EP2717103B1 - Leuchtende Spiralfeder - Google Patents

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EP2717103B1
EP2717103B1 EP12187216.2A EP12187216A EP2717103B1 EP 2717103 B1 EP2717103 B1 EP 2717103B1 EP 12187216 A EP12187216 A EP 12187216A EP 2717103 B1 EP2717103 B1 EP 2717103B1
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Thierry Hessler
François Gueissaz
Michel Willemin
Jean-Claude Martin
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    • 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
    • G04B17/00—Mechanisms for stabilising frequency
    • G04B17/04—Oscillators acting by spring tension
    • G04B17/06—Oscillators with hairsprings, e.g. balance
    • 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
    • G04B17/00—Mechanisms for stabilising frequency
    • G04B17/04—Oscillators acting by spring tension
    • G04B17/06—Oscillators with hairsprings, e.g. balance
    • G04B17/066—Manufacture of the spiral spring
    • 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
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
    • G04B45/0007—Light-, colour-, line-, or spot-effects caused by parts or pictures moved by the clockwork
    • 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
    • G04B45/00—Time pieces of which the indicating means or cases provoke special effects, e.g. aesthetic effects
    • G04B45/02—Time pieces of which the clockwork is visible partly or wholly

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  • the invention relates to a watch or timepiece control member comprising a rocker, a cock at least one source of light energy, and at least one spiral spring fixed between said rocker and said cock, said at least one spring -spiral being arranged to transmit and diffuse light.
  • the invention also relates to a clockwork mechanical movement comprising at least one watch or timepiece control member comprising a rocker, a cock, and at least one spiral spring fixed between said rocker and said cock, said at least one spring -spiral being arranged to transmit and diffuse light.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece comprising such a mechanical movement, and / or at least one mechanical movement comprising at least one such regulator member.
  • the invention relates to the field of mechanical watchmaking.
  • the invention proposes to provide a space-saving and energy-saving solution to the problem of visualization of the spiral spring of a mechanical watch, or, more generally, of a mechanical timepiece.
  • the invention relates to a watch or timepiece control member comprising a balance wheel, a cock at least one source of light energy, and at least one spiral spring fixed between said balance and said cock, said at least one spiral spring being arranged to transmit and diffuse light emitted by said at least one light energy source of said regulating member.
  • said at least one spiral spring is made of quartz or glass or ceramic, or partially transparent at visible and / or ultraviolet wavelengths, or at least partially amorphous material,
  • the invention also relates to a clockwork mechanical movement comprising at least one watch or timepiece control member comprising a rocker, a cock, and at least one spiral spring fixed between said rocker and said cock, said at least one spring -spiral device being arranged to transmit and diffuse light, characterized in that said at least one spiral spring is arranged to diffuse and transmit the light emitted by at least one light energy source which is deported out of said regulator member and the interior of said movement to which it is connected by at least one light guide or an optical fiber to a light relay which is located at said regulator member near said spiral spring (4).
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece comprising such a mechanical movement, and / or at least one mechanical movement comprising at least one such regulator member.
  • the invention relates to the field of mechanical watchmaking.
  • the invention provides a new visualization of the spiral spring of a mechanical watch, or, more generally, a mechanical timepiece. It presents and highlights the spiral spring as the heart of the movement, and uses the analogy of the cyclic movements of contraction and extension of this spiral spring with those of a human heart.
  • this spiral light using for its manufacture a particular material allowing the diffusion of the light.
  • monocrystalline quartz and glass can be used as light guides.
  • the light coming from an active or passive light source, injected into a part of the hairspring, springs in a distributed manner throughout the hairspring, or on a part of the hairspring, which makes it possible to see it in the dim light.
  • the spiral leads and diffuses this light.
  • the injection of light can be made more easily at one of the ends of the hairspring, and in particular at its outer end, by a light source such as an electroluminescent diode, or a component coated with a passive phosphorescent layer. light sources not being limiting.
  • the spiral spring is, if necessary, coated with a layer allowing the diffusion of only a portion of the light outwards, while guiding most of the light along the spiral, such a surface layer may also be phosphorescent or fluorescent.
