EP2367079A1 - Baugruppe mit Glas und Glasreif für Uhren und Verfahren zum Zusammenbau - Google Patents

Baugruppe mit Glas und Glasreif für Uhren und Verfahren zum Zusammenbau Download PDF

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EP2367079A1
EP2367079A1 EP11158278A EP11158278A EP2367079A1 EP 2367079 A1 EP2367079 A1 EP 2367079A1 EP 11158278 A EP11158278 A EP 11158278A EP 11158278 A EP11158278 A EP 11158278A EP 2367079 A1 EP2367079 A1 EP 2367079A1
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Jacques Mieville
Jérôme Favre
Sylvain Maréchal
Simon Lauper
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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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    • G04B21/00—Indicating the time by acoustic means
    • G04B21/02—Regular striking mechanisms giving the full hour, half hour or quarter hour
    • G04B21/08—Sounding bodies; Whistles; Musical apparatus
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    • G04B23/02—Alarm clocks
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  • the invention relates to a method of assembly between on the one hand an ice, and on the other hand a bezel comprising a notch for the housing of said ice, for use in a timepiece with striking or music of said ice as vibrating and vibrating member for broadcasting a sound signal from a vibratory source, or a ring, or a music box, or an alarm clock, and transmitted to said telescope.
  • the invention also relates to a set ice-bezel dressing for timepiece ringing or music comprising at least one vibratory source or a ring, or a music box, or an alarm clock, arranged for the use of an ice as a vibrating and vibrating member for broadcasting a sound signal coming from said vibratory source, said ice-glasses assembly comprising on the one hand a telescope transmitting the vibrations coming from said vibratory source and comprising a detent for housing a ice, and secondly such ice having an upper surface and a lower surface connected by an edge.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece comprising at least one such ice-glasses.
  • the invention relates to the field of timepieces comprising means for transmitting a sound signal such as ringing, music box or similar. It relates more particularly to timepieces portable by the user, such as watches, pendants and the like.
  • the invention proposes to solve the problem of improving the diffusion of sound by a small timepiece. Indeed, if the diffusion of sound is easy in the case of pendulums or clocks, which have volumes or sound boxes designed to spread the sound, and widely sized, it still poses a problem in the case of coins. small watchmaking, where the volume to form a box or a resonant cavity is necessarily very limited, and where many components impede the good diffusion of sound, damping instead of amplifying it. This problem is all the more arduous as the sound sources, consisting of timbres, gongs or even keyboards, are themselves very small, and that the amplification level of the sound must be important for the sound is audible by the user, and possibly by his entourage. The amplification and the diffusion of the sound must not alter its purity, it is therefore essential to prevent any untimely resonance of another component of the timepiece.
  • the patent application FR 2 154 704 in the name of Timex describes an alarm watch with a piezoelectric oscillator resonating the ice of the watch, which is fixed directly on it, in a manner substantially perpendicular to the plane tangent to the ice, which is fixed to the middle part by a rubber elastic ring or similar.
  • This elastic trim absorbs too much energy to achieve the desired result.
  • a vibration in the plane tangent to the ice is obtained only with an oscillator generating vibrations in this direction.
  • the patent US 4,115,994 discloses a watch having a light source, and an ice arranged to distribute the light optimally, in combination with reflecting means at the dial.
  • the patent CH 626 497 on behalf of Ebauches , innovated by allowing the use of ice as a vibrating organ, serving as a vibration transmitting organ, thanks to the interposition, between the bezel and the ice, of a thin annular connecting piece, which absorbs little energy, and that does not alter the sound.
  • These provisions were taken up by the patent EP 0 694 824 in the name of Asulab , and by the patent CH 698 742 in the name of Richemont wherein the annular piece adopts a broken line profile.
  • These solutions have the advantage of not deforming the sound, and little damping vibrations, but the amplitude of vibration of the ice remains limited because of the peripheral support of the latter.
  • the invention proposes to provide a new solution to the problem of sound transmission by improving the use of ice as vibrating and vibrating member, with respect for the quality of its expected, thanks to improved transmission of vibrations since the mechanism for emitting the sound signal of the timepiece to the mirror via the telescope, with as little damping as possible, and with a sharp increase in the acoustic level whatever the location of implantation of the mechanism for emitting the sound signal in the timepiece.
