KR20030070482A - 25-Hour Clock - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A clock for indicating twenty five hours is provided, which enables a user to use much time by counting a minute as 100 seconds, an hour as 100 minutes, and a day as 25 hours. CONSTITUTION: A clock for indicating twenty five hours includes a driving portion(230), a second hand portion(120), a minute hand portion(130), an hour hand portion(140), and a display portion. The driving portion provides the prime power for counting hours. The second hand portion is connected to the driving portion in order to count 100 seconds. The minute hand portion is connected to the driving portion in order to count 1 minute every 100 seconds. The hour hand portion is connected to the driving portion in order to count 1 hour every 100 minutes. The hour hand portion counts 25 hours a day. The display portion displays counting states of the second hand portion, the minute hand portion, and the hour hand portion.

Description

25 hour clock {25-Hour Clock}

The present invention relates to a 25-hour clock that newly counts time, and more particularly, counts 100 seconds to 1 minute, counts 100 minutes to 1 hour, and counts 25 hours to become a day. It is about a 25-hour clock that counts a new time so that one more hour can be used for 24 hours.

In general, a clock is a device that displays time by rotating the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand independently from each other while driving the movement. Such a clock has the rotation of the hour, minute, and second hands about a central axis. Is done.

1 is a view showing an analog clock counting the conventional 24 hours.

The conventional clock has a dial 110 displaying the scale of the hour and minute seconds, a second hand 120 for counting seconds, a minute hand 130 for counting minutes, an hour hand 140 for counting hours, and a drive shaft for transmitting power ( 150) and the like.

Conventional clocks configured as described above, for example, wall clocks, wrist watches, table clocks, pocket watches, etc. put the dial 110 on the movement to provide power to the clock, when the dial 110 is placed on the movement The driving shaft 150 of the movement penetrates through the center of the dial 110 to maintain a protruding state. At this time, the drive shaft 150 protruding to the upper surface of the dial 110 is divided into a drive shaft of the hour hand, minute hand, and second hand, which are individually rotated by the movement, and constitutes three stages. The minute hand 130 and the second hand 120 are combined, and the hour hand 140, the minute hand 130, and the second hand 120 are displayed individually while rotating about the central axis of the watch as the movement of the movement is performed. will be.

In the conventional clock, the shape of the dial 110 for displaying the time is mostly square or round, and counts 24 hours a day and counts 12 hours and 12 hours repeatedly. In addition, when the second hand 120 rotates the dial 110 of FIG. 1 by 1 to count 60 seconds, the minute hand 130 counts 1 minute, while the second hand 120 rotates 60 to count 3600 seconds. The minute hand 130 counts 60 minutes by rotating the dial 110 one time. The minute hand 130 counts 60 minutes by rotating the circular dial 110 one time, so that the hour hand 140 counts one hour of the time scale. While the minute hand 130 rotates the dial 110 to count 12 hours, the hour hand 140 counts the morning by rotating the dial 110 one time, and the minute hand 130 re-enters the dial 110 again. The hour hand 140 counts 24 hours a day by counting the afternoon by rotating the dial 110 once while counting 12 hours by rotating 12 times.

Of course, instead of the analog clock as illustrated in FIG. 1, a digital clock that divides the time display area into an hour area, a minute area, and a second area and displays coefficients of each area in the form of a number is also used. The digital clock counts 60 seconds in the form of numbers in the seconds area, counts 1 in the minute area, counts 60 minutes in the minute area, and the time domain counts 1 to count 24 hours a day. Such a digital clock has an advantage that anyone can easily identify the time by representing the coefficient of time in the form of a number.

In fact, the current 24-hour system is a long-established custom, and no one is challenged to it, and everyone is living up to it. But in the busy present life, many are working hard to save time, which is limited to 24 hours a day. For example, get up early in the morning to go to work, or deliberately move your watch a few minutes ahead of time, or set a certain amount of time and act to get the most out of it. While advancing the minute hand 130 or the hour hand 140 requires the user to operate the clock whenever necessary, the methods of waking up at dawn or setting the time and acting efficiently do not essentially extend the time, but may be wasted. It's just a way to use your time efficiently.

In order to solve the above-mentioned hassle, the present invention counts 100 seconds to 1 minute, counts 100 minutes to 1 hour, counts 25 hours to become a day, and allows the user to compare the existing 24 hours. Its purpose is to provide a 25-hour clock that counts the new time so that one more hour is available.

