EP1916576B1 - Wasserdichtes Armbanduhrgehäuse - Google Patents

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EP1916576B1
EP1916576B1 EP07405187.1A EP07405187A EP1916576B1 EP 1916576 B1 EP1916576 B1 EP 1916576B1 EP 07405187 A EP07405187 A EP 07405187A EP 1916576 B1 EP1916576 B1 EP 1916576B1
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    • 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
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    • G04B37/04—Mounting the clockwork in the case; Shock absorbing mountings
    • G04B37/05—Fixed mountings for pocket or wrist watches
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    • 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
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    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/084—Complete encasings for wrist or pocket watches without means for hermetic sealing of winding stem or crown
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    • 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
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  • the present invention relates to a waterproof wristwatch box comprising a protective envelope surrounded by a middle and a bezel.
  • a waterproof watch case intended for depths of more than 300 meters consisting of a caseband and a bottom made of a material that is less resistant than steel, which includes an inner bowl made of a material of high mechanical strength conforming to the internal face from the bottom and at least partly the inner wall of the middle-telescope and leaning by its edge against the side of a scope of the case-case against the side on which the ice rests.
  • This solution has two weak points that limit the depth that the sealed box can withstand.
  • the second weak point comes from the fact that the portion of the bowl that bears against the scope of the middle-bezel is cantilevered with respect to the wall of the bowl creating poor conditions of transmission of the compression force which s' exerts on the bowl.
  • the object of the present invention is to overcome the limitations of the solutions of the state of the art while limiting the increase in the thickness of a sealed wristwatch case, capable of withstanding a determined pressure.
  • the subject of the present invention is a sealed wristwatch case comprising a protective envelope surrounded by a middle and a bezel, according to claim 1.
  • the main advantage of this waterproof watch case is to be able to withstand pressures of several tens of MPa significantly reducing the thickness compared to watch cases of conventional design, which allows for a watch case capable of withstanding depths of several thousand meters, typically between 3000 and 5000 meters, and whose thickness still allows it to be worn on the wrist as a wristwatch.
  • the bezel and the caseband which do not contribute to the protection of the watch movement which is entirely protected by the protective envelope, may be made of materials traditionally used in the field of watch boxes and ranging from plastic to platinum through stainless steel, and different gold alloys.
  • Another advantage of the invention arises from the fact that the seal and the resistance to pressure are obtained by completely separate elements which do not influence at all one on the other.
  • the sealing members participate in the assembly of at least some of the elements of the protective envelope.
  • FIG. 1 a watch case according to the state of the art. This watch case was chosen because it is a waterproof wristwatch box market, tested at 1550 meters, which makes it a wristwatch that can withstand a great depth.
  • the wristwatch box object of the present invention and illustrated by the figure 2 comprises a completely closed protective envelope and which comprises, in this embodiment, a bottom 1 of a material having a Young's modulus sufficient to limit the deformation. It will be seen later that this Young's modulus must be> 100,000 MPa. This material must above all have a resistance to bending substantially greater than that of the two traditional materials that are stainless steel and gold. In the illustrated example, this material could be a ceramic such as zirconia. This material could also be titanium which has in particular a high flexural strength and a Young's modulus> 100,000 MPa.
  • This bottom 1 has an arch-shaped profile that improves its resistance to bending. Its edge ends with a flat surface on which rests a side wall 2 made of a material whose compressive strength is substantially greater than that of stainless steel or gold. Since this side wall 2 must be drilled for the passage of the winding stem, a metal alloy will be preferred to a ceramic. It is possible to use an alloy such as a nickel-free steel of the Biodur 108 type whose properties are indicated in Table II.
  • This side wall 2 is delimited by two flat surfaces, one in contact with the surface 1a of the bottom 1, the other in contact with a flat surface 3a of the periphery of the glass 3, which is sapphire which has a module Young's strength and flexural strength as shown in Table I.
  • the protective envelope formed here by the bottom 1, the side wall 2 and the ice 3 comprises a compression-resistant structure SR with parallel side faces, perpendicular to the bearing surfaces between this side wall 2 and the bottom 1, on the one hand and between this side wall 2 and the ice 3, on the other hand and which extends, without a solution of continuity, to the bottom 1 of the envelope and includes at least a portion of the side wall 2 and the bottom 1 of the envelope.
