EP3291027B1 - Stossdämpfer mit membran - Google Patents

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EP3291027B1
EP3291027B1 EP16186312.1A EP16186312A EP3291027B1 EP 3291027 B1 EP3291027 B1 EP 3291027B1 EP 16186312 A EP16186312 A EP 16186312A EP 3291027 B1 EP3291027 B1 EP 3291027B1
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    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
    • G04B31/00—Bearings; Point suspensions or counter-point suspensions; Pivot bearings; Single parts therefor
    • G04B31/02—Shock-damping bearings
    • G04B31/04—Shock-damping bearings with jewel hole and cap jewel
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    • G04B—MECHANICALLY-DRIVEN CLOCKS OR WATCHES; MECHANICAL PARTS OF CLOCKS OR WATCHES IN GENERAL; TIME PIECES USING THE POSITION OF THE SUN, MOON OR STARS
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  • the present invention relates to a shock absorber device for an axis of a mobile of a timepiece arranged on a support, said support being provided with an opening so that said axis can move in translation in said opening, said axis comprising, at each end, a tigeron cooperating with a pivoting element.
  • a first system is a lyre system that is to say that the plate or bridge is provided with a hole through which the shank of an axis can pass. This hole serves as a housing for a support, pierced at its center, in which a kitten is arranged.
  • This kitten carries a pierced stone and a counter-pivot stone, the whole being put under stress by a lyre spring arranged between the support, which has flanges serving as points of support, and the kitten.
  • Another system is the fall arrest system in which the pivots of the beam are made so as to give them the shape of a cone and hold them in place by a small cup of corresponding shape, mounted on a leaf spring.
  • Watchmaking shock absorbers are usually constituted by mechanical springs and are still sized according to the old rules, according to practical rules considered as the best compromise between mechanical stability during operation and resistance to mechanical deformations.
  • Licences CH335173 A and FR1140584 A disclose anti-shock bearings with tongue springs.
  • the demand CH 705 905 A2 discloses a shockproof bearing diaphragm.
  • the patent CH 702 314 B1 discloses a bearing provided with a spring arm which can be replaced by a membrane.
  • the sprung balance shock absorbers, the parachutes and the lyres are dimensioned so as not to be activated up to relatively large shock accelerations (between 200 and 500 times the gravity), thanks to the spring preload. Beyond this threshold value, the spring can be deformed and absorb some of the impact energy. However, because of low mechanical damping of the metal blades used as shockproof, most of the energy is restored to the pendulum. The local deformation of the pendulum pivot is therefore very likely, already for relatively small shocks. This deformation, which has a considerable impact on the chronometric accuracy of the watch, is generally neglected because the standard certifying the chronometric stability of a COSC watch after a shock of one meter is not severe (60 s / j of difference).
  • the invention aims to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art by proposing to provide a shock absorbing system having a progressiveness in shock absorption while preventing the tigeron is exposed to the impact energy.
  • the present invention relates to a shock-absorbing device for an axis of a mobile of a timepiece according to claim 1.
  • the axis has a first diameter and comprises at each end an area of a second diameter from which the shank extends, the second diameter being smaller than the first diameter.
  • the transition between the first diameter zone and the second diameter zone is performed to form a shoulder.
  • the axis further comprises, in the zone having a second diameter, a first radially extending peripheral protruding portion, said projecting portion being spaced from the shoulder so that the diaphragm spring can be inserted into the space between said first projecting portion and said shoulder.
  • the device further includes a second diaphragm spring disposed in the first aperture such that the first diaphragm spring and the second diaphragm spring are located on either side of said first protrusion.
  • the axis further comprises a second protruding portion arranged so that the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion are located on either side of the second diaphragm spring.
  • the thickness of said membrane or membrane spring is between 5 microns and 50 microns.
  • the membrane spring or springs may be made of a material selected from the list comprising: silicon, crystalline silicon carbide, ceramic silicon carbide, silicon nitride and metallic glass.
  • the membrane spring or springs may be made of a stretchable material of the polymer or elastomer resin type.
  • the pivoting element is a fall arrest system.
  • the pivoting element is a kitten and lyre system.
  • the present invention proceeds from the general idea of providing a shock absorbing system having a progressiveness in shock absorption.
  • a shock absorbing device 1 or shockproof system is shown.
