magnetized area, and this leakage field interacting with one of the first magnetized areas to produce a low variation in the operation of the resonator mechanism.
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公开(公告)号:US10054905B2
公开(公告)日:2018-08-21
申请号:US15613747
申请日:2017-06-05
CPC分类号: G04B18/006 , G04B17/00 , G04B17/063 , G04B17/20 , G04B18/00 , G04C3/00 , G04C3/04 , G04D7/084
摘要: Watch comprising a movement, with a balance comprising a ring distinct from the balance rim, elastically fixed to a flange with respect to which this ring is movable in rotation to modify the position of inertia blocks elastically carried by the flange, each able to be indexed in different stable angular positions corresponding to a different inertia of the balance, the movement including an operating member movable between coupled and uncoupled positions which includes a stop means for immobilizing the rim in a coupled position, and a control means for rotating the ring to modify the position of the inertia blocks in the coupled position, the watch including a crown controlling the control means, a rotating coupling ring controlling the coupling/uncoupling of the operating member through contactless interaction with an external adjustment tool.
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公开(公告)号:US20180143591A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-24
申请号:US15819613
申请日:2017-11-21
发明人: Gianni Di Domenico , Jerome Favre , Dominique Lechot , Baptiste Hinaux , Olivier Matthey , Pierre Cusin , Alex Gandelhman
IPC分类号: G04B31/004 , G04B17/32 , G04B17/26 , G04B13/02 , G04B31/02
摘要: A method for manufacturing a flexible strip, including forming a plate of the required thickness with one or more micromachinable substrate wafers; affixing, on either side of the plate, an upper mask with an upper window and a lower mask with a lower window, of identical geometry; etching the plate, at least to mid-thickness, from the upper side of each upper etching window, and from the side of each lower etching window; removing the upper mask and the lower mask, to delimit a flexible strip having a height equal to the thickness of the plate, and whose edges are as-etched. A flexible strip made of micromachinable material, including, between two parallel upper and lower surfaces, two peripheral, tapered and reverse-tapered edge surfaces, for a flexible pivot, a resonator, a movement or a watch.
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公开(公告)号:US09389591B2
公开(公告)日:2016-07-12
申请号:US14564581
申请日:2014-12-09
发明人: Jean-Jacques Born , Gianni Di Domenico , Jerome Favre , Baptiste Hinaux , Dominique Lechot , Patrick Ragot
摘要: The invention concerns a magnetic device for regulating the relative angular velocity of a wheel and of at least one magnetic dipole integral with an oscillating device. The wheel or the dipole is driven by a driving torque. The wheel includes a periodic, ferromagnetic pole path which alternates according to a center angle and the at least one dipole is arranged to permit magnetic coupling with the ferromagnetic path and oscillation of the dipole at the natural frequency of the oscillating element during the relative motion of the wheel and of the magnetic dipole to regulate the relative angular velocity. The wheel further includes an assembly to dissipate the kinetic energy of the at least one dipole when it moves away from the ferromagnetic path.
摘要翻译: 本发明涉及一种用于调节车轮的相对角速度和与振荡装置一体化的至少一个磁偶极子的磁性装置。 车轮或偶极子由驱动扭矩驱动。 车轮包括周期性铁磁极路径,其根据中心角度交替,并且至少一个偶极子被布置成允许在铁磁路径的磁耦合和偶极子的振荡在振荡元件的固有频率期间在相对运动期间 车轮和磁偶极子调节相对角速度。 车轮还包括当远离铁磁路径移动时消散至少一个偶极子的动能的组件。
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公开(公告)号:US12045011B2
公开(公告)日:2024-07-23
申请号:US17189359
申请日:2021-03-02
摘要: A horological movement including a mechanical resonator and a hybrid escapement including an escapement wheel and a pallet assembly with at least one magnetic pallet-stone formed of a magnet and associated with a mechanical banking, the escapement wheel including a periodic magnetised structure defining increasing gradients of magnetic potential energy for the magnetic pallet-stone, and protruding parts associated with the increasing gradients of magnetic potential energy. When the force torque is equal to a nominal force torque or has a value within at least an upper part of a given range of values, one of the protruding parts of the escapement wheel is subjected to at least one shock on the mechanical banking of the pallet assembly after the magnetic pallet-stone has climbed any one of the increasing gradients of magnetic potential energy, thus dissipating at least partially a kinetic energy of the escapement wheel.
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