EP3336618A1 - Boite de montre avec molette de commande - Google Patents

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EP3336618A1
EP3336618A1 EP16204651.0A EP16204651A EP3336618A1 EP 3336618 A1 EP3336618 A1 EP 3336618A1 EP 16204651 A EP16204651 A EP 16204651A EP 3336618 A1 EP3336618 A1 EP 3336618A1
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Vincent Meyer
Raphaël Balmer
Pascal Lagorgette
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ETA SA Manufacture Horlogere Suisse
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Priority to JP2018562204A priority patent/JP6694526B2/ja
Priority to KR1020187034550A priority patent/KR102151864B1/ko
Priority to CN201780036638.2A priority patent/CN109313413B/zh
Priority to EP17803928.5A priority patent/EP3440516B1/fr
Priority to US16/097,490 priority patent/US11353829B2/en
Priority to PCT/EP2017/080086 priority patent/WO2018108472A1/fr
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    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G17/00—Structural details; Housings
    • G04G17/08—Housings
    • 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
    • G04C3/004—Magnetically controlled
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G17/00—Structural details; Housings
    • G04G17/02—Component assemblies
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G04—HOROLOGY
    • G04G—ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES
    • G04G21/00—Input or output devices integrated in time-pieces

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  • the invention relates to a watch case, comprising a housing in which is rotated at least in rotation at least one control wheel of a display or a function of the watch, said wheel being arranged to be directly manipulated by the user of the watch at a peripheral contact surface.
  • the invention also relates to a watch comprising such a box.
  • the invention relates to the field of watch function control mechanisms for watches.
  • the aim of the invention is to provide a new user interface that is more suited to a watch, in particular to a smart watch with electronic and / or communication functions, than these conventional solutions, which can also operate in a humid environment, or even in a computer. water, or with wet hands, while having good protection against shocks.
  • the invention relates to claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to a watch comprising such a box, arranged to enclose a watch movement, whose display or watch functions are arranged to be controlled by sensor means that includes this box.
  • the invention relates to a watch case 1, comprising a housing 2 in which is movable, at least in rotation, at least one control wheel 3 of a display or a function of the watch.
  • This wheel 3 is arranged to be handled directly by the user of the watch at a peripheral contact surface 4.
  • the denomination "box" is to be taken in the broad sense: this box 1 can naturally be a middle or the like .
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show such a box 1, wherein the housing 2 is a groove-shaped groove, with, on either side of a bottom 20, an inner partition 21 and an outer partition 22.
  • This outer partition 22 is interrupted between two edges 23 and 24, arranged to define an opening by which a user can operate a wheel 3 inserted in the housing 2, as visible on the figure 5 .
  • the geometry of the housing 2 allows the insertion, with play, of such a wheel 3, and allows in particular that the wheel 3 can turn and translate on a small distance, for example and not limited in the direction 3h-9h on the box 1 illustrated by the figures, and with an opening so that the user of the watch can perform two movements: push the wheel 3 radially, and make it turn.
  • this housing 2 is arranged to allow a limited movement of translation, between an inner end-stop and an outer end-of-travel, of at least one part 30 of the wheel 3 in a radial direction of the box 1 , against elastic return means 5 which are arranged to move the part 30 away from the inside of the box 1. It is understood that the part 30 is not always the same: it is only the part of the wheel 3, which faces at a given instant at the opening, defined in the figures by the two edges 23 and 24.
  • the figures illustrate a particular variant, wherein the housing 2 of the wheel 3 is in the immediate vicinity of the periphery of the box 1.
  • the wheel 3 surrounds a movement 100, without direct contact therewith.
  • the elastic return means 5 provide the repulsion function of the wheel 3 towards the outside of the box 1 at rest, at the opening.
  • the box 1 also comprises at least a first control detection means 7, which is arranged to detect the presence of the part 30 of the wheel 3 closer to the center of the box 1 during a user-imposed support, including the end of internal race.
  • the box 1 may be provided with a pusher 54 constituting these elastic return means 5, which constrains the wheel 3 in an extreme position in the direction in which it can translate, in the 3h position in the particular case of the figures. More particularly, this pusher 54 comprises a head 53 in the form of a pad to facilitate the rotation of the wheel 3. On the inside of the box 1, this pusher 54, which passes through the inner partition 21 here, comprises an arranged tail to cooperate with a first control detection means 7. Because of its small dimensions, such a pusher 54 poses little problem sealing.
