EP3435175A1 - Sélecteur de mode de sonnerie et de mélodie pour montre ou pièce d'horlogerie - Google Patents

Sélecteur de mode de sonnerie et de mélodie pour montre ou pièce d'horlogerie Download PDF

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EP3435175A1
EP3435175A1 EP17182977.3A EP17182977A EP3435175A1 EP 3435175 A1 EP3435175 A1 EP 3435175A1 EP 17182977 A EP17182977 A EP 17182977A EP 3435175 A1 EP3435175 A1 EP 3435175A1
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Mehdi Denden
Julien Peter
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Priority to JP2018137667A priority patent/JP6589019B2/ja
Priority to CN201810817840.5A priority patent/CN109298616B/zh
Priority to RU2018127067A priority patent/RU2767294C2/ru
Priority to KR1020180085776A priority patent/KR102136926B1/ko
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  • the invention relates to a striking mechanism for a watch or a timepiece comprising a movement, said striking mechanism being able to function in the passage according to at least two distinct ring modes, and according to at least two distinct melodies and / or on to minus two sets of separate stamps.
  • the invention also relates to a watch comprising a movement comprising a ringing trip output to the passage through the movement, this movement being arranged to drive at least one reference mobile, and this watch comprises at least one such striking mechanism.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece comprising a movement comprising a ringing trigger output to the passage through the movement, this movement being arranged to drive at least one mobile reference, and the timepiece comprises at least one such ring mechanism.
  • the invention relates to the field of striking mechanisms for watches, timepieces or music boxes.
  • Watchmaking mechanisms are great complications, complex as much by the number and complexity of the kinematics of their components, as by the modes of operation of which they are capable.
  • the selection among different ring modes is in itself an additional complication, which implements expensive components, such as column wheels or the like, and consumes a large volume inside the watch case or the timepiece, box that often has a notch for this selection function.
  • the interface between the selection mechanism and the outside of the box must, again, benefit from a particular seal.
  • the security management between the different modes is always delicate.
  • the invention proposes to perform the selection of ring modes and melodies and / or sets of stamps implemented for these ringtones, simply and reliably, and compatible with the implementation of effective security and complexity average.
  • the invention relates to a striking mechanism according to claim 1.
  • the invention also relates to a watch comprising a movement comprising a ringing trigger output to the passage through the movement, this movement being arranged to drive at least one reference mobile, and the watch comprises at least one such striking mechanism.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece comprising a movement comprising a ringing trigger output to the passage through the movement, this movement being arranged to drive at least one mobile reference, and the timepiece comprises at least one such ring mechanism.
  • the invention relates to a watch 1000 or a timepiece 2000, comprising at least one particular ringing mechanism 100.
  • a timepiece 2000 can be a music box, or include a music box.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises, in a conventional manner, at least one reference mobile 1, and preferably a plurality of mobile reference 1, comprising the snails and / or reference stars temporal, and notably a snail of the minutes, a snail of the quarters, a snail of the hours 190.
  • This ringing mechanism 100 also comprises at least one ring-driving mobile 2, as described in particular in the "big ring” chapter of the book “Complicated watches” and visible in particular in FIG. 40 of this work.
  • This mobile ringing driver 2 conventionally comprises a trigger ratchet 22 and a rack pinion 24.
  • the ringer mechanism 100 is operable to pass through at least two distinct ring modes, and at least two distinct melodies and / or at least two sets of separate stamps.
  • this striking mechanism 100 comprises a mode selector mechanism 9, which is combined with a melody and / or timbre selector mechanism.
  • This mode selector mechanism 9 more particularly comprises a mode selector 96 accessible to the user to enable him to choose the ring mode to use, and at least one ring and / or tone selection means controlled by the movement 200 for a ringtone on the way, and / or accessible to the user for the selection of a ringtone and / or a set of stamps, for the execution of the ringing tones in passing or for the minutes repetition when the ringing mechanism 100 has a minute repeater mechanism.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises at least one ring and / or tone selection means 103, 104, which is distinct from the mode selector 96.