  • This compression-resistant structure SR is delimited on the Figures 2 to 4 by two lines in phantom. As will be seen in Table III, the compressive strength of this side wall 2 can be adapted by adjusting the radial thickness of the resistant structure SR.
  • the side wall 2 has an outer side wall 2a located in the extension of the lateral surface of the ice 3, the cross sections delimited by these side surfaces being constant. These two lateral surfaces are surrounded by an annular seal 4.
  • the base 4a of this seal 4 is compressed in the radial direction by a portion 5a of internal lateral surface of a middle part 5 surrounding the side wall 2 of the casing. protection.
  • An inner surface formed between the portion 5a of the inner lateral surface of the middle part 5 and the remainder of this lateral surface surrounding the side wall 2 abuts against an outer surface of this side wall 2.
  • the part of the middle 5 located on the bottom side 1 of the protective envelope has a thread for receiving a threaded ring 6 clamping between the middle 5 and the bottom 1.
  • a seal 7 is disposed between an outer surface of the bottom 1 and the base of the middle part 5.
  • the portion of the annular seal 4 which surrounds the lateral face of the lens 3 is compressed radially by a clamping ring 8, preferably of titanium.
  • the annular seal 4 serves both to seal between the ice 3 and the side wall 2 and to fix these two parts to each other.
  • a bezel 9 is still fixed around the clamping ring 8 by a ring of connection 10 between an annular clearance 8a of the clamping ring 8 and an annular groove 9a of the inner lateral face of the bezel 9.
  • This sealing of the ice 3 with a radially compressed ring has the advantage of completely dissociating the compressive strength of the seal.
  • the annular seal 4 allows the ice to slide and remain in constant contact with the adjacent end of the side wall 2 of the envelope protection.
  • the variant of the figure 3 differentiates itself essentially from the form of execution of the figure 2 in that the side wall 2 'is reduced mainly to the resistant structure SR, a flange 11 being attached inside the side wall 2' instead of being integrated in the side wall 2 as in the example of the figure 2 .
  • the second variant of the figure 4 differentiates figures 2 and 3 mainly by the fact that the side wall and the bottom form a single piece in the form of cap 12 with a flange 11 reported as in the case of the figure 3 .
  • This flange 11 can be used to hold the movement M of the watch which can only be boxed from the top by leaning against a bearing surface 12a of the inner lateral face of the side wall of the cap 12. The rest of the box is similar to the boxes of figures 2 and 3 .
  • FIGS. 5 and 6 show that this material fulfills both the compressive strength conditions required for the side wall and the bending resistance conditions required for the ice or the bottom, as well as the relative conditions for the Young modulus, set so as to limit the deformation of the materials of the protective envelope, which if it were too high would require increasing the thickness of the box, which is obviously not acceptable.
  • the lower limit that can be set for the Young's modulus is 100,000 MPa, as regards the limit to flexural strength and to compressive strength, each can be set at 500 MPa.
  • Table III is a comparative table relating to the size of the wristwatch case, on the one hand according to the present invention, on the other hand according to the box of the prior art illustrated by the figure 1 .
  • ⁇ u> TABLE III ⁇ / u> Box according to the invention Box according to prior art Pressures of 15.5 MPa equivalent to 1550m 49 MPa pressure equivalent to 4900m Pressure of 15.5 MPa equivalent to 1550m 49 MPa pressure equivalent to 4900m Ice thickness 2.8 mm 5.5 mm 3 mm 5.7 mm Thickness 1.8 mm 3.28 mm 2.55 mm 5 mm Side wall section ( ⁇ int 28.54 mm) 5.76mm x 0.80mm 5.76mm x 1.48mm - - Total thickness box 13.5 mm 17.68 mm 14.52 mm 19.7 mm

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  1. Wasserdichtes Armbanduhrengehäuse umfassend eine Schutzummantelung eingefasst von einem Gehäusering (5) und einer Lünette (9), wobei die Schutzummantelung ein Uhrglas (3), eine Seitenwand (2) und einen Boden (1) umfasst und in welcher sich eine ebene Umfangsfläche am gesamten Innenrand des Glases erstreckt und in Kontakt steht mit einer der Seitenwand (2) entsprechenden Auflagefläche, von der zumindest ein Teil den Abschnitt einer druckresistenten Struktur bildet, mit parallel zueinander ausgerichtete Seitenwänden (SR), die senkrecht zur Auflagefläche angeordnet sind und nahtlos bis zum Boden (1) der Ummantelung reichen und welche zumindest einen Teil der Seitenwand (2) und des Bodens (1) der Ummantelung umfasst, wobei das Gehäuse Befestigungs- und Dichtungsmittel der Ummantelung umfasst, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Befestigungs- und Dichtungsmittel der Ummantelung mindestens eine Ringdichtung (4) aufweisen, die umlaufend auf einem konstanten Teilabschnitt aufliegt, der bis zur Seitenfläche des Uhrglases (3) reicht und auf einem konstanten Teilabschnitt, der bis zur äußeren Seitenfläche der Seitenwand (2) der Ummantelung reicht und radiale Verspannungsmittel (8, 5a) von dieser Dichtung gegen Teile von konstanten Abschnitten des Glases (3) und der Seitenwand (2) der Ummantelung.
