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公开(公告)号:US20200033805A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-30
申请号:US16511191
申请日:2019-07-15
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
IPC分类号: G04B17/10
摘要: A mechanical timepiece oscillator includes, between a support and an inertial element, a flexure bearing with flexible strips crossed in projection, including, superposed, an upper level that includes, between an upper support and an upper inertial element, an upper primary strip in a first direction and an upper secondary strip in a second direction, and a lower level that includes, between a lower support and a lower inertial element, a lower primary strip in the first direction and a lower secondary strip in the second direction. The upper level and lower level include, between the support and the upper or respectively lower support, a translational table with an elastic connection along one or two axes of freedom in the oscillation plane, of lower stiffness than that of each flexible strip.
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公开(公告)号:US20200033804A1
公开(公告)日:2020-01-30
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:US20180136609A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-17
申请号:US15793145
申请日:2017-10-25
CPC分类号: G04B43/002 , G04B17/045 , G04B17/10 , G04B31/02
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:US20220163923A1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-26
申请号:US17669476
申请日:2022-02-11
发明人: Alexandre HAEMMERLI , Francois GUEISSAZ , Jean-Claude MARTIN , Lionel PARATTE , Yves WINKLER , Gianni DI DOMENICO , Pascal WINKLER , Jean-Luc HELFER , Lionel TOMBEZ , Baptiste HINAUX , Donald William CORSON , Michel WILLEMIN
摘要: A process for producing a metal alloy balance wheel by molding includes a) making a mold in the negative shape of the balance wheel; b) obtaining a metal alloy that has a thermal expansion coefficient of less than 25 ppm/° C. and is able to be in an at least partly amorphous state when it is heated to a temperature between its glass transition temperature and its crystallization temperature; c) putting the metal alloy into the mold, the metal alloy being heated to a temperature between its glass transition temperature and its crystallization temperature so as to be hot-molded and to form a balance wheel; d) cooling the metal alloy to obtain a balance wheel made of the metal alloy; and e) releasing the balance wheel obtained in step d) from its mold. The process also includes a step for over-molding flexible centering components in the hub.
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公开(公告)号:US20210181679A1
公开(公告)日:2021-06-17
申请号:US16767778
申请日:2018-12-03
发明人: Alexandre HAEMMERLI , Francois GUEISSAZ , Jean-Claude MARTIN , Lionel PARATTE , Yves WINKLER , Gianni DI DOMENICO , Pascal WINKLER , Jean-Luc HELFER , Lionel TOMBEZ , Bapitste HINAUX , Donald Willan CORSON , Michel WILLEMIN
IPC分类号: G04B17/22
摘要: A balance for timepieces includes a rim, a hub, and at least one arm connecting the hub to the rim. At least one portion of the balance is made of an at least partially amorphous metal alloy. The at least partially amorphous metal alloy is based on an element chosen from the group consisting of platinum, zirconium and titanium, and has a coefficient of thermal expansion comprised between 7 ppm/° C. and 12 ppm/° C. The balance can be manufactured by moulding. A resonator can include such a balance and a monocrystalline quartz balance spring.
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公开(公告)号:US20170227930A1
公开(公告)日:2017-08-10
申请号:US15410294
申请日:2017-01-19
CPC分类号: G04B17/04 , G04B17/045 , G04B17/26 , G04B17/28 , G04B31/02
摘要: Watch or movement including a timepiece resonator movement including two RCC flexural pivots mounted in series about an intermediate rotary support and having the same virtual pivot axis, each comprising two straight flexible strips of the same length, whose clamping points opposite to this pivot axis are at the same distance with respect to this axis, and which define linear directions, forming angles, in pairs, with this virtual pivot axis, whose value expressed in degrees is comprised between: 109.5+5/[(D/L)−(2/3)] and 114.5+5/[(D/L)−(213)], or more particularly between 107+5/((D/L)−(2/3)) and 112+5/((D/L)−(2/3)), this timepiece resonator mechanism is in an advantageous variant a one-piece temperature-compensated silicon resonator.
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公开(公告)号:US20180088534A1
公开(公告)日:2018-03-29
申请号:US15710209
申请日:2017-09-20
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US20220113677A1
公开(公告)日:2022-04-14
申请号:US17481790
申请日:2021-09-22
发明人: Baptiste HINAUX , Pascal WINKLER
摘要: 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.
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公开(公告)号:US20190033784A1
公开(公告)日:2019-01-31
申请号:US16047250
申请日:2018-07-27
发明人: Gianni DI DOMENICO , Dominique LECHOT , Jerome FAVRE , Baptiste HINAUX , Jean-Jacques BORN , Jean-Luc HELFER , Pascal WINKLER
IPC分类号: G04B17/04
摘要: 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°.
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公开(公告)号:US20180136607A1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-17
申请号:US15730913
申请日:2017-10-12
CPC分类号: G04B17/045 , G04B17/32 , G04B31/02
摘要: A timepiece resonator mechanism includes a structure and an inertial element oscillating around an axis and subjected to restoring forces exerted by a plurality of elastic blades, each fixed directly or indirectly to the structure at a first end and fixed directly or indirectly to an inertial element at a second end. The elastic blade extends in a perpendicular plane to the pivot axis and is deformable substantially in this plane, where this resonator mechanism includes an axial stop including at least a lower axial stop and/or an upper axial stop, and the axial stop is arranged for the protection of the blade resonator mechanism against axial shocks in the direction of the axis.
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