  • the striking mechanism 100 cooperates with a movement 200, which drives the mobile or mobile reference 1, and a particular output 3 is illustrated in the figures, in the non-limiting form of a star 130 ringing trigger movement , adjusted on a roadway, and comprising four teeth, so as to be able to lift, every quarter of an hour, an intermediate rocker tripping by the movement, hereinafter called raised 70.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises at least one pivoting part, which is arranged to cooperate indirectly, via this lift 70, with the output 3 of the movement 200, and in particular comprises a reading probe of such a reference mobile. 1 and a rake driving the rack pinion 24.
  • One of these pivoting parts is a part of the hours 20 arranged to cooperate with the snail hours 190.
  • the ringer mechanism 100 further comprises a main ratchet 85, which is arranged to be set in motion during each ringing when passing, and to come to drive, when possible, the trigger ratchet 22.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises all or part of the main ringing modes: big ring, small ring, waking, silence, and more particularly includes a repetition mechanism, including a minute repeater mechanism, as explained especially in the chapter “repetition to minutes” of the book “Complicated watches”.
  • the nonlimiting variant illustrated by the figures comprises three ringing modes: big ring (GS), small ring (PS), silence (S), and a minute repeater.
  • This minute repetition mechanism comprises in particular a part of the hours 20, arranged to cooperate, with a probe 29 that it comprises, with a snail of hours 190.
  • the striking mechanism 100 includes a mode selector mechanism 9.
  • This mode selector mechanism 9 comprises a mode selector 96 accessible to the user to enable him to choose the ring mode to use, and which control the angular position of at least one cam 90.
  • the mode selector mechanism 9 comprises at least one cam 90, which may comprise as many particular positions as modes attributable to the striking mechanism as in the variant illustrated by the figures, or which has positions specific to only some of these modes.
  • the illustrated variant represents a flat cam 90, which has three notches each corresponding to one of the selectable modes: 93 small ring, 94 big ring, 95 silent.
  • the notches correspond to notches of variable amplitude, requiring increasing effort in one of the two directions of maneuvering.
  • a particular notch for example a notch in the center, is more important than the end, so as to ensure safety by avoiding the user to switch unexpectedly from one ring mode to another.
  • the cam 90 occupies particular positions for the different modes.
  • This cam 90 has a continuous outer profile 98 of probe support, which is arranged to cooperate with a spout 61 that includes a latch of silence 60.
  • This outer profile 98 has an area of larger radius 98S corresponding to the silent mode, which is arranged to guide the latch of silence 60 in a a position where a main arm 64 of the silence rocker 60 moves the main pawl 85 of the trigger ratchet 22, to ensure the deactivation of any ringer when passing, in silent mode.
  • the invention lends itself to the selection of an even greater number of distinct modes, in particular when it comes to differentiating the game from different melodies, which can for example be used to differentiate sounding quarters, or the game of different stamps, as in the patent EP2947523B1 from the same applicant, to integrate an alarm mechanism according to the request EP15190808.4 of the same applicant, a security mechanism for selecting and / or triggering a ringing or melody according to the request EP15168700.1 the same depositor, a melody selection mechanism with a disengageable lift according to the request EP15183110.4 the same depositor, or a chime tone according to the request EP16206572.6 the same depositor.
  • the cam 90 can thus have multiple notches: GS melody A, GS melody B, PS melody A, PS melody B, S, and / or else: GS stamp A, GS stamp B, PS stamp A, PS stamp B, S
  • the mode selector mechanism 9 may comprise a plurality of cams 90, in particular superimposed, each of which may concern some of these modes, for example with a particular melody, or a particular stamp, or whatever.
  • the big ring mode corresponds to a first melody and / or a first set of stamps
  • the small ring mode corresponds to a second melody and / or a second set of stamps.
  • cams 90 may be superimposed, especially coaxial, or juxtaposed in a plane, and in particular chained to each other.
