EP3185079A1 - Druckknopf-anordnung für eine elektronische oder elektromechanische armbanduhr - Google Patents

Druckknopf-anordnung für eine elektronische oder elektromechanische armbanduhr Download PDF

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EP3185079A1
EP3185079A1 EP15201722.4A EP15201722A EP3185079A1 EP 3185079 A1 EP3185079 A1 EP 3185079A1 EP 15201722 A EP15201722 A EP 15201722A EP 3185079 A1 EP3185079 A1 EP 3185079A1
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Pascal Lagorgette
Raphaël Balmer
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Priority to US15/284,902 priority patent/US10068724B2/en
Priority to JP2016200674A priority patent/JP6286005B2/ja
Priority to CN201610974928.9A priority patent/CN107918272B/zh
Priority to KR1020160171714A priority patent/KR20170074185A/ko
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G21/00—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces
    • G04G21/08—Touch switches specially adapted for time-pieces
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G17/00—Structural details; Housings
    • G04G17/08—Housings
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
    • H01H13/02—Details
    • H01H13/12—Movable parts; Contacts mounted thereon
    • H01H13/14—Operating parts, e.g. push-button
    • 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
    • G04B3/00—Normal winding of clockworks by hand or mechanically; Winding up several mainsprings or driving weights simultaneously
    • G04B3/04—Rigidly-mounted keys, knobs or crowns
    • G04B3/048—Operation exclusively by axial movement of a push-button, e.g. for chronographs
    • 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
    • G04B37/00—Cases
    • G04B37/08—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits
    • G04B37/10—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems
    • G04B37/106—Hermetic sealing of openings, joints, passages or slits of winding stems of push buttons
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04C—ELECTROMECHANICAL CLOCKS OR WATCHES
    • G04C3/00—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means
    • G04C3/001—Electromechanical switches for setting or display
    • G04C3/007—Electromechanical contact-making and breaking devices acting as pulse generators for setting
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G17/00—Structural details; Housings
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
    • H01H13/02—Details
    • H01H13/26—Snap-action arrangements depending upon deformation of elastic members
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
    • H01H—ELECTRIC SWITCHES; RELAYS; SELECTORS; EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE DEVICES
    • H01H13/00—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch
    • H01H13/50—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a single operating member
    • H01H13/52—Switches having rectilinearly-movable operating part or parts adapted for pushing or pulling in one direction only, e.g. push-button switch having a single operating member the contact returning to its original state immediately upon removal of operating force, e.g. bell-push switch