  2. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß Anspruch 1, bei dem die Seitenwand (2) und der Boden (1) der besagten Ummantelung aus zwei Teilen bestehen, die aus zwei verschiedenen Materialien bestehen, wobei eine Dichtung (7) zwischen einer externen Außenfläche des Bodens (1) der Ummantelung und einem Randteil des Gehäuserings (5) angeordnet ist und ein Spannring (6) mit einer Gewindesteigung in eine Gewindesteigung des Gehäuserings (5) eingreift und eine axiale Spanfläche in eine entsprechende Fläche des Bodens (1) der Schutzummantelung eingreift.
  3. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, bei welchem die Bestandteile des Uhrglases (3) und des Bodens (1) der Ummantelung aus Materialien realisiert sind deren Youngsches Modul > 100.000 MPa beträgt und deren Grenze der Biegefestigkeit bei > 500 MPa liegt, wobei das Material der druckresistenten Struktur (SR) ein Youngsches Modul von > 100.000 MPa aufweist und eine Druckfestigkeit von > 500 MPa.
  4. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß Anspruch 2, bei welchem das Uhrglas (3) aus Saphir besteht, der Boden (1) aus Keramik und die Seitenwand (2) ein Metall oder ein Legierung ist.
  5. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, bei welchem die radialen Spannmittel der Ringdichtung (4) zum einen eine fest mit dem Gehäusering (5) verbundene Spannfläche (5a) für die Verspannung eines Teils (4a) des Dichtrings (4) zwischen dem Gehäusering (5) und der Außenseite der Seitenwand (2) der Schutzummantelung und zum anderen einen Spannring (8) zur Verspannung eines anderen Teils des Dichtrings (4) zwischen diesem Spannring (8) und der Seitenfläche des Uhrglases (3) umfassen.
  6. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, bei welchem die Seitenfläche des Uhrglases (3) und die Außenfläche der Seitenwand (2) der Ummantelung aneinander angrenzen und eine durchgehende und einen konstanten Abschnitt begrenzende Fläche bilden.
  7. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, bei welchem die Grenze der Biegefestigkeit der Materialien des Uhrglases (3) und des Bodens der Ummantelung bei > 550 MPa liegt und die Grenze der Druckfestigkeit des Materials für die druckfeste Struktur bei > 750 MPa liegt.
  8. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, welches eine Gesamtdicke von unter 17,7 mm aufweist und einem Druck von bis zu 50 MPa standhält.
  9. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, bei welchem der Boden und die Seitenwand der Schutzummantelung als ein Stück (12) ausgebildet sind.
  10. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß Anspruch 9, bei welchem der Boden und die Seitenwand als ein Stück (12) aus Titan ausgebildet sind.
  11. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, bei welchem die Seitenwand der Schutzummantelung Titan TA6V Grad 5 oder Biodur 108 oder Zirconium (ZrO2) oder Saphir (Al2O3) enthält.
  12. Armbanduhrengehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche, wobei das Uhrengehäuse mehreren Tausend Meter Tiefe standhält, insbesondere zwischen 3000 und 5000 Meter.
  13. Armbanduhr umfassend ein Gehäuse gemäß einem der vorangehenden Ansprüche.
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US12/164,864 US7901129B2 (en) 2007-07-02 2008-06-30 Sealed wrist watch case
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