EP1544696A2 - Tragbares elektronisches Gerät, das mit einem Drucksensor ausgerüstet ist - Google Patents

Tragbares elektronisches Gerät, das mit einem Drucksensor ausgerüstet ist Download PDF

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EP1544696A2
EP1544696A2 EP04028968A EP04028968A EP1544696A2 EP 1544696 A2 EP1544696 A2 EP 1544696A2 EP 04028968 A EP04028968 A EP 04028968A EP 04028968 A EP04028968 A EP 04028968A EP 1544696 A2 EP1544696 A2 EP 1544696A2
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Vincent Brunner
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G21/00—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
    • G04G21/02—Detectors of external physical values, e.g. temperature
    • 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
    • G04B47/06—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached measuring instruments, e.g. pedometer, barometer, thermometer or compass
    • G04B47/066—Time-pieces combined with other articles which do not interfere with the running or the time-keeping of the time-piece with attached measuring instruments, e.g. pedometer, barometer, thermometer or compass with a pressure sensor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C11/00—Equipment for dwelling or working underwater; Means for searching for underwater objects
    • B63C11/02—Divers' equipment

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  • the present invention relates to a portable electronic device on the wrist, including a wristwatch for a diver, a bathymeter or an altimeter, comprising a housing and a pressure sensor which is mounted in a housing of the housing and has an exposed surface inside the housing to receive the ambient pressure, said housing opening on an outer face of the housing and being closed on this face by a hood having an outer wall provided with at least an orifice in front of the housing for transmitting the ambient pressure from outside the housing to housing.
  • the housing of the pressure sensor is provided in a protuberance side of the housing and opens on the upper face of this housing, so that can set up the sensor from the top.
  • the pressure sensor comprises a piezo-resistive element in silicon which is housed in a pot-shaped structure and coated with a gel of silicone to be protected from the effects of water. This gel is also covered with a flexible layer of silicone resin or rubber, which forms the exposed surface of the sensor and transmits the ambient pressure to the piezoresistive element.
  • the hood closing the housing is formed by a perforated circular plate. The holes of this plate are arranged along its periphery, so as not to be in front of the silicon element and gel coating thereof. This provision is intended to prevent foreign bodies entering these openings from damage the silicon element or gel.
  • the present invention aims to overcome the aforementioned disadvantages of the prior art, thanks to a particularly simple and efficient arrangement of the organs mounting the sensor in the housing that is intended for it.
  • a particular goal consists in designing these organs so as to simplify to a large extent the mounting of the sensor and associated device components, in particular for automated editing.
  • the invention relates to a portable electronic device of the kind indicated above, characterized in that said outer face of the housing is on one side of the housing that is not in contact with the wearer's wrist and that minus a protective screen is disposed in the housing behind the or orifices the hood so as to prevent any communication in a straight line between the hood holes and the exposed surface of the pressure sensor, so that everything transmission path from ambient pressure to the exposed surface of the sensor is sinuous.
  • the shield provided in this invention ensures a double protection of the sensor, that is to say against solid bodies and against light, and this with a construction that can be extremely simple and compact, by example with the addition of a plate with perforations wisely arranged under the hood closing the housing of the pressure sensor.
  • this construction advantageously makes it possible to place the outer orifice (s) of the hood in front of the exposed surface of the sensor, so in the central region of the hood, which reduces the external dimensions and the visual impact of the hood.
  • the side of housing housing housing for the sensor can be a side face as well that the upper face of the housing.
  • the protective screen can be formed by a perforated plate extending substantially parallel to said hood wall, the holes of the perforated plate being offset laterally with respect to each orifice of the cover so that an orthogonal projection or orifice (s) on the perforated plate spaced from the holes in it.
  • a wristwatch 1 for a diver possesses a housing 2 made of rigid synthetic material which contains in particular a movement electronic timepiece, a pressure sensor sensitive to ambient pressure outside the housing, analog and / or digital display devices and electronic circuits for processing the pressure information and displaying results by the display means.