1 is a view showing an analog clock counting the conventional 24 hours,

2A is a block diagram showing the internal configuration of a 25 hour clock,

2b is a view showing a display portion of a 25 hour clock;

3 shows a clock counting 25 hours;

4 is a view comparing a driving pulse required for driving a clock with the related art;

5 is a diagram illustrating a clock in which a 24-hour coefficient and a 25-hour coefficient coexist.

<Description of Symbols for Main Parts of Drawings>

100: 24 hour clock 110: Dial

120: second hand 130: minute hand

140: hour hand 200: 25 hour clock

212: second axis 214: partial axis

216: time axis 220: quartz crystal

230: clock driving unit 240: operation unit

250: power supply unit 260: control unit

270 display unit

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a 25-hour clock that counts the day to 25 hours, the drive unit for providing a driving force for counting the time, the second unit counting 100 seconds in conjunction with the drive unit, Display the counting unit linked to count 100 minutes by counting 1 minute at 100 seconds counting, the clock part counting 25 hours by counting 1 hour at 100 minutes counting when linked to the counting unit, and present status of counting time It provides a 25 hour clock including a display unit.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2A and 2B illustrate a clock device that counts a day as 25 hours according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2A is a block diagram illustrating an internal configuration of a 25 hour clock, and FIG. 2B illustrates a display unit of a 25 hour clock. Drawing.

First, the concept of the present invention will be described in comparison with the existing 24-hour system in order to help the understanding of the present invention.

A conventional clock counting 24 hours counts 60 seconds per minute, counts 3,600 seconds per hour, and 86,400 seconds counts 24 hours a day. On the contrary, the present invention shown in FIG. 2 uses 0.3456 seconds (== 1 second) to utilize the existing 24 hours as 25 hours. ) Is counted as 1 second, 100 seconds are counted to 1 minute, and 100 minutes are counted at this time interval to be 1 hour. That is, the conventional clock is 60 seconds per minute, but the clock of the present invention counts 100 seconds by 34.56 seconds to 1 minute, and the existing one hour is 3,600 seconds, but the present invention is 1 hour using 3,456 seconds as 100 minutes. To count. Therefore, since the present invention counts 250,000 seconds, which is 25 hours a day, with 0.3456 seconds as 1 second, the present invention is equal to the time of counting 86,400 seconds, which is the conventional 24 hours. That is, the effect of using the existing 24 hours a day as 25 hours will be obtained.

The 25-hour clock 200 that newly counts the time shown in FIG. 2 includes a second axis 212, a partial axis 214, a time axis 216, a quartz crystal oscillator 220, a clock driver 230, an operation unit 240, The controller 250, the power supply unit 260, the display unit 270, and the like are included.

The second axis 212 provides a rotational force to the second hand 140, the minor axis 214 provides a rotational force to the minute hand 130 in conjunction with the second axis 212, the hour axis 216 is hour hand in conjunction with the minute hand 130 Provide rotational force to 120.

The crystal vibrator 220 is provided by combining an electronic circuit with a crystal vibrator (not shown) that generates vibration based on crystal, and extracts the vibration generated in one second as an electric signal, thereby driving the clock driver 230. The pulse of the corresponding time is sent out to drive the first axis 212 associated with the clock driver 230. At this time, the vibration generated in one second is a pulse having a 0.3456 second interval with respect to the existing one second.

Of course, when the clock driving unit 230 is driven by the winding of the spring without the crystal vibrator 220, the gear for moving the first axis 212, the second axis 214, and the time axis 216 in connection with the driving force due to the loosening of the spring. The screws can also be configured to engage and rotate at regular intervals. That is, the gear wheel movement interval of the gear screw moving at 1 second intervals is set to move at 0.3456 second intervals.

The clock driver 230 rotates the initial axis 212, the partial axis 214, and the time axis 216 based on the pulse applied from the passive vibration part 220. That is, each time the primary axis 212 rotates by one revolution at 0.3456 second intervals and counts 100 seconds, the minor axis 214 rotates by an angle of 100/360 °, and the minor axis 214 is rotated according to the continuous rotation of the primary axis 212. Counting 100 minutes by one rotation, the time axis 216 also rotates by 100/360 ° angle, that is, one division of the display unit 250. In conjunction with the continuous rotation of the primary axis 212 and the rotation of the minor axis 214, the time axis 216 is rotated once to count 25 hours.

The operation unit 240 allows the user to arbitrarily adjust the time, and the user forcibly rotates the dividing shaft 214 to move the time axis 216 associated with it to adjust the hour and minute. When the clock unit 200 of the present invention is implemented as a digital clock, the operation unit 240 may be operated in the form of a key button.