  • the invention seeks to provide this mirror at least one freedom along an axis of freedom, in particular pivoting, so as to allow a large amplitude of vibration of the ice, under the action of a vibratory source that includes a timepiece, which is not limited by the fitting of the ice on the bezel of the timepiece, more particularly a watch.
  • the invention allows the vibrations of the ice, not only perpendicular to its surface as is known from the prior art, but especially according to the surface in which this ice develops, substantially radially compared to a normal profile. ice in the center.
  • the transmission of vibration from the window to the ice is only through certain predetermined contact areas.
  • said appropriate number is chosen equal to two.
  • the number of junction zones is two, and only two.
  • the space between said ice and said bezel is hermetically sealed with sealing means.
  • said sealing means are chosen comprising at least one flexible seal, and / or at least one elastic membrane.
  • the invention also relates to a set ice-bezel dressing for timepiece ringing or music comprising at least one vibratory source or a ring, or a music box, or an alarm clock, arranged for the use of an ice as a vibrating and vibrating member for broadcasting a sound signal coming from said vibratory source, said ice-glasses assembly comprising on the one hand a telescope transmitting the vibrations coming from said vibratory source and comprising a detent for housing a ice, and secondly such an ice having an upper surface and a lower surface connected by an edge, characterized in that it comprises one or more junction areas between said bezel and said ice together constituting a mechanical link vibratory transmission without damping said bezel to said ice to resonate said ice under the action of the vibrations transmitted to it by said bezel at said junction area (s), and said ice is separated from said bezel at sealing zones which are different from said junction areas and which constitute a damped vibrating transmission peripheral space, and which ice can vibrate in plan.
  • said upper surface of said ice is in direct abutment with said notch, and that said edge of said ice is in direct or indirect contact with said notch or with said bezel, and said lower surface of said ice is in direct or indirect support with said bezel or with a middle part that comprises, juxtaposed with said bezel, said timepiece, to enclose said ice.
  • the ice-glasses assembly comprises, at each said junction zone, at least one support wedge constituted by a peripheral spacer wedge or by a lower wedge.
  • the peripheral space between said ice and said bezel, at least outside the surfaces where said ice and said bezel are joined by said connection piece or pieces, is sealed with sealing means.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece ringing or music comprising at least one such ice-glasses.
  • the invention relates to the field of timepieces comprising means for transmitting a sound signal such as ringing, music box or similar. It concerns more particularly the parts timepieces portable by the user, such as watches, pendants and the like.
  • an actuator In timepieces with a traditional sound signal of the bell or music box type, and in particular in watches, an actuator, of the hammer or cam type, strikes or vibrates a vibratory source such as a bell, a gong or a bell. keyboard, or the like.
  • the vibration produced by this vibratory source is transmitted to elements that can radiate, such as the middle and the bezel, provided however that no isolator or damper element is interposed in the path of the vibration.
  • the vibration can not be transmitted to the ice, because it is usually insulated with a seal whose function is to seal the watch, and / or it is driven into the bezel by the intermediate of a hard plastic seal. As a result, the ice is not vibrated and can not radiate, which explains the limitations of the prior art.
  • the invention therefore seeks to render usable the large radiation surface that the ice can offer, which is moreover well disposed towards the user and his surroundings, to render audible, with perfect sound quality, the sound signal the buzzer or vibratory source.
  • the object of the invention is, in particular, to allow the vibrations of the ice, not only perpendicularly to its surface as is known from the prior art, but above all according to the surface in which this ice develops, substantially radially relative to at a normal to the profile of the ice at its center.
  • the invention relates to a method of assembling between on the one hand a lens 2, and on the other hand a bezel 3, for the use in a timepiece 100 of this lens 2 as a vibrating and radiating body a sound signal coming from a vibratory source such as a buzzer, music box or similar, and transmitted to this telescope 3.
  • a vibratory source such as a buzzer, music box or similar
  • the invention also relates to a set ice-glasses 1, in particular obtained by the implementation of this method.
