EP3200029A1 - Resonatormechanismus eines uhrwerks - Google Patents

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EP3200029A1
EP3200029A1 EP16153274.2A EP16153274A EP3200029A1 EP 3200029 A1 EP3200029 A1 EP 3200029A1 EP 16153274 A EP16153274 A EP 16153274A EP 3200029 A1 EP3200029 A1 EP 3200029A1
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Jean-Luc Helfer
Gianni Di Domenico
Pascal Winkler
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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
    • G04B15/00—Escapements
    • G04B15/14—Component parts or constructional details, e.g. construction of the lever or the escape wheel
    • 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
    • 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
    • G04B17/045—Oscillators acting by spring tension with oscillating blade springs
    • 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
    • G04B17/10—Oscillators with torsion strips or springs acting in the same manner as torsion strips, e.g. weight oscillating in a horizontal plane
    • 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
    • G04C3/02—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means wherein movement is regulated by a pendulum
    • 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
    • G04C3/08—Electromechanical clocks or watches independent of other time-pieces and in which the movement is maintained by electric means wherein movement is regulated by a mechanical oscillator other than a pendulum or balance, e.g. by a tuning fork, e.g. electrostatically

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  • the invention relates to a timepiece resonator mechanism comprising a pivoting mass arranged to pivot rotatably around a virtual pivot axis, said resonator mechanism comprising a first fixed support and a second fixed support to which is fixed a flexible guide mechanism in pivoting which comprises a rotary support connected to said first fixed support by a first elastic assembly and connected to said second fixed support by a second elastic assembly which defines said virtual pivot axis with said first elastic assembly, said pivoting mass being attached to said rotary support or constituted by said rotary support
  • the invention also relates to a watch movement comprising at least one such resonator mechanism.
  • the invention also relates to a watch comprising at least one such movement.
  • the invention relates to the field of clock resonator mechanisms.
  • the flexible virtual pivot guides significantly improve the clock resonators.
  • the simplest are cross-leaf pivots, consisting of two straight blades that intersect, usually perpendicular. These two blades can be either three-dimensional in two different planes, or two-dimensional in the same plane and are then welded to their point of intersection.
  • the invention seeks the advantages of the two known two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometries, in a simple and economic, thus two-dimensional execution.
  • the invention thus relates to a clock resonator mechanism according to claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to a watch movement comprising at least one such resonator mechanism.
  • the invention also relates to a watch comprising at least one such movement.
  • the invention is a two-dimensional cross-slide pivot with two blades that do not intersect. It has fine parts that bend, and broad parts that are rigid enough to not or very little deform. As these large parts do not participate in the bending of the blades, they can be chosen of any shape.
  • the invention relates to a timepiece resonator mechanism 1 comprising a pivoting mass 2, which is arranged to pivot rotatably about a virtual pivot axis A.
  • This resonator mechanism 1 comprises a first fixed support 11 and a second fixed support 12, to which is fixed a flexible pivoting guide mechanism 10.
  • This flexible pivoting guide mechanism 10 comprises a mobile rotating support 3, which is connected to the first support fixed 11 by a first elastic assembly 21 that comprises the flexible pivoting guide mechanism 10, and is connected to the second fixed support 12 by a second elastic assembly 22, which also comprises the flexible pivoting guide mechanism 10.
  • the first elastic assembly 21 and the second elastic assembly 22 together define the virtual pivot axis A.
  • the pivoting mass 2 can be attached to the rotary support 3, as visible on the figure 6 , or constituted by the rotary support 3.
  • the flexible pivoting guide mechanism 10 is plane.
  • the first elastic assembly 21 comprises, on either side of the virtual pivot axis A, and joined by a first intermediate blade 51 more rigid than each of them, a first outer flexible blade 31 and a first flexible blade This first flexible outer blade 31 and first inner flexible blade 41 together define a first direction D1 passing through the virtual pivot axis A.