  • the material of the spiral spring, quartz, glass, photo-structuring glass, or the like may be designed to include phosphorescence or fluorescence either in the mass of the material or by implantation.
  • the spiral spring according to the invention behaves like an optical fiber for guiding and diffusing light.
  • the invention relates to a regulator member 1 of a watch or a timepiece comprising a rocker 2, a cock 3 and at least one spiral spring 4 fixed between the rocker 2 and the cock 3.
  • the name "rooster” covers also the embodiments where a plate or a bridge carries one of the ends of the spiral spring 4.
  • the invention is here described, without limitation, in the case of a substantially plane spiral spring, that is to say which all the active turns extend, in contraction and elongation of the spiral spring 4, between two parallel planes P1 and P2. Only an internal turn at the inner end 7 of the spiral spring 4, and an outer turn, at the outer end 6 of the spiral spring 4, can, in known manner, be deployed in the space outside the gap between these two planes, in particular in the case of Breguet turns or Grossmann turns, or others.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 transmits and diffuses light emitted by at least one light energy source 5.
  • this at least one spiral spring 4 is made of quartz or glass or ceramic, or partially transparent at visible and / or ultraviolet wavelengths or at least partially amorphous material.
  • This source of light energy 5 can be a primary source, which stores energy, then restores it by light emission, or a secondary source, here called light relay 50, connected by an optical path constituted by a guide light 51 or an optical fiber or the like, to such a primary source 5.
  • the spiral spring 4 is then in contact or in immediate proximity, or a primary source, or a light relay 50 , the choice being made according to the space available in the watch and the volume of the source 5 or the relay 50.
  • the cock 3 carries the source of light energy 5 near an outer end 6 of the spiral spring 4. It is understood that the cock 3 door indifferently a primary source 5, or such a light relay 50, the choice being made again according to the space available in the watch and the volume of the source 5 or the relay 50.
  • the rocker 2 carries the source of light energy 5, or a light relay 50, near an inner end 7 of the spiral spring 4.
  • a monobloc balance-spring balance assembly made of quartz or glass or at least partially amorphous material, and the light can be collected and brought back into a convergence zone, for example at the balance shaft or the like.
  • the light source 5 or the relay 50 is in the vicinity of the spiral spring 4, above or below the turns of this spiral.
  • several such sources are arranged near the spiral 4.
  • figure 8 thus shows two light sources 5A and 5B, arranged under the hairspring 4, one near the ferrule 21 of the balance 2, and the other near the stud 31 fixing the hairspring 4 to the rooster 3.
  • first source 5A comes in close proximity to at least one outer turn 86, and preferably several consecutive outer turns 84, 85, 86, during the maximum elongation of the hairspring 4 and transmits light to the Once at these three turns 84, 85, 86 together, only in this elongation configuration, while this source 5A transmits light only to one of the turns 86 in the spiral contraction configuration.
  • a second source 5B comes in close proximity to at least one internal coil 87 and preferably several consecutive internal turns 87, 82, 83, during the maximum contraction of the spiral 4 and transmits light at a time.
  • the spiral 4 is preferably made in clusters on the same wafer.
  • Each hairspring 4 has a relatively wide attachment, and the dimensions of which are large in front of the section S of the turns 8 of the hairspring 4.
  • This fastener constitutes a reception surface that is well adapted for the light emanating from the source 5 or the relay 50, at the same time time that it allows a good mechanical attachment of the spiral 4 on the cock 3.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 diffuses light on at least a portion of its section.
  • this spiral spring comprises, besides two outer end faces 43 and inner side faces, upper 41, lower 42, transverse inner 46, transverse outer 47, which develop along the length of the spiral spring 4. The light is then diffused at at least one of its lateral faces.
  • this non-visible face may advantageously comprise at least one superficial metallization thin layer to form a reflective mirror surface and prevent light scattering by the non-visible face considered. This can especially be the case of the lower face 42, and / or the transverse faces 46, 47.