  • the invention focuses, in particular, to provide a great ease of adaptation to any type of timepiece, regardless of the location of the vibratory sources relative to the ice.
  • the essential thing is to be able to transmit these vibrations by elements constituting the structure of the timepiece up to a telescope, which can be the original telescope or a replacement telescope, this telescope that carries the ice making its sound. turn vibrate the ice.
  • a telescope which can be the original telescope or a replacement telescope, this telescope that carries the ice making its sound.
  • the innovative principle of the invention is to limit the attachment of the window 2 to the window 3, which comprises a notch 30 for the housing of the ice 2, to one or more substantially point areas hereinafter called “junction zones" 4, so as to allow the free vibration of most of the periphery of the ice 2, in a peripheral space 7 between the window 2 and the window 3 outside these junction areas 4, without this free vibration ice is hampered.
  • the notch 30 allows the housing of the ice 2, and especially is arranged to allow its vibration, and therefore the contact between the ice 2 and the notch 30, is, according to the invention, a limited number of points or of surfaces.
  • This vibration is sought essentially "in plan", that is to say substantially tangentially to the upper or lower surfaces 21 of the ice 2, substantially perpendicular to a normal to the ice 2 in the middle.
  • junction zones 4 are substantially "in plan", that is to say in the extension of the ice 2. Naturally this applies to left-hand windows, as illustrated in the figures.
  • This ice 2 can thus vibrate over most of its periphery, when the junction zones 4 are of reduced size, and separated from each other by other zones, called “sealing zones" 40, where the ice is not held rigidly and can vibrate or rotate if the number of junction areas 4 is exactly two.
  • the ice 2 behaves in a manner like a recessed beam, at one end, or at both ends, if the number of junction point areas is respectively one or two.
  • a number of junction areas 4 greater than three is obviously possible, and improves the rigidity of the connection between the window 2 and the window 3, however the vibration is hampered, and the sound yield is less spectacular than with one or two zones junction only.
  • a good simulation of the vibratory behavior of the whole of the timepiece 100, and more particularly of the set ice-telescope 1, joined to a quality achievement, allows to obtain the maximum sound efficiency.
  • the ice can vibrate in plan in the sealing zones 40.
  • the bezel 3 When the bezel 3 is integrated into a timepiece 100, it is generally supported or embedded in a middle part 6 that includes this timepiece 100, the vibration of the striking mechanism or the like being transmitted to the telescope 3, either directly or through this middle part 6.
  • each of the sealing zones 40 is delimited by the window 2 and by a sealing surface 31.
  • the appropriate number of junction areas 4 is chosen to be equal to two, and preferably only two.
  • the thickness of this ice 2 is determined, and the contact surface between this ice 2 and this telescope 3 at each of these junction zones 4 to, according to the above calculation, correspond to the natural frequencies. and harmonics of this ice at these bandwidths, and to obtain the adequate number of junction areas closest to the value two.
  • junction zones 4 The realization of the junction zones 4 will be explained in more detail later in the presentation.
  • the number, the position and the surface of the junction zones 4, and the thickness of the ice 2 are dimensioned to obtain an eigenfrequency of between 1000 and 7000 Hz, and more particularly between 2000. and 6000 Hz.
  • the appropriate number of junction zones 4 at least equal to two is chosen.
  • this number is equal to two
  • the ice 2 then vibrates substantially pivotally with respect to an axis joining the two junction areas 4.
  • the two junction zones 4 are diametrically opposite, or as far as possible if the ice 2 has no symmetry, so as to improve the impact resistance.
  • the two junction zones 4 are arranged, either at noon and six o'clock, or at three o'clock and nine o'clock, depending on the configuration of the ice-cream 2.
  • the ice 2 is substantially a cylinder portion oriented on a parallel to the axis three hours-nine hours, and we choose the latter axis to position the two junction areas 4.
  • junction zones 4 are forced during the simulation, it is necessary to act on other parameters, in particular the thickness of the ice 2 and the contact surface at the junction zone 4. Conversely, if the glass 2 is maintained only by a single junction zone 4, in simple embedding, for example welded at a point, also gets the lowering of the first natural frequency, although with a lower impact resistance.
