JPH1152079A - Sand glass with liquid crystal display - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To contrive the diversification of function by incorporating a liquid crystal display on the surface of a body, and providing a screen switching switch on the side face and upper face bottom face and a power source ON and OFF switch on the rear face. SOLUTION: A sand glass comprises a body 1, a liquid crystal display 2, a screen switching switch 3 and an ON and OFF switch 4. It is expressed by the liquid crystal display 2 that the sand of the sand glass falls, an arbitrarily set time (an amount of sand) is expressed in the form of the sand glass as a numeral, the numeral of a remaining amount time (an amount of sand before falling) and an elapsed time (an amount of sand fallen downward) is amount- viewed by visual sensation with the sand glass. When the sand glass is held by hand, the switch is turned on, a liquid crystal screen is turned upside to be set by screen, and operation start is performed by standing the body 1. When it is made horizontal or reverse, the screen is switched, and when the screen is turned upside, the switch is turned off.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention is an hourglass in which the visual time recognition of the hourglass is replaced electronically. In the conventional hourglass, only one accurate time can be measured with one hourglass, such as a three-minute counter and a ten-minute counter. The present invention has been made to eliminate the shortcomings, and expresses the falling sand of the hourglass on a liquid crystal display, and displays the time (amount of sand) arbitrarily set in the form of a numeral and an hourglass, and displays the remaining time. The time (the sand before falling) and the elapsed time (the sand falling down) can be visualized visually in the form of an hourglass. The conventional hourglass was only upside down. For example, even if you flip it with 5 times 4 (sand dropped) with a sufficiently hourglass, you cannot measure exactly 8 minutes from the time you flip it. According to the present invention, the remaining amount and the elapsed time are displayed, and the amount of the falling sand is displayed as the number of minutes that have elapsed. Also, as shown in FIG. 2, the present invention rolls over the front 90 degrees to the right or left, and then turns upright and ticks the time. The time is displayed as the amount of sand measured by the hourglass, and the time can be confirmed as two hourglasses. In the present invention, it is better to turn over than the loss time to reverse,
It has the advantage of more accurate timing. INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY The present invention is particularly effective in a process of mixing a plurality of materials and the like under complicated time such as cooking. The conventional hourglass does not have an Araam function. In the present invention, even an hourglass can be added with a function of several times. Therefore, the work procedure can be performed smoothly, which greatly contributes to time, economic and environmental contribution. The timepiece of the present invention is turned on by holding the handset in hand, set by touching the screen with the liquid crystal screen facing upward, starts operation by standing the main body, and the screen is switched by horizontal or reverse. As shown in FIG. 3, the switch is turned on when the display is placed on the table with the screen facing upward. If the hand is dirty, it will stop if it is knocked down, so that the main body is not so dirty.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view during use of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a side view of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 (1) Main unit (2) Liquid crystal display (3) Screen switch (4) Power ON, OF switch

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A liquid crystal display (2) built in a surface of a main body (1), a screen changeover switch (3) attached to a side surface and an upper surface bottom surface, and a power supply ON and an OF switch provided on a rear surface. It is an hourglass.