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  • the present invention relates to a push button arrangement for an electronic wristwatch. More specifically, the invention relates to such a push button arrangement which is less bulky and more resistant to fatigue.
  • a push button is a very simple control means which consists schematically of a rod sliding in a passageway through the frame of an apparatus, being held in the rest position by elastic means which push the head of the rod towards outside, and being brought into operating position by pressure exerted by the user on the head.
  • the elastic means are for example formed by a helical spring housed in the through passage and which bears between the frame and the head of the pusher.
  • control means of the kind mentioned above can to be satisfactory even in its simplest embodiment.
  • the control of start and end of counting time by pressing an appropriate pushbutton must be synchronized with an event, for example sporty, that the user must observe, which does not allow him to simultaneously exercise a visual check of the proper functioning of the chronograph.
  • the elastic means which serve to maintain the pushbutton at rest can be formed by an elastic blade whose first free end is fixed on a plate and whose second free end which serves to hold the button.
  • pusher in the rest position is extended by a bent portion U substantially in the axis of the pusher.
  • This curved portion also elastic, bears against a tenon driven into the plate and has at its end a thickening or a notch which, crossing the tenon, produces a click when pressure is exerted on the push button.
  • the actuation of the push button will control the start of a time counting mechanism or will cause the closing of an electrical contact just after the feel of the click.
  • the disadvantage of such a push button arrangement lies in its size, which is relatively important in that the elastic blade extends in a plane and must be long enough to be able to restore the user's effort to the push button while remaining elastic.
  • the present invention relates to a second type of pushbutton said surface mounted, also known by its name Angled Surface Mounted Device or SMD.
  • the actuating element of such a type of push button is typically formed of a flexible metal sheet shaped as a dome, the dome having a periphery bearing on a first contact and a top which, when the user presses the push button, deforms and comes to bear on a second contact, which allows to close an electrical contact and send an electrical control signal.
  • the dome moves from its rest position to its depressed position, producing a click that is felt by the user.
  • One of the advantages of surface mounted type pushbuttons is that they occupy less space and can therefore be integrated into smaller devices.
  • the support 6 of the push button 1 substantially L-shaped, is mounted cantilevered by one of its branches 6a on the upper surface 8 of the electronic board 2 by means of a few soldering points 10
  • the second branch 6b almost inevitably has a slight clearance 12 with the lateral surface 14 of the electronic plate 2, so that under the effect of the forces of shear due to repeated pressures on the push button 1, the risk that the weld points 10 give up due to fatigue is high.
  • the present invention relates to a push-button arrangement for a portable object formed of a box inside which is housed an electronic board that extends horizontally, the push button being of the surface-mounted type.
  • a flexible printed circuit sheet itself partially fixed on the electronic board, the flexible printed circuit sheet being folded around the edge of the electronic board so that the push button extends substantially perpendicularly to the electronic board, in support against the edge of the latter.
  • the present invention provides a push-button arrangement of the surface-mounted type which is much more compact than a watch-type push-button and therefore easier to integrate into a small portable object such as a watch. bracelet.
  • push-buttons of the type mounted on the surface are standard components manufactured in large quantities and are therefore less expensive.
  • the printed circuit board on which is welded the push button extends below the latter. Consequently, when the push button is pressed, the welds work in slight compression and no longer in shear, so that the risk of these welds giving up is almost completely eliminated.
  • the push button being pressed against the wafer of the electronic board, this provides good mechanical resistance to pressure and provides good positioning tolerances in the vertical plane.
  • the push button can be welded flat on the printed circuit board, this greatly facilitates manufacturing operations.
  • the pushbutton is disposed in a housing formed in the electronic board, this housing limiting the movement of the pushbutton horizontally forwards and backwards and vertically downwards.
  • the housing formed in the electronic board is covered by an auxiliary board which limits the movement of the push button vertically upwards.
  • the box of the portable object is pierced with a through hole inside which slides a rod of an external push button held in the rest position by resilient means which repel the rod outwards, and brought into the operating position in which it presses the push button mounted on the surface by a pressure exerted on the rod.
  • the present invention proceeds from the general inventive idea of attaching a push-button of the surface-mounted type to a flexible printed circuit sheet itself fixed in part on an electronic board housed in the box of a portable object such as an electronic or electromechanical wristwatch.
  • the printed circuit sheet is arranged on the electronic board so that the portion of this printed circuit board that carries the push button remains free and can be folded around the edge of the electronic board to bring the push button into a plane. vertical in which the push button is in support against the edge of the electronic board.
  • FIG. figure 2 A push button arrangement according to the invention is illustrated in FIG. figure 2 attached to this patent application.
  • this push button arrangement comprises an electronic circuit board 18 delimited by a peripheral edge 20 and a lateral surface or wafer 22.
  • Such an electronic circuit board 18 is intended to receive on its upper surface 24 a set of electronic components interconnected by electrically conductive tracks and necessary for the operation of a portable object such as a wristwatch in which the electronic board 18 is embedded.
  • a flexible printed circuit sheet 26 is partly fixed on the upper surface 24 of the electronic board 18, while a portion 28 of this flexible printed circuit board 26 which carries a push button 30 of the type mounted on surface remains free.
  • the free portion 28 of the flexible printed circuit sheet 26 is folded around the peripheral edge 20 of the electronic board 18 so that the push button 30 is found in a vertical plane bearing against the edge 22 of the electronic board 18.
  • the free portion 28 of the flexible printed circuit board 26 which carries the push button 30 is long enough to be able to be folded downwardly around the peripheral edge 20 of the electronic board 18, and then upwardly to form a V-shaped bend 32.
  • this embodiment is given for illustrative and not limiting only and that it is enough that the free portion 28 of the flexible printed circuit sheet 26 is sufficiently long to be folded down around the peripheral edge 20 of the electronic board 18 so as to bring the push button 30 in a vertical plane in which it bears against the edge 22 of the electronic board 18.
  • the pushbutton 30 is soldered flat on the flexible printed circuit sheet 26. Consequently, when the flexible printed circuit sheet 26 is fixed on the upper surface 24 of the electronic board 18, then folded downward so as to bring the pushbutton 30 in a vertical plane bearing against the wafer 22 of the electronic board 18, the welds 34 by means of which the pushbutton 30 is secured to the flexible printed circuit sheet 26 are stressed in compression and no longer in shear when pressing the push button 30, so that the risk that these welds 34 give is almost completely eliminated. It will also be noted that since the push-button 30 bears against the wafer 22 of the electronic board 18, this provides good mechanical resistance to pressure and makes it possible to obtain good positioning tolerances in the vertical plane. Finally, the push button 30 can be soldered flat on the flexible printed circuit sheet 26, this greatly facilitates the manufacturing operations.
  • the push-button 30 is disposed in a recess 36 formed in the lateral surface 22 of the electronic plate 18.
  • This recess 36 is delimited by a vertical lateral wall 38 which encloses the button pushbutton 30 and which is extended forward by a horizontal surface 40.
  • This horizontal surface 40 defined by a flange 42, serves as a bearing surface for the pushbutton 30.
  • the housing 36 thus limits the movement of the pushbutton 30 horizontally forwards and backwards and vertically downwards.
  • the push button arrangement 16 is intended to be housed in a box 46 of a portable object such as a wristwatch.
  • This box 46 is formed of a middle part 48 which is pierced with a through hole 50 inside which a rod 52 of an external push button 54 is slidably arranged between a rest position in which the rod 52 is maintained by elastic means 56 which push it outwardly, and an operating position in which, by pressing on the rod 52, the latter presses on the pushbutton 30.

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EP15201722.4A EP3185079B1 (de) 2015-12-21 2015-12-21 Druckknopf-anordnung für eine elektronische oder elektromechanische armbanduhr
US15/284,902 US10068724B2 (en) 2015-12-21 2016-10-04 Push-button arrangement for an electronic or electromechanical wristwatch
JP2016200674A JP6286005B2 (ja) 2015-12-21 2016-10-12 電子又は電気機械式腕時計用押釦装置
CN201610974928.9A CN107918272B (zh) 2015-12-21 2016-11-07 用于电子腕表或机电腕表的按钮装置
KR1020160171714A KR20170074185A (ko) 2015-12-21 2016-12-15 전자 또는 전자기계 손목시계용의 푸시-버튼 배열체
KR1020180089065A KR20180088778A (ko) 2015-12-21 2018-07-31 전자 또는 전자기계 손목시계용의 푸시-버튼 배열체
HK18111780.1A HK1252472A1 (zh) 2015-12-21 2018-09-13 用於電子腕錶或機電腕錶的按鈕裝置

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KR20170074185A (ko) 2017-06-29
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