  • the mode selector mechanism 9 deactivates the ringer in silence mode, by moving the ratchets mobile ringing coach 2, and allows to prevent access to the room hours to the corresponding snail.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises a minute repeater with a minute repetition command 4 comprising a repetition pawl 40, which is arranged to drive the trigger ratchet 22 after a reading made by said hour piece 20 on the 120.
  • the main arm 64 of the silence rocker 60 allows the access of the repeat pawl 40 to the trigger ratchet 22, as long as the available energy is sufficient for the execution of a complete ring.
  • the ringer mechanism 100 includes a grand ring mode for the ringer at the passage of each hour, and each quarter of an hour with the ringer repetition of the hour to quarter of an hour, and a mode a small bell for the bell at the passage of each hour, and every quarter of an hour without the repetition of a quarter-hour bell.
  • the striking mechanism 100 then comprises a small ring rocker 80, which is arranged to cooperate in bearing on a cam pin 97 that includes the cam 90 of the mode selector mechanism 9) for, when the small ring mode is selected, orient the rocker latch 80 in a position in which it prohibits the passage of the room hours 20 to the snail hours 190, to prevent the hour bell hour quarters.
  • the cam pin 97 orients the small ring rocker 80 to another position in which it allows the passage of the hour room 20 to the hour snail 190, to authorize the ringing at the passage of the hours to quarters of hour.
  • the ringer mechanism 100 advantageously comprises, coaxial with a star 130 of four driven by the output 3 and which is arranged to trigger the ringtones at the quarter-hour intervals , a teardrop-shaped hour cam 131 having a tip 132 which is arranged to lift the small ring rocker 80, and allow the passage of the hour part 20 to the hours snail 190.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises a particular stop function arranged to prevent the executing any ringing if the the amount of energy available is insufficient to ensure complete execution: the striking mechanism 100 then advantageously comprises a stopping mechanism 5, which is arranged to prevent the execution of any ringing, in order to prevent the risk posed by stopping some mobiles in intermediate positions, likely to cause collisions during a restart. In the only case where the stop function is efficient, the operation of the minute repeater is also prohibited.
  • This stopping mechanism 5 is arranged to rotate a ring inversion flip-flop 59 when the available energy is insufficient for the execution of a complete ring.
  • This ring reversal rocker 59 controls the pivoting of a ring release lever 55, which is arranged to prevent the access of the repeat pawl 40 to the trigger ratchet 22 when the available energy is insufficient for the execution. a complete ringing, and to remove the main ratchet 85 of the trigger ratchet 22 when the available energy is insufficient for performing a complete ring.
  • the mode selector mechanism 9 is preferably designed to overcome the notching on the watch case, customary in the prior art: for this purpose, a mode selector lever 96 advantageously controls, in particular by an articulated connection such as visible in the figures, the pivoting of the cam 90, or cams 90 when there are several. More particularly, a cam jumper 91, associated with a camming spring 92 for holding it in position, comprises a selector finger 99, which cooperates with one of the notches of the cam 90.
  • This jumper 91 and its spring 92 have a dual function: ensure the sensation of passing notches for the user, and the certainty of completing the selection maneuver, with a return to a free position corresponding to one of the modes, and never to an intermediate position.
  • the spring 92 is oversized for securing, and in particular for overcoming the frictional forces of the seal in the watch case.
  • This cam 90 further comprises a cam pin 97, which is arranged to form a stop for a small ring rocker 20, whose function is explained below.
  • the cam 90 advantageously comprises a continuous outer profile 98 and comprising at least two probe support zones, arranged to cooperate with a spout 61 that includes a latch 60: a zone of larger radius 98S corresponding to a silent mode, and a zone of smaller radius 98AGS corresponding to a stop in big ring mode, when the stop function and the big ring mode exist.
