ES2284376A1 - Watch comprising a hand-free display - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a watch including a mechanical or electronic time base which is built into a case having securing means consisting of a base or strap. The aforementioned time base is associated with means for moving indicators along a rule. The invention is characterised in that the case comprises cells for receiving different colour indicators which change cell position with the passage of time.

Description

Electronic clock with electronics simplified

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a clock.

Background of the invention

Currently, several watches are known types (bracelet, hanging, pedestal, etc.) consisting of a box or stand that includes a time base, for example electronics (a quartz crystal associated with a decoder) or mechanical (a rocker ratchet that acts in tune with the teeth of a preloaded gear) and needles or indicators that they move by a rule; or by a display with digits that change according to the power provided by the decoder

These watches however have a certain mechanical complexity, especially in the case of watches hands. Also in both cases the time is difficult to appreciate for people with vision problems (myopia, presbyopia, etc).

These inconveniences are corrected with the use of the clock of the invention.

Description of the invention

The clock of the invention has a constitution simple according to which it is easy for anyone with Vision problems interpret the time.

According to the invention, the clock is constituted by a support, preferably to be dressed in the wrist by straps or chains, etc., inside whose support is available a mechanical, electronic, or time base any other applicable type.

Said time base, in combination with some components (electronic and / or mechanical elements) acts on some lighting means of different colors and susceptible to change hue (or color), integrated into some cells implemented in the support.

Ideally the support will incorporate twelve cells, although they can incorporate any other number. Besides, the Cell arrangement may be regular or irregular, by example forming groupings by rows and columns, or capricious Preferably, in addition, these cells are they will materialize in displays or color screens, susceptible to represent the different colors of the lighting media as well As your tone changes. Even and preferably the cells they will be included in different dedicated areas of a single screen or display, such as a television, a monitor computer, a screen of a mobile phone or an exhibitor urban, or any other screen of adequate size.

For time representation they will be used preferably lighting means of different colors, a color that will change cells at greater time intervals, preferably of duration equivalent to one hour, and another color which will change cells at smaller time intervals that are fraction of the elderly, whose duration will preferably be of five minutes. They can also change the color tone as they go passing fractions of the unit of time they measure, this For example, the minute indicator may change tone to a lighter or darker one at intervals of one minute.

Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 shows the clock of the invention of an embodiment of bracelet format.

Figure 2 shows the clock of the invention materialized on a mobile phone screen or device portable electronic

Figure 3 shows the clock of the invention materialized on an urban display display.

Figure 4 shows the clock of the invention embodied in a computer or television screen.
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Description of a practical embodiment of the invention

The clock (1) of the invention comprises a support (2) with a series of cells (3), ideally twelve, intended to receive colored lighting means (4a, 4b) different, which change cells (3), and in some cases, as time goes by

Each color represents a unit of time, so if you want the clock (1) to indicate hours, minutes of five in five and other minimum intervals, such as seconds of five in five, three different colors will be used; if you only want to mark hours and minutes, only two different colors will be necessary, which is the case represented in the figures; and if you only want to mark a single color for hours. Additionally the change of color tone also represents a time course. For example, if the five-minute marker is red, its tone change will occur at intervals of one minute, which makes it possible to dispense with lower-weight colors.
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As an example you can see in the figures that the color of the hours (4a) occupies the second cell, which means that it is the second hour while the color of five minutes (4b) occupies the sixth cell, so the time would be between Two twenty-five and two thirty. Additionally for the tone of this color (4b) the exact time would be known in minutes (for example two hours and twenty three minutes).

For the materialization of the cells (3) the invention preferably contemplates the use of screens or color displays, which can be grouped into a single display (5) or screen where the different cells are defined.

According to another example of the invention, which is not represented in the figures, the cells can be materialized by means of engraved or highlighted boxes on the support (2) by those that will run mechanically, by means of motors by example, the changes of position of some pieces of different Colors that constitute the markers.

In either case the clock will integrate a time base not represented (mechanical or electronic) internal or external to the support (2), as well as the means, equally mechanical and / or electronic, capable of determining the color and / or tone of the cells (3).

The support (2) of the watch, meanwhile, has of support means (6, 7), materialized for example by some straps (6) for the wrist as seen in figure 1, a base (7) for support, or hanging flanges, etc., or integrated into a mobile device (8) or in an urban display (9).

Describe sufficiently the nature of the invention, as well as how to perform it in practice, should be noted that the provisions indicated above and represented in the attached drawings are susceptible to modifications of detail as long as they do not alter the principle fundamental.

Claims (4)

1. Electronic clock (1) with electronics simplified comprising: - a support (2) that integrates components electronic and / or mechanical, - support means (6, 7) of the support, Y - a series of cells (3) equipped with means of lighting (4a, 4b) activated by electronic components and / or mechanical support (2), to define a signaling hourly characterized in that it additionally comprises a time base which, in combination with the electronic and / or mechanical components, acts on the lighting means (4a, 4b) by sequentially lighting the cells (3) in one color for longer time intervals, in another color during smaller time intervals, and optionally in another color than the previous ones during minimum time intervals, as well as acting on the color tone of the lighting means (4a, 4b) during the time interval that the cell is on ( 3) to represent, according to the hue, fractions of that time interval. 2. Electronic clock (1) with simplified electronics according to claim 1 characterized in that it incorporates twelve cells (3). 3. Electronic clock (1) with simplified electronics according to claims 1 or 2 characterized in that the cells (3) are distributed in rows and columns. 4. Electronic clock (1) with simplified electronics according to any of claims 1 to 3 characterized in that the cells (3) consist of screens.