EP0960361B1 - Piece d'horlogerie comportant un dispositif de detection capacitif - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a part horological, in particular a watch, comprising a mobile rotary and an electrical device capacitive sensing to detect positions and / or movements of said mobile, in which the detection device comprises at least one capacitive sensor having a fixed part provided at least two fixed electrodes and part mobile with electrically conductive rotor driven by said mobile and arranged to influence the electric field between the fixed electrodes by its rotational position, and means detection electronics that are sensitive to variations in the capacity of said sensor, both fixed electrodes being arranged on a substrate and separated from each other by an interval.
- the invention is particularly applicable, but not exclusively, when ordering functions such as manual time correction or the date in an electronic watch using the traditional control rod fitted with a outer crown.
- detection rotational and translational movements of this stem is essentially based on electromechanical switches actuated by a arrangement of cams integral with the rod, these cams acting on contact slats flexible that will touch fixed contacts generally provided on a printed circuit which includes other component parts watchmaking.
- pulses are generated from variations in coupling capacitive produced by the rotor electrode between different stator electrodes, thanks to variations in the overlap area between the rotor and each fixed electrode, while the thickness of the dielectric between the electrodes remains constant.
- the object of the present invention is to avoid disadvantages of the prior art by creating a reliable contactless detection device, usable in a timepiece such as watch, can be made and mounted at a low cost and can be applied advantageously to the correction of time or date or on detection of a particular position of a mobile rotary.
- a timepiece as defined in claim 1.
- the detection device acts essentially by varying capacity thanks to the variation in distance between the surface toothed device of the rotor and each electrode fixed.
- capacitive sensors that detect a quite a lot of angular positions successive, for example eight or twelve positions per turn.
- the rotor can be kept at a potential fixed, its teeth being arranged to screen in the electric field between the electrodes fixed.
- this substrate can advantageously be part of an element to printed circuits of the timepiece, i.e. that we use an element that exists already in an electronic watch movement or electromechanical.
- the rotor is integral with the mobile, which has a support cylinder which rests in sliding against a dielectric layer arranged on the substrate and / or on the fixed electrodes. This avoids any adjustment of the sensor when mounting the mobile.
- the toothed shape of the surface rotor device Thanks to the toothed shape of the surface rotor device, capacity variation between the electrodes is due in this case to the thickness modulation of the dielectric.
- the fixed electrodes can be find on the same printed circuit substrate, for example on two opposite edges of an opening of the substrate.
- the rotor can be isolated and used as transmitter of an electrical signal between the two fixed electrodes. The rotor is then at a potential floating.
- Another advantageous embodiment of the sensor with a pair of fixed electrodes consists of the rotor being an electrode mobile connected to the detection means and whose teeth, during its rotation, pass alternately opposite one or other of the fixed electrodes.
- the rotor thus forms a third electrode for signal injection in the two capacitors it forms respectively with the two fixed electrodes.
- the detection device without contact can also indicate the direction of rotation of the mobile
- the detection device includes preferably two of said capacitive sensors, which are offset angularly so as to provide respective output signals which are quadrature during the rotation of the mobile.
- the mobile which it is a question of detecting positions is a rod 1 which can be for example the rod of time setting command for a watch or another timepiece.
- this mobile could be another piece of a movement of watchmaking, for example a tree bearing a second, minute or hour hand, or a chronograph counter hand.
- the rod 1 is associated with a device for detection of its angular positions which includes a capacitive sensor 2 and electronic means detection 3 using the signal from the sensor on an output line 4.
- the sensor 2 comprises a mobile part, constituted by a fixed rotor 5 coaxially on the rod 1, and a fixed part essentially consisting of two electrodes fixed 6 and 7 which, in this case, are coplanar and applied to the underside an insulating substrate 8 parallel to the axis of the rotor 5.
- This can advantageously be a card to printed circuits as there are in the most electronic watches or electromechanical, this card usually being parallel to the watch face and to the ordered.
- a voltage source 9 is connected in series between ground 10 and first electrode 6 to apply a pulsed voltage Ue thereto.