  • the local coating of all of the lateral surfaces by such a reflective layer 40 can channel the light in the spiral over a certain distance without notable loss. It is thus possible to choose, over the length of the hairspring 4, the zones through which it is desired to have a light diffusion, and the orientation of the faces concerned, in general the upper face 41 and the one or / and the other transverse faces 46, 47.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 diffuses light over its entire length between said cock 3 and said rocker 2.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 is of rectangular section and is composed of a single material, quartz or glass or at least partially amorphous material, according to the figure 2 .
  • the dimensions of this section are less than 100 micrometers over the thickness of the spiral, and 1000 micrometers over its height.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 is of rectangular section and is composed firstly of a first material which is quartz or glass or ceramic, or partially transparent at wavelengths. visible and / or ultraviolet or at least partially amorphous material, and secondly by a phosphorescent or fluorescent dopant, this dopant being incorporated into the mass of the first material.
  • the material, quartz or glass or the like (for example by implantation) can be doped in the mass with such a phosphorescent or fluorescent dopant.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 is of rectangular section and is composed on the one hand by a first material which is quartz or glass or ceramic, or partially transparent at visible wavelengths and / or ultraviolet or at least partially amorphous material, and secondly by at least a second phosphorescent or fluorescent material applied in a thin layer 40 on at least one of the lateral surfaces of the spiral spring 4.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 is of rectangular section and is composed on the one hand by a first material which is quartz or glass or ceramic, or partially transparent at visible wavelengths and / or ultraviolet or at least partially amorphous material, on the other hand by at least a second colored material applied in a thin layer (40) on at least one of the lateral surfaces of said spiral spring (4).
  • the second phosphorescent or fluorescent material is applied in a thin layer 40 on the four lateral surfaces of the spiral spring 4.
  • the at least one spiral spring 4 comprises, on its upper 41 and lower 42 faces defining two parallel planes P1, P2, a surface roughness Rt of between 10 nanometers and 20 micrometers, and preferably close to one micrometer or slightly higher than this value.
  • This slight roughness giving a frosted appearance to the hairspring 4 can be obtained during the manufacture of a quartz hairspring 4, for example, the process control parameters making it possible to obtain a more or less smooth surface state.
  • the presence, at certain angles, of an overhang along the transverse faces 46, 47, may confer a similar effect.
  • the spiral 4 can also be reworked so as to include micro-cells giving it locally the desired roughness.
  • thin film deposits 40 makes it possible to increase or attenuate the diffusion or the guiding of the light in the spiral 4, the case of a fluorescent or phosphorescent layer 40 makes it possible either to modify the emission spectrum (for example if uses a UV light-emitting diode as the light source 5), either to store and emit light in the layer (by analogy with europium-doped SrAl2O4 strontium aluminate, a variety of which is known as "Super-LumiNova").
  • Such a thin film deposition 40 may be used to color at least one lateral face during light re-emission by diffusion through at least one turn of the hairspring 4.
  • the layer deposition can also ensure the desired surface roughness for good diffusion.
  • the thickness of such a layer 40 is preferably between 10 nanometers and 1 micrometer, and preferably close to 100 nanometers.
  • layers 40 of different kinds metals, oxides, for example TiO 2, Tr 2 O 5, SiO 2, Si 3 N 4, Al 2 O 3, or alternates based on aluminum and gold, this list being in no way limiting. . And also to coat the different lateral faces of layers 40 of different nature.
  • a layer 40 may be colored at a particular wavelength.
  • the interaction with the light from the source 5 produces a particular effect, especially if the source 5 or the relay 50 has a monochromatic filter, or is pulsed over a single wavelength.
  • the structuring of the lateral faces of the spiral 4 is feasible, in particular in photolithography.
  • the path of the light in the spiral 4 may be modified by the presence of particular obstacles or changes of light environment, for example by the presence of notches, holes, chamfers, or the like.
  • Structuring at the level of the masks, during the production of the hairspring 4 makes it possible to produce particular transverse surfaces 46, 47 for two adjacent turns of the hairspring 4, in particular a complementarity, notches or optical polarization, for example, so as to an inner transverse surface 46 of the outermost of two turns cooperates in a particular way when it is closer to the outer transverse surface 47 of the innermost of the two contraction turns of the spiral 4, and the optical effect produced during this greater proximity is different from the optical effect that present, together, these two adjacent turns when they are at the greatest distance from each other in elongation of the spiral 4.