  • the figure 3 shows the system at rest, the pusher 54 keeps the wheel 3 to the position at 3 o'clock.
  • the figure 4 shows the system when a user presses the wheel 3: his local area 30 translates from a position at 3 o'clock to the 9 o'clock position, the pusher 54 is pushed towards the inside of the box 1. For example, it detects this pressure by an electronic module in the movement 100 of the watch 200.
  • This first detection means 7 is arranged to activate or deactivate sensor means 8 that includes the box 1 near the housing 2, which sensor means 8 are arranged to detect, during a rotational movement printed by the user to the wheel 3, the passage of transmitter means 9 that includes the wheel 3.
  • the sensor means 8 are kept remote from the emitter means 9, it is then a contactless interaction.
  • At least one of the sensor means 8 is arranged to detect the direction of passage or / and the reversal of the direction of passage of an emitter means 9.
  • At least one of the sensor means 8 is arranged to detect the angular difference between two successive emitter means 9.
  • At least two of the sensor means 8 are arranged to detect the passage of the same transmitter means 9.
  • At least one of the sensor means 8 is arranged to measure the rotation angle of the wheel 3, traveled since a control detection performed by the first detection means 7.
  • At least one of the sensor means 8 is arranged to change its position during the passage of a transmitter means 9 to its proximity. More particularly, such a sensor means 8 constitutes a mechanical rocker, arranged to control a mechanical or electronic function of a clockwork movement 100 contained in the box 1.
  • the mechanism according to the invention can thus, in a particular variant, to be completely mechanical.
  • the combination of the mobile trip and stop components can also be sequential. For example, any movement of rotation of the wheel can trigger successively, on a chronograph mechanism, the start, stop, and reset.
  • the box 1 comprises control means 10, which are arranged to manage the signals transmitted and received at the first detection means 7 and the sensor means 8, to activate or deactivate these sensor means 8, and for when the sensor means 8 are activated, analyzing the number of emitter means 9 identified by the sensor means 8, and / or the angular deviation of the emitter means 9 two by two, and / or the direction of passage of the emitter means 9, to transform the result of the analysis into an order of display or activation of a function of the watch, addressed to a watch movement 100 contained in the box 1. More particularly, the detection means 7, and / or the sensor means 8, and / or the control means 10, are of the electronic type.
  • the wheel 3 is flexible and constitutes itself the elastic return means 5.
  • the housing 2 may consist of a groove of revolution, perfectly annular, and the pusher 54, arranged for the detection of the bearing pressure, advantageously plays the additional role of a tensioner of this flexible wheel 3, and locally gives the circular shape to this flexible wheel 3.
  • the wheel 3 is rigid, and the elastic return means 5 comprise a pusher 54, which is arranged to bear on the wheel 3 by its head 53.
  • the wheel 3 is annular, and the housing 2 is an oval having two half-rings connected by two straight sections, as visible on the figure 11 .
  • each half-ring is not strictly of revolution, but the outermost circle, opening on the opening, has an eccentricity, a little greater than the value. the offset between the two inner circles, so that the wheel 3 protrudes from one side of the middle part but not from the other.
  • housing for example substantially elliptical, or substantially annular, of variable width, and whose projection on any parallel to the radial direction of the box 1 is at least equal to the difference between the end of inner race and the outer race.
  • the housing 2 is shaped such that the game is as small as possible between the wheel 3 and the inner 21 and outer 22 walls, without causing excessive friction.
  • the first detection means 7 is a switch actuated by the elastic return means 5 or a pusher 54 that comprise the elastic return means 5.
  • the wheel 3 is provided with magnets which constitute the emitter means 9, in particular but not exclusively, arranged in a regular manner around its entire periphery, which allows the detection of the rotation of the wheel 3, via one or more sensors inside the middle part which constitute the sensor means 8.
  • the sensor means 8 are magnetic sensors, which are arranged to detect, once activated, the passage of magnets 91 that comprise the emitter means 9. More particularly, these magnets 91 are arranged in a step constant angular around the wheel 3. In another variant, these magnets 91 are arranged in different angular steps around the wheel 3.
  • the wheel 3 comprises, on a face arranged to cooperate with the bottom 20 of the housing 2, a relief 31 which is arranged to cooperate with a complementary relief 21 that comprises the bottom 20, for braking by notching during the rotation of the wheel 3.