  • the mode selection mechanism 9 is usable for different ringing mechanisms. Its interactions with the conventional components of a striking mechanism 100 having a minute repetition mechanism are illustrated in a particular arrangement which is detailed below, the person skilled in the art, a specialist in ringtones for watches or mechanical timepieces. , will be able to transpose them to mechanisms presenting variants.
  • This striking mechanism 100 is first exposed without a stop mechanism.
  • the Figures 1 and 2 show the mode selector 9 in the indexing position corresponding to the notch 93 of the small bell, which sounds the full hours in passing, and the quarters of an hour alone in passing.
  • the quarters room and the snail of the usual quarters are not shown, so as to simplify the exposition of the operation.
  • the star 130 arranged near the mobiles of the references 1, is arranged to cooperate, every quarter of an hour, with a spout 72, in particular elastic, that includes the raising 70 ringing trigger.
  • This hour piece 20 includes a feeler 29 arranged to feel a snail of the hours 190, and a rake 25 arranged to cooperate with a rack pinion 24 that includes a ringing driving mobile 2.
  • This room hours 20 further comprises, set back relative to the probe 29, a rib 23 which is complete, on the same side as the probe 29, by a flat 27 abutment support.
  • the mobile ringing driver 2 comprises meanwhile, in a conventional manner, a detent ratchet 22, with which is arranged to cooperate, or a ratchet main ratchet 85, or a minute repetition trigger pawl 40, equipped with a pin 41, and that includes a minute repeater control 4, where the latter pawl 40 cooperates with a spring 43.
  • the pivoting of the triggering lift 70 causes the pivoting of a triggering lever 50 by the movement, which carries a thrust spring 52 which bears on the main ratchet 85, which is also carried by the triggering lever 50 .
  • a typical small bell rocker 80 carries a stop pin 82.
  • This small bell rocker 80 recalled by a clutch spring 83 fixed to a plate, has a clutch release lug 81, which is arranged to bear on the cam pin 97, which includes the cam 90.
  • the small bell rocker 80 faces the hour piece 20 during the angular stroke of the latter, and the stop pin 82 is at the rib 23 of the hour part 20, on the same radius, which makes it makes it possible to cooperate in abutment abutment with the flat 27 of the hour-piece 20, and to immobilize the latter by preventing it from reaching the hour-limb of the hours 190, so as not to repeat the hour-bell at each quarter , depending on the operation of the small ring mode.
  • the star 130 is integral with a teardrop-shaped hour cam 131, the tip 132 of which is arranged to lift the small ring rocker 80, and therefore its stop pin 82, to allow the passage to the probe 29 of the hours 20 to perform its reading on the snail of hours 190.
  • the Figures 3 and 4 show the mode selector 9 in the indexing position corresponding to the notch 94 of the big bell, which sounds the full hours in passing, and both the hour and the quarter of an hour passing.
  • the quarters room and the snail of the usual quarters are not represented.
  • the support of the cam pin 97 on the small bell rocker 80 is greater distance from the end of the clutch nose 81 than in the case of the small bell, and therefore the stop pin 82 n is more at the rib 23, or the flat 27 of the hour-piece 20, but is at the clearance 28, which allows the hour-pieces 20 to pivot freely to the hour-limb 190 at each quarter time.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises a large ring and small ring isolator, hereinafter referred to as silence rocker 60, which comprises at a first end a reading nozzle 61 arranged to cooperate with one of the zones. peripherals 98 of the mode selection cam 90, and at a second end 62 a main arm 64, which is arranged to stop a main pawl pin 86, which comprises the main ratchet 85.
  • This silence flip-flop 60 comprises, in its middle part near its pivot, a pin of silence 63.
  • the spring 65 constrains the latch 60 by means of the pin 63, for this latch is always in contact with the cam 90 by its spout 61.
  • this latch of silence 60 pivots and its portion 62 disconnects the ratchet 85 of the ratchet 22.
  • the cam pin 97 is in contact with the release lug 81 of the small ring rocker 80.