  • This shock absorbing device or shockproof system 1 is mounted in a base member 100 of a timepiece movement.
  • the plate or the bridges of the movement are the basic element in which the shockproof system 1 according to the invention is placed.
  • This shock absorbing device is used to dampen the impacts of an axis or shaft 200 of a timepiece mobile: a wheel or a balance wheel or an escape wheel.
  • This base element 100 is provided with an opening 102 opposite the axis 200 to be damped.
  • the axis 200 cooperates with a pivot element 300 by the tigeron intermediate 201 arranged at each end of the axis 200.
  • This pivot element 300 can be in several forms.
  • a first form is called a fall arrest device in which the pivots or tigeron 201 of the axis 200 of the mobile are made so as to give them the shape of a cone and hold them in place by a small cup 310 of corresponding shape mounted on a leaf spring 312 as visible at figure 1 .
  • the spring blade 312 may be mounted on a support 314 fixed to the plate 100.
  • a second form consists of a pivot element kitten and lyre.
  • Such an element comprises a kitten 324 placed in a housing 322 of a frame 320.
  • a pierced stone 325 and a counter pivot stone 326 are inserted.
  • the kitten is then retained in the housing of the frame via a spring 327 in the form of lyre deforming to absorb shocks as visible in the figure 2 .
  • the shock absorbing device further comprises one of the spring means 110 for damping the axis of the mobile.
  • These spring means 110 advantageously comprise at least one first diaphragm or diaphragm spring 112.
  • a diaphragm spring 112 is arranged at the opening 102 of the base member 100 in which the axis 200 is inserted.
  • Such a diaphragm spring 112 is used to prevent the most energetic impact during a shock being suffered by the pivot / skewer 201 of the axis of the mobile and thus to find an innovative solution for absorbing and dissipating the most of the shock energy by the impact of another part of said axis.
  • the diaphragm spring 112 is arranged at the opening 102 of the base member 101.
  • This membrane comprises a hole 113 through which the axis takes place.
  • the membrane 112 is designed to cooperate with the axis and, more particularly, with a shoulder 202 of said axis.
  • the axis 200 of the watch mobile comprises at each end a tiger 201 for its pivoting.
  • the axis 200 may be designed so as to have a main portion having a first diameter D1 and at the ends, a portion of a second diameter D2 smaller than the diameter of the main portion. Such narrowing may be linear or abrupt to form a shoulder 202.
  • the axis 200 moves and arms the traditional anti-shock 300 (lyre or parechute) but, after a relatively short axial stroke (in the Z direction), the axis 200, via its shoulder 202, abuts against the membrane 112 'with a liner'.
  • the movement of the axis 200 of the mobile thus begins to deform the membrane 112 which absorbs a considerable part of the impact energy by its deformation in extension (in the case of a stretch membrane) and / or flexion, in the case a standard thin elastic membrane. Therefore, the tigeron 201 is no longer the part of the axis that stores the maximum energy. The risks of rupture of the tigeron 201 are therefore reduced.
  • the thickness of the membrane 112 is advantageously between 5 microns and 50 microns (depending on the material used) and the membrane 112 may be made of silicon, silicon carbide (crystalline or ceramic), silicon nitride (in these three cases it can be manufactured by DRIE technology) or metal glass.
  • the membrane 112 may be made of a stretching material with a large energy dissipation such as, for example, elastomeric polymers or resins (especially silicone, but also PVC, PVDC, PE ).
  • elastomeric polymers or resins especially silicone, but also PVC, PVDC, PE .
  • the elastic properties in the direction of deformation Z will depend on the elongation applied in the XY plane, which is advantageously between 2% and 15% of the dimension of the membrane in the same direction of the elongation.
  • the opening 113 of the diaphragm 112 may be of circular, square, rectangular or polygonal geometry.
  • the membrane 112 may also not be completely closed around the axis of the mobile.
  • the dimension of the opening 113 is such that the projection of the membrane in the XY plane is partially superimposed on the projection of the axis 200 of the moving body in the same plane, the superposition being ensured by one or more portions of the axis. extending over a diameter substantially greater than the diameter of the tigeron at the end of the axis dedicated to pivoting. This is either a linear shrinkage or at least one shoulder.
  • the shaft 200 is made to have several shoulders and the membrane 112 is activated regardless of the direction of impact.
