EP1674952A2 - Pièce d'horlogerie radio-controlée avec un cadran métallique - Google Patents

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EP1674952A2
EP1674952A2 EP05021129A EP05021129A EP1674952A2 EP 1674952 A2 EP1674952 A2 EP 1674952A2 EP 05021129 A EP05021129 A EP 05021129A EP 05021129 A EP05021129 A EP 05021129A EP 1674952 A2 EP1674952 A2 EP 1674952A2
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Günter Megner
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q1/00—Details of, or arrangements associated with, antennas
    • H01Q1/27—Adaptation for use in or on movable bodies
    • H01Q1/273—Adaptation for carrying or wearing by persons or animals
    • 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
    • G04R—RADIO-CONTROLLED TIME-PIECES
    • G04R60/00—Constructional details
    • G04R60/06—Antennas attached to or integrated in clock or watch bodies
    • G04R60/10—Antennas attached to or integrated in clock or watch bodies inside cases
    • G04R60/12—Antennas attached to or integrated in clock or watch bodies inside cases inside metal cases
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01Q—ANTENNAS, i.e. RADIO AERIALS
    • H01Q7/00—Loop antennas with a substantially uniform current distribution around the loop and having a directional radiation pattern in a plane perpendicular to the plane of the loop

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  • the invention relates to a radio wristwatch with the features of the preamble of claim 1.
  • Radio wristwatches are known in the art in a variety of variations. They are suitable for receiving and decoding the time signal signals emitted by a long-wave time signal transmitter and for displaying the corresponding time on a display and / or by means of a pointer. Most radio-controlled wristwatches automatically switch to reception at least twice a day to receive the time signals sent by the corresponding time-sign transmitter and to set the time according to this specification. During the rest of the day, it will be continued with an internal quartz movement.
  • Long wave time signal transmitters generally emit frequencies between 20 and 100 kHz. For example, there are in Japan, two time signal transmitters with a transmission frequency of 40 and 60 kHz. The so far only German time signal transmitter DCF77 transmits on a frequency of 77.5 kHz.
  • the longwave antenna was placed in the first wireless wristwatches outside the metallic watch case. So it is e.g. From DE 35 08 366 A1 or DE 88 15 967 U1 known to incorporate the antenna in the watch strap. Such an arrangement has the disadvantage that the antenna is easily broken due to their exposed position. In addition, there is a risk that the electrical connection between the antenna and clockwork is interrupted by mechanical stress.
  • the mechanical and electrical connection between the movement and the antenna is then less sensitive to external influences.
  • DE 299 23 446 U1 is to be taken from a radio-controlled wristwatch with a magnetic long-wave antenna accommodated in its housing.
  • the watch case of this wireless wristwatch consists of a metal middle section and a base of non-conductive material.
  • the antenna core of the long-wave antenna is offset from the metal housing middle part radially to the center of the housing, but it is located in the axial region of the metal middle part.
  • a plastic spacer spacer ring is inserted into the middle part of the housing.
  • the invention is based on the object, such a radio clock of the generic type and further develop, so that further components of a conventional wristwatch can be used with quartz movement or purely mechanical movement.
  • the radio wristwatch according to the invention differs from the prior art in that instead of a non-conductive, especially non-metallic, dial, it has a dial made of a metallic material.
  • the antenna for receiving timing signals is still in the watch case. However, it is located more than 0.5 millimeters from the metallic dial. It has been found that, contrary to the prevailing prevailing opinion, according to which no metallic dial can be used in a radio-controlled watch due to their small dimensions, without disturbing the reception of a time signal such that a meaningful evaluation is no longer possible, already this distance sufficient is to ensure adequate reception.
  • the antenna is arranged at a distance of 2 to 3 millimeters to the metal dial, which limits the axial space requirement to the hitherto usual level for radio wristwatches with non-metallic dials.
  • dials of different metallic materials or materials with metallic coatings
  • the dial is made entirely of brass. Brass dials are commonly used in quartz wristwatches or mechanical wristwatches for ease of processing. In addition, this material provides the ideal foundation for most of the design variations of a watch designer.
  • any type of antenna can be used if only the distance is selected according to the above rule.
  • linear, rod-shaped ferrite antennas as described for example in DE 93 18 224 U1 or DE 299 23 446 U1
  • arcuately curved antennas with a core of flexible soft iron lamellae as described for example in EP 0 896 262 A1
  • short coil antennas as described for example in EP 0 382 130 B2
  • long-wave antennas with or without core in a different embodiment as described for example in DE 296 07 866 U1 are used.
  • the antenna is arranged asymmetrically to a (possibly imaginary) pointer axis.
  • the movement can then be conveniently arranged in the same plane as the antenna and adjacent to it.
