EP3685234A1 - Dispositif de commande d'au moins une fonction électronique d'un objet portable - Google Patents
Dispositif de commande d'au moins une fonction électronique d'un objet portableInfo
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- EP3685234A1 EP3685234A1 EP18814652.6A EP18814652A EP3685234A1 EP 3685234 A1 EP3685234 A1 EP 3685234A1 EP 18814652 A EP18814652 A EP 18814652A EP 3685234 A1 EP3685234 A1 EP 3685234A1
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- the present invention relates to a device for controlling at least one electronic function of a portable object, in particular a timepiece.
- the invention also relates to such a timepiece comprising this control device.
- Portable objects such as a timepiece equipped with a device for controlling an electronic function implemented in such a portable object have been known for a long time.
- control devices generally comprise a control rod whose actuation makes it possible to control the desired electronic function.
- a widespread solution consists in detecting the actuation of the control rod by establishing a galvanic contact by friction between a contact zone. of this control rod and a corresponding electrical contact area of an electric circuit of this control device.
- the subject of the present invention is a device for controlling at least one electronic function of a portable object, in particular a timepiece, comprising a control rod able to move axially between at least a first and a second stable position, or between at least a first stable position and a second unstable position, the control device also comprising an actuating element integral with the control rod, and at least one flexible electrical switching element provided to be actuated mechanically by the actuating element when the control rod is moved axially, said at least one flexible electrical switching element being able to move between a closed position in which said at least one flexible electrical switching element closes an electrical circuit of the control device, and an open position in which said at least one flexible electrical switching element opens said electrical circuit.
- the actuating element comprises a position indexing zone comprising a cam profile designed to participate in the indexing of the stable and unstable positions in which the control rod is brought during axial displacement;
- control device comprises a positioning spring arranged to cooperate with the cam profile defined in the position indexation zone of the actuating element in order to define each stable and unstable position of the control rod;
- the control device comprises at least one electrical contact pad provided to cooperate with said at least one flexible electrical switching element when the latter is moved into a closed position;
- said at least one electrical contact pad comprises an end which is connected to a contact pad of the electrical circuit of the controlled device
- control device comprises a mechanical fixing stud connecting said at least one flexible electrical switching element in a fixed manner to the electric circuit of the control device;
- the cam profile is formed by at least one recess intended to cooperate with the positioning spring of the control device in order to define the stable position of the control rod, and / or a slope designed to cooperate with the positioning spring so as to to define the unstable position of the control rod;
- said at least one flexible electrical switching element is made in one piece and has a "V" shape with two arms each comprising an electrical contact zone of said flexible electrical switching element;
- the control device comprises two separate flexible electrical switching elements which each comprise an electrical contact area;
- each flexible electrical switching element is able to cooperate with a zone of mechanical contact of the actuating element in order to bring the corresponding electrical contact zone into contact with the corresponding electrical contact pad during the displacement of this switching element; flexible electric in the closed position.
- the invention also relates to a portable object, in particular a timepiece, comprising at least one such control device.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a device for controlling at least one electronic function of a portable object according to a first embodiment
- FIG. 2 is a view from above and in transparency of a second embodiment of a device for controlling at least one electronic function of a portable object;
- FIG. 3 is a perspective and transparency view of the control device illustrated in FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4 is a perspective view of a positioning spring of the control device according to the first and second embodiments
- - Figure 5 is a schematic representation of the portable object, here a timepiece, comprising the control device according to the first and second embodiments.
- the present invention proceeds from the general inventive idea of providing a device for controlling at least one electronic function of a portable object of small dimensions, for example a wristwatch, in which the zone in which an element of Electrical switching is mechanically actuated and is distinct from the area in which the electrical switching element makes electrical contact for activation of the electronic function. Thanks to these characteristics, the electrical contact zone is protected against any risk of wear due to the friction generated in the mechanical contact zone.
- FIG. 1 Designated as a whole by the general reference numeral 1a, a first embodiment of the control device according to the invention is illustrated in FIG. 1.