  • Such an embodiment consists of having a first shoulder 202a to make a transition between two zones of different diameters, the diameter being reduced towards the end.
  • the second shoulder 202b consists in providing, at the region of smaller diameter, a radially extending peripheral portion 203 protruding.
  • the two shoulders 202a, 202b are then arranged so that a space 204 exists between them. This space 204 is used for the membrane 112 to be placed there. Therefore, regardless of the axial displacement of the shaft 200 of the mobile following an impact, at least one membrane 112 will be biased to dissipate the energy of said shock.
  • the mobile shaft is designed similarly to that of the second embodiment.
  • a shaft 200 of mobile is to have a first shoulder 202a to make a transition between two zones of different diameters, the diameter being reduced in approximates the end.
  • the second shoulder 202b consists in providing, at the region of smaller diameter, a radially extending peripheral protrusion.
  • the two shoulders 202a, 202b are then arranged so that a space exists between them. This space is used so that a first membrane can be placed there.
  • the second membrane 112 is then placed on the other side of the protruding portion 203 so that the two membranes 112 are placed on either side of the projecting portion.
  • the displacement of the axis of the moving means causes a contact between the first shoulder and the first membrane and between the projecting portion and the second membrane 112. These two membranes 112 then deform to dissipate the energy of the shock, the latter being distributed over the two membranes.

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  1. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung (1) für eine Welle (200) eines Drehteils einer Uhr, die an einem Träger (100) angeordnet ist, wobei der Träger mit einer Öffnung (102) versehen ist, damit sich die Welle in der Öffnung translatorisch bewegen kann, wobei die Welle an jedem Ende einen Tigeron aufweist, der mit einem Schwenkelement (300) zusammenwirkt, wobei die Vorrichtung ferner mindestens eine erste elastische Membranfeder (112) umfasst, die in der ersten Öffnung angeordnet ist, wobei durch die erste Membran ein Durchgangsloch (113) verläuft, durch das die Welle verläuft, wobei die Welle mindestens einen Abschnitt aufweist, dessen Durchmesser (D1) größer als der des Durchgangslochs der ersten Membran ist, derart, dass er bei einer Bewegung infolge einer Erschütterung als Anschlag für die Welle dient, wobei die Welle (200) einen ersten Durchmesser (D1) besitzt und an jedem Ende einen Bereich mit einem zweiten Durchmesser (D2) aufweist, von dem sich der Tigeron erstreckt, und wobei der zweite Durchmesser kleiner als der erste Durchmesser ist, wobei der Übergang zwischen dem Bereich mit dem ersten Durchmesser (D1) und dem Bereich mit dem zweiten Durchmesser (D2) ausgebildet ist, um eine Schulter (202) zu bilden, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Welle (200) ferner in dem Bereich mit einem zweiten Durchmesser (D2) einen ersten vorstehenden Umfangsabschnitt (203) aufweist, der sich radial erstreckt, wobei der vorstehende Abschnitt von der Schulter (202) beabstandet ist, damit die Membranfeder (112) in den Raum (204) zwischen dem ersten vorstehenden Teil und der Schulter eingesetzt werden kann.
  2. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass sie ferner eine zweite Membranfeder (112) umfasst, die so angeordnet ist, dass sich die erste Membranfeder und die zweite Membranfeder beiderseits des ersten vorstehenden Abschnitts (203) befinden.
  3. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Welle ferner einen zweiten vorstehenden Abschnitt (205) aufweist, der so angeordnet ist, dass sich der erste vorstehende Abschnitt (203) und der zweite vorstehende Abschnitt beiderseits der zweiten Membranfeder (112) befinden.
  4. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Dicke der einen oder der mehreren Membranfedern im Bereich von 5 µm bis 50 µm liegt.
  5. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die eine oder die mehreren Membranfedern aus einem Material hergestellt sein können, das aus der Liste ausgewählt ist, die umfasst: Silizium, kristallines Siliziumkarbid, keramisches Siliziumkarbid, Siliziumnitrid und amorphes Metall.
  6. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die eine oder die mehreren Membranfedern aus einem streckbaren Material vom Typ Polymer oder Elastomerharz hergestellt sein können.
  7. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Schwenkelement ein Stoßdämpfersystem ist.
  8. Shock-Absorber-Vorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass das Schwenkelement ein Futter und Lyra-System ist.
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