EP0423576B1 - Montre agenda électromécanique - Google Patents

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EP0423576B1
EP0423576B1 EP90119225A EP90119225A EP0423576B1 EP 0423576 B1 EP0423576 B1 EP 0423576B1 EP 90119225 A EP90119225 A EP 90119225A EP 90119225 A EP90119225 A EP 90119225A EP 0423576 B1 EP0423576 B1 EP 0423576B1
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  • the invention relates to an electromechanical appointment clock according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • Such an appointment clock is known from GB-A-2 017 979.
  • a blocking device in the form of a one-bit counter circuit is provided there.
  • the signaling is only activated with every second counting pulse.
  • the counting pulses are supplied by an appointment time coincidence circuit, so that the signal is not given at every, but only at every second coincidence point (and therefore not after 12 hours again, but only after 24 hours).
  • the next signal In order to arrange for the next signal to be triggered at the next point in time of coincidence (i.e.
  • the user of the watch must after the first setting of an impending signaling time (within the next 12 hours), additionally trigger a counting pulse manually, so that the coincidence point which occurs for the first time appears as a second counting pulse for the blocking device and leads to triggering of the signaling.
  • Such an operating requirement is obviously susceptible to errors, especially when setting appointments in a tired state immediately before falling asleep; and it also requires signaling as to whether the current setting of the signaling time is one morning or one Afternoon relates whether an additional counting pulse to be triggered manually is actually required for the new signal time specification.
  • appointment clock In the previously known appointment clock, this information is conveyed manually via certain operating processes by means of unusual second hand movements, which further increases the complexity of the information to be interpreted and thus the susceptibility to error of the setting of a specific signaling time.
  • appointment clock As is known from JP-A-61-88178 corresponding to Vol. 10, no. 264 (P-495) of the Patent Abstracts of Japan, the coincidence triggering of the signal does not take place directly from the comparison of current ones Time display and alarm time specification; rather, a blocking device in the form of a counter is started, which determines the remaining time period between the current point in time and the predetermined appointment time and blocks any appointment signal transmission for this time period.
  • the invention is based on the object of equipping an electromechanical appointment watch of the generic type in such a way that the function of a 24-hour appointment watch is effected in a twelve-hour display while maintaining the familiar appointment specification without complex operating or sensor-related additional measures.
  • the generic appointment clock is designed according to the characterizing part of claim 1.
  • the display can be designed as a trap door or dial roller display; however, preference is given to the conventional pointer display with a dial divided by twelve hours.
  • the blocking device with the "final" manual switching off of the current appointment signaling, triggers a blocking period of time, which is preferably fed from the time-keeping circuit for the display drive, and which triggers a renewed activation of the signal generator for (somewhat more than) twelve hours prevents the transmission of an appointment signal at the next coincidence point between the current time display and the set appointment time.
  • the triggering option of the signal generator is then released again, with the result that a term signal is emitted again at the subsequent coincidence point (i.e. just under twelve hours later and therefore 24 hours after the previously triggered appointment signal).
  • the signaling time for example, by adjusting an appointment pointer in front of the dial
  • the blocking circuit must first be reset to the release starting position by means of a reset switch.
  • An electromechanical appointment watch 42 operated, for example, by means of a battery 41 with a 12-hour time display by means of hour and minute hands 43 in front of a 12-hour dial 44 has a time-keeping circuit 45 (designed, for example, as a quartz-stabilized oscillator with pulse frequency reducer), which is operated via an electrically mechanical converter 46 and a reduction gear 47 moves the pointer 43 at the right time.
  • a periodic pointer position request is expediently provided in addition to the current time display with absolute time information received via radio to compare and, if necessary, to correct them, as described in more detail, for example, in US Pat. No. 4,645,357.
  • the clock 42 additionally has an appointment pointer 48, which can be set manually by means of an actuating shaft 49 to the point in time on the minute scale of the dial 44 at which an electroacoustic signal transmitter 50 is to be actuated to emit an appointment signal 51.
  • a mechanical or electromechanical coincidence device 52 responds and closes a switching path 53 for actuating the signal generator 50, optionally via an output amplifier 54 from an electromechanical or preferably electronic audio frequency generator 55 time limit circuit 56 located in this control prevents unnecessary stress on battery 41 if the appointment signal is not switched off manually (see below); because due to the gearing conditions when querying the angular position of the appointment hand 48 due to the hour hand 43s rotating only at a very low angular speed, the switching distance 53 would otherwise remain closed until the mechanical coincidence (the so-called pointer incidence in the gear train behind the dial 44 ) is canceled again and signal 51 ends.
  • the temporary manual interruption of the emission of the appointment signal 51 is used by a snooze pushbutton switch 57 for starting a timer 58 after the signaling switching path 53 is closed in order to temporarily block an AND gate 59 via its inverting input 60 and thus the output of the appointment signal 51 temporarily interrupt until it resumes after the snooze time t has elapsed - if (after repeated manual actuation of the snooze switch 57) the limitation time period T that is in the order of, for example, five times the snooze repetition time t, then has not yet expired.
  • the appointment hand 48 points to 6.30 a.m.