  • the housing 2 has a middle 3 in material synthetic, surrounding a central cavity 4 ( Figure 4) which is closed down by a bottom 5 and top by an ice 6 lined with a bezel 7.
  • the central cavity 4 contains the main components of the diver's watch, including the circuit board printed 8 which carries the main electronic circuits of the watch.
  • the sensor of pressure 10 is placed in a housing 11 formed in the middle part 3 and opening on the left outer face 9 of the housing 2, so that the sensor can be mounted in this housing from the outside of the housing.
  • the sensor 10 is maintained in this housing using two elements shown in Figure 2, namely an O-ring 12 and a cover 13, and is further protected by a screen formed here of a perforated plate 14 mounted inside the hood 13. Outside, the surface of the hood 13 is preferably, but not necessarily, flush with the outer face side 9 of the housing. This face is never in contact with the wrist 15 of the wearer when the wristwatch is worn, so that the ambient pressure reaches this Hood surface without restraint, whether in the air or in the water.
  • the pressure sensor 10 is of known construction. It has an element piezo-resistive 16 silicon, mounted on a square substrate 17 ceramic provided with conductors which connect the element 16 to contact pads disposed on the back of the substrate. These pads make contact with a printed circuit board 18 applied behind the substrate 17.
  • the sensor 10 further comprises a cylindrical side wall 20 which is fixed on the front face of the substrate 17 and forms with it a structure in the form of pot surrounding the silicon element 16, which is coated with a silicone gel 21 whose front surface 22 constitutes the exposed surface of the sensor, intended to receive the ambient pressure.
  • the housing 11 provided for the sensor in the middle of the housing has a flat bottom wall 24 and substantially square, against which the structure of the sensor and the printed circuit film are based 18 and in which is formed a window 25 which communicates the housing 11 with the central cavity 4.
  • the housing 11 is delimited laterally by a wall circular protrusion 26 having a discontinuous radial flange 27 on its outer surface. This flange extends into a groove 28 which surrounds the wall 26 over its entire circumference, except in a sector provided with a blind guide hole 29.
  • the elastomer seal 12 is placed around the side wall 20 of the sensor and is compressed radially between this wall and the projecting wall 26 of the 11. It ensures not only sealing, but also a suspension elastic protecting the sensor against shocks that could suffer the housing.
  • the hood 13 is preferably a molded piece of synthetic material opaque or provided with a opaque coating. It comprises in its central region an outer wall 31 in circular plate shape of variable thickness, crossed by three orifices 32 which have a diameter of about 1.5 mm in this example. These openings open externally in respective concave surfaces 33 whose effect is both decorative and functional, to prevent the orifice from being easily closed by a flat foreign body.
  • the wall 31 of the hood has surfaces protruding 34 and 35 to support the protection plate 14, shoulders lateral 36 to wedge laterally this plate, and three nipples 37 whose role will appear later.
  • the periphery of the cover 13 has a circular rim 38 arranged to hang on the outer edge 27 of the wall 26 of the housing of the sensor, so that the cover 13 can be fixed simply by clipping on the housing 2.
  • the cover further comprises a guide pin 39 which engages in the hole 29 to ensure correct orientation of the hood, so the position wanted from its three orifices 32.
  • FIG. 6 shows in more detail the configuration of the protection plate 14, which is, in this example, a simple circular plate made of synthetic material rigid, for example in Kapton®, but could be made of any rigid material resistant to corrosion, especially in the presence of seawater.
  • the protection plate 14 On its periphery three wedges 40 are provided, intended to cooperate with the shoulders 36 of the cover 13, and a marking notch 41 for the mechanized positioning of the plate in the hood. Notch 41 can also be used visual cue in case of manual placement of the plate.
  • Small parts protrusions 44 ( Figure 5) are formed on the inside of the hood to retain the plate 14 by their elasticity.