  • these two transverse surfaces antagonistic can receive a different monochrome treatment, for example blue on one, yellow on the other, these two colors being distinctly visible in elongation, whereas e the diffusion is done in green in contraction position.
  • At least one of the ends 6, 7 of the spiral spring 4 comprises an end face 43 receiving directly from the light of the light source 5 or a light relay 50 thereof.
  • the figure 4 illustrates such an embodiment, where all the turns of the spiral 4 are parallel.
  • this end comprises at least one bevel 44 for receiving light in a direction D substantially perpendicular to a parallel plane in two parallel planes P1, P2, defined by the upper 41 and lower 42 faces of the spiral spring 4.
  • the direction D is advantageously parallel to the axis A pivoting of the balance 2.
  • the invention makes it possible to produce the hairspring 4 as a light guide with controlled losses throughout the hairspring.
  • the illumination of the spiral 4 is not necessarily in a preferred direction, in fact, it can be done by an upper face 41 (plane P1 of the figures), or / and by the transverse faces 46 and 47 of the spiral 4.
  • the coupling between the light source 5, or the relay 50, and the hairspring 4 may result from their proximity: the source 5 or the relay 50 emits light with a sufficient energy level so that the hairspring 4 can pick up this light, before reissuing it by broadcast.
  • the coupling may also be advantageously and preferably carried out by direct contact, surface-to-surface contact, or by plug-in, or by any known technology in the light guides and in the optical fibers.
  • the light is concentrated upstream of its transmission to the hairspring, or upon entry into the hairspring 4.
  • the concentrator is integrated with the hairspring 4 during its manufacture.
  • the distribution of the stresses in the spiral spring 4 varies during the contraction or elongation of this hairspring for a given adjustment. It also varies with a change in the characteristics of the regulating organ, and in particular with the amplitude of oscillation of the balance 2. A variation of the illumination of the spiral 4 can thus make it possible to highlight a change in amplitude.
  • the hairspring 4 according to the invention may not be homogeneous, which then makes it possible to create particular technical functionalities, and differentiated light diffusion zones.
  • Amorphize is used here to mean changing the structure so as to modify the refractive index.
  • a coil can be locally amorphized, in particular by laser treatment.
  • the hairspring 4 can also be fully amorphized.
  • the hairspring 4 can be, at least locally, polished.
  • a particular mechanical structuring makes it possible to create chosen light leakage surfaces with particular orientations on certain faces and in particular locations.
  • the problem of light guiding and diffusion over the entire length of a hairspring 4 which may have a large developed length may lead to neutralizing certain turns, or portions of turns, by preventing light from escaping, for example by reflective layers of deposits or savings of similar functionality. This then allows a saving of light, and the light guide to the ends 6 and 7 of the spiral 4.
  • the light source 5 can take various forms. Preferably, this source 5 is an electroluminescent diode or a phosphorescent or fluorescent component.
  • the source 5 is phosphorescent and / or fluorescent, preferably phosphorescent because of the longer period of remanence, which can reach several hours, and is compatible with a possibility of illumination of the spiral spring at any time during the period of time. 'a night.
  • the source of light will be "phosphorescent" in the rest of the presentation.
  • a phosphorescent source advantageously comprises rare earth aluminates, which are well known to physicists, for example europium doped strontium aluminate SrAl2O4, a variety of which is known under the name “Super-LumiNova”, or rare earth silicates, or a mixture of aluminates and rare earth silicates.
  • Other trading materials such as “Lumibrite” are also suitable.
  • Materials such as tritium 3H, promethium 147, or radium 226 have excellent phosphorescent properties, but their high radioactivity beta and / or gamma strongly limits their use, and they can be used only in minute amounts, preferably in conjunction with rare earth aluminates, for some very specific applications, military, astronautics, use at great depths, or the like, and with a protection significantly increasing the volume of the timepiece, it is called radioluminescence or autoluminescence when using these materials.
  • GTLS gases known as "GTLS” from the company "MB Microtech” containing tritium 3H, and which, like radium, do not require any external excitation to emit light, such capsules are used in particular for the visualization of needles or watch appliques, essentially military.