  • a latch not shown in the figures makes the connection between the control 4 and the flip-flop 80, so that the hour rake 20 can fall on the hour snail 190 hours of the room 1.
  • This latch of silence 60 is visible on the Figures 5 to 11 , which also comprise a stopping mechanism 5, which essentially comprises a striking clutch lever 55.
  • the striking mechanism 100 thus comprises, partially superposed, the latch 60 and the clutch release lever 55, which are each arranged to impede the access of a particular ratchet to the ratchet 22 of the ringer driver 2.
  • the ringer release lever 55 has a stop arm 56, which is arranged to stop a ratchet pin of repetition. 41, that includes a minute repetition trigger pawl 40, the repeat command at minutes 4.
  • the Figures 5 and 6 show the mode selector 9 in the indexing position corresponding to notch 95 of the silent mode, in which the small bell and the big bell are disengaged, but where the operation of the minute repetition is allowed.
  • the reading tip 61 of the silence rocker 60 bears on the largest radius 98S of the peripheral surface 98 of the cam 90, and, therefore, on the one hand the small ring rocker 80 is stopped by the cam pin 97 by the spring 67, and, on the other hand, the main arm 64 of the silence rocker 60 is in its furthest position from the ringer driving mobile 2, and stops the main pawl pin 86.
  • the striking clutch release lever 55 is very close to the ringing driving gear 2, since nothing stands in the way of this extreme position, and therefore the minute repetition trigger pawl 40 is not obstructed and can access the trigger ratchet 22, and the minute repeater can be launched at will by the user.
  • the Figures 7 and 8 illustrate the stop in big ring mode, and show the mode selector 9 in the indexing position corresponding to the notch 94 of the big ring.
  • the stop mechanism 5 is arranged to disengage all ratchets, when the amount of available energy at the barrel or barrels or the like is insufficient. This time, the reading tip 61 of the silence rocker 60 rests on the smallest radius 98AGS of the peripheral surface 98 of the cam 90, and at its second end 62 the main arm 64 of the silence rocker 60 is in its position closest to the ringing gear 2, and can not stop the main pawl pin 86.
  • the ringing release lever 55 is in its furthest position from the ringing gear 2, and thereby hinders both the main pin 86 of the main pawl 85 and the repeat pawl pin 41, so the main pawl 85 and the minute repetition trigger pawl 40 are hindered and can not access the trigger ratchet 22
  • the minute repeater can not be activated by the user. No ringtone can be launched. None prevents the operation of the mode selection lever 96 in another position.
  • the Figures 9 to 11 illustrate the shutdown in silent mode, and show the mode selector 9 in the indexing position corresponding to the notch 95 of the silent mode.
  • This figure shows an operating bolt 59 for the articulated control of the striking clutch release lever 55.
  • the reading spike 61 of the silence rocker 60 bears on the largest radius 98S of the peripheral bearing surface 98 of the cam 90 and the main arm 64 of the silence rocker 60 is in its furthest position from the ringer driver 2, and stops the ratchet pin 86.
  • the ratchet release lever 55 is also in its furthest position. 2, and hinders the repeat pawl pin 41.
  • the main pawl 85 and the minute repetition trigger pawl 40 are shackled and can not access the trigger ratchet 22.
  • stop is active only in the case where there is more energy, and if not, this stop mechanism is disengaged.
  • the Figures 13 to 19 illustrate a first variant of a ringing mechanism combining a ringing selection and a mode selection according to the invention, for playing a first melody in the small ring mode, and a second melody different from the first melody in the big ring mode.
  • FIGS. 20 to 29 illustrate a second variant of a striking mechanism combining a ringing selection and a mode selection according to the invention, making it possible to play one or the other of the first melody or the second melody, in each ringing mode.
  • the striking mechanism 100 comprises a melody selection cam 101 which is arranged to cooperate with at least one first melody lever 103 and a second melody lever 104, both of which are arranged to cooperate with a selector melody 106 arranged to control different levies 107 for maneuvering ring hammers.