  • the plate 14 is pierced with a plurality of holes 42 to allow the ambient pressure to be transmitted towards the sensor 10.
  • twenty holes 42 having a diameter of about 0.5 mm are provided. All these holes are clearly offset laterally with respect to the orifices 32 cover 13, orifices whose position projected perpendicularly on the plate 14 is represented in FIG. 6 by three circles 32a.
  • the holes 42 are distributed on the plate 14 so that none of them are within 0.75 mm of one of the circles 32a. It will be noted that three of the holes 42 are arranged so as to be crossed by the nipples 37 of the cover, which can abut against the face front of the cylindrical wall 20 of the sensor 10 to retain it in its housing.
  • the protection plate 14, once it is put in place inside the cover 13, is at a constant distance of about 0.1 mm from the wall 31 of the cover.
  • the ambient pressure prevailing outside the housing 2 is transmits to the exposed surface 22 of the sensor 10 through the orifices 32 of the hood, then following a distance of 0.1 mm plates 14 and 31, and finally through the holes 42 of the plate 14 to achieve in the housing 11 of the sensor.
  • any path of pressure transmission ambient to the exposed surface 22 of the sensor is highly sinuous. Firstly, this precludes any risk of damage to the sensor by intrusion of foreign bodies, especially since the gap between the two plates is very small.
  • the thickness of this gap is less than 0.2 mm in order to prevent the penetration of foreign bodies such as grains of sand.
  • this keeps the sensor largely shielded from the outside light, so that the gel 21 encapsulating the element silicon does not need to be opaque or covered with an opaque membrane.
  • the transmission of light along the transmission paths of the room pressure can be further reduced if the plates 14 and 31 have a color dark along these paths.
  • the protection plate 14 constitutes one screen at a time very efficient and very simple to manufacture and assemble, preventing body intrusion foreign objects and ambient light to the sensor.
  • a notable advantage of this type screen is to allow to place the or openings 32 of the cover 13 in front of the exposed surface 22 of the sensor, even in the center of the hood, which reduces to a minimum external dimensions of the hood, its diameter in this case.
  • This aspect is particularly advantageous when the present invention is applied to a wristwatch because it allows to place the pressure sensor of discreet way in a side of the case without harming the overall aesthetics of the shows.
  • the flexible blades 46 extend through the window 25 and apply through to their elasticity against contact pads provided on the printed circuit 18 backed to the sensor 10, which ensures a good transmission of electrical signals from sensor output even if it moves slightly under the effect of a shock.
  • the main advantage of this arrangement is to facilitate the assembly of the components of the watch. For example, one can mount the pressure sensor 10 in the middle part 3 housing and fix it by means of the cover 13, before starting the assembly of the watch and in particular the assembly of its components in its cavity 4. During assembly, the module can then be placed in this cavity. pre-assembled electronics on the board 8, so that the contact blades hoses 46 will automatically establish a correct electrical contact with the sensor 10. Inversely, one can choose to install the pressure sensor 10 in the middle part 3 only after the assembly of the interior elements of the watch, especially if wants to make tests using the contact blades 46 before mounting the sensor.
  • the protective screen described above with reference to the drawings is formed by adding a simple perforated plate, it could be achieved otherwise without departing from the scope of the invention defined by the claims.
  • the screen protection plate may have two perforated plates parallel and spaced one on the other, the respective holes of the plates being offset laterally between them way that an orthogonal projection of the holes of one of the plates on the other plate spaced from the holes in it.
  • the protection screen could include a flat element thicker than a simple plate and containing in its thickness a plurality of channels extending in its median plane and whose ends would open on both sides of this element respectively. We can easily make such an element by assembling two molded plates into synthetic material, the channels being formed on one side of one of the plates.
  • the applications of the invention are not limited to the example described above, but extend to any portable electronic device having a sensor pressure mounted in a housing which opens on an outer face of the housing of the device, for example an altimeter or a dive computer.

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