- This control device 1a arranged to control at least one electronic function of an object portable 54 such that, not limited to, a timepiece, comprises a lower frame 2 which serves as a cradle to a control rod 4.
- This control rod 4 is able to move axially from back to front and from before back to control at least one electronic function of the portable object 54 in a robust and reliable manner.
- the direction from back to front is a rectilinear direction extending from an actuating ring 50 located outside the portable object 54 towards the interior of this portable object 54 in which is housed the control device 1a, 1b.
- This direction extends horizontally along the longitudinal axis of symmetry X-X of the control rod 4, perpendicular to a middle part 56 of the portable object 54.
- the control rod 4 will be pushed from the rear to the front, and will be pulled from the front to the back.
- the vertical direction z is a direction that extends perpendicular to a bottom 58 of the portable object 54.
- the control device 1a comprises firstly an actuating element 6a which can, as desired, be made in one piece with the rod of command 4, or be fixed on it.
- This actuating element 6a has at least one mechanical contact zone 12a, 12b through which it is in contact with an electrically conductive electrical switching element 8a.
- This actuating element 6a is arranged to actuate the electrical switching element 8a and allow the latter to establish a galvanic contact between an electrical contact zone of this electrical switching element 8a and a contact pad of a circuit electric to ensure the closure of this electrical circuit.
- the mechanical contact zone 12a, 12b between the actuating element 6a and the electrical switching element 8a, and the electrical contact zone between the element of electrical switching 8a and the contact pad of the electric circuit are two distinct areas, so that the repeated friction between the actuating element 6a and the electrical switching element 8a have no influence on the quality of the galvanic contact between the electrical contact zone and the contact pad of the electric circuit.
- the control device 1 illustrated in FIG. 1 is intended to allow the control of at least one electronic function of the portable object 54 which is a small object such as a piece of watchmaking, in particular a wristwatch.
- the lower frame 2 of this control device 1a serves as cradle to the control rod 4 which is preferably but not limited to elongate and substantially cylindrical shape, and which has a longitudinal axis of symmetry XX.
- This control rod 4 is arranged to slide back and forth forwards along its longitudinal axis of symmetry XX, and / or to rotate about the same longitudinal axis of symmetry XX in a clockwise and counterclockwise direction. .
- control rod 4 comprises a rear end 46 which is located outside the portable object 54 once the control device 1 has installed in the portable object 54, and which is designed to receive a crown
- This control rod 4 also comprises a front end 48 which is located inside the portable object 54 once the control device 1 has housed inside thereof.
- the control rod 4 is also equipped with a sliding bearing 40 which, by cooperation with a corresponding receiving surface of the lower frame 2, provides support and axial guidance of the control rod 4. It will be noted that to allow the passage of the control rod 4 and the installation of the control device 1a in the portable object 54, a hole 52 is formed in the middle part of the portable object 54.
- the lower frame 2 forms a cradle which is provided to receive the control rod 4 of the control device 1a.
- the control rod 4 is of preferably elongated and substantially cylindrical shape and extends along its longitudinal axis of symmetry X-X.
- the front end 48 of the control rod 4 has a section 12, for example square, which is adapted to receive the plain bearing 40.
- the actuating element 6a can be made in one piece with the control rod 4 or be fixedly mounted on the control rod 4 is adapted to be driven in a translation movement or pivot relative to the lower frame 2 when the control rod 4 is moved axially, respectively pivotally, relative to the lower frame 2.
- the actuating element 6a is an insert on the control rod 4, it is preferably made of an electrically insulating material, it is that is to say a material that prevents the passage of an electric current in the control rod 4 on which it is mounted when the actuating element 6a is brought into contact with an electrically conductive electrical component.
- this actuating element 6a can be made of plastic.
- the actuating element 6a is a preferred but nonlimiting example in the form of a ring having a circular cross section.
- This actuating element 6a comprises a peripheral wall and front and rear faces.
- the peripheral wall comprises a position indexing zone 10a provided with a cam profile, for example constituted by two recesses 20a and 20b separated from each other by a projecting vertex 38a, the recess 20a being extended by a sloping profile 22, for example frustoconical type, flaring towards the rear end 46 of the control rod 4.