  • sealing the peripheral space 7 between the ice 2 and the bezel 3 with sealing means 8 is preferably sealed.
  • These sealing means 8 are preferably chosen. comprising at least one flexible seal, such as a silicone seal or the like, and / or at least one elastic membrane, in particular of the bellows type or the like, deployed between the telescope 3 and the ice-cream 2 and not impeding the vibrations of this last.
  • This bellows may be a metal bellows, or an elastomer bellows, or the like.
  • Such an elastic membrane provides a good seal and very good impact resistance. It must be chosen as thin as possible to behave as neutral as a silicone seal, for example.
  • junction zones 4 are also covered with these sealing means 8.
  • junction zones 4 there is a first vibration damping coefficient of the vibrations generated in the frequency range of the striking or / and musical mechanism of the timepiece 100, which is as small as possible, since in these junction zones 4 we try to transmit as much as possible of vibration energy to ice 2.
  • At least one shock absorber 10 is mounted at a distance of the ice 2, in particular at a distance from a lower surface 21 and / or an upper surface 20 that this ice 2 has, relative to the equilibrium position of this ice 2.
  • this damper 10 comprises a single abutment 10B, on the side of the lower surface 21, as visible on the figure 12 , the upper stop then being constituted by the notch 30 of the bezel.
  • this shock absorber 10 comprises two stops, one 10A on the side of the upper surface 20 and one 10B on the side of the lower surface. 21 of ice 2, as visible on the Figures 7 and 10 showing the end positions 2A and 2B of the lens 2.
  • These stops are preferably made of an elastic material, or are the terminations of damping means such as springs or the like.
  • the lower surface 10B, or both the upper surface 10A and the lower surface 10B, as the case may be, are arranged to limit the movement of the ice 2 in the event of impact or the like, but also so as not to interfere with its trajectory in its vibration and resonance movement.
  • the surface or surfaces 10A, 10B is or are therefore beyond the maximum vibration amplitude of the ice, calculated in response to vibration of the vibratory source, in the extreme case of amplitude of vibration.
  • the junction zone (s) 4 are made or by restriction of the direct contact surfaces between the window 2 and the window 3 by peripheral removal of material from the window 2 or / and the window 3, or by interposition between the window 2 and the window 3 of at least one support block 5 constituted by a spacing spacer 50 or by a lower wedge 51.
  • the interposition of such support wedges 5 is also possible in combination with the restriction of the contact surfaces between the telescope 3 and the ice 2.
  • the material of the support wedges must be chosen with care, because it must transmit the vibration of the telescope 3 to the ice 2, and especially do not dampen this vibration. Particularly good results are obtained with metal shims, the connection to the junction surface 4 is then called mechanical metal link vibratory transmission. Support shims made of ceramic materials or the like, or other hard materials, also give good results. These support blocks can also be in the same material as ice 2.
  • the first way to design the junction areas 4 is thus to achieve them by localized peripheral clamping.
  • This tightening can be achieved by restricting the surfaces of direct contact between the window and the window by peripheral removal of material from the ice and / or the window, for example by a particular machining of the window 3 at the notch 30 so to make bearing surfaces separated by recesses, which is preferable to a machining ice 2 because less expensive.
  • Clamping can also, more economically, be achieved by the interposition, between the notch 30 and the ice 2, support wedges 5, formed by spacer spacers 50.
  • These wedges 50 are so called because they provide both the first transmission function of the vibration of the telescope 3 to the ice 2 by the surface of contact between them at the junction zone 5, and the second function of spacing the rest of the periphery of the ice 2 relative to the notch 30 of the bezel.
  • the figure 7 illustrates this embodiment, where the junction zone 4 is formed by a radial peripheral support, and where the shim 50 is more precisely constituted of a connecting piece 11.
  • the ice 2 must remain permanently in the bezel 3, whatever its vibration level, which can be high for example during a sequence of big ring or chime. It is then necessary to have an ice cream 2 having sufficient elastic properties for its tightening in the bezel 3 to be assured whatever its vibratory level, and that the connection to the junction zones 4 is excellent.