The power supply unit 260 supplies power required for the operation of the clock device 200. It can be implemented for the battery or charging so as to supply power required for the operation of the quartz crystal oscillator 220 and the driving of the clock driver 230. Of course, it can be implemented as a solar cell that can convert solar energy into electrical energy and store electricity.

The display unit 270 is made up of a display panel displayed at intervals of a predetermined interval, and a time display number for guiding 25 hours and a minute display number for guiding the minute are displayed for each interval. That is, a five-angle display panel is used to display a 25-hour scale with five scales on one side, a 100-minute mark with five angles of 20 minutes on each corner, and a clock driving unit 230 with a through hole in the center. Is inserted into the time axis 216 extending to the side of the head. The display unit 270 is provided with a 24-hour display window 272, which displays the current time in a 24-hour system, allowing the user to simultaneously recognize the time of the 24-hour system as well as the 25-hour system. It is supposed to be. This means that if you have a 25-hour clock, you will confuse it with someone else's 24-hour clock.

The controller 250 controls the clock oscillator 230 to count 25 hours by controlling the crystal oscillation operation of the crystal oscillator 220, while counting 24 hours to display the 24-hour display window 272 of the display unit 270. The counting status of the 24 hours is displayed.

The display unit 270 is inserted into the time axis 216 through a through hole in the center thereof, and the second hand 140, the minute hand 130, and the second hand 120 are respectively inserted into the first axis 212, the second axis 214, and the second axis 216. ) Are combined. In addition, when the clock device 200 of the present invention is implemented as a digital clock, the LCD device may include a liquid crystal screen that counts 25 hours, and displays an hour, minute, and second area on the liquid crystal display (LCD). It can be displayed in the form of numbers and other days or dates. In addition, the shape of the circumferential line of the display unit 270 may be configured in other shapes such as a circle or a square instead of the five.

The clock device 200 for counting the new time configured as described above may be represented as a clock counting 25 hours as shown in FIG. 3. Of course, it can be represented by a clock that counts 25 hours in a shape other than a pentagonal shape, but a circular or quadrangular shape. In addition, the display unit 270 may include the 24-hour display window 272 to compare the time of the current 25-hour system with the time of the 24-hour system.

Although the clock device 200 illustrated in FIGS. 2A, 2B, and 3 is generally configured based on the analog clock most commonly used, the clock device 200 may be configured as a digital clock based on the same operation principle. Here, the concept of "the same principle of operation" is an area in which the quartz vibration unit and the clock driving unit are configured to count a new time interval corresponding to the existing 0.3456 seconds in the digital clock, and the hour and minute seconds are displayed on the display unit in connection with this. In this case, the minute area is counted one by one each time 100 is counted in the second area, and the time area is counted in association with the count of the minute area.

Next, the time counting operation of the 25 hour clock 200 which newly counts the time configured as described above according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

First, in the 25-hour clock 200 of the present invention, the power required for driving the clock is applied from the power supply unit 260 to the crystal oscillator 220 and the clock driver 230.

The crystal oscillator 220 supplied with power from the power supply unit 260 generates a pulse having a predetermined frequency, for example, about 2.8935185 Hz (= 1 / 0.3456) and is applied to the clock driver 230 as illustrated in FIG. 4. do. That is, as illustrated in FIG. 4, about 2.8935185 pulses are generated in one second as compared with the conventional one that generates one pulse in one second.

The clock driving unit 230 is coupled to a driving motor (not shown) so that a gear (not shown) for driving the second axis 212 is interlocked, and the dividing axis 214 and the time axis 216 are linked to each other according to the rotation of the second axis 212. It is coupled to this connecting gear (not shown). Therefore, as one pulse is applied from the crystal vibrator 220, the clock driver 230 rotates the primary shaft 212 by 3.6 ° by operating the driving motor. This is because one second is 3.6 degrees because the second axis 212 is 100 seconds when rotated one time (360 degrees).

From the time that one pulse is applied to the clock driver 230 until the next pulse is applied, as shown in FIG. 4, the clock driver 230 has a time interval of 0.3456 seconds.

When the second axis 212 is rotated by 3.6 ° every time the clock driver 230 applies one pulse, the second hand 140 coupled to the second axis 212 has a scale indicating a second interval on the scale displayed on the display unit 270. You will move by one division.

When the first axis 212 rotates in this manner, the subdivision 214 linked to the second axis 212 in the clock driver 230 rotates 3.6 °. This is because the minute hand 130 on the display unit 270 has moved a scale of the scale indicating the minute interval.