- the two recesses 20a and 20b are for example circular grooves centered on the longitudinal axis of symmetry XX of the control rod 4.
- this cam profile comprises as many recesses as the number of stable positions in which the control rod 4 can be indexed in the control device 1 a.
- the cam profile comprises a number of slopes identical to the number of unstable positions in which the control rod 4 can be brought.
- the cam profile formed of one or more recesses 20a, 20b and / or slope 22 of the position indexing zone 10a of the actuating element 6a allows, by cooperation with the ends 34 of the rods 28 of a positioning spring 14, to define the stable position (s) and / or unstable position in which the control rod 4 is likely to be when the user moves it axially backwards or forwards and backwards.
- the positioning spring 14 has a generally U-shaped shape with two arms 30 which extend in a horizontal plane and which are interconnected by a base 32. At their free end, the two arms 30 are extended by the two substantially rectilinear rods 28 which stand vertically.
- the positioning spring 14 is intended to be mounted in the control device 1a from below the lower frame 2, so that the ends 34 of the rods 28 project from the cam profile of the position indexing zone. 10a of the actuating element 6a.
- this electrical switching element 8a is a "switch" type component of an electrical circuit of the control device 1a.
- This electrical switching element 8a is indeed able to be controlled mechanically by the actuating element 6a when the control rod 4 is moved axially backwards or forwards and backwards in order to be brought into the one of his stable or unstable positions.
- this electrical switching element 8a is mechanically controlled by the actuating element 6a, it elastically deforms and moves alternately from an open position to an open position of the electrical circuit of the control device 1a.
- this electrical switching element 8a comprises:
- a connecting part 36a which preferably connects it fixedly and / or rigidly to this electric circuit via a fixing stud 18a of the control device 1a; at least one, and in the example shown, two electrical contact zones 24a, 24b defined in the external faces of this electrical switching element 8a and intended to come into contact with a first and a second contact pad 16a, 16b of the electric circuit when this electrical switching element 8a is moved into the closed position of the electric circuit, and
- the electrical switching element 8a is for example a "V" shaped metal spring blade as illustrated in FIG.
- the fixing stud 18a and the first and second contact pads 16a and 16b are all electrically conductive and are arranged in the lower frame 2 of the control device 1a, and that they each comprise a end which is connected to a contact pad provided on the surface of a printed circuit, for example a sheet of a flexible printed circuit (not shown), above which is arranged the control device 1 a.
- the electrical circuit which makes it possible to connect together the fixing stud 18a and the two contact pads 16a, 16b is structured on the flexible printed circuit sheet.
- the fixing stud 18a and the contact pads 16a, 16b may be helical contact springs, leaf springs or other.
- the electrical circuit also comprises all the necessary electronic components such as a microcontroller 64 and an electrical connector 66, for example of the Zebra® type, for executing the desired electronic function.
- the control device 1a comprises an upper frame 60 which is designed to cap the lower frame 2.
- the combination of these two lower frames 2 and upper 60 which are each for example of generally parallelepipedal shape, defines the outer geometry of the control device 1 at.
- These two frames 2, 60 comprise the housings and surfaces adapted to receive the constituent elements of the present control device 1 a.
- the control device 1a is provided with a single electrical switching element 8a.
- This electrical switching element 8a is made in one piece and has a substantially "V" shape with first and second arms 44a, 44b interconnected by a connecting portion 36a.
- This electrical switching element 8a comprises a connecting portion 36a at which these arms 44a, 44b are connected to one another and which makes it possible to ensure the attachment of the electrical switching element 8a to the grounding pad.
- fixing 18a for example by gluing, welding or interlocking.
- the outer face 42a of the arms 44a, 44b of the "V” form the first and second electrical contact zones 24a, 24b of the electrical switching element 8a, while the inner faces 42b of the free ends of the arms 44a, 44b of the " V "define the mechanical contact zones 26a and 26b provided to cooperate with the mechanical contact zones 12a, 12b of the actuating element 6a. It will be understood that the arms 44a, 44b of the "V" of the electrical switching element 8a are held apart from each other by the actuating element 6a against the elastic restoring force of the material spring in which is produced the electrical switching element 8a.