  • the sapphire crystal 2, or mineral glass, or in an elastic material of suitable characteristics is chosen, preferably organic glasses which are in general too heterogeneous to guarantee the purity of the sound.
  • the sapphire is preferably chosen for its scratch-proof character. It is still possible to use a lead crystal, particularly with more than 21% lead, which has great elasticity, and dampens vibrations much less than mineral glass.
  • the attenuation of the propagation of the acoustic wave is slower in sapphire or crystal than in a mineral glass, which results in an increased resonance time with these materials.
  • the dissipation of energy in thermal form is very weak with sapphire, most of the energy remains available for the sound emission.
  • a clamping assembly especially in two junction zones, a sapphire crystal, or lead crystal, in a bezel, gives good energy results and good sound quality without disturbing the sound, and pleasant for the listener.
  • the ice can still be made of a natural mineral material of adequate crystallographic structure, such as rock crystal, quartz, or the like.
  • the second way to design the junction areas 4 is to achieve a localized clamping of the ice 2 in the direction of its thickness, in the manner of a clamp.
  • the periphery of the ice 2 is at a distance from the walls of the notch 30, only one of the faces of the ice 2, in this case its upper surface 20, comes into contact, at least one-time at the junction zone 4, with a surface of this notch 30.
  • the lower surface 21 of the ice 2 is immobilized, at each junction zone 4, by a support wedge 5.
  • This support wedge 5 can be made, or in form a lower block 51 bearing on the bezel 3 or on the middle part 6, or in the form of a boss of an intermediate piece.
  • This lower wedge 51 or this intermediate piece is preferably substantially annular in shape similar to that of the bezel.
  • Such an intermediate piece also bears, directly or indirectly, on the middle part 6, and is housed in the bezel 3, either in the notch 30, or in a housing provided for this purpose.
  • the ice 2 is thus pinched punctually between the notch 30 on the one hand, and this lower wedge 51 or this intermediate piece on the other hand.
  • At least one such junction zone 4 is made by dressing the periphery of the window 2 with a connecting piece 11, whose inner profile bears on the ice both on the one hand the upper surface 20 of the 2, and secondly on the lower surface 21 of the ice 2 and / or on an edge 22 connecting the lower surface 21 and the upper surface 20 of the ice 2.
  • this ice 2 thus equipped is positioned with a connecting piece 11 in the notch 30 so as to move the lens 2 away from this lens 3 at any other point than these junction areas 4, and so that for each of these junction areas 4, at least this upper surface 20 or this edge 22 is in direct or indirect support on this notch 30, and that for each of these junction areas 4, this lower surface 21 is in direct or indirect support with the telescope 3 or the middle part 6 juxtaposed to this bezel, to enclose the ice 2.
  • a particular variant of embodiment is represented in Figures 14 to 16 .
  • a telescope 3 comprises, projecting radially towards the middle of an opening intended to receive the lens 2, bosses 33, in particular two bosses 33, only one of which is visible on the figure 14 .
  • Each boss 33 has a bearing surface 31 for receiving a complementary bearing surface 23 that includes the ice 2, and to form with it a junction zone 4.
  • This bearing surface 31 is surrounded by surfaces seal 32 in clearance, for receiving a sealing means 8, and dimensioned to allow the free vibrations of the ice 2.
  • Each boss 33 comprises a lug 34, which is arranged to cooperate, in particular by clipping, clamping or similar, with a notch 24, or a flat, that includes the ice 2 of the figure 15 separated from the upper surface 20 of the ice 2 by the complementary bearing surface 23.
  • the support at the junction surface 4 is made with a very slight tightening, between 0 and 60 micrometers to the diameter.
  • the periphery of the ice 2, outside the junction areas 4, is free to vibrate in a peripheral space 7, in the sealing areas 40 where the ice 2 n 'a contact, neither with the telescope 3, nor with the middle part 6, as visible on the Figures 8, 10 and 12 .
  • junction areas 4 differentiated and variegated, one in the first way, the other in the second way.
  • junction zones 4 are, moreover, in no way limiting.