  • the excitation light comes from the user's environment, solar light, ambient light.
  • the light source is housed in the interior volume of the timepiece box or the watch.
  • the ambient energy can be collected at a partially or completely transparent, or translucent middle and / or at a partially or totally transparent, or translucent dial, or / and still at a display window , especially for a calendar or the like.
  • the ambient energy may, again, be collected by an adjoining accessory to the timepiece, such as a watchband, and be transmitted by a waveguide or an optical fiber, or the like. In the same way, the capture of ambient energy can be performed at the level of other elements of dressing such as the bottom, the telescope, the flange, or others.
  • the invention also relates to a watchmaking mechanical movement comprising at least one such regulator member 1, where the light source 5 is either located at the level of the regulator member 1 or is deported out of the regulator member 1 and within the movement 10 in which case it is connected by at least one light guide 51 or an optical fiber to a light relay 50 which is located at the level of the regulating member 1 near the spiral spring 4.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece 100 comprising such a mechanical movement, and / or at least one such regulator member 1.
  • the light source 5 is, or is located at the regulating member 1, or is deported out of the regulating member 1 and inside the movement 10 in which case it is connected by at least one light guide 51 or an optical fiber to a light relay 50 which is located at the level of the regulating member 1 near the spiral spring 4, or is deported out of the movement 10 and inside the room timepiece 100 in which case it is connected by at least one light guide 51 or an optical fiber to a light relay 50 which is located at the level of the regulating member 1 near the spiral spring 4.
  • this timepiece 100 is a watch, and the spiral spring 4 is of the so-called "flat" type described above.
  • the invention may be coupled with a stroboscopic device interposed on the light path between the light source and the spiral spring, so as to perform particular lighting.
  • Structuring with stroboscopic effect according to the frequency and the wavelength of the light diffused by the source 5 or the relay 50, makes it possible to carry out an anti-counterfeiting marking or a secret signature, by structuration or masking, and which n is revealed only under certain lighting conditions.
  • the slowing down of the light because of the variation of the refractive index which is linked to the variation of the stresses at the heart during the contraction or the elongation of the hairspring, also allows a particular authentication.
  • the diffusion, by a spiral 4 treated and colored at a first wavelength, of a pulsed monochrome light of another wavelength, allows a particular visualization.
  • a variant of the invention rather applicable to the clocks and timepieces static, consists in its application to a regulator member spring, which is not a substantially flat spiral spring as above, but which is a coil spring.
  • the display device of the spiral spring offered by the invention is compact and low energy consumption. It attracts the eye of the user on the visible heart of his watch or his timepiece, and highlights the particularly lively character of a mechanical timepiece.

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  1. Regulierorgan (1) für Uhren oder Zeitmessgeräte, das eine Unruh (2), einen Unruhkloben (3), mindestens eine Lichtenergiequelle (5) und mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4), die zwischen der Unruh (2) und dem Unruhkloben (3) befestigt ist, umfasst, wobei die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) dafür ausgelegt ist, Licht, das von der mindestens einen Lichtenergiequelle (5) des Regulierorgans (1) ausgesendet wird, durchzulassen und zu streuen.
  2. Regulierorgan (1) nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) aus Quarz oder aus Glas oder aus Keramik ist oder bei sichtbaren und/oder Ultraviolett-Wellenlängen lichtdurchlässig ist oder aus einem zumindest teilweise amorphen Material besteht.
  3. Regulierorgan (1) nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass der Unruhkloben (3) die Lichtenergiequelle (5) in der Nähe eines äußeren Endes (6) der Spiralfeder (4) trägt.
  4. Regulierorgan (1) nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Unruh (2) die Lichtenergiequelle (5) in der Nähe eines inneren Endes (7) der Spiralfeder (4) trägt.
  5. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) das Licht zumindest auf einen Teil ihres Querschnitts streut.
  6. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) das Licht auf ihrer gesamten Länge zwischen dem Unruhkloben (3) und der Unruh (2) streut.
  7. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) einen rechteckigen Querschnitt besitzt und aus einem einzigen Material aufgebaut ist.