- the control rod 4 is in its stable position T1 from which it will be understood that it can be pushed forward in its unstable position T0, or be pulled backwards in its stable position T2.
- the first stable position T1 of the control rod 4 corresponds to the position in which the ends 34 of the rods 28 of the positioning spring 14 protrude into the first recess 20a of the position indexing zone 10a defined in FIG. actuating element 6a.
- the electrical switching element 8a is in its rest position in which its mechanical contact zones 26a, 26b are in contact with and held apart from each other by the element of actuation 6a, while its first and second electrical contact areas 24a and 24b are not in contact with the first and second contact pads 16a and 16b.
- the control rod 4 can be pushed forward in an unstable position T0.
- the ends 34 of the rods 28 of the positioning spring 14 come out of the first recess 20a and follow the sloping profile 22 which is progressively diverging from the longitudinal axis of symmetry XX of the control rod 4.
- the user must therefore overcome a significant resisting effort. This resistant force results from the fact that following the sloping profile 22, the rods 28 of the positioning spring 14 move away from each other from their rest position and tend to want to come closer to one another.
- the rods 28 of the positioning spring 14 will spontaneously descend along the sloping profile 22, their ends 34 again being housed in the first recess 20a of the position indexing zone 10a of the actuating element 6a, forcing the control rod 4 to return to its stable position T1.
- the first arm 44a of the electrical switching element 8a also returns to its rest position and therefore participates in the return movement of the control rod 4 in its stable position T1.
- the control rod 4 is thus automatically recalled from its unstable position T0 to its first stable position T1.
- the second electrical contact zone 24b of the electrical switching element 8a is in contact with the second contact pad 16b, and thus closes the electrical circuit between the fixing stud 18a and this second contact pad 16b.
- the electric current will thus pass through the electrical switching element 8a from the fixing stud 18a to the second contact pad 16b, which makes it possible to detect the closing position of the corresponding electrical circuit.
- FIGS. 2 and 3 a second embodiment of the control device according to the invention is illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3.
- This control device 1b comprises first and second electrical switching elements. distinct 8b and 8c.
- the first end of each of these first and second electrical switching elements 8b and 8c comprises in its outer face 42a a first connecting portion 36b, respectively a second connecting portion 36c, for securing, particularly by bonding, welding or nesting of these two switching elements 8b, 8c electrical on a first and a second mounting stud 18b, 18c corresponding to the control device 1b.
- the second end of the electrical switching elements 8b and 8c comprises a first and a second electrical contact area 24c, respectively 24d, formed in the outer face 42a of the electrical switching elements 8b, 8c.
- first and second electrical switching elements 8b, 8c also comprise, between their first and second ends, a deformed part, for example a "V" shaped fold, which forms in their internal face 42b a first and a second zone of mechanical contact 26c, respectively 26d.
- the mechanical contact zones 26c, 26d between the actuating element 6b and the electrical switching elements 8b and 8c, and the electrical contact zones 24c, 24d between the electrical switching elements 8c and 8d and the contact pads 16c and 16d are separate zones from each other, so that the repeated friction between the actuating element 6b and the electrical switching elements 8b and 8c does not have no influence on the quality of the galvanic contact between the electrical switching elements 8b, 8c and the contact pads 16c, 16d.
- the position indexing zone 10b of the actuating element 6b comprises first and second recesses 20c and 20d separated by a vertex 38b.
- the hollow 20c is extended by a sloping profile 62 which flares towards the rear end of the control rod 4.
- the mechanical contact area 12c of the actuating element 6b to cooperate with the mechanical contact areas 26c, 26d of the first and second flexible electrical switching elements 8b, 8c during the displacement.
- axial axis of the control rod 4 is located in the front and rear faces and in a portion of the peripheral wall of the actuating element 6b.
- the control device 1b comprises two electrical circuits.
- the first of these electrical circuits is constituted in particular by the contact pad 16c and by the fixing stud 18b, as well as by the first electrical switching element 8b.