  • the second elastic assembly 22 comprises a second flexible blade 62, preferably passing through the virtual pivot axis A, and defining a second direction D2, different from the first direction D1, passing through the virtual pivot axis A where it intersects. the first direction D1, and with it an angle ⁇ .
  • this second flexible blade 62 is traversed, in full material, by this virtual pivot axis A.
  • the first outer flexible blade 31 and the first inner flexible blade 41 constitute the most flexible portions of the first elastic assembly 21.
  • the first elastic assembly 21 comprises only the first intermediate blade 51, the first outer flexible blade 31, and the first inner flexible blade 41.
  • the first outer flexible blade 31, and the first inner flexible blade 41 have an identical section.
  • the first elastic assembly 21 and the second elastic assembly 22 have different rigidities. To symmetrize their rigidity, and even their deformation, one can artificially thicken the second elastic assembly 22 in the same place as the first elastic assembly, for example.
  • the second flexible blade 62 may be a single blade, as visible on the Figures 2 and 3 or, like the first elastic assembly 21, a series alternation of different flexibility blades.
  • the second elastic assembly 22 comprises a second outer flexible blade 32 and a second inner flexible blade 42 on either side of a second intermediate blade 52 which is stiffer than each of them and constituting with them the second flexible blade 62.
  • the second intermediate blade 52 passes through the virtual pivot axis A, that is to say that it is traversed, in full matter, by this virtual pivot axis A.
  • the second outer flexible blade 32 and the second inner flexible blade 42 have an identical section.
  • the first elastic assembly 21 and the second elastic assembly 22 are rigidly embedded in the first fixed support 11 and the second fixed support 12 respectively.
  • the second flexible blade 62 is embedded in the second fixed support 12 at a second external recess 72, and in the rotary support 3 at a second internal recess 82.
  • the second external recess 72 and the second internal recess 82 are located on either side of a straight line parallel to the direction D1 defined by the first elastic assembly, and passing through the virtual pivot axis A.
  • the second external recess 72 and the second recess internal 82 are located on either side of the virtual pivot axis A. More particularly still, the second external recess 72 and the second internal recess 82 are aligned with the virtual pivot axis A, as visible on the FIGS.
  • first direction D1 and the second direction D2 are curvilinear directions intersecting at the virtual pivot axis A, the modeling is easier with straight elements.
  • the first direction D1 is straight.
  • the second direction D2 is right.
  • the first direction D1 is straight, and the second direction D2 is right.
  • the invention is illustrated in a particular preferred case where the most flexible blades, defining the flexible pivot of the flexible pivoting guide mechanism 10, and the virtual pivoting axis A, are straight flexible blades.
  • Other geometries are nevertheless possible, for example in the form of a coil, or others.
  • the first elastic assembly 21 surrounds the second elastic assembly 22.
  • the first intermediate blade 51 completely surrounds the mobile rotary support 3, as visible on the figure 3 .
  • the movable rotary support 3 is external to the first intermediate blade 51.
  • the rotary support 3 at the end of the blades thus pivots around a virtual pivot axis A which is at the intersection of the two blade directions.
  • a virtual pivot axis A which is at the intersection of the two blade directions.
  • the instantaneous center of rotation of the rotary support 3 and the pivoting mass 2 which it carries if necessary does not move with the angle of rotation .
  • the center of mass of the assembly constituted by the pivoting mass 2 and the rotary support 3 is situated on the virtual pivot axis A.
  • figure 6 shows such an example, where the pivoting mass 2 is constituted by a rocker, which is fixed eccentrically on the rotary support 3.
  • the less flexible portions of the first elastic assembly 21 and / or the second elastic assembly 22 are skeletonized to minimize their mass and to avoid undesirable eigen modes.
  • it is essentially the first intermediate blade 51, and the second intermediate blade 52, as visible on the figure 8 .
  • the outer ends of the first elastic assembly 21 and the second elastic assembly 22 are rigidly connected respectively to the first fixed support 11 and the second fixed support 12, and the internal ends of the first elastic assembly 21 and the second elastic assembly 22 are rigidly connected to the rotary support 3.
