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公开(公告)号:US20220390900A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-08
申请号:US17747483
申请日:2022-05-18
Inventor: Michel WILLEMIN , Loïc CURCHOD , Pierpasquale TORTORA , Simon SPRINGER , Cédric FAURE
Abstract: Provided is a timepiece including, in addition to a crystal, the following external elements: a back (2), a middle part (1), a dial (3), and two bracelet strands (30), at least one of these external elements includes a body formed of a first portion made of a first opaque material and of a second portion made of a second partially transparent or translucent material. The first material being integral with the second material and the timepiece also includes at least one light source (10) producing light which passes through the second portion made of a partially transparent or translucent ceramic material comprising zirconia.
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公开(公告)号:US20160131797A1
公开(公告)日:2016-05-12
申请号:US14995257
申请日:2016-01-14
Inventor: Pierpasquale TORTORA , Simon SPRINGER
CPC classification number: G01V8/22 , G01B11/14 , G02B17/00 , G04B19/04 , G04B19/042 , G04B37/0008 , G04C3/14 , G04C17/00
Abstract: Device for detecting the position of at least a first and a second hand of an electromechanical watch, said first and second hands moving above a dial, the detection device including a single light source emitting a light beam towards the first and second hands, and a first and a second light detection system, the light source and the first and second light detection systems being mounted on or underneath the dial, the light source and the first and second light detection systems being arranged so that, in a determined position of the first hand, the light beam emitted by the light source is reflected by the first hand towards the first detection system, and in a determined position of the second hand, the light beam emitted by the light source is reflected by the second hand towards the second detection system.
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公开(公告)号:US20230161294A1
公开(公告)日:2023-05-25
申请号:US17940470
申请日:2022-09-08
Inventor: Loïc CURCHOD , Michel SAGRDOYBURU , Simon SPRINGER
CPC classification number: G04B45/0015 , G04B37/223
Abstract: A watch case (10) including a middle (11) to which a crystal (12) and a back (13) are fastened so as to form an internal volume, the watch case (10) including, in the internal volume, an external part component (14) whereon a stack of thin layers (15) comprising a substrate layer (150), a solid-state phase switching layer (151) inserted between a transparent encapsulation layer (152) and a spacing layer (153) separating the phase switching layer (151) from the substrate layer (150) is deposited, the phase switching layer (151) being configured so as to have a refractive index capable of varying under exposure from light rays so as to impart to the stack of thin layers (15) at least two interferential colours.
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公开(公告)号:US20220390898A1
公开(公告)日:2022-12-08
申请号:US17717251
申请日:2022-04-11
Inventor: Michel WILLEMIN , Loïc CURCHOD , Pierpasquale TORTORA , Simon SPRINGER , Cédric FAURE
Abstract: The invention relates to a timepiece including, in addition to a crystal (34), the following external elements: a back (2), a middle (1), a dial (3) and two bracelet strands (30), at least one of these external elements comprising at least one part made of an at least partially transparent or translucent ceramic material, the timepiece further including at least two point light sources (10) releasing heat, each light source (10) being capable of being separately switched on/off and being disposed in or directly beneath said at least one external element comprising the ceramic material, each light source (10) producing light that passes through the ceramic material of said external element, and wherein each light source (10) is configured to produce localised light on a point or quasi-point area (40) of the ceramic material of the external element concerned, so as to produce localised illumination on said external element.
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公开(公告)号:US20220365486A1
公开(公告)日:2022-11-17
申请号:US17771977
申请日:2020-11-05
Inventor: Michel WILLEMIN , Simon SPRINGER , Jean-Jacques BORN
IPC: G04B19/26
Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (100) for displaying the moon for a timepiece on demand. The display device (100) comprises a first movable indicator member (110) and having a representation of the moon (111). This representation of the moon (111) is completely or partially occulted by an occulting element (121) that is located on a second movable indicator member (120) when the user so requests and in particular via a control unit.