- the second electrode 7 is connected to line 4 to deliver an output signal which depends on the capacity between the two electrodes 6 and 7.
- the rotor 5 is a conductive part, of preferably metallic, star-shaped, its peripheral surface presenting in this case four teeth 11 to 14 regularly spaced angularly. Preferably, it is connected to the mass 10 via rod 1.
- the rotor is located in front of the interval 15 between the electrodes 6 and 7 and its teeth go to low distance from the electrodes. Presence and position of the rotor thus influences the electric field 16 and therefore the capacitive coupling between the electrodes.
- the capacity of the sensor 2 varies periodically and the signal exit on line 4 goes through a minimum in the position of Figure 1, where the rotor forms a screen in the electric field, and by a maximum in the position of figure 2, where the rotor does practically no screen.
- the signal sensor output is applied to the negative input an amplifier 16 connected in parallel to a integration capacitor 17 of capacity Ci.
- a square pulse voltage signal Us (Cv / Ci) ⁇ Ue, where Cv is the capacitance between two electrodes 6 and 7.
- Each pulse of this signal represents the passage of one of teeth 11 to 14 in front of the electrodes, so a step of rotation of rod 1, this step being a quarter turn in this example.
- the Us signal is used in a processing circuit 19 which controls so known the desired function, for example setting the time or date of the watch.
- Figure 3 illustrates an embodiment advantage of the capacitive sensor 2, in order to maintain a determined distance and also small as possible between the teeth of rotor 5 and the electrodes 6 and 7, so that variations in sensor capacity during rod movements 1 are as high as possible and can therefore be detected easily.
- a thin layer dielectric 20 is applied to at least one part of electrodes 6 and 7 and on interval 15 separating them.
- This layer can be formed by example of a resin film having a thickness of a few micrometers. This thickness is obviously exaggerated in the drawing. Otherwise, the rod 1 carries a support cylinder 21 placed at a sufficient distance from rotor 5 so as not to influence the capacitance between the electrodes.
- the rod 1 is placed relative to substrate 8 of so that its cylinder 21 rests slightly against layer 20, which also extends over the substrate in front of the cylinder.
- the surfaces end of teeth 11 to 14 of rotor 5 can be cylindrical and have the same radius as the cylinder 21, so that their distance to electrodes 6 and 7 is practically equal to the thickness of the dielectric layer 20.
- Figure 4 illustrates an embodiment comprising, next to the capacitive sensor 2, a second similar capacitive sensor 22 in order to ability to detect direction of rotation of rod 1.
- the sensor 22 comprises a rotor 25 fixed on the rod 1 and a pair of electrodes 26 and 27 identical to electrodes 6 and 7 and applied to the substrate 8 to side of these. These electrodes are also covered by the dielectric layer 20.
- the rotor 25 is identical to rotor 5, but offset angularly of a quarter of the pitch of the teeth, or a sixteenth of a turn in this case, so that the output signals from sensor 22 are in quadrature with those of sensor 2. Signals from these kinds are described later with reference to the figure 10.
- control rod 1 of the watch can slide axially between at minus two positions, one of which is a position time setting, shown in solid lines in Figure 4.
- the other axial position of the rod is a neutral position, shown in lines interrupted, where the rod 1 must be able to rotate without correct the time of the watch.
- the rotor 25 of sensor 22 is then located opposite the electrodes 6 and 7 of sensor 2, so that sensor 2 is active, while the sensor 22 is inactive.
- the processing circuits 19 detect this fact when rod 1 turns and they do not engage any action. If, on the contrary, the two sensors 2 and 22 provide quadrature signals, circuits 19 make a time correction the extent of which is determined by the number of steps indicated by sensor 2, and direction by order of succession of signals from sensors 2 and 22.
- FIGS 5 and 6 illustrate another form of a capacitive sensor usable at the place of each of the sensors 2 and 22 described above.
- This sensor 30 has two electrodes fixtures arranged on a common insulating substrate 33 and connected to respective terminals A and B. Each electrode 31, 32 extends in particular over opposite edges of an opening 34 of the substrate 33 to each form an electrode plate 35, 36.
