EP1122620A1 - Glas für Uhr mit Funksprechanlage - Google Patents

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EP1122620A1
EP1122620A1 EP00102046A EP00102046A EP1122620A1 EP 1122620 A1 EP1122620 A1 EP 1122620A1 EP 00102046 A EP00102046 A EP 00102046A EP 00102046 A EP00102046 A EP 00102046A EP 1122620 A1 EP1122620 A1 EP 1122620A1
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Jean-Claude Martin
Dominique Dubugnon
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G21/00—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
    • G04G21/04—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces using radio waves
    • 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
    • G04B39/00—Watch crystals; Fastening or sealing of crystals; Clock glasses
    • 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
    • G04B47/00—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G21/00—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
    • G04G21/08—Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces

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  • the present invention relates to a crystal for a telephone watch comprising a keyboard formed in particular of a plurality of sensors capacitive.
  • a watch crystal has already been offered on several occasions which is arranged a keyboard formed of a plurality of capacitive sensors.
  • the watch described includes a housing, a glass and at least one manual control device comprising a capacitive sensor provided with an electrode arranged on the face interior of the glass. The selective positioning of a finger of the wearer of the watch on the outside of the glass to form a capacity between the electrode and the mass formed by the watch case.
  • This device manual control also includes a voltage-frequency converter, the oscillation frequency is determined by the capacity mentioned above.
  • the electrode is connected by a conductor to the converter which is housed in the housing.
  • the keyboard in question may be intended to replace the means of usual external controls such as push buttons used to control the various functions of a watch, such as setting the time or the switching on and off of a chronograph.
  • this keyboard can also be used as a selector for dial a phone number if the watch has a radio phone.
  • the telephone watch to be discussed below has preferably a plastic box topped with a glass also made of plastic.
  • This transparent glass lets appear hour and minute hands in the center and numbers and signs in its periphery, these figures and signs serving both as an hourly index and telephone dialing numbers.
  • the plastic windows of currently known watches generally have a thickness sufficient, on the one hand to withstand the shocks of external agents and on the other part to withstand a certain hydrostatic pressure when this watch is submerged. The manufacturer has given itself a limit of 3 bars here for this pressure. It will therefore be understood that these constraints oblige to use a fairly thick glass preventing the proper functioning of the keyboard affixed under the ice. Indeed, thick ice leads to a high dielectric interposed between the electrodes of the capacitor formed by the sensor and the user's finger. So the variation in capacity can be weak, even insignificant if this dielectric is important.
  • the glass of the invention is remarkable in that it has a thick zone and a thinned zone, the keyboard being arranged under the thinned area.
  • the thick zone is arranged in the center of the ice and the thinned zone at its periphery.
  • FIG 1 is a top view of the telephone watch including the invention ice cream.
  • This watch includes a box 20 made of material plastic from which two strands 21 and 22 of a bracelet arise preferably made in one piece with the box.
  • the box is topped with a bezel 10 itself topped by a crystal 1.
  • the watch displays the hours and the minutes by means of hands 23 and 24.
  • the time setting of the hands is produced by a crown 25.
  • FIG. 2 is a section in Figure 1 and shows a first embodiment of the invention.
  • Glass 1 includes a keyboard 2 formed in particular of a plurality of capacitive sensors 3 arranged under the glass 1 and which will be described in more detail below with reference to FIG. 4.
  • the glass 1 has a thick zone 4 at its center and a thinned zone 5 at its periphery, the keyboard 2 being placed under the zone thinned 5.
  • the glass 1 of the invention is provided with two well zones separate.
  • the thick zone 4 is located in the center of the ice. This is the area more exposed to shocks from external agents such as objects encountered during movements of the wearer's arm, the edge of a table or a tool by example. This area can be thickened at will to resist shocks mentioned.
  • the thinned zone 5 under which the keyboard 2 is affixed is located at the periphery of the ice where it was found that the shocks of agents exteriors are less frequent and also less intensive. So in this zone 5 can the thickness of the ice be reduced within reasonable limits, a of these limits residing however in the hydrostatic pressure which one wish to see supported by the ice (we mentioned above the value of 3 bars). As explained above, the thinning of zone 5 is favorable correct operation of the keyboard 2, since the dielectric interposed between the operator's finger and the capacitive sensors is reduced, which would not the case if the thinned area 5 was the same thickness as the thick area 4.
  • the glass 1 is preferably round, which leads the thinned zone 5 to a form of ring under which the keyboard 2.
  • FIG. 2 and 3 show that the keyboard 2 has a first decorative layer 6.
  • This decorative layer is opaque so as not to let nothing appear of the layer which is under it and which will be described below.
  • the decorative layer is further composed of numbers 7 ranging from 1 to 10 (or zero if you prefer) and signs 8, either a star * and a pound # which all appear through ice 1 under the thinned area 5.
  • numbers 7 ranging from 1 to 10 (or zero if you prefer) and signs 8, either a star * and a pound # which all appear through ice 1 under the thinned area 5.
  • a second layer 9 is placed under the first layer 6. This second layer 9 is formed, as shown in FIG. 4, of a plurality of conductive pads 3 (in 12 ranges).
  • Layers 6 and 9 are oriented and arranged one relative to each other so that with each digit 7 or sign 8 corresponds to a conductive pad 3.
  • the conductive pads 3 each have a terminal 30 which allows them connect individually, via a "Zebra" connector 31 (brand deposited) to a printed circuit 12 (see Figures 2 and 3).
  • the first and second layers 6 and 9 are arranged one after the other the other under the thinned zone 5 of ice 1. These deposits are made by means known in the art, for example screen printing, pad printing or still tracing. To ensure easy operation, care should be taken to ensure that the underside of the thinned area is devoid of any roughness or any abrupt change in level when going from thick zone 4 to thinned zone 5 (see the smooth transition identified by the reference 32 on the Figures 2 and 3).
  • Figure 3 shows that the lens 1 is fixed to a telescope 10, this fixation being carried out, for example, by means of ultrasound.
  • Figure 3 shows still that the bezel 10 has an internal reinforcement 11.
  • This reinforcement 11 extends under the thinned zone 5 of the ice 1, of so that the keyboard 2 is sandwiched between the thinned area 5 and reinforcement 11. This reinforcement aims to make the ice 1 again more resistant to impact or pressure.

