EP0889382B1 - Weckeruhr - Google Patents

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EP0889382B1
EP0889382B1 EP97905159A EP97905159A EP0889382B1 EP 0889382 B1 EP0889382 B1 EP 0889382B1 EP 97905159 A EP97905159 A EP 97905159A EP 97905159 A EP97905159 A EP 97905159A EP 0889382 B1 EP0889382 B1 EP 0889382B1
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Evaristo Garcia Ramos
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G13/00—Producing acoustic time signals
    • G04G13/02—Producing acoustic time signals at preselected times, e.g. alarm clocks
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    • G04—HOROLOGY
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    • G04G13/00—Producing acoustic time signals
    • G04G13/02—Producing acoustic time signals at preselected times, e.g. alarm clocks

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  • the present invention refers to an improved alarm clock, which is of the electronic type and it has been conceived and embodied as a means to assure the awakening of the user and even the shaking off drowsiness of the user so that once he is awake he does not fall back to sleep.
  • the object of the invention is to provide an alarm clock that can be considered to be reliable, given that some manual operations are necessary so that the alarm stops sounding, there must be light in order to carry out such operations, which ensures the awakening.
  • alarm clocks include electronically operated ones that include a screen with four digits, two of which indicate the hour and the other two indicate the minutes, in such a way that changing the time and minutes in order to turn on the clock or the alarm of the alarm clock, is done by two push buttons in combination with a four-position switch, one corresponding to the indication of the hour and minutes of the clock; another one corresponding to the indication of the time when the alarm must sound; another one corresponding to the time when the alarm is to be activated and another one corresponding to the time when the alarm is to be deactivated so that it stops sounding.
  • This type of electronic alarm clock that is considered to be a basic one, may prove to be adequate for most people in most situations.
  • the alarm clock object of the invention ensures the awakening of all those people who have trouble in waking up, and this is achieved by means of an extremely simple but efficient solution.
  • the alarm clock of the present invention comprises the means enumerated in claim 1 in combination therein.
  • the modification of the first and/or of the second number is done by means of the corresponding push buttons; just as one normally changes the digits of the hour and/or of the minutes when the time shown by the clock or time when the alarm must go off is changed.
  • the system permits the sounding of the alarm to stop when the displayed second and first numbers coincide.
  • the means to display the first number may be functionally associated to the first two digits indicating the hour, in such a way that said digits indicate the first number, while the means to display the second number may be functionally connected with the digits indicating the minutes, in such a way that said digits indicate the second number.
  • the first number the random number
  • the second number may also be a random number, though it may be practical that said number is a specific number, for example, "00". In this case, it may be especially advantageous that the second number is the number that has to be changed to make it coincide with the first number.
  • the clock of the present invention may include:
  • the clock advantageously includes a push button that permits one to choose between a normal operating mode in which it is not necessary to change the displayed numbers in order to stop the sounding of the alarm, and a special operating mode in which the first random number and the second number are displayed, it being necessary to change at least one of said numbers in order to be able to stop the alarm from sounding.
  • an electronic alarm clock includes a series of main blocks, starting with a filtering block (1), then a frequency selecting block (2), followed by counters (3), (4) and (5) corresponding to seconds, minutes and hours, respectively, blocks (4) and (5) being related to the corresponding alarm comparator (6) to activate the corresponding alarm circuit (7), including, as usual in an alarm clock, a delay countdown block (8), and the corresponding alarm minute counters (9) and the alarm hour counters (10).
  • a generator (11) of a two-digit random number, and a comparator between hours and minutes (12) in connection with the corresponding above mentioned alarm circuit (7) may be included.
  • this alarm clock physically includes a body (13) with a screen (14) on which two pairs of digits (15-15') and (16-16') appear, the first two digits corresponding to the hours and the second two to the minutes, appearing on the front of the body (13) of the alarm clock push buttons (17) and (18) to change the digits corresponding to the hours and to the minutes.
  • the body of the alarm clock also includes a general switch (19) in which the push buttons (20), (21), (22) and (23) appear, in such a way that actuating the push button (20) allows the indication of the hours and minutes of the clock to be carried out, by actuating buttons (17) and (18).
  • Actuating push button (21) permits the indicating of the time when the alarm must sound. Actuating push button (22) is to leave the alarm activated, while actuating on push button (23) is to eliminate the sound of the alarm, as is shown in figure 1.
  • the cited switches may be push-button, sliding or any other type.
  • a switch (19') that aside from being provided with above mentioned push buttons (20), (21), (22) and (23), includes a new push button (24) in functional association with the random number generating block (11) and with the hours and minutes comparator block (12), in such a way that when activation of the alarm starts, generator (11) simultaneously generates a random number that will appear on digits (15) and (15') corresponding to the hour of the alarm clock, while digits (16) and (16') will indicate "0", is included.
  • the operations must be carried out on the basis of which digits (16) and (16') are made to coincide with digits (15) and (15') generated as random ones by block (11).