  • the hour hand 43s would make the coincidence device 52 respond again after one revolution, that is to say 12 hours later, and at 6.30 a.m., i.e. at 6.30 p.m. , trigger an appointment signal 51 again, although the wake-up signal is only required in the morning.
  • a day blocking switch 61 is provided, which (if necessary: after repeated use of the snooze switch 57) is actuated to "finally" interrupt the appointment signal 51, namely to prevent a new appointment signal 51 almost 12 hours later (in symbolized by the crossed-out indication).
  • a bistable flip-flop 83 is set in a day blocking time circuit 75 via an AND gate 62, which flip-flop stage 65 via an AND gate 64 (preferably supplied from the timed circuit 45 for driving the pointer 43) through to the counter input 66 of a blocking counter 67.
  • a bistable stage 64 is set via a dynamic input (represented by the triangular pulse symbol), so that an AND gate 69 blocks in the course of driving the signal generator 50. This block is only released again when a period of 12 hours plus the clearing game in the coincidence device 52 has expired, for example a blocking period H of 13 hours.
  • the blocking counter 67 was initiated shortly after the appointment signal 51 was inserted (namely at 6.40 a.m. in FIG. 2) via the day blocking switch 61, the gate 69 is still blocked after one hour hand circulation (at 6.30 p.m.) and in the afternoon this day, on which the blocking switch 61 was actuated in the morning, therefore no appointment signal 51 is output (FIG. 2 in the middle). Only, for example, 13 hours after actuation of the blocking switch 61 (in the case of FIG. 2, therefore, at 7.40 p.m.) the blocking counter 67 has counted up to its end position, from which it resets via its reset input 70 and also resets the blocking stage 68, so that the blocking gate 69 is released again. However, the switching path 53 is no longer closed, so that an appointment signal 51 is only emitted again at the next point in time of coincidence (the next morning at 6.30 am in this example).
  • the function described is also not affected by the fact that during the running time of the blocking counter 67 or thereafter the appointment pointer 48 is changed to a different signaling time, for example to 5:00 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. in the morning: from H hours after actuation of the The day blocking switch 61 restarts the emission of the appointment signal 51 at the time set on the dial 44.
  • a different signaling time for example to 5:00 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. in the morning: from H hours after actuation of the The day blocking switch 61 restarts the emission of the appointment signal 51 at the time set on the dial 44.
  • Merely an advance of the next signaling time into the period of the triggered blocking time H is ineffective, i.e. after signal switching off at 6.40 a new signaling specification for 5.00 (17.00) on the same afternoon.
  • a reset switch 71 can be provided which, via OR gates 72, resets the flip-flops 63 and 68, which may also have been set for signaling blocking, via their pulse inputs, and resets the blocking counter 87 to its starting position regardless of its current counting state.
  • the blocking gate 69 is thus released again before the blocking time H has elapsed and an appointment signal 51 is emitted again at the next point in time of coincidence (ie before the otherwise effective blocking time H has expired).
  • an operating switch 74 can be provided in front of the feed input (as assumed in FIG. 1) or behind the signal output of the appointment switching path 53.
  • the blocking switch 61 and the operating switch 74 into a multi-function switch which, for example, has a latching function as an operating switch 74 when actuated in one direction and when actuated in the other direction - that is, after switching on the operation - exerts a key function as a blocking switch 61.
  • the snooze switch 57 is preferably not implemented electromechanically but rather electronically, for example via a reflection beam barrier as described in more detail in US Pat. No. 3,498,047.
  • time-keeping circuit 45 or the above-mentioned control and correction of the current pointer positions in accordance with absolute time information, is equipped with a signal processor which is not yet fully utilized for these functions, it is expedient, contrary to the basic illustration in FIG. and blocking function not to be realized by discrete digital circuits, but also to use the possibilities of a programmable logic controller running in the processor; in which case the logic gate logic functions can also be implemented using time-division multiplexing.

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  1. Réveil (42) électromécanique avec affichage du temps en douze heures, comportant des dispositifs de réglage manuel d'une heure de délivrance d'un signal programmé sur l'affichage du temps en douze heures et d'arrêt manuel du signal programmé 51, ainsi qu'un dispositif de blocage pour supprimer le renouvellement du signal programmé dès douze heures après le signal programmé actuel, caractérisé en ce que l'arrêt du signal programmé (51) en tant que dispositif de blocage met en marche un circuit de temps de blocage (75) qui empêche une commande du générateur de signal programmé (50) pour un nouveau signal programmé, sur un intervalle de temps de blocage (H) d'un peu plus de douze heures.
  2. Réveil selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que le circuit de temps (75) comporte un compteur (67) rythmé par le circuit de maintien de temps (45) du réveil (42).
  3. Réveil selon les revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce qu'il est prévu un interrupteur de remise à zéro (71) qui replace le circuit de temps (75) à l'état initial et qui supprime le blocage de la commande du générateur de signal programmé (50).
  4. Réveil selon la revendication 3, caractérisé en ce que l'interrupteur de remise à zéro (71) est couplé de manière fonctionnelle avec l'actionnement d'une manette de réglage (73) permettant de régler l'heure du signal programmé.
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