  • This first melody lever 103 and this second melody lever 104 each comprise an intermediate probe tip 1030, 1040, which is arranged to traverse the periphery 1011 of the melody selection cam 101.
  • the latter comprises a pin 1010 driving a range 1050 of a melody selection probe 105, a first finger 1051 of which follows the periphery 1021 of a mode melody selection cam 102 whose angular position is controlled directly or indirectly by the mode selector 96, and a second finger 1052 is arranged to limit the stroke of a small ring rocker 108.
  • the mode melody selection cam 102 is, more particularly, in the same plane as the melody selection cam 101.
  • the mode selector 96 is arranged to control the angular position of a notched sector 1020 pivotally connected to the cam of melody selection by mode 102, which notched sector 1020 is held in position by a jumper and / or a holding spring.
  • the mode selector mechanism 9 comprises a single manipulation member, accessible to the user, constituting the mode selector 96 and arranged to also control said selection of a ring and / or a set of stamps.
  • the striking mechanism 100 similarly comprises at least one first melody lever 103 and a second melody lever 104, both of which are arranged to cooperate with a melody selector 106 arranged to control different lifts. hammer operation maneuver, the first melody lever 103 and the second melody lever 104 each having an intermediate probe tip 1030, 1040, traversing the periphery respectively of a first cam 114 for managing the first melody, and a second cam 115 for managing the second melody.
  • a control wheel 110 which comprises, stacked one on top of the other, several cams, of which a first cam 111, 90 has notches 112, 93, for its angular positioning and its holding by a jumper 116, 96, with a holding spring, and allowing the management of the modes of small ring, big ring, silence, by its peripheral contour 113, that follows a spout 1090 that includes a ringer isolator at passage 109, arranged to prohibit any interference between a minute repeater, when the ringer mechanism 100 includes a minute repeater mechanism, and a ringing sound when passing.
  • a first cam 111 is similar to the cam 90 shown above, and has notches 112 for jumper, and a management modes of the small ring, big ring, silence, by his peripheral contour 113, that follows a spout 1090 that includes a ring insulator passage 109, arranged to prohibit any interference between a minute repeater and a ringing pass.
  • This control mobile 110 is extremely compact, is of less height at height than the ringing mobile 2.
  • the mode selector mechanism 9 comprises at least a first cam 90, 111, or a toothed sector 1020, which may comprise as many specific positions as modes attributable to the striking mechanism, or which has positions specific to only some of these modes.
  • the first cam 90, 111, or the toothed sector 1020 has notches 93; 94; 95, each corresponding to one of the selectable modes. More particularly, these notches correspond to notches of variable amplitude, requiring increasing effort in one of the two operating directions. More particularly, a particular notch, in the center or near the center, is more important than the end, so as to ensure safety by preventing the user from switching unexpectedly from one ring mode to another.
  • the mode selector mechanism 9 comprises at least one melody cam 101, 114, 115, which is arranged to differentiate the game from different melodies, and / or the game of different timbres. More particularly, the mode selector mechanism 9 comprises at least one cam 90, 111, having multiple notches to differentiate melodies and / or timbres assigned to each ring mode.
  • the ringing mechanism 100 is operable in at least two distinct ring modes including a silent mode.
  • the invention therefore provides the possibility of creating a wide variety of differentiated ringtones, either controlled by the movement 200 of the watch or the timepiece to ring the passage, for example day / night, AM / PM, day holiday, or other, are ordered by the user according to his tastes.
  • the invention also relates to a watch 1000 comprising a movement 200 having a ringing trigger output 3 at the passage through the movement, this movement 200 being arranged to drive at least one mobile reference 1, and the watch 1000 comprises at least one such ringing mechanism 100.
  • the invention also relates to a timepiece 2000 comprising a movement 200 having a ringing trigger output 3 to the passage through the movement, this movement 200 being arranged to drive at least one mobile reference 1, and the timepiece 2000 comprises at least one such striking mechanism 100.

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