- the second electrical circuit is in particular formed by the contact pad 16d, the fixing stud 18c, and by the second electrical switching element 8c.
- the control rod 4 can be pulled from its first stable position T1 backward in a second stable position T2 or pushed forward in a third unstable position T0.
- These three positions T0, T1 and T2 of the control rod 4 are indexed by cooperation between the position indexing zone 10b and the spring of Positioning 14. More precisely, the stable position T1 corresponds to the position in which the ends 34 of the rods 28 of the positioning spring 14 protrude into the first recess 20c of the position indexing zone 10b defined in the element of FIG. actuation 6b.
- the rods 28 of the positioning spring 14 as well as the first flexible electrical switching element 8b are in their rest position, that is to say a position in which they are not subjected to a force of constraint.
- the first flexible electrical switching element 8b of the control device 1b occupies a position in which the first electrical circuit is open.
- the electrical contact zone 24c defined on the outer face 42a of the free end of this first flexible electrical switching element 8b is not in contact with the third contact pad Corresponding 16c of the control device 1b.
- the second flexible electrical switching element 8c of the control device 1b occupies a position in which the second electric circuit is closed.
- the second flexible electrical switching element 8c of the control device 1b occupies a position in which the second electric circuit is open. In this position in which the second electrical circuit is open, the electrical contact zone 24d defined on the outer face 42a of the free end of this second flexible electrical switching element 8c is not in contact with the fourth contact pad Corresponding 16d of the control device 1b. Furthermore, in the second stable position T2 of the control rod 4, the position of the first flexible electrical switching element 8b remains unchanged.
- the first flexible electrical switching element 8b of the control device 1b always occupies a position in which the first electrical circuit is open and the electrical contact area 24c defined on the outer face 42a of the free end of this first flexible electrical switching element 8b is not in contact with the corresponding third contact pad 16c of the control device 1b.
- the control rod 4 can be pushed forward in a third unstable position T0.
- the ends 34 of the rods 28 of the positioning spring 14 come out of the first recess 20c and follow the sloping profile 62, for example of the frustoconical type, which progressively deviates from the longitudinal axis of symmetry.
- the mechanical contact zone 12c of the actuating element 6b moves by rubbing against the mechanical contact zone 26d of the second flexible electrical switching element 8c which bears on this mechanical contact zone 12c of the actuating element 6b, to a point where this second flexible electrical switching element 8b is no longer in contact with the actuating element 6b and returns to its rest position under the effect of the elastic restoring forces.
- the second flexible electrical switching element 8c of the control device 1b occupies a position in which the second electrical circuit is open.
- This displacement generates a sufficient deformation of this first flexible electrical switching element 8b to allow contacting of its electrical contact area 24c with the third contact pad 16c.
- the control rod 4 reaches its unstable position T0, only the first flexible electrical switching element 8b is brought into a closed position of the first electrical circuit in which its electrical contact area 24c defined on its external face 42a is in contact with the third contact pad 16c of the control device 1b.
- the electric current will pass through the first flexible electrical switching element 8b, which detects the closing position of the electrical contact between the first flexible electrical switching element 8b and the third contact pad 16c.
- three electronic functions of the portable object 54 can therefore be controlled by the control device 1b depending on whether the control rod 4 is brought into one or the other of its three unstable positions T0 or stable T1, T2:
- an additional function of the portable object 54 can be controlled by the control device 1b when the control rod 4 is in a new stable or unstable position in which the first and second elements 8b, 8c are respectively in contact with the third and fourth contact pads 16c, 16d, so that the first and second electrical circuits are simultaneously in a closed or switched state.
- the present invention is not limited to the embodiments which have just been described, and that various modifications and simple variants can be envisaged by those skilled in the art without departing from the scope of the invention such that defined by the appended claims.
- the actuating element and the control rod may both be electrically insulating, or the actuating element is electrically insulating, in which case the control rod may be insulating or electrically conductive, or the actuating element is electrically conductive, in which case the control rod is non-electrically conductive.
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