- the axis 37 of the rotary rod 1 extends in the middle of the opening 34, in the median plane of the substrate, of so that the rotor 5 fixed on the rod 1 is roughly the same distance from each of electrodes 31 and 32.
- the rotor 5 has an even number of teeth, it is isolated electrically and stands at a potential floating, to serve as a passive transmitter of a electrical signal between the two electrodes.
- the equivalent diagram in Figure 6 shows that the sensor capacity 30 is equal to the serialization variable capacities C1 and C2 located respectively between the electrode 31 and the rotor 5 and between the rotor 5 and the electrode 32.
- the capacities C1 and C2 vary together by variation distances and therefore dielectric intervals between the conducting rotor and the electrodes when rod 1 rotates. If necessary, rod 1 can be guided by the insulating substrate 33.
- it can be associated with two sensors 30 delivering quadrature signals that allow also indicate the direction of rotation of the rod by a method analogous to that described with reference to Figure 4.
- Figures 7 and 8 illustrate a sensor capacitive 40 in which we find the same elements 31 to 37 than in sensor 30, but with a different rotor 41 which constitutes an electrode mobile connected to a terminal D by a flexible blade 42 which rubs on a collar 43 of the rotor 41.
- the latter has an odd number of teeth, for example three teeth 44, 45 and 46, which have equal angular intervals and therefore pass alternately in front of one or other of the electrodes 31 and 32.
- the capacity C1 is maximum when capacity C2 is minimum.
- the terminal D is used for signal injection electric on the mobile electrode constituted by the rotor 41, the output signals being collected on terminals A and B.
- a another advantage of sensor 40 is that its resolution for one revolution of the rotor is double the number teeth. For example, a resolution of ten steps per revolution would be obtained with only five teeth.
- FIG. 9 illustrates a capacitive sensor 50 with the same elements 31 to 37 and 41 to 43 that the sensor 40 described above, but in this case the rotor 41 has only two teeth 44 and 45 asymmetrically arranged, their distance angular being for example 135 °.
- the detection means can determine both angular positions and the direction of rotation of the rod 1 by means of the single sensor 50.
- the top diagram in Figure 10 represents, as a function of the angle ⁇ of rotation of the rod 1, the variation of the capacity C1 of the sensor 2 and the capacity C2 of sensor 22 shown in Figure 4. These two signals are in squaring if, for example, teeth 11 to 14 of two rotors 5 and 25 are mutually in the direction of rotation of the rod 1. Also shown in figure 10 the square voltage pulses Us1 and Us2 which are obtained for each sensor as described with reference to Figure 1 and which allow the detection means to indicate the number of steps and the direction of rotation of the rod 1.
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- la figure 1 représente schématiquement une première forme de réalisation de l'invention, plus particulièrement un dispositif de détection sans contact des positions d'un mobile rotatif, ce dispositif comportant un capteur capacitif,
- la figure 2 est une vue analogue à la figure 1, illustrant une autre position du mobile,
- la figure 3 est une vue schématique en coupe transversale d'un capteur capacitif utilisé dans la présent invention, suivant la ligne III-III de la figure 4,
- la figure 4 est une vue latérale schématique d'un dispositif comportant deux capteurs capacitifs associés à un mobile rotatif et coulissant,
- la figure 5 est une vue en coupe schématique d'une autre forme de réalisation d'un capteur capacitif,
- la figure 6 est un schéma électrique équivalent du capteur de la figure 5,
- la figure 7 est une vue en coupe schématique d'une autre forme de réalisation d'un capteur capacitif,
- la figure 8 est un schéma électrique équivalent du capteur de la figure 7,
- la figure 9 est une vue en coupe schématique d'une autre forme de réalisation d'un capteur capacitif, et
- la figure 10 représente des signaux électriques obtenus dans le dispositif des la figures 4 au cours de la rotation du mobile.