  8. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) einen rechteckigen Querschnitt besitzt und einerseits aus einem ersten Material, das Quarz oder Glas oder eine Keramik oder ein Material, das für sichtbare und/oder Ultraviolett-Wellenlängen teilweise lichtdurchlässig ist, oder ein zumindest teilweise amorphes Material ist, und andererseits aus mindestens einem phosphoreszierenden oder fluoreszierenden Dotierstoff, der in die Masse des ersten Materials eingebracht ist, aufgebaut ist.
  9. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) einen rechteckigen Querschnitt besitzt und einerseits aus einem ersten Material, das Quarz oder Glas oder eine Keramik oder ein Material, das bei sichtbaren und/oder Ultraviolett-Wellenlängen teilweise lichtdurchlässig ist, oder ein zumindest teilweise amorphes Material ist, und andererseits aus mindestens einem zweiten phosphoreszierenden oder fluoreszierenden Material, das als Dünnschicht (40) auf wenigstens eine der Seitenflächen der Spiralfeder (4) aufgebracht ist, aufgebaut ist.
  10. Regulierorgan (1) nach dem vorhergehenden Anspruch, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das zweite phosphoreszierende oder fluoreszierende Material als Dünnschicht (40) auf die vier Seitenflächen der Spiralfeder (4) aufgebracht ist.
  11. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) einen rechteckigen Querschnitt besitzt und einerseits aus einem ersten Material, das Quarz oder Glas oder eine Keramik oder ein bei sichtbaren und/oder Ultraviolett-Wellenlängen teilweise lichtdurchlässiges Material oder ein zumindest teilweise amorphes Material ist, und andererseits aus mindestens einem zweiten gefärbten Material, das als Dünnschicht (40) auf wenigstens eine der Seitenflächen der Spiralfeder (4) aufgebracht ist, aufgebaut ist.
  12. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) auf ihrer oberen (41) und ihrer unteren (42) Fläche, die zwei parallele Ebenen (P1; P2) definieren, eine Oberflächenrauheit (Rt) im Bereich von 10 Nanometer bis 20 Mikrometer aufweist.
  13. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass mindestens eines der Enden (6; 7) der Spiralfeder (4) eine Endfläche (43) aufweist, die Licht von der Lichtquelle (5) oder von einem Lichtrelais (50) der Lichtquelle (5) direkt empfängt.
  14. Regulierorgan (1) nach dem vorhergehenden Anspruch, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Ende (6; 7) mindestens eine Abschrägung (44) aufweist, um Licht längs einer Richtung zu empfangen, die im Wesentlichen senkrecht zu einer Ebene ist, die parallel zu den zwei parallelen Ebenen (P1; P2) ist, die die obere (41) und die untere (42) Fläche der Spiralfeder (4) definieren.
  15. Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Lichtquelle (5) eine Leuchtdiode oder eine phosphoreszierende oder fluoreszierende Komponente ist.
  16. Mechanisches Uhrwerk (10), das mindestens ein Regulierorgan (1) für Uhren oder Zeitmessgeräte umfasst, das eine Unruh (2), einen Unruhkloben (3) und mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4), die zwischen der Unruh (2) und dem Unruhkloben (3) befestigt ist, umfasst, wobei die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) dafür ausgelegt ist, Licht durchzulassen und zu streuen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die mindestens eine Spiralfeder (4) dafür ausgelegt ist, dasjenige Licht durchzulassen und zu streuen, das von mindestens einer Lichtenergiequelle (5) ausgesendet wird, die sich außerhalb des Regulierorgans (1) und innerhalb des Werks (10) befindet, mit dem sie durch mindestens einen Lichtleiter (51) oder eine Lichtleitfaser mit Lichtrelais (50), das sich auf Höhe des Regulierorgans (1) in der Nähe der Spiralfeder (4) befindet, verbunden ist.
  17. Zeitmessgerät (100), das ein mechanisches Werk (10) nach dem vorhergehenden Anspruch und/oder mindestens ein mechanisches Werk, das mindestens ein Regulierorgan (1) nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 15 enthält, umfasst.
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