While the rotation of the primary axis 212 and the rotation of the minor axis 214 linked thereto continue, when the rotation of the minor axis 214 is rotated by one rotation and counts for 100 minutes, the time axis 216 linked to the minor axis 214 becomes 14.4 °. Will rotate. This is because the time axis 216 rotates 360 ° when the time axis 216 counts for 25 hours, so that one hour becomes 14.4 °.

In the case where the rotation of the primary axis 212 and the rotation of the minor axis 214 continue, and the time axis 216 linked to the minor axis 214 rotates one time and counts 25 hours, the second hand on the display unit 270 ( 140), minute hand 130, and hour hand 120 are pointed to overlap and coincide on a scale representing 25 hours and 100 minutes. Immediately, the second axis 212 continuously repeats the operation of counting seconds by 3.6 °, and the subordinate axis 214 and the time axis 216 linked thereto repeat the process of counting minutes and hours as described above. do.

As described above, while the twenty-five hour is being counted, the control unit 250 generates a pulse for twenty-four hour counting to count the twenty four hour period, and displays the counting status on the twenty four hour display window 272 of the display unit 270. . Thus, the user can compare the current time of the 25-hour system with the current time of the 24-hour system. In addition, as shown in FIG. 5, the 24-hour clock and the 25-hour clock can be configured to coexist as an analog clock. Of course, a 24-hour clock and a 25-hour clock can coexist in digital form.

Meanwhile, in the above-described preferred embodiment of the present invention, a dispensing system for dispensing 25 hours, 1 hour, 100 minutes, 1 minute, and 100 seconds is provided, but one day, 26 hours, 100 hours, 1 hour, 50 minutes, or 120 hours. Divided in various ways, such as minutes will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art.

In addition, the clock device 200 may be implemented as a digital clock. That is, each time a pulse is applied from the crystal oscillator 220, the number of seconds is counted by counting the number, the number of 100 is counted, the number of minutes is counted when counting 100 seconds, and the number of hours is counted when counting 100 minutes. It is a configuration. In this case, the counting 1 second interval is counted at 0.3456 second intervals for the existing 24 hour system, and the configuration and operation thereof are omitted according to the above-described operating principle.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, a clock device that counts 100 seconds to 1 minute, counts 100 minutes to 1 hour, and counts 25 hours to a day can be realized.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and that various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the technical scope of the present invention.

According to the present invention, by counting the existing 24 hours into 25 hours, users who are accustomed to the existing 24 hours system can utilize the time more tightly and efficiently by providing a clock that counts 25 hours, at least psychologically. It can be effective.

Claims (10)

In a 25 hour clock that counts 25 hours a day, A driving unit for providing a driving force for counting time; A counting unit for counting 100 seconds in association with the driving unit; A demarcation unit which is interlocked with the decipherer and counts 100 minutes by counting 1 minute when counting 100 seconds; A clock unit which counts 25 hours by counting 1 o'clock when counting 100 minutes in conjunction with the counting unit; and Display that displays the current counting time 25 hour clock comprising a. The method of claim 1, When the 25 hour clock is an analog type, the second part comprises a second hand for counting seconds, the second part includes a minute hand for counting minutes, and the clock part includes an hour hand for counting hours, The driving unit provides a rotational force as a motive force for counting time, and comprises an initial axis for rotating the second hand, a partial axis for rotating the minute hand in conjunction with the second axis, and a time axis for rotating the hour hand in conjunction with the partial axis. 25 hour clock. The method of claim 1, The display unit is composed of a display panel displayed at intervals of a predetermined interval, and a time display number for guiding 25 hours and a minute display digit for guiding the minute are displayed on a predetermined interval, and a display window for counting 24 hours is provided in a portion. 25 hour clock, characterized in that. The method of claim 1, It is made by combining an electronic circuit with a crystal oscillator that generates vibration on the basis of crystal, and extracts the vibration generated for 1 second as an electrical signal to send a pulse of the corresponding time to the drive unit and the step unit connected to the drive unit 25 hour clock further comprises a crystal oscillator for driving. The method of claim 1, And a control means for counting 24 hours. The method of claim 1, 25 hour clock, characterized in that it further comprises a control unit that the user can arbitrarily adjust the time. The method of claim 1, The 25 hour clock further comprises a power supply for supplying power for the operation of the 25 hour clock. The method of claim 1, The driving force for counting the time is a 25-hour clock, characterized in that the rotational force based on the pulse signal or gear operation based on the power source. The method of claim 2, The drive unit drives 0.3456 seconds to 1 second, the 25-hour clock, characterized in that to rotate the second axis 3.6 ° every 1 second drive. The method of claim 4, wherein And the crystal oscillator applies the generated pulse to the driver and applies the next pulse after 0.3456 seconds.