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US7031226B2 (en) 2002-07-19 2006-04-18 Asulab S.A. Electronic timepiece including a game mode
EP1734423A1 (de) 2005-06-14 2006-12-20 Asulab S.A. Vorrichtung zur Montage eines Sensorglases in einem Gehäuse
EP1734422A1 (de) * 2005-06-14 2006-12-20 Asulab S.A. Zusammenbau eines Glases auf ein berührungsempfindliches Gehäuse
WO2012055656A2 (fr) 2010-10-27 2012-05-03 The Swatch Group Research And Development Ltd Glace servant a fermer par le haut la boite d'un objet portable et procede de soudage d'une telle glace
EP2477084A1 (de) * 2011-01-18 2012-07-18 ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse Armbanduhr mit einem elastomeren Anschluss für die elektrische Verbindung eines digitalen Anzeigegeräts mit einer Leiterplatte, und Verfahren für den Zusammenbau einer solchen Uhr
EP2584413A1 (de) * 2011-10-21 2013-04-24 ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse Vorrichtung zum Befestigen eines Glases auf einem Mittelteil eines Armbanduhrgehäuses
US8596860B2 (en) 2005-06-14 2013-12-03 Montres Rado S.A. Case closed by a glass with an invisible joint or one that can be decorated and manufacturing methods
CN104007654A (zh) * 2013-02-26 2014-08-27 Eta瑞士钟表制造股份有限公司 用于相对于钟表的中间部件对齐表镜的方法
EP2784607A1 (de) * 2013-03-28 2014-10-01 ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse Armbanduhr, die einen Glasrand umfasst
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EP0674247A1 (de) 1994-03-24 1995-09-27 Asulab S.A. Uhr mit manueller Bedienung
DE29519714U1 (de) * 1995-12-12 1996-02-01 Electrolux AG, Zürich Bedienungselement für ein Haushaltgerät
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US4257115A (en) * 1977-02-12 1981-03-17 Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. Switch structure for electronic timepiece
EP0674247A1 (de) 1994-03-24 1995-09-27 Asulab S.A. Uhr mit manueller Bedienung
DE29519714U1 (de) * 1995-12-12 1996-02-01 Electrolux AG, Zürich Bedienungselement für ein Haushaltgerät
GB2315709A (en) * 1996-07-31 1998-02-11 Motorola Inc Watch radio telephone having number entry keys spaced around a perimeter of theanalogue watch face

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WO2005064421A1 (fr) * 2004-04-24 2005-07-14 Winwatch Sa Procede d’integration d’au moins un module electronique dans ou sur la glace d’une montre et glace de montre obtenue par ce procede
KR101246517B1 (ko) * 2005-06-14 2013-03-26 아스라브 쏘시에떼 아노님 촉각 크리스털을 제작하는 방법 및 상기 촉각 크리스털을 포함하는 장치
EP1734422A1 (de) * 2005-06-14 2006-12-20 Asulab S.A. Zusammenbau eines Glases auf ein berührungsempfindliches Gehäuse
US7712954B2 (en) 2005-06-14 2010-05-11 Asulab S.A. Device for assembling a touch-type crystal on a case
EP1734423A1 (de) 2005-06-14 2006-12-20 Asulab S.A. Vorrichtung zur Montage eines Sensorglases in einem Gehäuse
US8596860B2 (en) 2005-06-14 2013-12-03 Montres Rado S.A. Case closed by a glass with an invisible joint or one that can be decorated and manufacturing methods
WO2012055656A2 (fr) 2010-10-27 2012-05-03 The Swatch Group Research And Development Ltd Glace servant a fermer par le haut la boite d'un objet portable et procede de soudage d'une telle glace
WO2012055656A3 (fr) * 2010-10-27 2012-06-28 The Swatch Group Research And Development Ltd Glace servant a fermer par le haut la boite d'un objet portable et procede de soudage d'une telle glace
US9149983B2 (en) 2010-10-27 2015-10-06 The Swatch Group Research And Development Ltd. Crystal used for closing the top of the case of a portable object and method of welding a crystal of this type
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