  • the metallic dial can be used in combination with a non-metallic housing.
  • the metallic dial according to the invention is, in a preferred embodiment, used in connection with a housing with a metallic center part, e.g. described in DE 299 23 446 U1.
  • materials for the metallic middle part are considered in particular: (for example, produced by injection molding) plastics or ceramics with metallic coating, stainless steel or titanium.
  • the antenna far outside the center of the housing. If a sufficient (axial) distance from the metallic dial and a sufficient (radial) distance from the metallic middle part adhered to, when the antenna is arranged axially in the region of the metallic middle part or in other words in the plane of the metallic middle part, the reception functionality is ensured.
  • the invention provides that the antenna in the watch case with respect to the dial and possibly the metallic middle part is immovably fixed. Immobile fixation is understood to mean that the position of the antenna relative to the adjacent metallic part does not change under normal operating conditions when the user wears the watch on his arm.
  • the invention provides between the metallic middle part and the antenna a middle part spacer, in particular a spacer, made of an electrically non-conductive material which covers the antenna at a predetermined (radial) distance from the metallic middle part holds.
  • the invention provides in a particularly advantageous embodiment between the dial and the antenna, a dial spacer made of an electrically non-conductive material, which holds the antenna at a predetermined (axial) distance to the dial.
  • the dial spacers and the middle part spacers plastics (eg as an injection molded part) or ceramics are considered. Both spacers can be made independently and possibly made of different materials consist. However, it is also possible to make the dial spacers and the middle part spacers in the same material and / or in one piece.
  • the dial spacer is designed as a clockwork and / or the antenna-holding work plate. Accordingly, the worksheet not only fulfills the function holding the work; but also the antenna spacing functionality.
  • the work plate may also have a (possibly integral with the work plate) holding device for the antenna. The functionality of the fixation of the antenna with respect to the dial and preferably also with respect to the (possibly metallic) central part is then also taken from the worksheet.
  • the invention provides that the dial spacers, in particular the work plate, is connected in the manner of a plug connection with the dial.
  • the invention therefore provides for manufacturing reasons, a bottom of an electrically non-conductive material, in particular of plastic or glass before.
  • FIG. 1 shows the essential components of a first exemplary embodiment of a radio-controlled wristwatch according to the invention. Not shown are the housing with a watch glass, a central part of electrically conductive material, namely stainless steel, and a bottom of glass enclosed by a metallic hoop.
  • a brass dial 1 is used in the housing, not shown.
  • the brass dial 1 is the same as a quartz watch commonly used dial. It has a thickness d Z of about 0.5 to 1 mm.
  • the work plate 2 is placed on the brass dial 1 .
  • the work plate 2 is also formed in a conventional manner. It is made of plastic and was produced by injection molding.
  • the work plate 2 is used to hold a movement 3, a long-wave magnetic antenna in the form of a lamellar antenna 4 for receiving timing signals, a radio reception and the clockwork controlling and regulating electronics 5 and a battery 6.
  • the thickness d W of the work plate 2 is in general 0.5 to 1 mm.
  • a movement holder 7 which surrounds the movement 3, the electronics 5 and the battery 6 on the outer peripheral side.
  • the movement retaining ring 7 is recessed in the present embodiment. However, it may also be formed circumferentially, as described for example in DE 299 23 446 U1.
  • the axial extension of the Werkhalterings 7 is given in this case by the position of the electronic components receiving board 8, which is supported against the Werkhaltering 7. On the Maschinenhaltering 7 could However, also be waived or he could, for example, extend to the bottom of the watch case.
  • the work plate 2 is rigidly connected to the brass dial 1 in the present embodiment.
  • This rigid connection is made by means of a plug connection device.
  • the plug connection device comprises a plurality of pins 9 integrally formed on the brass dial 1, which engage in corresponding recesses, preferably bores 10, in the work plate 2 substantially in terms of shape and function.
  • the movement 3 in the present exemplary embodiment is a pointer movement.
  • the (not shown here) pointer driving waves 11 enforce the work plate 2 and the brass dial 1 centrally.
  • the lamellar antenna 4 is similar to the magnetic longwave antenna described in the document EP 0 896 262 A1. It comprises a laminated core 12 of a stack of flexible strips of soft magnetic material (e.g., amorphous lamella material) of high permeability carrying an antenna coil 13.
  • the inductance of the antenna coil is greater than or equal to one millihenry (1mH).
  • the lamellar antenna 4 is arranged asymmetrically to the pointer axis ax and in the same axial position as the annular metallic middle part of the housing.
  • the distance a axA from the pointer axis ax to the antenna axis 15 is 10 mm in the present exemplary embodiment.