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- Pièce d'horlogerie comportant un mobile rotatif (1) et un dispositif électrique de détection capacitif pour détecter des positions et/ou des mouvements dudit mobile, dans laquelle le dispositif de détection comporte au moins un capteur capacitif (2, 22) ayant une partie fixe pourvue d'une paire d'électrodes fixes (6, 7; 26, 27) et une partie mobile pourvue d'un rotor (5, 25) électriquement conducteur entraíné par ledit mobile et agencé pour influencer le champ électrique entre les électrodes fixes par sa position de rotation, et des moyens électroniques de détection (3) qui sont sensibles à des variations de capacité dudit capteur, les deux électrodes fixes (6, 7; 26, 27) étant coplanaires sur un substrat (8) et séparées l'une de l'autre par un intervalle (15),
caractérisée en ce que l'axe du rotor (5, 25) est disposé parallèlement au plan des électrodes fixes et en face dudit intervalle, et en ce que chaque électrode fixe (6, 7, 26, 27) est disposée en face d'une surface périphérique du rotor (5, 25), ladite surface comportant des dents (11-14) agencées pour passer à proximité de chaque électrode fixe au cours de la rotation du rotor. - Pièce d'horlogerie comportant un mobile rotatif (1) et un dispositif électrique de détection capacitif pour détecter des positions et/ou des mouvements dudit mobile, dans laquelle le dispositif de détection comporte au moins un capteur capacitif (30, 40) ayant une partie fixe pourvue d'au moins deux électrodes fixes (31, 32) et une partie mobile pourvue d'un rotor (5, 41) électriquement conducteur entraíné par ledit mobile et agencé pour influencer le champ électrique entre les électrodes fixes par sa position de rotation, et des moyens électroniques de détection (3) qui sont sensibles à des variations de capacité dudit capteur, les deux électrodes fixes (31, 32) étant disposées sur un substrat (33) et séparées l'une de l'autre par un intervalle,
caractérisée en ce que les électrodes fixes forment deux plaques respectives opposées (35, 36) séparées par ledit intervalle, en ce que le rotor (5, 25, 41) est disposé dans ledit intervalle, son axe de rotation (37) étant parallèle auxdites plaques, et en ce que chacune desdites plaques d'électrodes (35, 36) est disposée en face d'une surface périphérique du rotor, ladite surface comportant des dents (11-14, 44-46) agencées pour passer à proximité de chaque plaque d'électrode au cours de 1a rotation du rotor. - Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le rotor (5) est maintenu à un potentiel fixe et en ce que ses dents (11-14) sont agencées pour faire écran dans le champ électrique entre les électrodes fixes.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que lesdites dents (11-14, 44-46) sont réparties selon un pas angulaire constant autour du rotor.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que le substrat (33) est plan et comporte une ouverture (34) dans laquelle est placé le rotor, les plaques d'électrodes (35, 36) s'étendant sur des bords opposés de ladite ouverture.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le substrat (8, 33) fait partie d'un élément à circuits imprimés de la pièce d'horlogerie.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que le rotor (5, 25) est solidaire du mobile (1), lequel comporte un cylindre d'appui (21) qui s'appuie en glissant contre une couche diélectrique (20) disposée sur le substrat et/ou sur les électrodes fixes.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 2, caractérisée en ce que le rotor (5) est isolé et sert de transmetteur d'un signal électrique entre les deux électrodes fixes.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le rotor (41) est une électrode mobile reliée aux moyens de détection et dont les dents (44, 45, 46), au cours de sa rotation, passent alternativement en face de l'une ou de l'autre des électrodes fixes.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le dispositif de détection comporte deux desdits capteurs capacitifs (2, 22), qui sont décalés angulairement de façon à fournir des signaux de sortie respectifs qui sont en quadrature au cours de la rotation du mobile.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le mobile rotatif (1) est une tige de commande ayant au moins deux positions axiales, à savoir une position de mise à l'heure dans laquelle le capteur capacitif (22) est actif et au moins une autre position dans laquelle ledit capteur est inactif.
- Pièce d'horlogerie selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que le mobile rotatif (1) est un organe indicateur ayant une position de référence qui est détectée par le dispositif de détection.
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