  • the first direction D1 and the second direction D2 form with each other an angle of between 70 ° and 87 °, and more particularly 83.65 °, as visible on the Figures 5 to 7 .
  • the patent application CH01979 / 14 on behalf of Swatch Group Research & Development Ltd., incorporated herein by reference, discloses a cross-blade clock resonator and discusses the importance of the value of that particular angle.
  • the first outer flexible blade 31 is rigidly connected to the first intermediate blade 51 at a first external embedding point 310
  • the first inner flexible blade 41 is rigidly connected to the first intermediate blade 51 at a first point internal recess 410.
  • a first intermediate distance d1 defined by the distance between the first external embedding point 310 and the first internal embedding point 410
  • a first total distance L1 defined by the difference between, on the one hand, a first external embedding point 311 between the first outer blade 31 and the first fixed support 11, and on the other hand a first internal embedding point 411 between the first inner blade 41 and the rotary support 3
  • a ratio d1 / L1 between 0.05 and 0.25, and in particular equal to 0.20.
  • a first radius r1 defined by the distance between the first internal embedding point 411 and the virtual pivot axis A, and the first total distance L1 define a ratio r1 / L1 between 0.05 and 0.3. and in particular equal to 0.185.
  • the second outer flexible blade 32 is rigidly connected to the second intermediate blade 52 at a second external embedding point 320
  • the second inner flexible blade 42 is rigidly connected to the second intermediate blade 52.
  • a second intermediate distance d2 defined by the distance between the second external embedding point 320 and the second internal embedding point 420, and a second total distance L2 defined by the difference between, one side a second external embedding point 321 between the second outer blade 32 and the second fixed support 12, and secondly a second internal embedding point 421 between the second inner blade 42 and the rotary support 3, define a ratio d2 / L2 between 0.05 and 0.25, and in particular equal to 0.20.
  • a second radius r2 defined by the distance between the second internal embedding point 421 and the virtual pivot axis A, and the second total distance L2, define a ratio r2 / L2 between 0.05 and 0.3, and especially equal to 0.185.
  • the invention is particularly well suited to monolithic execution.
  • the first fixed support 11, the second fixed support 12, and the flexible pivoting guide mechanism 10 form a monobloc set.
  • This one-piece assembly can be produced by technologies of the "MEMS” or "LIGA” type or the like, made of silicon or the like, thermally compensated, in particular by particular local growth of silicon dioxide, in certain areas of the room arranged for this purpose when this one-piece assembly is made of silicon.
  • the clock resonator mechanism 1 may comprise a plurality of such flexible pivoting guide mechanisms 10 connected in series, to increase the total angular travel, arranged in parallel planes, and around the same virtual pivot axis A.
  • the invention also relates to a watch movement 100 comprising at least one such resonator mechanism 1.
  • the invention also relates to a watch 1000 comprising at least one such movement 100.

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EP16153274.2A EP3200029B1 (de) 2016-01-29 2016-01-29 Resonatormechanismus eines uhrwerks
CH1112016A CH712068B1 (fr) 2016-01-29 2016-01-29 Mécanisme résonateur d'horlogerie à pivot virtuel.
TW105143670A TWI745330B (zh) 2016-01-29 2016-12-28 時計共振器機構、時計機芯及手錶
US15/400,327 US9971303B2 (en) 2016-01-29 2017-01-06 Timepiece resonator mechanism
KR1020170008106A KR101946137B1 (ko) 2016-01-29 2017-01-17 타임피스 공명기 메커니즘
JP2017010002A JP6334752B2 (ja) 2016-01-29 2017-01-24 時計用共振器機構
CN201710060691.8A CN107024852B (zh) 2016-01-29 2017-01-25 钟表谐振器机构
RU2017102596A RU2718360C1 (ru) 2016-01-29 2017-01-27 Часовой резонансный механизм

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