  • the lamellar antenna 4 is inserted into a receiving sleeve 14, which the antenna coil 13 and the arcuately curved and the antenna coil 13 almost completely receives and encloses on both sides projecting ends of the antenna core 12.
  • the receiving sleeve 14 is made of an electrically non-conductive material, preferably made of plastic. It is executed in the present embodiment as a separate seated on the work plate 2 component and preferably rigidly connected thereto. However, the receiving sleeve 14 may also be embodied in one piece and / or with the same material as the work plate 2.
  • the receiving sleeve 14 is used together with the work plate 2 for holding and Zwischdistanzierung the antenna 4 to the brass dial 1 and the surrounding metallic middle part of the housing.
  • the distance a ZA between dial 1 and antenna 4 is selected in the present embodiment to 1.4 mm.
  • the distance a GS between the middle part of the housing and the antenna coil 13 is 8 mm.
  • the distance a GK between the middle part of the housing and the antenna core 12 is 10 mm.
  • a likewise force-distancing spacer ring of the type described in DE 299 23 446 U1 may additionally be provided.
  • this may be formed of the same material and possibly in one piece with the work plate 2.
  • FIG. 2 shows the essential components of a second exemplary embodiment of a radio-controlled wristwatch according to the invention.
  • This radio-controlled watch agrees in essential details with the exemplary embodiment according to FIG. Identical or functionally identical components are therefore provided in the figure 2 with the same reference numerals.
  • a radio wristwatch the housing with a watch glass, a central part of electrically conductive material, namely titanium, and a bottom of a titan rim edged glass.
  • a brass dial 1 is used in the housing, not shown.
  • the brass dial 1 is identical to that formed according to FIG. It has a thickness d Z of about 0.5 to 1 mm.
  • a work plate 2 of the type described above is also placed here and immovably connected with this about engaging in corresponding holes 10 pin 9.
  • the work plate 2 is used to hold a movement 3, a long-wave magnetic antenna in the form of a ferrite antenna 16 for receiving timing signals, a radio reception and the movement 3 controlling and regulating electronics 5 and a battery 6.
  • the thickness d w of the work plate 2 amounts also here about 0.5 to 1 mm.
  • An integral part of the work plate 2 is also in the present embodiment, a movement retaining ring 7, which surrounds the movement 3 circumferentially.
  • the ferrite antenna 16 is similar to the long wave magnetic antenna described in the document DE 299 23 446 U1. It comprises an elongated prismatic antenna ferrite core 17 carrying an antenna coil 18.
  • the inductance of the antenna coil used is greater than or equal to one millihenry (1mH).
  • the ferrite antenna 16 is arranged asymmetrically to the pointer axis ax and in the same axial position as the annular metallic middle part of the housing.
  • the distance a axA from the pointer axis ax to the antenna axis 19 is 8 mm in the present exemplary embodiment.
  • the ferrite antenna 16 is presently placed directly on the work plate 2. It is held by two parallel arranged and placed on the work plate 2 collar 20, 21. A sleeve-shaped enclosure of the ferrite antenna 16 is not provided.
  • the work plate 2 is used solely for the forced distance of the antenna 16 to the brass dial 1.
  • the distance a ZA between dial 1 and antenna 16 is therefore identical in the present embodiment with the thickness d w of the work plate and is about 0.5 to 1 mm.
  • the distance a GS between the middle part of the housing and the antenna coil 18 is 0.5 mm.
  • the distance a GK between the middle part of the housing and the antenna core 17 is 1.3 mm.
  • a force-distancing acting (not shown here) spacer ring of the type described in DE 299 23 446 U1 is provided. Of course, this could also be formed of the same material and possibly in one piece with the work plate 2.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show two antenna resonant circuits by way of example.
  • FIG. 3 shows an antenna resonant circuit with so-called “single-ended input”
  • FIG. 4 shows an antenna resonant circuit with so-called “differential input”.
  • the "single-ended input" antenna circuit 22 comprises a parallel connection of an antenna inductance L ANT given by the antenna 4, 16 (amorphous, ferrite) used and an antenna capacitance C ANT , whose one terminal is connected to a reference potential is.
  • the RFI connector is connected to the unbalanced antenna input of the receiver IC.
  • the differential input antenna resonant circuit 23 comprises a parallel circuit comprising an antenna inductance L ANT and an antenna capacitance C ANT , one terminal of which is connected to a reference potential.
  • the RFIP connector is connected to the positive balanced antenna input of the receiver IC.
  • the RFIM connector is connected to the negative balanced antenna connector of the receiver IC.
  • the resonance frequency of the respective antenna resonant circuit is adjusted to the maximum voltage gain at the receiving frequency, depending on the dial and housing material.
  • the antenna resonant circuit coupling takes place symmetrically or asymmetrically.

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