EP0389739B1 - Module d'affichage analogique pour mouvement d'horlogerie - Google Patents

Module d'affichage analogique pour mouvement d'horlogerie Download PDF

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EP0389739B1
EP0389739B1 EP90100399A EP90100399A EP0389739B1 EP 0389739 B1 EP0389739 B1 EP 0389739B1 EP 90100399 A EP90100399 A EP 90100399A EP 90100399 A EP90100399 A EP 90100399A EP 0389739 B1 EP0389739 B1 EP 0389739B1
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Gérald Dubois
François Berthoud
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
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    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B19/00—Indicating the time by visual means
    • G04B19/06—Dials
    • G04B19/08—Geometrical arrangement of the graduations
    • G04B19/087—Geometrical arrangement of the graduations with several separate scales

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  • the present invention relates to an analog display module comprising a dial, hands and a mechanism for driving its hands from a PTO of a clockwork movement, generally constituted by the roadway performing a tour in one hour.
  • This display module is intended to be fixed to the clockwork movement in place of the usual dial and hands and aims to achieve a new type of time display which allows a new arrangement of the dial and the hands creating a completely new aesthetic for the watch.
  • This analog display module is distinguished by the characteristics described and claimed in the following.
  • Figure 1 is a plan view of the dial and hands of a first embodiment of the display module.
  • Figure 2 is a plan view of the dial and hands of a second embodiment of the display module.
  • Figure 3 is a partial section along line III - III of Figure 4 illustrating the needle drive mechanism of the second embodiment of the display module.
  • Figure 4 is a bottom view of the mechanism of the second embodiment of the display module.
  • Figures 5 and 6 are views similar to Figures 3 and 4 illustrating a variant of the mechanism of the second embodiment of the display module.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates the dial and the hands of a third embodiment of the display module.
  • Figure 8 is a partial section along line VIII - VIII of Figure 9 of the needle drive mechanism of the third embodiment of the display module.
  • Figure 9 is a partial bottom view of the third embodiment of the display module.
  • the first embodiment of the display module illustrated in FIG. 1, comprises a dial 1 comprising a graduation representing the hours formed by four circular sectors 2,3,4,5 arranged symmetrically with respect to the center 6 of the dial 1 and each representing a duration of three hours. Each of these time sectors 2,3,4,5 cooperates with a hand 7,8,9,10 respectively pivoted near the four corners of the dial 1.
  • the time sector 2 and the hand 7 allow the display of the time between noon or midnight and three hours; sector 3 and hand 8 the time display between three and six hours; sector 4 and hand 9 display the time between six and nine o'clock and sector 5 and hand 10 display the time between nine o'clock and noon or midnight.
  • Each of these time sectors and the hand associated therewith constitutes a retrograde time display lasting at least three hours.
  • the time display of this second embodiment of the module is identical to that of the first embodiment except that a fifth hand 11 pivoted in the center cooperates with a concentric scale 12 to indicate the minutes.
  • the display module comprises a base plate 13 fixed by any known means to the clock movement 14, the pavement 15 of which serves as a PTO, performing a revolution in one hour, for driving the mechanism of the module. display.
  • This carriageway 15 carries the minute hand 11 at its upper end.
  • This roadway 15 is connected by the usual cogs of the timer (not shown) of the movement 14 to the hour wheel 16, secured to a barrel, pivoted madly around the roadway 15.
  • a disc 17 is made integral with the barrel of the hour wheel 16 and its upper surface constitutes a coupling of the Bréguet type, that is to say a wolf tooth, with a hub 18 pivoted idly on said barrel and applied against the disc 17 by a cup spring 19 supported by the dial 1.
  • the hub 18 is driven by friction or at least by a clutch system allowing a relative angular movement between the disc 17 rigidly fixed to the hour wheel and this hub 18 in the event of excessive torque, in particular during reset. the time in the opposite direction to the time indications.
  • the hub 18 is integral with a snail cam 20 having a circular peripheral portion, concentric with the hub 18 over approximately three quarters of its periphery and a lift 21 extending over a little more than a quarter of its periphery, the last portion 22 of this lift 21 being concentric with the hub 18.
  • This cam 20, 21, 22 makes a revolution in twelve hours and its periphery cooperates with four levers 23, 24, 25, 26 each pivoted on a pin 27 driven into the base plate 13 of the module and held in place with screws 28.