  • the figure 5 illustrates a junction zone 4 comprising both a radial peripheral support of the lens 2 in the bezel 3 by a connecting piece 11 enclosing the ice 2, and which is supported in the notch 30 by means of a shim spacing device 50, and a maintenance in the direction of the thickness of the ice, which is here ensured by a lower wedge 51 resting on the middle part 6.
  • the peripheral wedge 50 and the lower wedge 51 can be made of elastic materials for mounting by compression, provided, however, to ensure the good vibratory transmission of the bezel 3 to the ice 2 without damping effect of holds.
  • at least one adjustment screw 61 at the middle part 6 makes it possible to adjust the stress on the lower block 51, and thus on the ice 2.
  • a junction zone 4 may consist of the juxtaposition of two or more junction points spaced a few millimeters apart. The important thing is that the distance between these junction areas is as large as possible. However, it is preferable, within the same junction zone, to limit the spacing between the end points making the connection, typically those making the embedding of the ice 2, because the greater this spacing, the higher the frequency clean of the set is high, and the less the gain is important. For a timepiece like a watch, the maximum spacing within the same junction zone should be between a few tenths of a millimeter, and a few millimeters, for example.
  • the junction zone may also be constituted by an attachment of the lens 2 to the bezel 3 by a mechanical fastening, for example by screwing, or even by welding or brazing between the bezel 3 and a metal deposit made on ice 2 by a chemical vapor deposition process, or sputtering, or the like.
  • the invention also relates to an ice-cover assembly 1 for a timepiece 100, which is arranged for the use of a mirror 2 as a vibrating and radiating member for broadcasting a sound signal originating from a source vibratory such as ringing, music box or the like.
  • This set ice-telescope 1 comprises firstly a telescope 3 having a notch 30 for the housing of an ice 2, and secondly such an ice 2 having an upper surface 20 and a lower surface 21 connected by an edge 22.
  • this ice-telescope assembly 1 comprises one or more junction zones 4 together constituting the only mechanical link vibratory transmission of the telescope 3 to the ice 2 to make the ice 2 resonate under the action of the vibrations which it are transmitted by this telescope 3 at, respectively, this or these junction areas 4.
  • the ice 2 is spaced from the bezel 3 in the sealing zones 40, outside the surfaces where they are joined by, respectively, this or these junction areas 4. The ice can vibrate in plan in these sealing zones 40.
  • the upper surface 20 or the edge 22 of the ice 2 bears directly against the notch 30.
  • the lower surface 21 of the ice bears directly or indirect with the telescope 3 or with the caseband 6.
  • the upper surface 20 of the ice 2 bears directly on the notch 30, and the edge 22 of the ice 2 bears directly or indirectly with the notch 30 or with the bezel 3. And the lower surface 21 of the glass 2 bears directly or indirectly with either the bezel 3 or the middle part 6.
  • the ice-lens assembly 1 advantageously comprises, at least at a junction zone 4, and preferably at each junction zone 4, at least one support wedge 5.
  • This support wedge 5 is constituted by a peripheral wedge spacing 50 or a lower shim 51, as previously described.
  • such a peripheral wedge 50 is mounted under stress between the window 2 and the window 3 for holding the window 2, and preferably has a substantially U-shaped profile, and is arranged to be supported by its internal profile on the ice 2 and its outer profile on the bezel 3.
  • the ice 2 equipped with this shim 50 is housed in the notch 30 without further direct contact with the bezel 3 than that made at each junction zone 4.
  • the ice-seat assembly 1 thus comprises at least one such support wedge 5 constituted by a connecting piece 11 located at the junction zone 4, or preferably a group of disjoint connecting pieces 11 located at all the junction areas 4.
  • the ice 2 is supported on the bezel 3, at the junction zone 4, through at least one such connecting piece 11.
  • This connecting piece 11 is preferably to substantially U-shaped profile, and arranged to bear, by its inner profile on the ice 2, preferably both on the edge 22 and on the upper surfaces 20 and lower 21 of the ice 2, and its outer profile on the Bezel 3 near the upper surface 20 of the ice in direct or indirect support on the notch 30 to resonate the ice 2 with the bezel 3.