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公开(公告)号:US20220197084A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-23
申请号:US17486177
申请日:2021-09-27
Inventor: Michel SAGARDOYBURU , Simon SPRINGER
IPC: G02F1/1335 , G02F1/13357 , G02F1/1343 , G04G9/12
Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device including a reflective or transflective liquid crystal cell whose liquid crystal molecules are aligned in a planar or vertical manner, this liquid crystal cell being formed of a transparent front substrate located on the side of an observer, and a rear substrate, also transparent, which extends beneath the front substrate, parallel to and at a distance from the latter, these two front and rear substrates being joined to each other with a sealing frame which defines a sealed enclosure in which a liquid crystal composition is confined, the front and rear substrates being coated on their opposite faces with electrically conductive transparent electrodes and counter-electrodes, the optical properties of the liquid crystal composition being modified by application of an electric field at the point of intersection between an electrode and a corresponding counter-electrode.
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公开(公告)号:US20220267891A1
公开(公告)日:2022-08-25
申请号:US17572991
申请日:2022-01-11
Inventor: Michel WILLEMIN , Simon SPRINGER , Loïc CURCHOD
Abstract: A method for depositing a rare material in a thin layer at the surface of an horological or jewellery external part includes providing a rough part of rare material, shaping the rough part of rare material so that it is adapted to be used as a target part for a PVD method, depositing material of the target part at the surface of a substrate consisting of an horological or jewellery eternal part by a PVD method so as to cover the external part.
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公开(公告)号:US20220197092A1
公开(公告)日:2022-06-23
申请号:US17511980
申请日:2021-10-27
Inventor: Michel SAGARDOYBURU , Simon SPRINGER
IPC: G02F1/1343 , G04G9/06 , G02F1/1335 , H01L51/52
Abstract: A method for manufacturing a digital display device which includes an optically active medium disposed between at least one electrode and a corresponding counter-electrode, the optical properties of the optically active medium being modifiable by applying an electric current or voltage between the at least one electrode and the at least one corresponding counter-electrode, the digital display device including a transparent display surface through which at least one piece of information displayed by this digital display device is perceptible, the manufacturing method including the step of providing the transparent display surface of the digital display device with at least one first and one second decorative and/or functional pattern, the first pattern having a thickness different from that of the second pattern. A digital display device provided with at least one first and one second decorative and/or functional patterns whose thicknesses are not the same.
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公开(公告)号:US20170268111A1
公开(公告)日:2017-09-21
申请号:US15452759
申请日:2017-03-08
Inventor: Christian MANASTERSKI , Cedric FAURE , Simon SPRINGER , Gerard ROSSIER
CPC classification number: C23C28/021 , C23C14/14 , C23C14/165 , C23C14/34 , C23C14/56 , C25D7/005 , G04B5/16 , G04B13/026 , G04B19/042 , G04B19/06 , G04B29/027 , G04B37/223 , G04B47/04 , G04D3/0092 , G04D3/0097
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for decorating a timepiece component comprising: a) a step of preparation of the timepiece component optionally comprising a first step of depositing a first material on the timepiece component to form a first sub-layer, b) a second step of depositing a second material on the timepiece component obtained in step a) to form a second sub-layer, c) a colouring step comprising the deposition of a third coloured material on the timepiece component obtained in step b) to form a coloured external decorative layer, According to the invention, at least step b) and step c) are achieved by a physical vapour deposition method.
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公开(公告)号:US20240329603A1
公开(公告)日:2024-10-03
申请号:US18293430
申请日:2022-07-18
Inventor: Cédric BLATTER , Pierpasquale TORTORA , Simon SPRINGER
IPC: G04B19/30
CPC classification number: G04B19/30
Abstract: The invention relates to a display device (10), in particular for watchmaking, the display device including at least one dial (13) and a first movable body (12), for example a first hand, the first movable body (12) being configured to move relative to the dial (13) so as to indicate a plurality of positions on the dial (13), characterised in that it comprises a light source (18) arranged to emit a light radiation (16) through the dial (13), and in that the first movable body (12) comprises a colour filter (21) allowing modifying the colour of part of the light radiation (17) passing through the first movable body (12), so that the first movable body (12) has a different colour from the dial (13).
The invention also relates to a timepiece comprising such a display device (10).
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