  • the wheel 3 comprises, on a face arranged to cooperate with the bottom 20 of the housing 2, a relief 31 which is arranged to cooperate with a ring 39 in relief interposed between the wheel 3 and the bottom 20, for a braking by detent during the rotation of the wheel 3.
  • this ring 39 in relief is an elastic ring.
  • this ring 39 in relief comprises at least one tab 38 stop radial, arranged to cooperate in a complementary manner with a recess 28 of the housing 2.
  • the box 1 comprises a cover 19 or a telescope or a bottom, or an additional spacer, this component being arranged to enclose the wheel 3 in the box 1, as visible on the figure 5 .
  • the principle of the invention is applicable to many variants, depending on the space available in the watch case, the thickness thereof, and the number of functions to be controlled.
  • FIG 17 illustrates a box 1 with two openings at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock, with a pusher 54 facing each of these openings.
  • the wheel 3 is accessible at 3 and 9 o'clock, and the presence of a pusher 54 on each side allows navigation in the menus: rotation detection detection at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock, then "validation ok” at 3 o'clock and “return” at 9am (or vice versa).
  • FIG. 15 and 16 Another box variant, illustrated in Figures 15 and 16 , has four non-detailed pushbuttons (some of which are without detection of rotation) and a geometry adapted to the wheel to do without a piece for vertical locking (no bezel or bottom ring).
  • FIG. 18 illustrates an example with two wheels 3X and 3Y, the box 1 having for example but not limited to two diametrically opposed openings, one for each wheel.
  • the same housing 2 may contain several wheels 3, or each wheel 3 may have a separate housing 2.
  • the figure 19 illustrates a box variant comprising sensor means 8 housed in a horn 18, cooperating with the peripheral surface 4 of the wheel 3, either by mechanical friction contact or direct drive if for example this Peripheral surface 4 is fluted or the like, either by magnetic interaction, or the like.
  • the figure 20 illustrates a variant where the pusher comprises, in place of a shoe, a pinion 57 cooperating with a toothing 37 which then comprises the wheel 3, or which is attached to the wheel, the push rod then allows the detection of the translation and of the rotation.
  • the invention also relates to a watch 200 comprising such a box 1, arranged to enclose a watch movement 100, whose display or watch functions are arranged to be controlled by sensor means 8 of the box 1.
  • the mechanism according to the invention has different advantages.
  • the zones to be sealed concerning known and controlled systems, such as the links ice / box and push / box.
  • the sensor that detects the pressure is mounted on the movement and is activated by the pusher which is easy to seal. Sensors that detect rotation are on the move. As magnetic sensing is non-contact, there is no sealing problem.
  • the repulsion function of the wheel can be provided by a pusher that does not open on the inside of the box or the middle part.
  • an appropriate dimensioning of the notch, the force and the position of the magnets, and the position of the magnetic sensors allows the detection of the translation and the rotation of the wheel.
  • Other other non-contact solutions in particular galvanic or optical, are feasible, but of less economic realization.
  • the use of a deformable partition, for a watch plastic box in particular, allows a detection of the translation without contact.
  • Another advantage of the invention is, in the preferred but nonlimiting variant of magnetic detection, the possibility of using the watch under water or in a humid environment.
  • the area available for the finger of the user to actuate the wheel is extended, which allows a good resolution of the detection: in the case of an electronic watch or a connected or smart watch, the user does not is not required to do many tricks to scroll through the menus (relative to an electronic crown for example). This advantage comes from the fact that the wheel is all around the movement.
  • the notching system allows a good feeling to the user to determine how many steps he is moving forward.

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EP16204651.0A EP3336618A1 (fr) 2016-12-16 2016-12-16 Boite de montre avec molette de commande
JP2018562204A JP6694526B2 (ja) 2016-12-16 2017-11-22 制御用サムホイールを備えた腕時計ケース
KR1020187034550A KR102151864B1 (ko) 2016-12-16 2017-11-22 제어 베젤을 갖는 시계 케이스
CN201780036638.2A CN109313413B (zh) 2016-12-16 2017-11-22 具有控制指轮的手表表壳
EP17803928.5A EP3440516B1 (fr) 2016-12-16 2017-11-22 Boite de montre avec molette de commande
US16/097,490 US11353829B2 (en) 2016-12-16 2017-11-22 Watch case with a control thumbwheel
PCT/EP2017/080086 WO2018108472A1 (fr) 2016-12-16 2017-11-22 Boite de montre avec molette de commande

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