Claims (6)

  1. Verbesserte Weckeruhr, die umfaßt:
    eine Takteinrichtung, die Zeitzähleinrichtungen (3, 4, 5) und eine Einrichtung zur Abänderung des Zählwerts aufweist;
    eine Zeitanzeigeeinrichtung, die eine Einrichtung zur Anzeige von zwei Ziffern, die die Stunde (15, 15') angeben, und von zwei Ziffern, die die Minuten (16, 16') angeben, aufweist, um die Stunde und die Minuten entsprechend dem Zählwert der Takteinrichtung anzuzeigen;
    eine Weckereinrichtung mit einer Einrichtung den Weckalarm zu starten, wenn die Takteinrichtung eine gewisse Zeit (6, 7) anzeigt, eine Einrichtung zur Voreinstellung der Zeit, zu der der Weckalarm gestartet werden soll, und eine Einrichtung einen Weckton abzugeben, wenn der Weckalarm abgeschaltet wird;
    eine Einrichtung zur Erzeugung einer ersten Zahl (11), wobei diese Zahl eines Zufallszahl ist;
    eine Einrichtung zur Anzeige der Zufallszahl, wenn der Weckalarm gestartet wird;
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sie ebenfalls umfaßt:
    eine Einrichtung zur Anzeige einer zweiten Zahl;
    eine Einrichtung zur Handveränderung der zweiten Zahl und/oder der ersten Zahl;
    eine Einrichtung, damit der Weckton angehalten werden kann, wenn ein vorbestimmtes Verhältnis zwischen der ersten und der zweiten Zahl angezeigt wird;
    wobei die Einrichtung zur Anzeige der ersten Zahl funktional mit den zwei Ziffern, die die Stunde (15, 15') angeben, derart verbunden ist, daß die Ziffern die erste Zahl angeben, während die Einrichtung zur Anzeige der zweiten Zahl funktional mit den Ziffern, die die Minuten (16, 16') angeben, derart verbunden ist, daß die Ziffern die zweite Zahl angeben.
  2. Weckeruhr gemäß Anspruch 1, wobei der Weckton angehalten werden kann, wenn die angezeigte zweite und erste Zahl übereinstimmen.
  3. Weckeruhr gemäß Anspruch 1, wobei die erste Zufallszahl eine Zahl von 25 bis 99 ist.
  4. Weckeruhr gemäß Anspruch 3, wobei die zweite Zahl anfangs "00" ist.
  5. Weckeruhr gemäß irgendeinem der obigen Ansprüche, die umfaßt:
    einen Anzeigeschirm (14) zur Anzeige der Ziffern;
    einen Hauptschalter (19') mit Druckknöpfen (17, 18, 20-24), damit zumindest die folgenden Operationen von Hand ausgeführt werden können: Abändern des Zählwerts der Takteinrichtung; Voreinstellen einer Zeit, zu der der Weckalarm starten soll; Abändern der ersten Zahl und/oder der zweiten Zahl; Anhalten des Weckalarms, wenn die erste und die zweite Zahl auf dem Bildschirm übereinstimmen.
  6. Weckeruhr gemäß Anspruch 1, die einen Druckknopf (24) umfaßt, der ermöglicht, zwischen einem normalen Betriebsmodus, in dem es nicht notwendig ist, die angezeigten Zahlen zu ändern, damit der Weckalarm abgeschaltet werden kann, und einer besonderen Betriebsart zu wählen, in der die erste Zufallszahl und die zweite Zahl angezeigt werden, wobei es notwendig ist, zumindest eine der Zahlen zu ändern, damit der Weckalarm am Ertönen angehalten werden kann.
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