  • Each of these levers 23 - 26 has a spout 29 at one of its ends and a toothed sector 30 at its other end.
  • Hairpin springs 31 fixed on a pin 32 driven into the base plate 13 bearing on a fixed stop 33 and on a stud 34 of each lever and thus tend to maintain the spout 29 of each of these levers 23 - 26 against the periphery of the cam 20.
  • Each needle 7,8,9,10 is carried by a mobile 35 pivoted on an axis 36 driven into the base plate 13 with which it remains in contact with the effect of a spring 37 bearing under the dial 1.
  • the teeth of each of these mobiles 35 are engaged with the toothed sector 30 of the corresponding lever 23 - 26.
  • the position of the mechanism illustrated in Figure 4 corresponds to the indication of three hours.
  • the beak 29 of the lever 23 driving the needle 7 is at the maximum of the lift 21, it approaches the concentric portion 22 of this lift so that the needle 7 indicates three hours.
  • the lever 24 actuating the needle 8 begins to be actuated by the lever 21.
  • the needle 7 remains for three hours while the needle 8 advances towards four o'clock.
  • the beak 29 of the lever 23 escapes lifting 21 and the hand 7 instantly returns to its initial position indicating twelve hours.
  • the user can thus read the time successively on the four parts of the time indicator 2.7; 3.8; 4.9 and 5.10 without there being a solution of continuity, the needle of the preceding sector remaining at the end of the race the time necessary for the needle of the following display sector to have advanced sufficiently so that there is no ambiguity on the sector which must be considered for the indication of the time at any time.
  • the minutes are displayed by the central display 11,12.
  • FIG. 1 which does not include an indication of the minutes, the mechanism is identical to that which has just been described except that the roadway 15 does not carry a needle.
  • the base plate 13 of the display module has an opening 36 and the dial 1 a window 37 allowing the user to see an indication of the dates of movement 14 through the display module.
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 illustrate a variant of the mechanism of this second embodiment of the display module in which the hub 18 is directly integral with the roadway 15.
  • the dial 1 comprises four displays of the retrograde sector type located in the four corners of the dial, each comprising a minute scale 50,51,52,53 and a corresponding minute hand 54 , 55.56 and 57.
  • the dial is provided with a central concentric hour display comprising a graduation 58 and a hour hand 59.
  • Each retrograde sector display corresponds to a quarter of an hour and the indications follow one another to display the sixty minutes an hour.
  • the mechanism of this embodiment of the display module is of the type described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6 except that the cam 20 is integral with the carriageway 15 which is pivoted madly on a barrel 60 integral with the upper bridge 61 of the watch movement.
  • the hands 54 to 57 clearly indicating the minutes the cam 20 performing a complete revolution in one hour.
  • the central hour hand 59 is carried by a mobile 62 idly pivoted on the upper end of the roadway 15.
  • the toothing 63 of this mobile 62 is engaged with the toothing of a pinion 64 pivoted in a barrel 65 driven into a bore in the cam 20.
  • a second pinion 66 is also pivoted in this barrel 65, located on the other side of the cam 20, and meshes with a pinion 67 secured to the hour wheel 16.
  • the ratio introduced by this chain cynematic is 1: 1 so that the hand 59 rotates at the same speed as the hour wheel 16 which it is driven by a clockwork from the minute wheel of the movement, at the rate of one lap for twelve hours.
  • this display module driven by any conventional clockwork movement, mechanical, automatic or quartz, we obtain a completely new time display mode allowing a revolutionary appearance and design of the watch face.
  • a display module which in principle consists of comprising several displays with a retrograde sector each comprising a mobile display member cooperating with at least one fixed reference, the time indications provided by each retrograde sector display relating to fractions of days, respectively of hours succeeding one another without discontinuity.
  • a fixed index can be provided on the dial cooperating with a mobile scale, without making any changes in principle to the mechanism of the module.
  • four eccentric stops 100, 101, 102 and 103, fixed in plate 13 operate as four stops when the respective levers are in position dropped under the effect of their respective spring 31.
  • These stops have eccentric pivots, it is possible to turn them individually and thus adjust each lever so as to leave a slight space between the spouts 29 of the levers and the low position of the cam 20, in order to reduce the friction of the spouts on the cam, thus eliminating the friction of three or at least two spouts out of four.

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