  • the ice equipped with this shim 50 is housed in the notch 30.
  • the ice 2 is away from the telescope 3 outside the surfaces where they are joined by a junction zone 4.
  • at least one of the surfaces of its outer profile near the upper surface 20 of the ice is in direct or indirect support on the notch 30, and another of the surfaces of its outer profile near the lower surface 21 of the ice is in direct or indirect support with the bezel 3 or with the middle part 6.
  • a contact between the connecting piece 11, or more generally the support wedge 5, and the middle part 6, is advantageous because it allows the transmission of the vibrations to the ice 2 both by the bezel 3 and by the 6.
  • this middle part 6 is, in the timepiece, in vibratory connection with a membrane, which is itself in vibratory contact with the vibratory source or sources.
  • the middle part 6 can also directly support, by vibratory contact, the vibratory source or sources.
  • the ice-cover assembly 1 comprises, interposed between, on the one hand, the junction zone (s) 4 and, on the other hand, the bezel 3 and / or the middle part 6, at least one assembly ring. intermediate.
  • at least one intermediate connecting ring 51 is interposed between, on the one hand, or the connecting pieces 11, and on the other hand the bezel 3 and / or the middle part 6.
  • this connecting ring 51 allows to create a constraint, for example adjustable by screw 61 as visible on the Figures 5 and 6 .
  • the peripheral space 7 between the window 2 and the window 3, at least outside the surfaces where the window 2 and the window 3 are joined by this or these junction zones 4, is closed at the level of the zones sealing 40, sealingly with sealing means 8, as described above.
  • a soft seal of the silicone type or the like is chosen, and the junction zones 4 may also be covered with this seal constituting these sealing means 8.
  • the ice-cover assembly 1 comprises, in addition to these sealing means 8 which concern the periphery of the window 2, at least one seal 9 as described higher for sealing at the joint plane 60 or the junction surface between the bezel 3 and the middle part 6 of the timepiece 100.
  • the set ice-glasses 1 comprises, interposed between, on the one hand the ice 2, and on the other hand the notch 30 or the middle part 6 or an assembly ring bearing on the latter, at less a shock absorber 10, as described above, mounted at a distance from the ice 2 relative to the equilibrium position of the latter.
  • the set ice-glasses 1 further comprises elastic return means for the repositioning of the ice 2 in the event of stress.
  • the ice is made of sapphire. In a first embodiment, it is made of mineral glass. In a second embodiment, it is made of lead crystal.
  • the ice-glasses assembly 1 comprises two junction zones 4, allowing both a very good mechanical strength and a large amplitude of vibration of the ice 2.
  • the tightening value is between 0.010 and 0.060 millimeters per radius, and preferably between 0.010 and 0.030 millimeters.
  • This clamping is a radial clamping on the periphery of the ice. Axial clamping is possible in the axial direction, that is to say in the direction of the thickness of the ice, but it is understood that such excessive axial clamping hampers the vibration and radiation of the ice according to this direction, so it is better to be limited to a simple maintenance of the ice, in particular by the lower holds 51.
  • the acoustic gain obtained by the implementation of the invention is important, of the order of 20 dBA.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece 100 comprising at least one such ice-bezel assembly 1. It comprises a middle part 6 of which a junction plane 60 is arranged to cooperate sealingly with the bezel 3.
  • the invention provides the advantage of involving both the glass and the bezel in vibration and acoustic radiation.
  • the invention is also applicable to a direct mounting of the window 2 in the middle part 6, but the mounting of the window 2 in the window 3 according to the invention allows, precisely, independence from the room 100, and the invention can be implemented easily for any timepiece, replacing the original bezel and / or the ice by a set ice-glasses 1 according to the invention, or even by adapting the original parts by machining and / or by the interposition of adequate bearing blocks as described above.
  • the invention focuses on transmitting the vibrations from the sound source to the ice to make it resonate.
  • the vibratory chain transmits the vibration from the vibratory source, ring, timbre, gong, chime, music box, vibrator, or other, to the turntable of the timepiece, the platinum to the middle of the timepiece, from the case to the bezel, and the bezel to the ice.

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